The Land of Five Towers (English Edition)

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Publisher : Gramedia Pustaka Utama
ISBN 13 : 9792275940
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (922 download)

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Book Synopsis The Land of Five Towers (English Edition) by : A. Fuadi

Download or read book The Land of Five Towers (English Edition) written by A. Fuadi and published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alif had never set foot outside of West Sumatra. He passed his childhood days searching for fallen durian fruit in the jungle, playing soccer on rice paddies, and swimming in the blue waters of Lake Maninjau. His mother wants him to attend an Islamic boarding school, a pesantren, while he dreams of public high school. Halfheartedly, he follows his mother’s wishes. He finds himself on a grueling three-day bus ride from Sumatra to Madani Pesantren (MP) in a remote village on Java. On his first day at MP, Alif is captivated by the powerful phrase man jadda wajada. He who gives his all will surely succeed. United by punishment, he quickly becomes friends with five boys from across the archipelago, and together they become known as the Fellowship of the Manara. Beneath the mosque’s minaret, the boys gaze at the clouds on the horizon, seeing in them their individual dreams of far-away lands, like America and Europe. Where would these dreams take them? They didn’t know. What they did know was: never underestimate dreams, no matter how high they may be. God truly is The Listener. The Land of Five Towers is the first book in a trilogy written by A. Fuadi—a former TEMPO & VOA reporter, photography buff, and a social entrepreneur. He went to George Washington University and Royal Holloway, University of London for his masters. A portion of the royalties from the trilogy are intended to build Komunitas Menara, a volunteer-based social organization which aims to provide free schools, libraries, clinics and soup kitchens for the less fortunate. To learn more about Komunitas Menara and their activities, check out www.negeri5menara.com"

Color of the Sea

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307386074
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Color of the Sea by : John Hamamura

Download or read book Color of the Sea written by John Hamamura and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniting the war and making Sam, Keiko, and their families enemies of the state. Drafted into the U.S. Army, sent on a secret mission, Sam’s very identity both puts his life at risk and gives him the strength he needs to survive. Taking us from the lush Hawaiian Islands of the 1930s to the wartime world of madness in Hiroshima, Color of the Sea is the unforgettable story of one Japanese boy’s coming-of-age.

The Bicycle Man

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618542338
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bicycle Man by : David L. Dudley

Download or read book The Bicycle Man written by David L. Dudley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing tricks two American soldiers perform on a borrowed bicycle are a fitting finale for the school sports day festivities in a small village in occupied Japan.

Snow in August

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446569666
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Snow in August by : Pete Hamill

Download or read book Snow in August written by Pete Hamill and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time -- and another triumph for Pete Hamill. Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague. Snow in August is the story of that unlikely friendship -- and of how the neighborhood reacts to it. For Michael, the rabbi opens a window to ancient learning and lore that rival anything in Captain Marvel. For the rabbi, Michael illuminates the everyday mysteries of America, including the strange language of baseball. But like their hero Jackie Robinson, neither can entirely escape from the swirling prejudices of the time. Terrorized by a local gang of anti-Semitic Irish toughs, Michael and the rabbi are caught in an escalating spiral of hate for which there's only one way out -- a miracle....

An Age in Motion

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis An Age in Motion by : Takashi Shiraishi

Download or read book An Age in Motion written by Takashi Shiraishi and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takashi Shiraishi examines the emergence of an Indonesian national consciousness during the first quarter of this century, when Indonesians began to view their world in a new way, to articulate this new consciousness in modern forms, and to believe that these expressions could have a political effect.

21st Century Skills

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Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 1935542370
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis 21st Century Skills by : James A. Bellanca

Download or read book 21st Century Skills written by James A. Bellanca and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology introduces the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Highly respected education leaders and innovators focus on why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them in curriculum and instruction.

If You Decide to Go to the Moon

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Publisher : Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros
ISBN 13 : 9780590483599
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis If You Decide to Go to the Moon by : Faith McNulty

Download or read book If You Decide to Go to the Moon written by Faith McNulty and published by Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros. This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In language that is elegant, yet fun, this adventure invites the reader on an emotionally charged trip to the moon--from reminders of what one should pack on a trip to the moon, to the exciting countdown and lift-off.

Dona Flor

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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385376146
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Dona Flor by : Pat Mora

Download or read book Dona Flor written by Pat Mora and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doña Flor is a giant woman who lives in a puebla with lots of families. She loves her neighbors–she lets the children use her flowers for trumpets, and the families use her leftover tortillas for rafts. So when a huge puma is terrifying the village, of course Flor is the one to investigate. Featuring Spanish words and phrases throughout, as well as a glossary, Pat Mora’s story, along with Raúl Colón’s glorious artwork, makes this a treat for any reader, tall or small. Award-winning author Pat Mora’s previous book with Raúl Colón, Tomás and the Library Lady, received the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, an IRA Teacher’s Choice Award, a Skipping Stones Award, and was also named a Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List title and an Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature commended title. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Whistling Season

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151012377
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Whistling Season by : Ivan Doig

Download or read book The Whistling Season written by Ivan Doig and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Sugar in the Raw

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307560414
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Sugar in the Raw by : Rebecca Carroll

Download or read book Sugar in the Raw written by Rebecca Carroll and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about identity, self-esteem, the role of race in their perceptions and treatment, personal values, and their hopes for the future is both enlightening and moving. 144 pp. National pubilcity. 15,000 print.

An Island Like You

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545281547
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Book Synopsis An Island Like You by : Judith Ortiz Cofer

Download or read book An Island Like You written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpre award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.

The World Made Straight

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900857
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis The World Made Straight by : Ron Rash

Download or read book The World Made Straight written by Ron Rash and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid, harrowing yet ultimately hopeful, The World Made Straight is Ron Rash's subtlest exploration yet of the painful conflict between the bonds of home and the desire for independence. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NOAH WYLE, JEREMY IRVINE, MINKA KELLY, ADELAIDE CLEMENS, STEVE EARLE, AND HALEY JOEL OSMENT. "ONE OF THE MAJOR WRITERS OF OUR TIME."—THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property outside his North Carolina hometown, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours of passing in and out of consciousness, Travis is discovered by Carlton Toomey, the wise and vicious farmer who set the trap to protect his plants, and Travis's confrontation with the subtle evils within his rural world has begun. Before long, Travis has moved out of his parents' home to live with Leonard Shuler, a one-time schoolteacher who lost his job and custody of his daughter years ago, when he was framed by a vindictive student. Now Leonard lives with his dogs and his sometime girlfriend in a run-down trailer outside town, deals a few drugs, and studies journals from the Civil War. Travis becomes his student, of sorts, and the fate of these two outsiders becomes increasingly entwined as the community's terrible past and corrupt present bear down on each of them from every direction, leading to a violent reckoning—not only with Toomey, but with the legacy of the Civil War massacre that, even after a century, continues to divide an Appalachian community.

The Great Little Madison

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101128038
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Great Little Madison by : Jean Fritz

Download or read book The Great Little Madison written by Jean Fritz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-02-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor-winning Jean Fritz highlights one of America's most important founding father. In the days before microphones and TV interviews, getting people to listen to you was not an easy task. But James Madison used his quiet eloquence, intelligence, and passion for unified colonies to help shape the Constitution, steer America through the turmoil of two wars, and ensure that our government, and nation, remained intact. "An excellent, fascinating, indispensable resource." —Kirkus Reviews, pointer review "The book is rich in the sort of detail that illuminates the man, but is not limited to personal information; a great deal of government history is woven into the biography." —Horn Book, starred review "Fritz has given a vivid picture of the man and an equally vivid picture of the problems that faced the leaders of the new nation in the formative years." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children?s Books, starred review "Young readers will feel like they know the 'Great Little Madison' very well." —School Library Journal

The Rainbow People

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064404412
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rainbow People by : Laurence Yep

Download or read book The Rainbow People written by Laurence Yep and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-08-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Culled from 69 stories collected in a [1930s] WPA project, [these 20] tales are organized into sections with themes like 'Tricksters' or 'Virtues and Vices,' each with a thoughtful introduction placing the individual stories in the context of feelings and background of the original tellers. Yep's telling is vigorous, often poetic, imbued with earthy humor and realism touched with fatalism. A handsomely designed collection." —K. Notable Children's Books of 1989 (ALA) The USA Through Children's Books 1990 (ALA) 1989 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction 1990 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) 1989 Children's Editors' Choices (BL) Notable 1989 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Children's Books of 1989 (Library of Congress) 1989 Children's Books (NY Public Library) "The Best Books" 1989 (Parents Magazine)

The Red Bekisar

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Publisher : Dalang Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780983627326
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Book Synopsis The Red Bekisar by : Ahmad Tohari

Download or read book The Red Bekisar written by Ahmad Tohari and published by Dalang Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half-Japanese and half-Javanese Lasi flees from the constraints of her small village to find herself enmeshed in the political corruption of Jakarta. *** The bekisar is a fine crossbreed between jungle fowl and domestic chicken that adorns the houses of the wealthy. Lasi, whose father was a Japanese soldier, fair skinned and beautiful, is such an acquisition for a rich man in Jakarta. She is born in a village where the main source of income is tapping coconut palms for their rich sap, or nira. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is betrayed by her husband and flees to Jakarta. She meets Mrs. Lanting, procuress for men in high government and social circles, who sells her to the rich Handarbeni. Lasi enjoys the new splendor as a much-desired ornament, but is alarmed when she discovers the marriage is a sham. Kanjat, a childhood friend, is now grown into a man. Lasi and Kanjat rediscover their affection for each other. Their bond is the village, its people and traditions. They struggle to free Lasi from a net of power, corruption, and deceit.

Americans Who Tell the Truth

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Publisher : Paw Prints
ISBN 13 : 9781442028708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Americans Who Tell the Truth written by Robert Shetterly and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features quotes, biographies, and portraits of powerful and influential Americans, including Rachel Carson, Rosa Parks, and Mark Twain, who used the power of truth combined with freedom of speech to challenge the system and inspire change. Reprint.

The Game of Silence

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061756717
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Book Synopsis The Game of Silence by : Louise Erdrich

Download or read book The Game of Silence written by Louise Erdrich and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home. The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”