The Totally Made Up Civil War Diary Of Amanda Macleish

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1429934522

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The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish by Claudia Mills Pdf

Amanda MacLeish might be the only student in Mr. Abrams's fifth-grade class who doesn't mind doing her homework. Now that her father has left home and moved into a motel, the only thing that brings Amanda any joy is writing her fictional diary entries about a young girl named Polly who lives amid the chaos of the Civil War. Polly would understand Amanda. With one brother fighting for the North and one fighting for the South, Polly knows just how it feels to have a family split in half. But if the North and the South could find a way to reunite despite their differences, can't Amanda's family do the same? In this touching novel by Claudia Mills, the heroine learns that enduring a split doesn't have to mean losing a family. The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Author : Desirée Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351771849

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How to Read a Diary by Desirée Henderson Pdf

How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across history, this book explores the provocative questions diaries pose to readers: Are they private? Are they truthful? Why do some diarists employ codes? Do more women than men write diaries? How has the format changed in the digital age? In answering questions like these, How to Read a Diary offers a new critical vocabulary for interpreting diaries. Readers learn how to analyze diary manuscripts, identify the conventions of diary writing, examine the impact of technology on the genre, and appreciate the myriad personal and political motives that drive diary writing. Henderson also presents the diary’s extensive influence upon literary history, ranging from masterpieces of world literature to young adult novels, graphic novels, and comics. How to Read a Diary invites readers to discover the rich and compelling stories that individuals tell about themselves within the pages of their diaries.

Author : Shelby Wolf,Karen Coats,Patricia A. Enciso,Christine Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136913563

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Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature by Shelby Wolf,Karen Coats,Patricia A. Enciso,Christine Jenkins Pdf

This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children’s literature. Part one considers perspectives on readers and reading literature in home, school, library, and community settings. Part two introduces analytic frames for studying young adult novels, picturebooks, indigenous literature, graphic novels, and other genres. Chapters include commentary on literary experiences and creative production from renowned authors and illustrators. Part three focuses on the social contexts of literary study, with chapters on censorship, awards, marketing, and literary museums. The singular contribution of this Handbook is to lay the groundwork for colleagues across disciplines to redraw the map of their separately figured worlds, thus to enlarge the scope of scholarship and dialogue as well as push ahead into uncharted territory.

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448800391

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Maryland by Joanne Mattern Pdf

Presents the history, geography, government, economy, and people of Maryland, as well as general facts about the state.

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429964456

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One Square Inch by Claudia Mills Pdf

Cooper's grandfather gives him and his little sister, Carly, deeds to square inches of land in the Yukon. Carly uses them to invent her own imaginary kingdom of Inchland—far away from the silence of their home, where their single mother stays in bed all day. When their mom comes out of her season of sadness bursting with sometimes frightening energy, Carly retreats into Inchland, while sixth-grader Cooper tries to control the chaos. But can Cooper really keep Carly—and himself—safe? In One Square Inch, Claudia Mills weaves a story that is "Believable and deeply moving" (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780374301668

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Write This Down by Claudia Mills Pdf

Twelve-year-old Autumn loves to write, and she can't wait to grow up and be a published author. She finds inspiration all around her, but especially in Cameron, the dreamy boy in her journalism class who she has a major crush on. When her older brother Hunter makes fun of one of her most personal poems—about Cameron—Autumn decides to prove that she is talented enough to become a published author. But when her essay about Hunter wins a contest, and her dream of being published is finally within reach, Autumn has to decide whether being a real writer is worth the cost of sharing her family's secrets and hurting people she loves. This touching story is sure to resonate with readers, and prove that the heart is mightier than the pen. A Margaret Ferguson Book

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429965101

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Fractions = Trouble! by Claudia Mills Pdf

If Wilson Williams thought multiplication was difficult, he is finding fractions impossible. And when his parents hire a math tutor for him, he is sure he's the only kid in the history of Hill Elementary to have one. Wilson is determined to make sure that no one finds out, not even his best friend, Josh. At least his pet hamster, Pip, is sympathetic. Pip is going to be part of Wilson's science fair project, because any project with hamsters in it is bound to be wonderful. But Josh has the coolest project of all: at what temperature does a pickle explode? Unfortunately, it looks as if Wilson's secret may end up exploding their friendship. Claudia Mills' Fractions = Trouble is a fun and thoroughly relatable story that Kirkus Reviews calls an "excellent selection for early chapter-book readers."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0099734600

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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822036343077

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UOM:39015078352922

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The Horn Book Guide to Children's and Young Adult Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429935920

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How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills Pdf

How Oliver Olson Changed the World is an irresistible chapter book from Claudia Mills, featuring lively illustrations by Heather Maione. Oliver Olson learns that before you can change the world, sometimes you need to change yourself. Oliver Olson's teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents won't let him do anything on his own—not his class projects or even attending activities such as the space sleepover at school. Afraid he will become an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, Oliver decides to take control of his corner of the universe!

Author : Amanda Worthington,Troy Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Girls
ISBN : 0165220279

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A Delta Diary by Amanda Worthington,Troy Woods Pdf

Author : Amanda Vaill
Publisher : HMH
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544268944

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Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill Pdf

New York Times Bestseller: “A marvelously readable biography” of the couple and their relationships with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and other icons of the era (The New York Times Book Review). Wealthy Americans with homes in Paris and on the French Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy were at the very center of expatriate cultural and social life during the modernist ferment of the 1920s. Gerald Murphy—witty, urbane, and elusive—was a giver of magical parties and an acclaimed painter. Sara Murphy, an enigmatic beauty who wore her pearls to the beach, enthralled and inspired Pablo Picasso (he painted her both clothed and nude), Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The models for Nicole and Dick Diver in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, the Murphys also counted among their friends John Dos Passos, Dorothy Parker, Fernand Léger, Archibald MacLeish, Cole Porter, and a host of others. Far more than mere patrons, they were kindred spirits whose sustaining friendship released creative energy. Yet none of the artists who used the Murphys for their models fully captured the real story of their lives: their Edith Wharton childhoods, their unexpected youthful romance, their ten-year secret courtship, their complex and enduring marriage—and the tragedy that struck them, when the world they had created seemed most perfect. Drawing on a wealth of family diaries, photographs, letters and other papers, as well as on archival research and interviews on two continents, this “brilliantly rendered biography” documents the pivotal role of the Murphys in the story of the Lost Generation (Los Angeles Times). “Often considered minor Lost Generation celebrities, the Murphys were in fact much more than legendary party givers. Vaill’s compelling biography unveils their role in the European avant-garde movement of the 1920s; Gerald was a serious modernist painter. But Vaill also shows how their genius for friendship and for transforming daily life into art attracted the most creative minds of the time.” —Library Journal

Author : Colin Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136555114

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The 2030 Spike by Colin Mason Pdf

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030281243

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Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War by Gilbert H. Muller Pdf

During the 1930s, no event was more absorbing or galvanizing to Ernest Hemingway than the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway was passionately devoted to the cause of the democratically elected Spanish Republic and he spent much of the war reporting from its front lines, producing a deeply political body of work that illuminated the conflict and presaged the world war to come. In the end, his immersive journey into the turbulent world of the Spanish Civil War resulted in For Whom the Bell Tolls, a landmark in American political fiction. This book offers a fresh account of Hemingway’s adventures in Spain during the Civil War, stressing his embrace of radical political action and discourse in defense of the Republic against the forces of Fascism. On the eightieth anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gilbert H. Muller reconsiders Hemingway as an engaged artist, political actor, and visionary.