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Anthony Fredericks; Illustrator-Rebbeca Fredericks From Butterflies to Thunderbolts: Discovering Science with Books Kids Love
Fulcrum Publishing 1997-09-04 1555919464 / 9781555919467 Paperback Used: Good Paperback
Former library copy; usual markings; cover and some pages have slight creases. Good, clean interior with no missing or loose pages. From School Library JournalAccording to Fredericks, children learn science best through discovery, with teachers and parents facilitating the learning rather than teaching scientific concepts and facts. Intended for use with grades K-6, From Butterflies to Thunderbolts encourages such an approach by suggesting science trade books and activities to build on children's natural curiosity. The book consists of nine parts, covering subjects such as animals, plants, the environment, dinosaurs, and space. There are three or four chapters on a subject, with each chapter focusing on a single book. The format includes a bibliographic entry, a brief summary of the book, several open-ended questions for use with students, suggested activities, "incredible facts," and a bibliography of related literature. Though this book will aid in efforts to use literature in the science curriculum, it has a few problems. One is that it does not indicate the appropriate grade or reading level for each book. Another is the age of some of the books featured: almost half are at least five years old, with some published before 1990. Finally, it lacks a comprehensive list of the works cited?an important aid in collection development. Despite these drawbacks, teachers or librarians could use this title to come up with ideas for science activities.?Jessica Foster, Fairfax County (VA) Public SchoolsCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product DescriptionUsing these award-winning informational storybooks, readers explore a variety of scientific concepts. Organized into topics about animals, plants, Earth, oceans, weather, space, medicine, and more, each section profiles several excellent book such as A River Ran Wild, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain and Brain Surgery for Beginners.
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Bobbie Kalman; Jane Lewis Women of the West (Life in the Old West: a Bobbie Kalman Series)
Crabtree Publishing Company 2000 0778701123 / 9780778701125 Paperback Used: Like New Paperback
Book DescriptionIn the 19th century, many brave women made the harsh journey west--some with their families, others in search of more freedom and independence. Women of the West describes the challenges they faced in establishing new lives. Period photos and detailed text describe: women at the homestead and on the ranch growing up and raising a family women in the workforce and their rights leisure time and clothing styles immigrant, African American, and Native American women remarkable women of the West
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C. L. Taylor Censorship (Constitution - First Books)
Franklin Watts 1986-10 0531102114 / 9780531102114 School & Library Binding Used: Acceptable School & Library Binding
Former library copy with usual markings. Good, clean condition. From School Library JournalGrade 6-9 Censorship in its various forms is presented in a historical perspective, including a brief discussion of who attempts to censor and why. Several specific early and contemporary trials concerning seditious libel and obscenity, as well as issues and legal cases concerning freedom of the press versus national security and freedom of expression in the publishing, movie, recording, and television industries are discussed. Taylor presents a well organized, lucidly written overview of the nature and history of censorship and current threats in our country. While The Right to Be Informed: Censorship in the United States (Messner, 1976; o.p.) by Gerald S. Snyder has more detailed background about such censorship cases as Victor Marchetti's and Daniel Ellsberg's legal struggles with freedom of expression and national security, Taylor's Censorship is a well-rounded introductory overview and a good complement to more in-depth studies that zero in on specific areas of censorship. Cynthia M. Sturgis, Ledding Library, Milwaukee, Oreg.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product DescriptionDiscusses the history of censorship, recent developments and controversies, and such related issues as freedom of speech, obscenity, libel, and intellectual freedom.
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Chris Oxlade; Illustrator-Mike Grey Car (Take It Apart)
Silver Burdett Pr 1997-01 0382396650 / 9780382396656 Hardcover Used: Very Good Hardcover
Reviewed with Chris Oxlade's Plane.Gr. 4-6. Children who have gone beyond the stage of simply being fascinated by the way vehicles look will find these books in the Take It Apart series full of information on the way they actually work. Proceeding from outside in, each book is chockablock with cutaways and diagrams, all well labeled, which explore the vehicle's various systems: from the engine to the galley in Plane; from the engine to the dashboard and the body in Car. Fact boxes give readers a break from the technical stuff. There are a few slipups: in Car, for example, there's no mention of the combustion chamber, and although the word odometer appears on a spread showing the parts of a dashboard, it's never explained in the book. Yet, curious kids with a love of things mechanical will eagerly grab these, and for the most part, they'll come away better informed. Stephanie ZvirinCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Product DescriptionIn a new addition to the Take it Apart series, young readers can have interactive fun taking apart the different pieces of a car, such as the tires and the engine, and see how it works from the inside out.
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Davey Johnson; Peter Golenbock Bats
Putnam Adult 1986-04-14 0399131205 / 9780399131202 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Price-clipped jacket. Otherwise very good condition. Even to ardent Met fans, a book about the team's second-place finish in 1985 might seem not worth bothering with, but that would be making a mistake. Probaby no better volume has ever been written about a baseball team's season from the viewpoint of an intelligent and sensitive manager. Wherever he has been the skipper, Johnson's teams have finished better than predicted, and that was the case in 1985 as well. Here, aided by Golenbock (The Bronx Zoo, Balls, Johnson tells what it was like to run a team plagued by injuries, a team made up largely of young players who needed to be encouraged, a team that had almostbut not quiteenough talent to be the best. He writes of his enthusiasm for his players, especially Gooden, Carter and Hernandez; his travails with the media; and, above all, his cornering the market on Rolaids. A grand baseball book. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dianna Daniels Booher Coping: When Your Family Falls Apart
Julian Messner 1979-11 0671330837 / 9780671330835 Library Binding Used: Good Library Binding
Former library copy with usual markings. Good, clean condition. Product DescriptionA guide for young people whose parents are divorcing, emphasizing a positive attitude and growth toward a new life.
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Doris Hunter Metcalf African Americans: Their Impact on U.S. History
Good Apple 1992-03 0866536701 / 9780866536707 Paperback Used: Very Good Paperback
Usually African Americans are not included in our History texts. This book 'fills in the gaps'. It covers greater and lesser known African Americans who have influenced U.S.History from the Colonial Era to the Civil Rights Era. It contains biographies, stories, and reproducible activities.
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Editor-Alvin Schwartz; Editor-Margot Zemach The Cat's Elbow and Other Secret Languages
Farrar Straus & Giroux (J) 1985-07 0374312249 / 9780374312244 Hardcover Used: Good Hardcover
Former library copy with usual markings. Good, clean condition. Review"The lure of secret languages is perennial among kids. They may have heard of pig Latin, but how about 'Iggity' or 'Kunyume'. . .It's all intriguing, and a barrel of fun for the willing and able. Zemach's droll pen-and-ink drawings add an appropriate amusing touch." --Booklist
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Editor-Neil Philip Singing America: Poems That Define a Nation
Viking Juvenile 1995-05-01 0670861502 / 9780670861507 Hardcover Used: Very Good Hardcover
Gr. 7^-12. Like Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art, edited by Nora Panzer (1994), this spaciously designed anthology brings together great poems that express the diversity of the American experience through history. In a fine introduction, Philip traces two dominant influences who broke with polite literary tradition and wrote with the urgency of the speaking voice: the very public Whitman (who encouraged poets "to speak up and speak out" ) and the very private Dickinson (for whom a poem was "perhaps, a message in a bottle" ). The selections show an American tradition that is multicultural but not homogeneous ("Shove your old pot," says Dudley Randall of his exclusion from the melting pot). However, some of the language may be considered insensitive by contemporary standards. There are folk songs and traditional poems (from "Jesse James" to "No More Auction Block" ) and many old favorites (Sandburg's "Chicago," Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" ), but Philip has also included some wonderful old and new poems that are less commonly anthologized. McCurdy's bold, beautiful woodcuts, many depicting people at work, extend the energy and individuality of the words. Hazel Rochman
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