A Gathering of Days

Author: Joan W. Blos
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684163403
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

A Gathering of Old Men

Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307830381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”

A Gathering of Days

Author: Joan W. Blos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788756382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A Gathering of Days

Gathering of Days

Author: Joan W. Blos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in a small New Hampshire town.

A Gathering of Days

Author: Joan W. Blos
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780689714191
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
A Gathering of Days is Joan W. Blos' novel that serves as a fictional version of a New England girl's journal. The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

Gathering of Days

Author: Joan W. Blos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780078260988
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 137

Book Description
For use in teaching literature to high school students.

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Author: Bernice E. Cullinan
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826417787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 930

Book Description
Provides articles covering children's literature from around the world as well as biographical and critical reviews of authors including Avi, C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Anno Mitsumasa.

Quotation Index to Children's Literature

Author: Melanie Axel-Lute
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031300918X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
Not just an anthology, this extensive index offers keyword, title, and author name access to more than 1,800 quotations from nearly 500 classic, award-winning, and popular works for children. Pearls of humor and wisdom from authors such as the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Seuss, Judith Viorst, and Shel Silverstein are at your fingertips. Very few quotations have been indexed in other works, making this a unique tool to find that elusive quote. A sure-to-please reference tool for school and public libraries-not just in children's departments-this book helps you identify the source of unusual terms or names such as tesseract or Who-ville and makes a great resource for locating quotes addressing special occasions. Fun for browsing!

The York Book of Days

Author: Robert Woodhouse
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752485954
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Taking you through the year day by day, The York Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of England as a whole. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of York's archives, it will delight residents and visitors alike.

Good Books Matter

Author: Larry Swartz
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited
ISBN: 1551387948
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Based on extensive research on the features that make children's books appealing and appropriate, this valuable teacher resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. This teacher-friendly book is organized around the major genres — traditional literature, picture books, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts — that will inspire young readers. Throughout the book, teachers will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and response strategies with emergent, developing, and independent readers. This comprehensive book is rooted in the belief that educators must consider and offer a wide range of choice to ensure that students read "good" books. It argues that the choices children make about what they read should be governed by their interests and desire to learn; not by a grade or reading level.