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.”

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:
ISBN: 9780788756382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A Gathering of Days

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.

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!

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.

Math & Stories

Author: Marian R. Bartch
Publisher: Good Year Books
ISBN: 9780673363213
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Discover the math lessons students can learn from activities based on 56 carefully selected childrens books. Each book offers 28 fully described activity units supported by three or four reproducible handouts; units specify correlations to standards set by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. In activities based on reading Jumanji, for example, students distinguish between probable and improbable events, do mapping on a coordinate grid, and write about what would happen if their own favorite game suddenly became real. Grades K-6. Answer keys. Illustrated.

A Gathering Of Blackbirds

Author: J. Wellander
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595393101
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
In an age of technology, of reason and certainly intelligence, one would not expect someone's life to follow the path that it does, in which unexpectedly horrific acts are perpetrated by family and others.