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Teaching to Empower: Taking Action to Foster Student Agency, Self-Confidence, and Collaboration
Published: 2020-03-16
Paperback: 178 pages
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We want students to master academic standards, and we want them to be confident, adaptive, and socially responsible. Above all, we want them to find meaning and satisfaction in their lives. Achieving these goals requires a concerted focus on the social-emotional skills that empower student...
Culture, Class, and Race: Constructive Conversations That Unite and Energize Your School and Community
Published: 2020-01-16
Paperback: 135 pages
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Advancing equity in our schools and society requires deep thought and honest conversations about tough topics. These conversations about emotionally charged subjects, including race, class, and culture, can be daunting. Authors Brenda CampbellJones, Shannon Keeny, and Franklin CampbellJone...
The Christmas Company
Published: 2018-10-16
Paperback: 298 pages
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She's out to save her townfrom a real-life Scrooge...The small town of Miller’s Point is known across the country for their annual Dickensian Christmas festival. When the celebration is threatened by Clark Woodward, a miserly, big-city businessman, Kate Buckner steps up to save her homet...
Matka
Published: 2018-08-19
Paperback: 362 pages
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Zosia has sacrificed herself to save her dying son from the Gestapo. She takes his place as a prisoner and is sent to work as a slave in Germany, where the only thing keeping her alive is the hope of her children’s survival.Once World War II ends, her goal, like any mother, is to return to Poland and...
Dig
Published: 2019-03-26
Hardcover: 400 pages
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A surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of a wealthy white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family's children pay to maintain the family name.?“A.S. King’s novels…are in another solar system entirely.”—Bookpage, starred reviewThe Shoveler, the...
Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice
Published: 2020-01-07
Paperback: 264 pages
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Schooling for Critical Consciousness addresses how schools can help Black and Latinx youth resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban h...
The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
Published: 2019-09-24
Paperback: 512 pages
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Inspired by a woman and events forgotten by history, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott weaves together carefully researched fact and fiction to tell the story of Mary Emmons, and the place she held in the life—and the heart—of the notorious Aaron Burr. He was a hero of the Rev...
The Silence Between Us
Published: 2019-08-13
Hardcover: 320 pages
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“The Silence Between Us is eminently un-put-down-able.” (NPR)“This is a great YA contemporary (clean) romance that follows Maya as she navigates a new school and plans for her future. The addition of representation by a Deaf character was really beautifully done. Highly recommend for...
Aetherial Worlds: Stories
Published: 2018-03-20
Hardcover: 256 pages
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“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." —The Wall Street Journal“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childh...
Una pasión rusa
Published: 2015-08-01
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