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"This Is a Great Book!"
By (author): Larry Swartz
ISBN: 9781551383088
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers
Pages: 136
Price: $24.95
101 events for building enthusiastic readers inside and outside the classroom — from chapter books to young adult novels.
100 Minutes
By (author): Lisa Donohue
ISBN: 9781551382760
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers
Pages: 160
Price: $24.95
Making every minute count in the literacy block.
3-Minute Motivators, Revised and Expanded Edition
By (author): Kathy Paterson
ISBN: 9781551382951
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers
Pages: 160
Price: $24.95
More than 200 ways to reach, teach, and achieve more than you ever imagined.
A Childhood Adrift
By (author): René Goldman
ISBN: 9781988065175
Publisher: Second Story Press
Pages: 328
Price: $14.95
An eloquent personal narrative detailed with historical research and commentary, A Childhood Adrift explores identity, closure, disillusionment and the anguish of silenced emotions.
A Name Unbroken
By (author): Michael Mason
ISBN: 9781897470565
Publisher: Second Story Press
Pages: 192
Price: $14.95
Miklos Friedman grows up learning to take risks and seize opportunities. In 1944, as Germany occupies Hungary, he must draw on his wits to survive
A Tapestry of Survival
ISBN: 9781988065526
Publisher: Second Story Press
Pages: 144
Price: $14.95
A moving, true story, told in four separate parts with four different authors, each telling a piece of the tale of a harrowing journey to freedom.
Across the Rivers of Memory
By (author): Felicia Carmelly
ISBN: 9781897470541
Publisher: Second Story Press
Pages: 200
Price: $14.95
The name Transnistria did not exist on a map. Yet that is where ten-year-old Felicia Steigman and her parents arrive in 1941, after a cruel deportation and death march overseen by Romanian Nazi collaborators.
All for One
By (author): Shelley Moore
ISBN: 9781553798842
Publisher: Portage & Main
Pages: 200
Price: $29.00
All for One tells the story of how some teachers, a couple of school districts and many families, came together to change the Individual Education Plan (IEP) narrative and design a plan for learning that meets the needs of an individual student, with the goal of increasing the places where students can be meaningfully included.
Alone in the Storm
By (author): Leslie Vertes
ISBN: 9781897470886
Publisher: Second Story Press
Pages: 192
Price: $14.95
In wartime Budapest, Leslie Vertes escapes from the forced labour service. As he lives under false identity documents, each day he survives feels like a miracle.
Always Remember Who You Are
By (author): Anita Ekstein
ISBN: 9781988065533
Publisher: Second Story Press
Pages: 240
Price: $14.95
A tragic, yet inspiring story of how a little girl loses everyone she knows and loves during WWII, but who remembers the last words her father ever said to her, which helps her build a new life in a new land.
As the Lilacs Bloomed
By (author): Anna Molnár Hegedús
ISBN: 9781897470480
Publisher: Second Story Press
Pages: 256
Price: $14.95
“The pen is shaking in my paralyzed hand as I write: I AM ALIVE! I am alive and it is May again. The lilacs are in bloom and I smell their sweet fragrance again. There was springtime last year as well, but we had no eyes for beauty. Our lips forgot how to smile, our hearts were shattered! And now I’m alive again!”
Asking Better Questions
ISBN: 9781551383354
Publisher: Pembroke Publishers
Pages: 128
Price: $24.95
Teaching and learning for a changing world.
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