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Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
How are we alike? How are we different? Why is it important to celebrate what we share and what makes us unique? In this book, readers will examine diversity, friendship, and coming together.
Author
Language
English
Description
Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attention as Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantly contributed to our dystopian vision of the post-war era. When responding to the novel's dazzling power of intellectual insight, scholars and critics often invoke the works of Shakespeare, Freud, Rousseau, Sartre, Orwell, and Conrad....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking to them-- yet we are at a loss on how to have meaningful conversations. Rolland reveals that a great conversation has a double benefit: helping adults and kids connect better in the moment, an boosting children's learning and well-being for years to come. Here she shares a methodology for quality conversations that will make you feel more confident...
Author
Series
Middle school confidential volume 2
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
90 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses being who you want to be and feeling good about it with six teens sharing their thoughts.
12) Social bullying
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book examines why social bullying occurs and provides effective strategies to confront it.
14) Scar Island
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
A dramatic portrayal of the romance of poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. The invalid poetess who regains her health after falling in love with the famous poet elopes with the poet against the wishes of her tyrannical father, who exhibits an incestuous attachment for Elizabeth, as well as an over domineering control of all the Barrett siblings in their personal adult relationships. The story is set in London, England, starting in the year...
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