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animals (1), framed by the two unfinished World Trade Center towers when the idea hits: 'He looked not at the towers (1), this unique and uplifting book is at once a portrait of a larger-than-life individual and a memorial to the towers and the lives associated with them. (1), a man in their midst. With its graceful majesty and mythic overtones (1), cloud-filled skyscrapers (1), and sheer joy. The final scene depicts transparent (1), profound skill (1), the other from the perspective of a pedestrian. The vertiginous views paint the New York skyline in twinkling starlight and at breathtaking sunrise. Gerstein captures his subject's incredible determination (1), framed close-up of Petit's foot on the wire yields to two three-page foldouts of the walk. One captures his progress from above (1), prepared to carry out their clever but dangerous scheme to secure the wire. The pacing of the narrative is as masterful as the placement and quality of the oil-and-ink paintings. The interplay of a single sentence or view with a sequence of thoughts or pa (1), began their evening ascent from the elevators to the remaining stairs with a 440-pound cable and equipment (1), posing as construction workers (1), Petit and three friends (1), what a wonderful place to stretch a rope-.' On August 7 (1), but at the space between them and thought (1), French funambulist Philippe Petit is dancing across a tightrope tied between two trees to the delight of the passersby in Lower Manhattan. Gerstein places him in the middle of a balancing act (1), This classical story tells the life cycle of a caterpillar. Each day of the week (1), As this story opens (1), and the end of the war. (1), and the major figures of the revolution (1), the Declaration of Independence (1), children will learn about the causes of the war (1), Magic Tree House places the reader in the time of the Revolutionary War. In this non-fiction book (1), new weapons were invented. The most powerful of these weapons were the cannon. Cannons could fire heavy stone or iron balls against castle walls with great force. Even the strongest castles could not stand up against cannon fire for long. (1), people stopped waiting to live in castles. As time went by (1), it was very hard for an enemy to get inside. The Age of Castles lasted nearly 500 years. Eventually (1), nearly all the land in Europe belonged to kings. Each King's land was called kingdom.Castles were important part of the feudal system. They were built to protect lords and their land from enemy attackers. When a stone catle was complete (1), 000 years. The Middle Ages were a time of war and fighting. During the Middle Ages (1), Magic Tree House places the reader in the middle ages. Gives a variety of facts:The Middle Ages began about 450 A.D. They lasted over 1 (1), the pool is closed. The main theme is friendship while fairness and courage to speak up also come in. The illustrations portray the mood of frustration at the current system. (1), but instead of being able to go swimming (1), This great book is about a triangle who always wants one more side to make his life better. He goes to the shapeshifter and he changes him into a quadrilateral and he continues this until he has many many sides. (1), he eats through one more kind of fruit until Saturday when he ate a lot of junk food and got a stomachache! Then he ate a leaf and felt better (1), incorporating abstract and surreal elements along with the realistic figures. Book is long and is loaded with a lot of information. Best read in pieces are as excerpts. (1), is very clear. A simple project--how to grow a bean plant--is included. A final page gives odd and unusual facts. (1), colorful illustrations portray children engaged in various positive activities. This particular version of the book is both in English and Spanish (English version on 1 page and the Spanish version on the neighboring page) (1), and fear. Friendly (1), and making music.The book provides an important point of departure for discussing constructive ways of coping with and resolving strong feelings such as anger (1), such as waving (1), guiding them to a more peaceful and positive outcome in their dealings with other children. The refrain that 'hands are not for hitting' is accompanied by numerous better uses for them (1), This book offers youngsters an alternative to hitting and other forms of hurtful behavior (1), for they serve to chase away his spooky dreams and become small sand creatures again at daybreak. (1), the little hero is not afraid of these colorful wild goblins (1), they chant loudly and count in Japanese. However (1), page by page. As they approach the house of a small boy (1), and increase in size (1), make noise (1), 10 Japanese oni appear one by one on the beach. They bang drums (1), In this rhyming story (1), covered in detail in the illustrations (1), built a caccoon and became a butterfly (1), and growth from seed to plant. The section on pollination (1), discussing pollination (1), This book gives a simple introduction to how plants reproduce (1), ten little monsters go on a picnic and teach children the combinations of numbers that add up to ten. (1), and Arthur have only seconds to get to the basement before the monstrous twister is on top of them. Afterwards they have to deal with the catastrophe that's left behind. (1), don’t think much of it because tornado warnings are a way of life during the summer in Grand Island (1), This fictional book helps the reader understand the magnitude and dangers of tornadoes. When a tornado watch is issued one Tuesday evening in June (1), and other aspects of Dominican living. Is complimented by attractive photographs. (1), This non-fiction book gives easy to read facts about the Dominican Republic. It describes the culture (1), This book uses animals to celebrate the bond between parents and their children. (1), but it grows into the biggest flower. Great book to use for spring and plant lessons. (1), This book shows the stages of seeds being traveled by the wind. The tiny seed is smaller and slower than the other seeds (1), that it gives everything it has to the boy as he grows up. It showcases the love the tree has for the boy. It portrays the act of putting others before yourself and a theme of motherly love. (1), This book shows the friendship between a boy and a tree. The tree loves the boy so much (1), The story takes place in the early 1960’s in the southern part of the United States right after the Civil Rights act was passed. I would begin by inquiring into what the students have heard about the southern part of the US and the Civil Rights Act as w (1), as spokesperson. Collier's watercolor and collage scenes are deeply hued and luminous (1), soldiers (1), his baby brother (1), This book tells the story of a young african america girl who was determined to go to school and be treated equally as the white students. When the board of education decided to let Ruby go to school (1), and villagers and went on to be the first woman from Africa to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. (1), Wangari's ideas took root. She educated students (1), uneducated women that were not taken seriously (1), and although many of the women helping Wangari were poor (1), the villagers became dependent on expensive foods from grocery stores that weren't as healthy as the crops they had once grown. Wangari convinced her villagers to stop complaining and blaming other people and to start re-planting the trees that they had b (1), and only growing one type of crop made the ground unhealthy. Furthermore (1), to sell in other countries. This made trees scarce for wood (1), her home had changed. Most of the crops being grown were for corporate profit (1), and when she returned five years later (1), she grew up in Kenya and remembers it as green and healthy and beautiful. She goes away to America to study biology (1), The story is the biography of Wangari Maathai. As a girl (1), seed dispersal (1), and the lights and telephone stop working. Then the emergency siren starts to wail. Dan (1), The Elm Street Kid's Club want to build a clubhouse but they do not have enough money. They decide to sell lemonade to raise enough money to build their own clubhouse. They figure if they sell about 40 cups a day they will be able to buy their clubhouse i (1), the wind begins to howl (1), Nebraska. But soon enough (1), twelve-year-old Dan Hatch and his best friend (1), In this book (1), the landscape (1), Arthur (1), Jr. (1), helping (1), though (1), drawing (1), weaponry (1), 1974 (1), climate (1), jealousy (1), so many white people were angry. They took their children out of school. Some days Ruby would have to walk to school through riots. Although this was very scary Ruby never gave up. Day after day she went to school on these horrible circumstances. After a (1), so they decide to make the lemonade by the man who juggles. That day they sell so many cups they can't even keep track. After selling by the man who juggles they have plenty of money to build their clubhouse. (1), the role of Martin Luther King (1), holding his suit jacket under his arm as he gazes over a prairie: The endless farm fields reminded him of the ocean he had crossed. Grandfather discovers that the more he traveled (1), the aftermath and reactions to the murder of Emmett Till (1), which led to the bus boycott in Montgomery. A few events of the movement are interjected–the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1), and follows her as she waits to be arrested. Giovanni turns to explaining the response of the Women's Political Caucus (1), Rosa Parks was the best seamstress. Her needle and thread flew through her hands like the gold spinning from Rumpelstiltskin's loom. Soon the story moves to her famous refusal to give up her seat on the bus (1), The book tells Rosa Parks's personal story and moves quickly into a summary of the Civil Rights movement.Parks is introduced in idealized terms. She cares for her ill mother and is married to one of the best barbers in the county. Sewing in an alterations (1), better known as Issa. The biographical information is complemented by several of his haiku. It describes in simplicity the difficult life of the famous haiku poet and at the end educates about the art of haiku. Within the text is an English translation; t (1), This book is about the popular Japanese Haiku poet Kobayashi Yataro (1), years later Say repeats the journey (1), he takes the family back to Japan. The restlessness endures: the daughter cannot be at home in a Japanese village; he himself cannot forget California. Although war shatters Grandfather's hopes to revisit his second land (1), and when she is nearly grown (1), but her youth reminds him inexorably of his own (1), where their daughter is born (1), but he nevertheless returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. He brings her to California (1), the more he longed to see new places (1), vest and tie (1), This is a fun book from The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library. It is about dinosaurs and how each one existed and what they ate to live. This also has a dictionary at the end for kids so they can look up words to see the meanings that they may not have (1), light-washed painting presents Grandfather in shirtsleeves (1), by riverboat and on foot. One especially arresting (1), he arrives in North America and explores the land by train (1), a young man when he left his home in Japan and went to see the world.' Crossing the Pacific on a steamship (1), showing him in traditional Japanese dress (1), A portrait of Say's grandfather opens the book (1), the principle awarded the largest present to the two soldiers. Then they went on their way waving until they were out of sight. (1), both soldiers worked together and put on a great show for the children and their parents. After the show was over (1), the soldier begins performing tricks on the bicycle. Soon the children and parents become fascinated by the two. With a crowd (1), then two American soldiers are caught watching the children. Both the children and parents become intimidated by the two soldiers. One of the soldiers asks the principle if he could ride his bicycle. The principle allowed him to and together (1), This book is about a moment in the author's life. He is recalling a rememberable day in his childhood. He is attending school in Japan. They are having a day of fun and games and the parents are involved too. Everyone is having a good time (1), This picture book is about a girl who is taught how to recycle by her teacher and why it is so important to recycle. She becomes curious when she sees her teacher walking to his gate with a box of cans. He later talks to her about recycling in class and e (1), A non-fiction book that explores the importance of recycling and the affect it has on the environment along with different ways in which we can recycle. (1), such as carnivore and herbivore. It's a very interesting and fun book for students to read and learn about dinosaurs. (1), so that ESL students can read it as well. (1)
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Mar 18, 2010