An Alligator Ate My Brother - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Alligator Ate My Brother write by Mary Olson. This book was released on 2000. An Alligator Ate My Brother available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No one believes a young boy when he says an alligator is in his house.
A to Zoo
A to Zoo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A to Zoo write by Rebecca L. Thomas. This book was released on 2018-06-21. A to Zoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
The Storytime Handbook
The Storytime Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Storytime Handbook write by Nina Schatzkamer Miller. This book was released on 2014-01-27. The Storytime Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fresh, fun ideas for children's storytime fill this book. The author, a long-time storytime facilitator, has put together 52 weekly themes plus additional plans for holidays, all with detailed instructions for talking about the theme and choosing the books, crafts, songs, poems, games and snacks. Each storytime idea is illustrated with photographs of a suggested craft and snack for easy reference. Libraries, bookstores, preschools and parents alike can use this book to offer themed storytimes that include discussion, literature, art, music, movement and food. Options are provided for each storytime, so the ideas can be used year after year.
The Treasure of Amelia Island
The Treasure of Amelia Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Treasure of Amelia Island write by M C. Finotti. This book was released on 2012-03-26. The Treasure of Amelia Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Accelerated Reader Quiz #129357. Level 5.3 Winner of the Florida Historical Society's Horgan Award, The Treasure of Amelia Island focuses on eleven-year-old Mary Kingsley, daughter of historical figure Ana Jai Kingsley. It is December 1813. Mary and her family live in La Florida, a Spanish territory under siege by Patriots of the United States of America. The Patriots want to force Spain out of the land it has ruled for nearly three hundred years. Mary is the youngest child of former slave Ana Jai. Her white father freed Mary and the rest of the family, but the Patriots don't care. They see no place for freed people of color in a new Florida and want to make Mary's family slaves again. Against these mighty events, Mary decides to search for a legendary pirate treasure with her brother, George, and her half-brother, Diego. This treasure hunt, filled with danger and recklessness, changes Mary forever. The Kingsley family actually existed in this era. Zephaniah Kingsley married the African slave Ana Jai. He freed her and their three children and they lived at a plantation that you can visit today in northeast Florida. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Wandering Potatoes
Wandering Potatoes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wandering Potatoes write by Margaret Blanchard. This book was released on 2002-12-11. Wandering Potatoes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wandering Potatoes: Best Historical Novel of 2003, Award by High Country Friends of the Tuolumne County, California Library, 2004 Wandering Potatoes focuses on life choices made by five women in an Irish-American family: Kate ONeill, who in 1839, marries, against her fathers will, and emigrates to America; Brigid, daughter of Kate, who travels west in 1877 with her husband and children to witness the death of Crazy Horse; Eileen, Brigids daughter, who in 1900 leaves an Oregon convent after ten years as a nun; Helen, Eileens daughter, who sails in 1949 across an ocean with four children to join her husband; and Katie, daughter of Helen, who in 1969 turns her back on marriage to join political movements for civil and equal rights. Based on stories passed on from mother to daughter, this novel provides a peoples history of Irish famine and immigration, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, women roles at the turn of the century, the Korean War, global expansion, the womens movement. Through these lives of adventurous women in one Irish-American family weave themes of oppression, discrimination, courage, compassion, integrity, the challenges of bridging differences and the contradictions of being both deprived and privileged, oppressed and oppressor, characteristic of American history. "Dreaming back through the Motherline, Margaret Blanchard brings alive her own family's stories and, in the process, frees the trapped ancestral stories in us all. Compelling and compassionate, this books sings to the heart." -Patricia Monaghan, author of O Mother Sun! and Dancing with Chaos, editor of Unlacing: Ten Irish-American Women Poets
