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"In Different Appearances, beginning readers will learn to celebrate diversity by appreciating the many ways people look different from one another. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they draw inferences about how diversity makes our society stronger and more interesting"--From the publisher's web site.
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Did you know that dislike for broccoli can be caused by one's ability to taste a bitter chemical? And that asparagus makes some people's pee smell funny? These are among the unusual inherited traits covered in this book. Subjects include genes, tongue rolling, mirror writing, and ability to smell different substances.
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A tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages explores the history, geography, linguistics, and cultures that have been shaped by languages and their customs.
"English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages....
12) Animal kingdom
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Describes the animal kingdom, which is also known as the kingdom Animalia.
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"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up until the 1960s polite speaking conventions required that...
15) Colors in nature
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Rhyming text and bright photographs bring the colors of nature to young readers in this picture book, from red flowers and clear blue skies to big brown trees and buzzing yellow bees.
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"A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it. Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether its the use of literally to mean "figuratively" rather than "by the letter" or the way...
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This documentary critically considers the Oakland Unified Schools' 1996 "Ebonics Resolution." Building on the success of local instructional programming, the Resolution sought to improve African-American student performance by acknowledging African American linguistic patterns and improving "the English acquisition and application skills of African-American students."Through the use of archival footage and contemporary interviews with scholars, educational...