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Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word. Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This unique collection seeks to shed light on that injustice and subjugation, as well as the hard-won...
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Here is your road map to the vast and previously uncharted terrain of recreational nonfiction. After defining the genre and discussing it's unique characteristics and appeals; the author describes more than 500 popular nonfiction titles and organizes them according to genre. Everything from true adventure, true crime, and travel narratives to investigative nonfiction, environmental writing, and life stories. Genres are subdivided into subgenres and...
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Reading Matters provides evidence that can be used to justify the establishment, maintenance, and growth of pleasure reading collections, both fiction and nonfiction, and of readers' advisory services. The authors assert that reading should be woven into the majority of library activities: reference, collection building, provision of leisure materials, readers' advisory services, storytelling and story time programs, adult literacy programs, and more....
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"Providing media specialists, teachers, teacher helpers, and parents with guidance to using beginning chapter books in encouraging first and second graders to read independently, this book contains in-depth lesson plans for 35 early chapter books. Providing complete bibliographic information, each lesson also features complete overviews of setting, characters, plot, solution and book summary."--BOOK JACKET.
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"Now in its third edition, this essential resource for middle school and junior high school libraries and public libraries supplies information on more than 11,000 in-print titles, most of which have been recommended in at least two reviewing journals. It retains its simple, thematic organization that makes finding the right book easy--for librarians, teachers, and parents alike. And its inclusion of thousands of nonfiction titles helps today's educators...
1378) Tony and Susan
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While reading the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel, a thriller involving a math professor whose ordinary life careens off violently off course, Susan Morrow is plunged back into the past and forced to confront her fears.
1380) Out of this world library programs: using speculative fiction to promote reading and launch learning
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Focusing on the most compelling-and in many cases the most accessible-titles across this vast area of imaginative fantasy and science fiction literature and media, this book showcases instructional methods to build on existing interest in these genres and to cultivate creative and critical thinking. Presents ways for librarians connect to young patrons with enriching and entertaining workshop ideas; models deep engagement with reading and texts, focusing...