books and reading

"This book offers step-by-step details on how to plan and execute library workshops and programs to inspire creativity in teens"--Provided by publisher.

Shares the author's choice of writing for children instead of adults, including a collection of her essays and speeches.

" ... bring(s) together fourteen educators who use global children's literature to help students explore their own cultural identities. The book lays out why this kind of global curriculum is important and how to make space for it within district and state mandates. Built around a curriculum framework ... , the ideas and strategies in Teaching Globally will help teachers integrate a global focus into existing literacy and social studies curricula, evaluate global resources, guide students as they investigate cross-cultural issues, and create classroom activities with an intercultural perspective"--Amazon.com.

Provides advice for readers advisory, collection development, and book clubs that encourages the inclusion of young adult titles advancing a positive representation of girls in programming and instruction, including analyzing YA books through a feminist lens; a list of recommended titles with annotations and discussion questions; and descriptions of programming ideas to use in both school and public library settings.

Provides guidance for librarians on building a literacy program geared towards children with autism spectrum disorders.

"You can't walk straight on a crooked line. You do you'll break your leg. How can you walk straight in a crooked system?" Lewis Michaux was born to do things his own way. When a white banker told him to sell fried chicken, not books, because "Negroes don't read," Lewis took five books and one hundred dollars and built a bookstore. It soon became the intellectual center of Harlem, a refuge for everyone from Muhammad Ali to Malcolm X. In No Crystal Stair, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson combines meticulous research with a storyteller's flair to document the life and times of her great-uncle Lewis Michaux, an extraordinary literacy pioneer of the Civil Rights era. "My life was no crystal stair, far from it. But I'm taking my leave with some pride. It tickles me to know that those folks who said I could never sell books to black people are eating crow. I'd say my seeds grew pretty damn well. And not just the book business. It's the more important business of moving our people forward that has real meaning.".

From school buses to honeybees, learn to identify the color yellow in everyday objects.

From stop signs to fire trucks, learn to identify the color red in everyday objects.

From violets to jewels, learn to identify the color purple in everyday objects.

From oranges to sunsets, learn to identify the color orange in everyday objects.