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Pushing the Bear tells the story of Cherokee removal in the Trail of Tears.Diane Glancy weaves the story together through the voices of a variety of characters, the majority of whom are Cherokee Indians, but also through historical documents, missionaries and the soldiers who were responsible for guiding the Cherokee along the trail.
Chrysanthemum is a young mouse who loves her unique name, until she is teased about it by her classmates. Her main tormentors are three mice named Jo, Rita and Victoria, who ridicule her for being named after a flower and point out that her name is so long it barely fits on a name tag.
Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent.The five children (Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, Hilary, known as "the Lamb") are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with the ability to grant wishes.
The graphic novels are set in a fantastic world resembling a late 20th century Norse.They draw inspiration from Nordic folklore and the Moomins. [2] The titular character is a small girl, who in the first two books lives with her mother in a cottage on a plain surrounded by mountains and forests, but later moves to the city Trolberg.
The program features animated characters called The Junkroom Band and includes an interactive website, 36 two-minute music and dance television interstitials (that combine live action with animation), three electronic comic books, and three teachers guides that teach kids about human rights, human dignity, and peaceful conflict resolution.
follow the organization of a passage and to identify antecedents and references in it, draw inferences from a passage about its contents, identify the main thought of a passage, ask questions about the text, answer questions asked in a passage, visualize the text, recall prior knowledge connected to text, recognize confusion or attention problems,
Clementine is a series of children's chapter books written by Sara Pennypacker and illustrated by Marla Frazee.Debuting with the eponymous title Clementine in 2006, the seven books in the series follow the eccentric and lovable, yet unintentionally devious, eight-year-old Clementine through third grade.
Telgemeier said that she hears that “kids are insane for it”. [3] As of February 25, 2017 the paperback version of this novel had spent 240 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list under the category "Paperback Graphic Books." [20] Smile was last featured on The New York Times Bestseller list for Graphic Books and Manga in February ...