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Series
Bilingual education and bilingualism volume 26
Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Examines autobiographies by athletes such as Wilt Chamberlain, Babe Ruth, Martina Navratilova, and Dennis Rodman, and analyzes common themes and recurring patterns in the accounts of their lives and sporting experiences"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova have in common? At some point they all studied the art of writing deeply with someone. The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors--the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
Annoyed that Sister Bear always beats them at baseball and other "boy" type activities, her brother and the other male cubs try to exclude her from their new club.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's...
Author
Language
English
Description
A charming memoir of one woman's unexpected journey from country chic to backwoods barnyard.
McGaha never thought she would be pulling camouflage carpet off her ceiling or rescuing opossums from her barn and calling it "date night." Most importantly, she never thought she would only have $4.57 in her bank account. After she and her husband discovered that they owed a lot of back taxes, they foreclosed on their suburban home and moved to a one-hundred-year-old...
16) The hiding place
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
An old Dutch watchmaker and his two daughters become the center of a major underground operation: to hide Jewish refugees from the occupying Germans. They break all the rules to save the lives of men, women, and children being hunted by the Nazis. The cost of their bravery is betrayal, and they end up in the dreaded Ravensbruck concentration camp. Nevertheless, they continue their efforts to save those around them.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
NC 1210L
Language
English
Description
Gary Paulsen ... shows us how he learned to sail the hard way, by learning from his own hilarious and hair-raising mistakes. He tells of boats that have owned him, good, bad, and beloved, and how they got him through terrifying storms that he survived by sheer luck. -- Publisher.
19) All but my life
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
A Polish Jew records her experiences and struggle for survival in Nazi work camps and during a thousand-mile forced march.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday October 9, 2012, she almost paid the ultimate price.
