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"September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade. Suddenly treated as an outcast in his own city, Janusz--a respected leader known for his heroism and teaching--is determined to do whatever it takes to protect the children from the horrors to come. When over four hundred...
2) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense...
4) Abiyoyo
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2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A boy and his father are banished because the father, a magician, has a habit of making things vanish. But when the monster Abiyoyo appears . . . the boy plays a song on his ukelele to make the monster dance; then the father makes Abiyoyo disappear, and all is forgiven. The charm of this . . . lies in Seeger's wry understatement coupled with Hays' outstanding illustrations . . . The song, with music, is included
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2017.
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Si eres un maestro que nunca tienen días malos, o que los tienes pero no te preocupa, esta libro no es para ti. Este libro es para maestros que tienen días buenos y días malos, y a quienes los días malos les provocan sufrimiento porque aman profundamente lo que hacen y se niegan a endurecer sus corazones. En nuestras prisas por reformar la educación, hemos olvidado una verdad muy sencilla: nunca se lograr a una verdadera reforma si seguimos menospreciando...
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2024.
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Based on an historical event, Trinidad Verdín's story reveals the courage, suffering, and lessons a twelve-year-old girl learns about Apaches and herself during her captivity with the Naiche-Geronimo band hiding, fighting, and raiding in northern Sonora. After breaking their surrender agreement with General George Crook in late March 1886, forty Apaches (eighteen men, fourteen women, and six children) led by Geronimo established a camp at the top...
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