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The Borning Room

Author	: Paul Fleischman
Publisher	: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date	: 2013-06-01
ISBN 10	: 9781482101157
Pages	: 103 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book The Borning Room written by Paul Fleischman and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.

Families in Children's Literature

Author	: Nancy Lee Cecil
Publisher	: Libraries Unlimited
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN 10	: 9781563083136
Pages	: 148 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (831 users)

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Download or read book Families in Children's Literature written by Nancy Lee Cecil and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and describes children's literature that portrays family life

A Book of Cape Cod Houses

Author	: Doris Doane
Publisher	: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date	: 2008-05
ISBN 10	: 1567921132
Pages	: 100 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book A Book of Cape Cod Houses written by Doris Doane and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask any child to draw a house, and what you will probably get is a symmetrical structure of one and a half stories with a door in the middle and a window on either side - in other words, a "Cape." From the mid-1600s to the 1850s, capes were the standard New England home, providing farmers and fishermen, city dwellers and country folk with houses that were easy to build, economical, and whose low-slung design stood up to the bracing winds that swept in from the ocean. After World War II, these straightforward practical designs were adapted to twentieth-century living. Here is the history of these charming homes, accompanied by detailed and elegant pencil drawings illuminating everything from the wallpapers to the floor plans.

35 Best Books for Teaching U.S. Regions

Author	: Toni Buzzeo
Publisher	: Scholastic Inc.
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN 10	: 0439207630
Pages	: 116 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book 35 Best Books for Teaching U.S. Regions written by Toni Buzzeo and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your students on a learning-packed trip across the U.S. with books they’ll love! This resource includes background information, activity ideas, reproducibles, and Internet connections to help you use 35 great novels as springboards to social studies learning. A great way to get your kids to read more deeply—and learn about the seven U.S. regions. For use with Grades 4-8.

Images of Kin

Author	: Michael S. Harper
Publisher	: University of Illinois Press
Release Date	: 1977
ISBN 10	: 0252006070
Pages	: 228 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (7 users)

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Download or read book Images of Kin written by Michael S. Harper and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harper's poetry is not limited by color or attitude. In Images of Kin, Harper amazes with his keen sense of political and personal histories, his breadth of expression. This collection fixes Harper as one of the dominant poetic voices of his generation" -- Chicago Sun-Times "It is Mr. Harper's achievement to have projected his most difficult and complex insights and feelings through the epical manner, yet at the same time carried us along to identify with him." -- New York Times Book Review

Lying-in

Author	: Richard W. Wertz
Publisher	: Yale University Press
Release Date	: 1989-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0300040873
Pages	: 348 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (73 users)

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Download or read book Lying-in written by Richard W. Wertz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively history of childbirth begins with colonial days, when childbirth was a social event, and moves on to the gradual medicalization of childbirth in America as doctors forced midwives out of business and to the home-birth movement of the 1980's. Widely praised when it was first published in 1977, the book has now been expanded to bring the story up to date. In a new chapter and epilogue, Richard and Dorothy Wertz discuss the recent focus on delivering perfect babies, with its emphasis on technology, prenatal testing, and Caesarean sections. They argue that there are many viable alternatives--including out-of-hospital births--in the search for the best birthing system. Review of the first edition: "Highly readable, extensively documented, and well illustrated...A welcome addition to American social history and women's studies. It can also be read with profit by health planners, hospital administrators, 'consumers' of health care, and all those who are concerned with improving the circumstances associated with childbirth."--Claire Elizabeth Fox, bulletin of the History of Medicine "A fascinating, brilliantly documented history not merely of childbirth, but of men's attitudes towards women, the effect of a burgeoning medical profession on our very conception of maternity and motherhood, and the influence of religion on medical technology and science."--Thomas J. Cottle, Boston Globe "This superb book...is both an impeccably documented recitation of the chronological history of medical intervention in American childbirth and a sociological analysis of the various meanings given to childbirth by individuals, interested groups, and American society as a whole."--Barbara Howe, American Journal of Sociology Richard W. Wertz, a builder in Westport, Massachusetts, is formerly an associate professor of American history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dorothy C. Wertz, is a research professor at the School of Public Health, Boston University

I Am Faithful

Author	: Jenny Irish
Publisher	: eBookIt.com
Release Date	: 2021-03-19
ISBN 10	: 9781625571113
Pages	: 184 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (711 users)

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Download or read book I Am Faithful written by Jenny Irish and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often slyly funny and always devastatingly observant, Jenny Irish writes about the precarities of our moment with gorgeous prose and heartbreaking acuity. --Laura Kipnis

A Memoir

Author	: Peter Baldwin
Publisher	: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date	: 2017-12-04
ISBN 10	: 9781543465600
Pages	: 234 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (656 users)

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Download or read book A Memoir written by Peter Baldwin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir follows the publication of three previous books, each of which has had more to do with my professional life as a practicing psychologist and university professor. Th is collection of stories draws from the rich life living in Gilmanton.

Nantucket Ghosts

Author	: Blue Balliett
Publisher	: Down East Books
Release Date	: 2006-05-25
ISBN 10	: 9780892728343
Pages	: 230 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (283 users)

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Download or read book Nantucket Ghosts written by Blue Balliett and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nantucket Island has just more than 10,000 year-round residents — and a sizeable population of very real ghosts. The 44 tales in this book were collected as oral history. Some of these spirits are benign, even protective; others terrorize the humans who encounter them. All are memorable.

Upper Elementary Reading Lessons

Author	: Marilyn J. Chambliss
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date	: 2011-07-16
ISBN 10	: 9781442211940
Pages	: 228 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (119 users)

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Download or read book Upper Elementary Reading Lessons written by Marilyn J. Chambliss and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides descriptive cases, accompanied by analytic commentaries, of nine upper-elementary grade reading lessons that represent an array of sound teaching practices. The cases focus on various reading topics and were written from authentic lessons taught by regular classroom teachers to diverse groups of students. Each lesson contains elements of sound instructional practice as well as potential dilemmas from which both preservice and in-service teachers can benefit.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Author	: Roberta S. Trites
Publisher	: University of Iowa Press
Release Date	: 1997-06
ISBN 10	: 9780877455912
Pages	: 186 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (559 users)

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Download or read book Waking Sleeping Beauty written by Roberta S. Trites and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sleeping Beauty in Roberta Seelinger Trites' intriguing text is no silent snoozer passively waiting for Prince Charming to energize her life. Instead she wakes up all by herself and sets out to redefine the meaning of “happily ever after.” Trites investigates the many ways that Sleeping Beauty's newfound voice has joined other strong female voices in feminist children's novels to generate equal potentials for all children. Waking Sleeping Beauty explores issues of voice in a wide range of children's novels, including books by Virginia Hamilton, Patricia MacLachlan, and Cynthia Voight as well as many multicultural and international books. Far from being a limiting genre that praises females at the expense of males, the feminist children's novel seeks to communicate an inclusive vision of politics, gender, age, race, and class. By revising former stereotypes of children's literature and replacing them with more complete images of females in children's books, Trites encourages those involved with children's literature—teachers, students, writers, publishers, critics, librarian, booksellers, and parents—to be aware of the myriad possibilities of feminist expression. Roberta Trites focuses on the positive aspects of feminism: on the ways females interact through family and community relationships, on the ways females have revised patriarchal images, and on the ways female writers use fictional constructs to transmit their ideologies to readers. She thus provides a framework that allows everyone who enters a classroom with a children's book in hand to recognize and communicate—with an optimistic, reality-based sense of “happily ever after”—the politics and the potential of that book.

New Rooms for Old Houses

Author	: Frank Shirley
Publisher	: Taunton Press
Release Date	: 2007
ISBN 10	: 9781561588855
Pages	: 277 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (888 users)

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Download or read book New Rooms for Old Houses written by Frank Shirley and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a practical handbook explains how to design, renovate, and remodel an older home to add extra space that matches the style of the original building but takes into consideration the requirements of modern living. 25,000 first printing.

Rip-roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

Author	: Gale W. Sherman
Publisher	: Libraries Unlimited
Release Date	: 1993
ISBN 10	: 156308094X
Pages	: 182 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Rip-roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers written by Gale W. Sherman and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty books for teen readers are reviewed, listing genres, themes, reading level, interest level, reviews, author information, plot summary, book talks and literature extensions.

Books That Build Character

Author	: William Kilpatrick
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 1994-11
ISBN 10	: 9780671884239
Pages	: 342 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (842 users)

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Download or read book Books That Build Character written by William Kilpatrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues reading can develop positive values, and evaluates 300 books

House of Darkness House of Light

Author	: Andrea Perron
Publisher	: Author House
Release Date	: 2013
ISBN 10	: 9781481712385
Pages	: 505 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (123 users)

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Download or read book House of Darkness House of Light written by Andrea Perron and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perron family purchased the Arnold Estate, located just beyond the village of Harrisville, Rhode Island, in 1970. They soon found out that the house was a portal to the past and a passage to the future

Countless Gifts of Love

Author	: Lynn Davis Slavin
Publisher	: Infinity Publishing
Release Date	: 2006-06
ISBN 10	: 9780741430946
Pages	: 323 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (39 users)

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Download or read book Countless Gifts of Love written by Lynn Davis Slavin and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tenderly written memoir of her mother, Lynn speaks of laughter, devotion, tears, and deep faith while facing terminal illness. She addresses the value of courageously walking that journey together.

A History of US: War, Terrible War

Author	: Joy Hakim
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2012-10-16
ISBN 10	: 9780199989072
Pages	: 176 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (89 users)

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Download or read book A History of US: War, Terrible War written by Joy Hakim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Follow the common soldiers in blue and gray as they endure long marches, freezing winter camps, and the bloodiest battles ever fought on American soil. Off the war fields, War, Terrible War captures the passion and commitment of abolitionists and slaveowners alike in their fiery debates throughout the land. With profiles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Jefferson Davis, soldiers on both sides, slave owners, abolitionists, average citizens, and others, War, Terrible War is the compelling story of a people affected by the horrors of war during this tragic and dramatic period in A History of US. About the Series: Master storyteller Joy Hakim has excited millions of young minds with the great drama of American history in her award-winning series A History of US. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text, A History of US weaves together exciting stories that bring American history to life. Hailed by reviewers, historians, educators, and parents for its exciting, thought-provoking narrative, the books have been recognized as a break-through tool in teaching history and critical reading skills to young people. In ten books that span from Prehistory to the 21st century, young people will never think of American history as boring again.