Author: Emily Rodda
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060297751
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Emily Rodda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781862915367
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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The secret enemy is here. It hides in darkness, fools beware! The witch Sheba is tormented by strange visions of terrifying riddles. No one can help her except the boy Rowan, the "skinny weakling" whose face appears mysteriously in her dreams. Life in the village of Rin goes on day by day, unchanging. And then, unexpectedly, the Travellers arrive. They bring games and music, toys and tricks. But not everyone trusts them. Why have they come again so soon to Rin? Are they the "secret enemy" of Sheba's warning? Rowan is caught up in a web of intrigue and danger as he races against time to solve the witches riddle.

Author: Emily Rodda
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606313261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
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When an ancient evil threatens to devastate Rin, overcoming its people with a fatal sleeping sickness, Rowan, with help from a tribe called the Travelers, must decipher a rhyming riddle in order to save the land and its inhabitants.

Author: Emily Rodda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages :

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When the travellers arrive at the village of Rin, Rowan enjoys their visit. They bring games and music, toys and tricks. But Rin is suddenly overtaken by a bizarre sleeping spell, and Rowan is one of the few left standing. He is caught up in a web of intrigue and danger, as he races against time to solve the witch's riddle.

Author: Liz Knowles
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313058776
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Book clubs, literature circles, and reading groups are great ways to promote literacy and books to young readers. This new guide provides everything you need to run a dynamic, no-fuss book discussion group with elementary and middle school students. Featuring 15 titles of diverse genres, it offers discussion topics and activity ideas for some of the best new reads for kids. Brought to you by the authors of the highly acclaimed Reading Rules! Motivating Teens to Read, this guide is an outstanding resource for starting and running a stellar literary discussion group—whether it's in a school, public library, or community center. Grades 4-8.

Author: Emily Rodda
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060297786
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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After a flying lizard carries off his little sister, Rowan of Rin and three companions are guided by a rhyming riddle on a journey to the land of their old enemy, the Zebak, in order to rescue her.

Author: Mia Bay
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067425869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year “This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation...Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist “In Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times “Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought to move freely around the United States. But why this focus on Black mobility? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape in America and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. Mia Bay rescues forgotten stories of passengers who made it home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. She shows that Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations, documenting a sustained fight for redress that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A riveting, character-rich account of the rise and fall of racial segregation, it reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws—and why free movement has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since.

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Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Doris Gebel
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810852037
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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This annotated bibliography-organized geographically by world region and country, describing nearly 700 books representing 73 countries-is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. It is the third volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. The first, Carl M. Tomlinson's Children's Books from Other Countries (1998) is a compendium of international children's literature with annotations of both in and out of print books published between 1950 and 1996. Susan Stan's The World Through Children's Books (2002) was the second and it included books published between the years 1997 and 2000. Crossing Boundaries includes international children's books published between 2000 and 2004, as well as selected American books set in countries other than the United States. Editor Doris Gebel has compiled an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.

Author: Emily Rodda
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0064410234
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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When a bitter winter threatens starvation to the people of Rin who set out for the coast, Rowan and several others stay behind for various reasons and are led to a startling discovery about their people's past.