The true story of a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. To get his students to open up to their potential he uses unconventional methods, including ground-breaking classroom rules.
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London 1940. Whip-smart librarian Peggy Sparks is determined to make sure her beloved brother Joe returns home from the frontline to their mother and grandmother. So when she is offered a once-in-a-lifetime job at the heart of the war effort, Peggy jumps at the prospect of making...
"In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It is the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18. And then the man she gave herself to moves on. She has submitted her wi...
The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a ...
Join the amazing journeys of young Indy as he crosses paths with Picasso, Freud, Edison and other larger-than-life luminaries on his travels around the world.
Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the uno...
"In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It is the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18. And then the man she gave herself to moves on....
"In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It is the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18. And then the man she gave herself to moves on....
Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the uno...
"Seize kilomètres, c'est la distance entre Victoria et Adam. Elle se passionne pour les langues anciennes et préfère les livres aux humains. Il est une vedette du programme sport-études, espoir local du vélo. Dans l'autobus entre leurs domiciles et l'école, leurs destins se...
Lecturas graficas DE IMPACTO combine engaging topics, exciting illustrations, and carefully leveled text, appropriate for young readers.
Annie spends her days cooking with her grandmother and, although she can't see, she has the gift of being able to feel other people's deepest emotions. She brings those emotions to life with her magical cooking which helps the townspeople overcome their ailments of the body, as ...
"A granddaughter and grandmother, alienated from their community, live among various sombras, shadows of the dead with whom they alone can pray and commune. When the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws the unwanted attention of locals, the women combine forces with the ...
Annie is a single mother who adores her young son--but as one of the notorious Balfour heiresses, she will have to work hard to give her baby a normal childhood. Then a chance meeting forces her back into the world of Luca de Salvatore, the gorgeous father of her child! Luca doe...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to ...
Perfect for fans of Marisa de los Santos and Allison Winn Scotch, Samantha Wilde's new novel is a funny and heartfelt look at friendship, marriage, and the dynamics of modern motherhood. Nora and Annie have been best friends since kindergarten. Nora, a shy English teacher at ...