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Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring

by Angela Valenzuela

Published: 1999-10-21

Paperback: 346 pages

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Provides an enhanced sense of what’s required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.–Mexican youth in America.Subtractive Schooling provides a framework for understanding the patterns of immigrant achievement and U.S.-born underachievement frequently noted in the literature and obs...

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The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

by Pedro A. Noguera

Published: 2009-06-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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For many years to come, race will continue to be a source of controversy and conflict in American society. For many of us it will continue to shape where we live, pray, go to school, and socialize. We cannot simply wish away the existence of race or racism, but we can take steps to lessen the ways in...

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The Night Diary

by Veera Hiranandani

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A 2019 NEWBERY HONOR BOOK *A Walter Dean Myers Honor Winner *An ALA Notable Book *A Malka Penn Award Recipient *A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick *A Junior Library Guild Selection *Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, The New York Times, NPR, School Library Journ...

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The Friend: An emotional psychological thriller with a twist

by Teresa Driscoll

Published: 2018-03-22

Kindle Edition: 293 pages

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The chilling psychological thriller from the #1 bestselling author of I Am Watching You.On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben.She thought she...

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Hazardous Duty: Squeaky Clean Mysteries, Book 1: An Amateur Sleuth Mystery and Suspense Series, Christian Fiction

by Christy Barritt

Published: 2014-01-05

Kindle Edition: 329 pages

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Buying a gun to kill your wife: $3,000Hiring Trauma Care to clean afterward: $1,500Having that same cleaner uncover evidence that frames you: PricelessOn her way to completing a degree in forensic science, Gabby St. Claire drops out of school and starts her own crime scene cleaning busine...

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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

by Frans de Waal

Published: 2019-03-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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New York Times Bestseller Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigate...

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Queen Victoria's Granddaughters: 1860-1918

by Christina Croft

Published: 2013-10-28

Paperback: 424 pages

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On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was ‘a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park.’ Her apathy was understandable – this was her fourteenth grandchild, and, though she had given...

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A World on Fire

by Michelle Ray

Published: 2019-01-01

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Six lands, three religions, one true love. (Based on real events.)1497. The Mediterranean is in upheaval, and Beatríz finds herself in the midst of the turmoil. Expelled from Spain not five years earlier along with the rest of the country’s Jews, she is terrified to learn of Portugal’...

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Go, Dog Go (I Can Read It All By Myself, Beginner Books)

by P.D. Eastman

Published: 1961-03-12

Hardcover: 72 pages

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Reading goes to the dogs in this timeless Beginner Book edited by Dr. Seuss. From big dogs and little dogs to red, green, and blue dogs, dogs going up and dogs going fast . . . who knew dogs were so busy? And laughter will ensue at the repeated question “Do you like my hat?” Like P. D....

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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

by Brian Alexander

Published: 2018-01-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land*A New York Post Must-Read Book**A Newsweek Best New Book**One of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017**One of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**Best Non-Fiction/2017 Books by the Banks*The Wall Street Jo...