I wish my teacher knew: how one question can change everything for our kids

One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this "I wish my teacher knew _____." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe and s…

The stationery shop

Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink. Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer—handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice an…

Humble pi: when math goes wrong in the real world

Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes . . . until it doesn’t. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Math is easy to ignore until a misplaced decimal point upends the stock market, a unit c…

Wild dark shore

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.

Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall

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9781774885550

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Tales from the Odyssey, Part One

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9781423128649

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273 p. ; ill. ; 18 cm

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Tales from the odyssey

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823 OSB t

George & Martha: Two Great Friends

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9780618961788

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The good turn

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9780241523599

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Piranesi

Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls lined with thousands upon thousands of statues. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; and waves thunder up staircases, while rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to expl…

The American civil war

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9780241471333

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160 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm

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960 PHI t