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In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly portrayed, to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood.
For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked
2) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s, with rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rising sharply. The author lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time, and then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults....
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
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x, 118 p. : ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
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Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
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Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
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64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Discusses the many issues facing teens of multiethnic descent, including discrimination and the search for ethnic identity in an unsympathetic culture.
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Highlights Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
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336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Every year tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Cully has curated a collection of the letters, emails, drawings, and poems to reveal an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America's children and its leading children's magazine....
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The RoadRunner Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
208 pages ; cm.
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English
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"While still a little boy, Alton Carter walked away from his violent, drug- and alcohol-riddled childhood home believing the worst life had to offer was behind him. He was sorely mistaken. After surviving a troubled foster care system and becoming the first in his family to graduate from high school -- with a college scholarship in hand no less, he found himself at age eighteen, as so many young people do on the cusp of life: scared, lonely, and all...
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xxv, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America. Keeping his focus on the children, he examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a government...
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ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"In a 1988 address dedicating May as National Foster Care Month, President Ronald Reagan emphasized that "the family is the indispensable foundation of society; at its best, it performs tasks that no other entity can hope to duplicate." All members of an immediate and extended family are important, but parents are especially essential as they bear the primary responsibility for children's physical, emotional, psychological, and social development....
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Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xi, 445 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Publisher description: Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed their own paths to development and expression. Now, Steven Mintz gives us the first comprehensive history of American childhood encompassing both the child's and the adult's tumultuous early years of life. Underscoring diversity...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net-- the public school system--was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children to be. They are the best chance many children have at...
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Publisher
Delecorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Edición adaptada para lectores jóvenes
Physical Desc
292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
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