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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Samuel Clemens, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
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Language
English
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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
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Language
English
Description
Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters Minnie Maude Mudway, who is eight, alone, and determined to find her friend Charlie. Charlie is a donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. The day before, someone murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it. Minnie Maud means to rescue Charlie, and Grace decides to help. In...
5) Free lunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
6) Charisma
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Language
English
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It began well, an experiment in techniques to teach high-risk children, poor, minority, children, the life-strategies that will allow them to succeed in life. And, not just succeed, but overcome the odds and become wildly successful. They chose as their model a man who had done it all, Alexander Marcus, a black man who raised himself up from poverty to become one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in America.
The imprinting is effective. The children...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Milton Hershey School is the richest and wealthiest K-12 residential school in the world. Its $12 billion trust fund, financed by sales of the iconic Hershey candy, eclipse that of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins combined. Even more stunning is that the school for orphans owns The Hershey Company and not the other way around. As the twentieth-century drew to a close, the School's Board of Managers creatively interpreted the Founder's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 101 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
John Cromwell's 1936 film version of Little Lord Fauntleroy is the definitive rendering of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel, a heartwarming classic with delightful performances from Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
7 online resources (7 video files) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' powerful story of a young orphan boy who is released from his apprenticeship by a mysterious benefactor to be educated in London.
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
117 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses facts behind Mary Pope Osborne's "A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time," covering topics such as the Victorian lifestyle and the lives of children during the time of Charles Dickens.
15) The Snow Queen
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gerda and her mother take in a penniless beggar boy, Kay, and powerful forces take both children on a magical journey, testing their friendship to the extreme along the way. Kay goes missing, so with faith, love, and courage, Gerda goes to find him.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Original UK ed., Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age story with colorful characters: conspirators, rogues, rakes, and wretches.
Publisher
Geneon
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
[6] DVDs (ca. 780 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Hajiki Sana, a boy struggling to help support his fatherless family in an electricity-impoverished city known as Night Town. One day he encounters the Gad and a special bond is formed. Now his life will never be the same.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
20) Unconditional
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this film inspired by true events, successful author/illustrator Samantha Crawford is living a charmed life, until her husband is murdered. Sam plunges into despair and loses her faith and will to live. A death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her childhood friend. As Sam watches "Papa" Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that the love of God is always reaching...
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