Esme Codell's diary of her first year as a fifth-grade teacher in Chicago's public schools. Ms. Esme's enthusiasm never wavers. Her classroom is an active one, full of projects and activities from storytelling to conflict resolution sessions. Outside the classroom, she endures doubting colleagues, a perplexing bureaucracy, and a principal who at ...
Offering parents practical advice and guidelines on how to expand a child's world through books and reading, the author of "Educating Esme" introduces 3000 teacher-recommended book titles, along with hundreds of craft ideas, projects, recipes, activities, book groups for boys and more.
The winner of the International Children's Book Award, this novel tells the funny and touching tale of classroom redemption. Sahara Jones is going into fifth grade--again. Although she won't be "Sahara Special" (special needs, that is) anymore, she soon learns to find a way to redefine special for herself.
Like every fifth grader, Esm Raji Codell spent her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes in this book. Esm tells us about: the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her ...
This Yiddish-laced rendition of Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL is set in New York City's Lower East Side, where penny-pinching, cantankerous Scroogemacher is forcing his garment workers to spend an extra hour in the factory on the very last night of Hanukkah. But late-night visits from three rabbis of the past, present, and future open his eyes to ...
Like every Chicago fifth grader, Codell spends her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes that Codell has compiled for this childhood memoir. Illustrations.
This sassy twist on fairy tales follows the story of Hunky Dory, whose interest in wishcraft instead of witchcraft gets her kicked out of charm school. Now she's determined to follow her heart and become a fairy godmother. Illustrations.
Paris has just come for piano lessons--not free advice. But when old Mrs. Rose gives her a little bit more than she can handle, Paris begins to understand the bully in her brother's life, in this companion novel to the award-winning "Sahara Special."
Esmé tells us about the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids sat on sofas instead of at desks and could choose disco dancing instead of math; her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made seem friendly and wondrous; the Passover dinner when ...
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