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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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Thomas C Foster
A fun and practical introduction to literature and literary basics--symbols, themes, and contexts--shows how to make everyday reading experiences more rewarding and enjoyable.
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Inkspell
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Cornelia Funke
This dazzling, gripping sequel to the bestselling children's fantasy INKHEART follows curious, adventurous Meggie--the 12-year-old daughter of renowned bookbinder Mo--and beautiful, silent Resa, into a dangerous, compelling world trapped between the pages of Inkheart. Though the family has been reunited and living happily at Aunt Elinor's, Meggie ...
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How to Read a Book
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Patrick Cullen (Read by)
Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren's classic guide to enlightened reading. On everything from poetry and plays to science and philosophy, Adler and Van Doren teach general readers how to analyze a text, to appreciate its method and bias, and to come away with a full understanding of the author's point.
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Uncommon Reader
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Alan Bennett (Read by)
From one of England's most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning "The History Boys," comes a mischievous novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading.
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Inkdeath
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Cornelia Funke, Allan Corduner (Read by)
The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of ...
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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together
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Mary Ann Hoberman, Michael Emberley (Illustrator)
Here's a book with something new - you read to me! I'll read to you! We'll read each page to one another - you'll read one side, I the other. A unique book 'in two voices' that uses traditional reading teaching techniques (alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite young children to read along with an adult. Each of the twelve ...
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak
Liesel Meminger, a foster child living outside Munich during World War II, scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books--in this unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement
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S Harvey
Since its publication in 2000, "Strategies That Work" has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers. In this revised and expanded edition, Stephanie and Anne have added twenty completely new comprehension lessons, extending the ...
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The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
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Donalyn Miller, Jeff Anderson (Foreword by)
Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps ...
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Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature
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Donna E Norton
For courses in Children's Literature. This is a fresh, new edition of one of the most widely-respected sources for introducing future teachers to the wealth of literature available to children. The sixth edition is replete with expanded coverage of key topics, numerous new features, and an enhanced focus on multicultural literature. Its unique ...
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Inkheart
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Cornelia Funke
Both lovers of books and reading, 11-year-old Meggie and her bookbinder father, Mo, enter the fight of their lives with evil villains who were originally characters in a book called INKHEART. Ensnared by Capricorn and his menacing gang, including the exceedingly cruel Basta, Meggie must not only free herself and her father, but also find her ...
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Honey for a child's heart; the imaginative use of books in family life
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Gladys M. Hunt
Honey for a Child's Heart, now in its third edition, is one of the best guides to children's books available. It is for parents who know the value of reaching their children with good books. This edition includes an indexed and updated 85-page list of the best children's classics ever.
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The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
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Jessie Wise, Sara Buffington
An accessible primer on phonics-based teaching filters out the obscure, political, and gimmicky practices of typical programs to provide parents with simple steps on teaching children how to read, providing a wealth of tools, instructional advice, and easy-to-follow guidelines. 10,000 firs
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Bats at the Library
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Brian Lies (Illustrator)
Those joyful critters from the "New York Times" bestseller "Bats at the Beach" are back. Youngsters can join in the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats, whose nocturnal celebration cast library visits in a new light. Full color.
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Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
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Jasper Fforde
Literary sleuth Thursday Next is once again out to make the world safe for fiction in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
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Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Donald Graves (Foreword by)
Written specifically for teachers, this is a manual on teaching reading to students from kindergarten through eighth grade.
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The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
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Nancie Atwell
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Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay
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Frank Madden
Culturally rich and diverse literature, comprehensive coverage of the writing process, and strong coverage of arguing about literature describe this anthology. The first five chapters are dedicated to writing and arguing about literature followed by an anthology organized around five themes: Family and Friends; Innocence and Experience; Women ...
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Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
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Mem Fox (Read by)
Mem Fox, an author of children's books and a literacy expert, shares her thoughts on why reading aloud to children is so important to their emotional and intellectual growth.
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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Anne Fadiman
Entertaining essays by Anne Fadiman about the joys of books and reading. Some of the joys are rather curious ones, but Fadiman writes about them with humor and self-deprecation, and always with grace and style.
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Literature and the Child
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Lee Galda, Bernice E Cullinan
Since this book's debut, LITERATURE AND THE CHILD has become a popular choice in the children's literature market. The book covers the two major topical areas of children's literature -- genres of children's literature (e.g., picture books, folklore, etc.) and the use of children's literature in the classroom. The book is beautifully written and ...
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How to read and why
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Professor Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom writes about reading in an electronic age, making distinctions between information and knowledge (not to mention wisdom) and pointing out the indispensable virtues of such literary icons as Shakespeare, Austen, and Chekhov.
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The City of Dreaming Books
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Walter Moers
Optimus Yarnspinner, a young Zamonian writer, inherits very little from his beloved godfather apart from an unpublished short story by an unknown author. This manuscript proves to be such a superb piece of writing that he can't resist the temptation to investigate the mystery surrounding the author's identity. The trail takes him to Bookholm, the ...
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History of Reading
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A Manguel
A book devoted to that mysterious and possibly endangered activity: reading. It starts with the truism, often forgotten, that without the reader no books would exist--and no literature. Noted essayist and anthologist Alberto Manguels takes the "reader" on a fantastic voyage across the continents and centuries to trace the lost chapters the "book" ...
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The Library at Night
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Alberto Manguel
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. 'Libraries', he says, 'have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine ...
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