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Language
English
Description
Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World is a new blueprint for fast language learning.
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The authors "demonstrate how our emergent bilingual students--who speak two or more languages in their daily lives--thrive when they are able to use 'translanguaging' to tap the power of their entire linguistic and sociocultural repertoires. Additionally, [they] present rich and thoughtful literacy practices that propel emergent bilinguals into reading and writing success. The core of this approach is honoring and leveraging the language and cultural...
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Language
English
Description
The novel that introduced the first great American hero: the cowboy
The Virginian cuts an impressive figure when the unnamed narrator of Owen Wister’s groundbreaking novel first encounters him in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Dark-haired and physically imposing, the charismatic Virginian quickly befriends the narrator, whom he nicknames “the tenderfoot,” and the two embark on a three-hundred-mile journey to the ranch where the...
The Virginian cuts an impressive figure when the unnamed narrator of Owen Wister’s groundbreaking novel first encounters him in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. Dark-haired and physically imposing, the charismatic Virginian quickly befriends the narrator, whom he nicknames “the tenderfoot,” and the two embark on a three-hundred-mile journey to the ranch where the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin. Set in New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the nineteenth century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to reconcile her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South. It is one of the earliest American novels that focuses on women's issues without condescension. It is also widely seen as...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
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Language
English
Description
Sharing lessons learned from their decades of experience in media, business and communications, the co-founders of Axios present this writing and communications manifesto for the information age that teaches readers how to say more with less in virtually any format.
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xx, 283 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
-- Real Change The most pressing problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a toxic smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda, and polarization stifles discussion and debate, creating resistance to change and thwarting our ability to solve our collective problems. In this second edition of -- I’m Right and You’re an Idiot “This is a must-read for anyone tired of the bullying, the propagandizing,...
19) My reading life
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Language
English
Description
-- My Reading Life BONUS: The Death of Santini.
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