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Being Teddy Roosevelt

A Boy, a President and a Plan

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

154 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Simon Ellis, Spelling Bee Champ

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

129 kr

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The students in Miss Molina''s third grade class are abuzz with excitement about the upcoming spelling bee, where they will be competing against the two other classes in third grade. Simon Ellis, who just happens to be good at a lot of other things, is also very good at spelling. But Simon''s best friend, Jackson, tells him that it''s getting boring losing to Simon all the time. Simon is stuck in an impossible situation: Jackson will be mad whether he spells all the words correctly for their team or if he makes a mistake on purpose and causes his team to miss out on the all-you-can-eat pie buffet. Simon''s competitive spirit takes over until he realizes that sometimes the best way to win is to take a chance and let other people shine.

Cody Harmon, King of Pets

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2016

134 kr

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Cody Harmon doesn''t love reading, math, spelling, or really any of the subjects that Miss Molina teaches in her third-grade class. But he lives on a farm and he loves animals--he even has nine pets--so when the school holds a pet-show fund-raiser, it should be his time to shine. There''s a ten-dollar entrance fee per pet, though, and Cody can''t pay it for all nine pets. He''d love to take his pig, but what about the others? In the end, Cody figures out a way to lend out his pets so that every person in the class (and every pet) gets to participate in the show.

Zero Tolerance

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

183 kr

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Seventh-grader Sierra Shepard has always been the perfect student, so when she sees that she accidentally brought her mother''s lunch bag to school, including a paring knife, she immediately turns in the knife at the school office. Much to her surprise, her beloved principal places her in in-school suspension and sets a hearing for her expulsion, citing the school''s ironclad no weapons policy. While there, Sierra spends time with Luke, a boy who''s known as a troublemaker, and discovers that he''s not the person she assumed he would be--and that the lines between good and bad aren''t as clear as she once thought. Claudia Mills brings another compelling school story to life with Zero Tolerance.

7 X 9 = Trouble!

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

172 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Being Teddy Roosevelt

A Boy, a President and a Plan

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2007

215 kr

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Riley O''Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to get a saxophone so he can take instrumental music. His mother can''t afford to rent him a sax, and he''s sure he''ll never save up enough money to buy one. But as Riley learns more about Roosevelt''s "bully" spirit, he realizes that there just might be a way to solve his problem after all.Claudia Mills'' sparkling story about the influence of important historical figures is enhanced by tender, insightful illustrations.Being Teddy Roosevelt is a 2008 Bank Street—Best Children''s Book of the Year.

Mason Dixon: Pet Disasters

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2011

74 kr

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Soon-to-be fourth-grader Mason Dixon does not want a pet, but his parents think it will be good for him. Goldfish dies soon after his arrival (from overfeeding). Mason is relieved. Hamster escapes. Mason is relieved. Cat has to go back because best friend Brody is too allergic to ever be at their house while Cat is there. Mason is relieved. But when Dog comes, it takes a little dose of jealousy for Mason to realize he does want a pet, all of his very own. Claudia Mills introduces a new, hilarious character in Mason, and each of the three books about him will feature both boys as they cope with a new experience; pitch-perfect for 8- to 10- year-old newly independent readers, the books will maintain a consistent page count and feature black-and-while art throughout.

Mason Dixon: Fourth-Grade Disasters

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2011

97 kr

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Here''s the second entry in veteran author Claudia Mills'' charming middle-grade series, which finds the lovably sardonic title character starting the fourth grade, which he''s dreading: everyone in fourth grade is expected to join the school choir. And sing. In front of everyone. Mason can''t think of many things he enjoys less than singing. But performing in front of other people might come close; Mason devises a foolproof plan that will keep him out of the spotlight on concert night. Of course, in the world of Mason Dixon, there is no such thing as a foolproof plan. There is only disaster.From the Hardcover edition.

Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2012

74 kr

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Here''s the third entry in Claudia Mills'' charming middle-grade series. Mason Dixon survived the school choir. He survived adopting his now-beloved dog named, uh, Dog. But now he faces his biggest challenge yet: joining the local basketball team. Not by choice, of course. Not only do his parents encourage it, but his dad even volunteers to be his coach. Now, with his best pal Brody and a team of misfits even worse at basketball than him (if that''s possible), Mason must try to rally to beat his arch-rival, the school bully Dunk. Just another day-in-the-life of a disaster-prone fourth grader.From the Hardcover edition.

Nora Notebooks, Book 1: The Trouble with Ants

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

76 kr

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Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora has ants all figured out—now she just has to try to understand her fellow humans! The trouble with ants is . . . . . . people think they’re boring. . . . they are not cuddly. . . . who would ever want them for a pet? Nora Alpers is using her new notebook to record the behavior of ants. Why? Because they are fascinating! Unfortunately, no one agrees with her. Her mom is not happy about them being in the house, and when Nora brings her ant farm to school for show and tell, her classmates are not very impressed. They are more interested in cat videos, basketball practice, or trying to set a Guinness World Record (although Nora wouldn’t mind that). Mostly they are distracted by the assignment their teacher Coach Joe has given them—to write a persuasive speech and change people’s minds about something. Will Nora convince her friends that ants are as interesting as she thinks they are? Or will everyone still think of ants as nothing but trouble? With real science facts, a classroom backdrop, an emphasis on friendship, and appealing black-and-white interior illustrations from artist Katie Kath, The Nora Notebooks is perfect for newly independent readers—especially budding scientists like Nora!—and adults who want to encourage awareness of STEM subjects in young readers.

The Nora Notebooks, Book 2: The Trouble with Babies

AvClaudia Mills

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

133 kr

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Nora Notebooks, Book 2: The Trouble with Babies

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2016

95 kr

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"The thought-provoking reflections on personality and growth add insight and discussability."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children''s Books Fourth grade scientists are not meant to be babysitters. The second book in the Nora Notebooks finds Nora Alpers in unfamiliar territory. Nora Alpers has just become a ten-year-old aunt. To prepare for the new arrival, Nora has been writing down baby-related facts in her special notebook, just like she does with her favorite subject: ants. She likes the idea that someone who studies the A-N-T is also an A-U-N-T, even though she doesn’t know anything about taking care of babies. A new family member isn’t the only thing stressing Nora out. At school, Nora has to write journals in the voice of a pioneer on the Oregon Trail and prepare for the annual science fair. Science is normally Nora’s best subject—until Nora ends up being paired with science-hating, cat-obsessed Emma! How will Nora ever learn to be a good aunt if she’s trying to survive the Oregon Trail and arguing against Emma’s unscientific science-fair ideas? Readers will welcome the return of Nora who Publishers Weekly called “delightful[ly] enterprising” in a starred review.From the Hardcover edition.

Nora Notebooks, Book 3: The Trouble with Friends

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

79 kr

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The final book in the Nora Notebooks series finds Nora trying to navigate the unscientific matter of making friends with someone you have nothing in common with. Nora Alpers, fourth-grade scientist, likes things to be just so. Her ant farm, her hobbies, her friends. So when Coach Joe, her teacher, informs the class that all the students have to try something new and write a report about it, Nora is not pleased. She is even less pleased when her classmate Emma seems to decide that befriending Nora will be her “new” thing. Does Emma really want to be friends or is this just an assignment for school? Nora, meanwhile, has to figure out her own new thing. Will she discover that she has interests outside of science or will all her efforts end up being nothing but trouble? Praise for the Nora Notebooks series: “Will resonate with children who have a passion for something out of the ordinary.” —Publishers Weekly, starred “Readers will be drawn into the story by the sincere and realistic characters Mills has created, as well as the pleasing and appealing illustrations found in every chapter.” —School Library Journal “Middle-grade readers will hope for more Nora Notebooks soon.” —Kirkus Reviews

Del 1 - After-School Superstars

Nixie Ness: Cooking Star

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

87 kr

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Boogie Bass, Sign Language Star

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

96 kr

Skickas

The Lost Language

AvClaudia Mills

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

195 kr

Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar

Last Apple Tree

AvClaudia Mills

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

263 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Calliope Callisto Clark and the Search for Wisdom

AvClaudia Mills

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

273 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Lucy López: Programadora estrella

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Spanska, 2025

176 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Ethics and Children's Literature

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

718 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including 'prosaic ethics' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by L’Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American children’s literature and in the emerging children’s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part III’s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to children’s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to children’s literature. Even as children’s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

Fractions = Trouble!

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

167 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Kelsey Green, Reading Queen

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

205 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Annika Riz, Math Whiz

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

129 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Izzy Barr, Running Star

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

196 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Write This Down

AvClaudia Mills

Häftad, Engelska, 2018, 9-12 år

255 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Twelve-year-old Autumn loves to write. She finds inspiration all around her, especially in Cameron, the dreamy boy in her journalism class who she has a major crush on. Then her older brother, Hunter, who used to watch out for her but has grown distant since he started high school, reads one of her poems about Cameron to Cameron's older brother. They make fun of it and she is devastated. Determined to show her brother how talented she really is, Autumn decides that she is going to become a published author - now! She writes an essay about her changing relationship with her brother, enters it in a contest, and wins, and her dream of publication is within reach. But if her essay is published, everyone will know her family's secrets. Is being published worth hurting those you love?

Ethics and Children's Literature

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2016

851 kr

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Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including ''prosaic ethics'' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by L’Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American children’s literature and in the emerging children’s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part III’s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to children’s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to children’s literature. Even as children’s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

Ethics and Children's Literature

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2016

851 kr

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Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including ''prosaic ethics'' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by L’Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American children’s literature and in the emerging children’s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part III’s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to children’s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to children’s literature. Even as children’s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2008

183 kr

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Amanda MacLeish might be the only student in Mr. Abrams''s fifth-grade class who doesn''t mind doing her homework. Now that her father has left home and moved into a motel, the only thing that brings Amanda any joy is writing her fictional diary entries about a young girl named Polly who lives amid the chaos of the Civil War. Polly would understand Amanda. With one brother fighting for the North and one fighting for the South, Polly knows just how it feels to have a family split in half. But if the North and the South could find a way to reunite despite their differences, can''t Amanda''s family do the same?In this touching novel by Claudia Mills, the heroine learns that enduring a split doesn''t have to mean losing a family.The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children''s Book of the Year.

Makeovers by Marcia

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2005

183 kr

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Pretty is as pretty doesPretty, popular Marcia Faitak is not her usual self. Over the summer she gained five pounds, and when school begins, Marcia, desperate for an invitation from Alex Ryan to the October dance, goes on a diet. In art class, she''s supposed to bring a red apple to life on paper, but all she wants to do is eat it. Mr. Morrison doesn''t like her work anyway: disdainfully, he calls her drawing of a beautiful girl "Barbie." Worse than art is social studies. This is the year that kids have to choose their community service project. When Ms. Williams signs up Marcia to work at the local nursing home, she''s aghast. What can she possibly do for a bunch of old people in wheelchairs? Since experimenting with makeup is Marcia''s favorite activity, her half sister suggests "Makeovers by Marcia."In the fifth and final story in Claudia Mills''s funny, philosophical series about the West Creek Middle School kids, Marcia discovers the nature of true beauty - and even learns to draw it.

Alex Ryan, Stop That!

AvClaudia Mills

E-bok

Engelska, 2003

183 kr

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A wise guy gets wiseThe school year is almost over, and Alex Ryan still has plenty of pranks to pull and jokes to tell. Then his dad attends the meeting about the seventh-grade outdoor education trip. Alex knows nothing good can come of this -- Mr. Ryan is a jester, too, and the butt of his funny stories is often Alex. Still, Alex is not prepared for the comment that mortifies him in front of pretty, popular Marcia Faitak, his friend Dave Barnett, and the rest of his classmates. When Marcia tries to comfort him, Alex pounces on her. Marcia crumples, and Alex sets out to make up for his remark, even as he struggles to understand what impelled it. When all his attempts at reconciliation fail, Alex conceives a plan, to be executed during the outdoor ed trip. A surefire attention-getter, this should bring Marcia around, entertain Dave, and impress Alex''s father. But is this really what Alex wants to do? In the fourth book about the kids at West Creek Middle School, readers will root for Alex Ryan as he discovers his true self, and the wisest way to handle the most oppressive person in his life -- his own father.A Junior Library Guild Selection