A Sky-Blue Bench
Title | A Sky-Blue Bench PDF eBook |
Author | Bahram Rahman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781772782226 |
A young Afghani amputee matter-of-factly removes her own barrier to education, building a bench from discarded wood so that she and her "helper-leg" can sit through school in comfort.
A Sky-blue Bench
Title | A Sky-blue Bench PDF eBook |
Author | Bahram Rahman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Children with disabilities |
ISBN |
Blue Sky Bluebird
Title | Blue Sky Bluebird PDF eBook |
Author | Rick Chrustowski |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2004-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0805071040 |
A season in the life of a bluebird family is illustrated in this colorful book.
The Buddy Bench
Title | The Buddy Bench PDF eBook |
Author | Patty Brozo |
Publisher | Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2019-08-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0884486990 |
Having seen what being left out is like, children become agents of change, convincing their teacher to let them build a buddy bench. A school playground can be a solitary place for a kid without playmates; in one survey, 80 percent of 8- to 10-year-old respondents described being lonely at some point during a school day. Patty Brozo’s cast of kids brings a playground to raucous life, and Mike Deas’s illustrations invest their games with imaginary planes to fly, dragons to tame, and elephants to ride. And these kids match their imaginations with empathy, identifying and swooping up the lonely among them. Buddy benches are appearing in schoolyards around the country. Introduced from Germany in 2014, the concept is simple: When a child sits on the bench, it’s a signal to other kids to ask him or her to play.
We Walked the Sky
Title | We Walked the Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Fiedler |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-07-02 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0451480813 |
A stunning, multigenerational story about two teenagers: Victoria, who joins the circus in 1965, and her granddaughter, Callie, who leaves the circus fifty years later. Perfect for fans of This is Us. In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus. Specifically, the VanDrexel Family Circus where, among the lion tamers, roustabouts, and trapeze artists, Victoria hopes to start a better life. Fifty years later, Victoria's sixteen-year-old granddaughter Callie is thriving. A gifted and focused tightrope walker with dreams of being a VanDrexel high wire legend just like her grandmother, Callie can't imagine herself anywhere but the circus. But when Callie's mother accepts her dream job at an animal sanctuary in Florida just months after Victoria's death, Callie is forced to leave her lifelong home behind. Feeling unmoored and out of her element, Callie pores over memorabilia from her family's days on the road, including a box that belonged to Victoria when she was Callie's age. In the box, Callie finds notes that Victoria wrote to herself with tips and tricks for navigating her new world. Inspired by this piece of her grandmother's life, Callie decides to use Victoria's circus prowess to navigate the uncharted waters of public high school. Across generations, Victoria and Callie embrace the challenges of starting over, letting go, and finding new families in unexpected places.
The Library Bus
Title | The Library Bus PDF eBook |
Author | Bahram Rahman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2022-08-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781772782653 |
Inspired by Kabul, Afghanistan's first library bus and coloured by family memories, a touching snapshot of one innovative way girls received education in a country disrupted by war
Harley the Hero
Title | Harley the Hero PDF eBook |
Author | Peggy Collins |
Publisher | Pajama Press |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2021-07-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781772781953 |
An exciting picture book inspired by a real-life classroom service dog with themes of friendship, neurodivergence, and courage Harley the service dog is on the job! He goes to school every day with Ms. Prichard to make sure she feels safe. Their students are a lot of fun, but Harley can't play with them while he's wearing his work vest. They write him lots of letters instead, and everything is perfect in the best, most quiet class in the whole school. Until the day the old stage curtains catch fire. As the fire alarm blares and chaos erupts, Harley remembers that Ms. Prichard isn't the only human in his class who gets upset by loud noises. Inspired by a true story, Harley the Hero celebrates the work of service animals and the normalization of neurodivergence. Author-illustrator Peggy Collins brings Harley and his class to charming life and concludes with an Author's Note about the real dog behind the fictional Harley.