One Room Schools

Reducere. Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats, buckboards, and gas lighting were common. Jane an...

Reducere. This is a story that begins at the onset of the Second World War when Norm was living in remote sawmill lumber camps and attending one-room schools...

Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

Reducere. Abandoned structures are places that open the imagination and invite interpretation. Crumbling bricks, distressed steel, paint, wood, and weathered...

Reducere. From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education ...

Reducere. With our nation's urban schools growing more segregated every year, Susan Eaton set out to see whether separate can ever really be equal. An award-...

Written by Dave Harris, Independent Thinking on Transition: Fostering better collaboration between primary and secondary schools is an inspirationa...

A lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish. ``The New York Times`` How should schools prepare students for the Information A...

Reducere. Back in print, a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up. (Time) Exiles is the story of two glamorous people--one, a beautifu...

Reducere. At last Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's irrepressible little brother, gets a chance to tell his own story. From his first days at the hospital, through hi...

Reducere. School days, like our everydays, have changed. But the obsolete world of the one-room schoolhouse filled with rough-hewn desks still lingers. The e...

DescriptionA Lumberman's Daughter Comes of Age in Michigan's Upper Peninsula: A Memoir by Patricia Schaut McMartin is a firsthand account of growin...

Reducere. Blurb Born in Winston-Salem, NC, my family moved back to the mountains when my Dad entered the navy in WWII. I grew up in the rural, mountainous ar...

A sweet sibling story about one fed-up big sister who wants to find a space of her own, perfect for fans of Ashley Spires's The Most Magnificent Th...

Reducere. Masks are everywhere. What do kids think about that?When Lucy finds out her mom is making her a special mask she's excited. Lucy loves masks! She d...

Reducere. GET THE LOVE YOU WANT FROM THE GUY YOU WANT She walks into a room and heads turn. Conversations stop. Drinks spill. The man you've been trying to t...