Founders Library and Educational

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Founders Library and Educational Resource
Center Monthly New Materials Bulletin N 145
April 2008
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HOT PICKS
for April
Brandon ______
Lety EC Not a Box Tomas
and the Library Lady
Elementary Mad
as a Wet Hen Heres a Little Poem Middle
School The Palace of Laughter
Los siete mejores cuentos
centroamericanos High School
The Book Thief La formación
del pensamiento critico
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Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
A box is just a box . . . unless it's not a box.
From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit
shows that a box will go as far as the
imagination allows. Inspired by a memory of
sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister,
Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when
pretend feels so real that it actually becomes
real when the imagination takes over and inside a
cardboard box, a child is transported to a world
where anything is possible.
Mad as a Wet Hen and Other Funny Idioms by Marvin
Ternban, ill. by Giulio Maestro
This seems to be a fun way to teach idioms.
Whether children find themselves under the
weather'' or in the dog house,'' idioms are
always with them. This playful look at our
challenging language provides definitions of 136
such colloquial expressions, including
illustrations for many of them.
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The Palace of Laughter by Jon Berkeley
Orphaned eleven-year-old Miles Wednesday and his
companion, a Song Angel named Little, are helped
by a talking tiger as they set off to find a
missing Storm Angel and Miles's beloved stuffed
bear, ending up in a peculiar circus where the
audience cannot stop laughing.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
This book is either loved or hated by the
teachers who have read it at CAG. I loved it. A
committee loved it too it was a Printz Award
honor book. Death is the narrator of this story
of an orphaned girl in a German town set during
World War II.
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Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
In a story inspired by the life of Tomás Rivera,
a migrant worker who became a nationally known
educator, young Tomás and his family, migrant
farm workers, leave Texas for work in Iowa, where
Tomás discovers the wonder of books at the local
library
Here's a Little Poem A Very First Book of Poetry
collected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters
A collection of poems for children with the
various themes of self, family, going outside,
and when it is time for bed. Is a great way to
introduce the youngest listeners to the genre.
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Los siete mejores cuentos centroamericanos
Selección y adaptación por Laura Sánchez
Historias sobre el origen de los tiempos, sobre
personajes y animales típicos de la región y
sobre magia y poderes sobrenaturales transmiten a
los lectores una perspectiva rica y plural del
pensamiento, el ingenio y el humor propios de la
cultura de los países de Centroamérica.
La formación del pensamiento critico por Jacques
Boisvert
Esta obra viene a llenar un vacío en el campo del
desarrollo de la inteligencia la teoría y la
práctica que aquí se presentan apoyan al profesor
que busca bases de tipo reflexivo para la
enseñanza que los jóvenes logren comprender,
analizar, sintetizar y evaluar el cúmulo de
información que reciben, y que lo hagan a través
de un pensamiento crítico.
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NON-FICTION Social Sciences 324.6 CIU El
ciudadano y su papel, dentro del proceso
electoral. Guatemala Colegio Americano de
Guatemala, Mayo 2007.327.1273 WEI Weiner,
Tim. Legacy of ashes the history of the CIA.
New York Doubleday, c2007.330 LEV Levitt,
Steven D. Freakonomics a rogue economist
explores the hidden side of everything. Rev.
expanded ed., 1st ed. New York William Morrow,
c2006.355.02 LAN Langewiesche, William. The
atomic bazaar the rise of the nuclear poor. 1st
ed. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2007.362.7 MYE Myers, Connie Ellis. Words to
say out loud (A safety book for children).
Alpharetta, GA Connie Ellis Myers,
2007.362.71 AYU Ayuda en infraestructura para
un mejor desarrollo académico en la Guardería Vid
y Sarmiento. Guatemala Colegio Americano de
Guatemala, Mayo 2007.362.73 FOM Fomentar el
desarrollo sostenible para orfanatos de la ciudad
de Guatemala. Guatemala Colegio Americano de
Guatemala, Mayo 2007.363.7 RES Responsabilidad
ciudadana y educación ambiental para salvar el
Lago de Amatitlán. Guatemala Colegio Americano
de Guatemala, Mayo 2007.364.152 FLY Flynn,
Kevin, 1957-. Relentless pursuit a true story
of family, murder, and the prosecutor who
wouldnt quit. New York G.P. Putnam's Sons,
c2007. 371.5 GOB El gobierno estudiantil como
medio para desarrollar destrezas cívicas y de
liderazgo. Guatemala Colegio Americano de
Guatemala, Mayo 2007.
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384.3 TEC La tecnología como medio para
facilitar el desarrollo y la actualización de los
ciudadanos. Guatemala Colegio Americano de
Guatemala, Mayo 2007. Technology (Applied
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his life and universe. New York Simon
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Co., 2007. 92 LAM Lamott, Anne. Grace
(eventually) thoughts on faith. New York
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92 LOW Lowman, Margaret. It's a jungle up there
more tales from the treetops. New Haven Yale
University Press, c2006 92 MAL Smith, Janna
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Bernard Malamud. Boston Houghton Mifflin,
2006.92 MON Montgomery, Sy. The good good pig
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a Baghdad journal. New York Basic Books,
2005.92 WAS Johnson, Paul, 1928-. George
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F DEL DeLillo, Don. Falling man a novel. 1st
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GOR Gordimer, Nadine. Get a life. New York
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OND Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-. Divisadero. 1st
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F REC Recacoechea S., Juan. American visa a
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ZUS Zusak, Markus. The book thief. 1st American
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warning. Widescreen. Hollywood, Calif Paramount
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DVD 570 BIO Biology. Silver Spring, MD
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791.43 SCH Schindler's list. Full screen.
Universal City, Calif Universal, 2004.DVD 985
INC The Incas remembered. Canoga Park, CA
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028.7 SMI Smith, Jane Bandy. Teaching testing
information literacy skills. Worthington, Ohio
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fundamentos y problemáticas contemporáneas. 1a.
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370.15 CAM Cámara, Gabriel. Enseñar y aprender
con interés Logros y testimonios en escuelas
públicas. 1a. ed. México siglo XXI editores,
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LouAnne. Teaching outside the box how to grab
your students by their brains. 1st ed. San
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P 371.3 BOI Boisvert, Jacques. La formación del
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Rottensteiner. El desarrollo de las inteligencias
en la infancia Ejemplos prácticos para una
enseñanza exitosa. 1a. ed. México Fondo de
Cultura Económica, 2006.P 371.5 FIE Field,
Evelyn M. Bully blocking six secrets to help
children deal with teasing and bullying. 2
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et al. La calidad en la educación primaria Un
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Grieshaber, Susan. Las identidades en la
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tales legends of the world. 1st U.S. ed. New
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Fonseca Leal, Mireya. Nereo el anciano del
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J 782.42 YOL Yolen, Jane. Apple for the teacher
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WOR Worth, Valerie. Animal poems. 1st ed. New
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DIR Dirty laundry pile poems in different
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J 92 TOW Meloche, Renee Taft. Cameron Townsend
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