Just Like Us

Author : Helen Thorpe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416538984
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Like Us written by Helen Thorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Just Like Us" offers a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver--two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don't--and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream.

Author : Bridget Heos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544570448
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Like Us! Birds written by Bridget Heos and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Just Like Us! Birds gives young readers an up-close and personal look at how birds do things that are remarkably similar to the way humans do"--

Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Clarion Books
ISBN 13 : 0544084772
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Like That written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.

Author : Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0525582118
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Like Me written by Vanessa Brantley-Newton and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them. I am a canvas Being painted on By the words of my family Friends And community From Vanessa Brantley-Newton, the author of Grandma's Purse, comes a collection of poetry filled with engaging mini-stories about girls of all kinds: girls who feel happy, sad, scared, powerful; girls who love their bodies and girls who don't; country girls, city girls; girls who love their mother and girls who wish they had a father. With bright portraits in Vanessa's signature style of vibrant colors and unique patterns and fabrics, this book invites readers to find themselves and each other within its pages. "A dynamic, uplifting, and welcoming world of girls."--Kirkus "Thoughtful, inclusive, and celebratory"--Publishers Weekly "Bursting with positivity, this would be a great book to use in primary school classrooms when discussing issues of friendship, diversity, and self-esteem."--Booklist

Author : Barnabas Kindersley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780751345353
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children Just Like Me written by Barnabas Kindersley and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 0544570952
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Author : Lori Mitchell
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0881069752
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Different Just Like Me written by Lori Mitchell and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While preparing for a visit to her grandmother, a young girl notices that, like the flowers in Grammie's garden, people who are different from one another also share similarities and it's okay to like them all the same.

Author : Alice Faye Duncan
Publisher : Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1534461833
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Like a Mama written by Alice Faye Duncan and published by Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the heart connection between adopted children and the forever families who welcome them with kindness, care, and unconditional love in this powerful picture book from the author of Honey Baby Sugar Child. Carol Olivia Clementine lives with Mama Rose. Mama Rose is everything—tender and sweet. She is also as stern and demanding as any good parent should be. In the midst of their happy home, Carol misses her mother and father. She longs to be with them. But until that time comes around, she learns to surrender to the love that is present. Mama Rose becomes her “home.” And Carol Olivia Clementine concludes that she loves Miss Rose, “just like a mama.” This sweet read-aloud is, on the surface, all about the everyday home life a caregiver creates for a young child: she teachers Clementine how to ride a bike, clean her room, tell time. A deeper look reveals the patience, intention, and care little ones receives in the arms of a mother whose blood is not her blood, but whose bond is so deep—and so unconditional—that it creates the most perfect condition for a child to feel safe, successful, and deeply loved.

Author : Rick Quinn
Publisher : Girl Friday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781734880212
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Like Us: A Veterinarian's Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great Ape Relatives written by Rick Quinn and published by Girl Friday Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outstanding photography! This book is a valuable contribution to the public's understanding of our remarkable 'near relatives.'" --Robert Bateman, wildlife painter and environmental icon "Just Like Us is an entertaining and informative read that illustrates how one ordinary person can be a catalyst for positive change." --Jane Goodall, primatologist and bestselling author For most of his life, veterinarian Rick Quinn ignored a deep longing to meaningfully protect the endangered animals that fascinated him. Then one day, he read two magazine clippings about the great apes and knew it was time to set aside excuses and find the means to help. Armed with his camera and an insatiable curiosity, Dr. Quinn set off for the front lines of great ape conservation. Just Like Us is a gorgeous tribute to our not-too-distant relatives as well as the courageous people who are risking their lives to protect them. In this remarkable memoir, we follow Dr. Quinn's seven-year journey across seven African countries and Indonesia, where he photographed each great ape species in its natural habitat. Using inspiring stories juxtaposed with stunning photographs, he illuminates the threats to great ape survival as well as the complexity of saving them. The result delivers an empathetic sense that these magnificent beings really are--strikingly so--just like us.

Author : Thomas Borstelmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550359
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Like Us written by Thomas Borstelmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart, but American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves of immigrants, from republican disavowals of colonialism to Cold War proclamations of freedom, Americans’ ideas of their differences from others have shaped the modern world—and how Americans have viewed foreigners is deeply revealing of their assumptions about themselves. Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values beneath the layers of culture. Considering race and religion, notions of the American way of life, attitudes toward immigrants, competition with communism, Americans abroad, and the subversive power of American culture, he offers a surprisingly optimistic account of the acceptance of difference. Borstelmann contends that increasing contact with peoples around the globe during the Cold War encouraged mainstream society to grow steadily more inclusive. In a time of resurgent nativism and xenophobia, Just Like Us provides a reflective, urgent examination of how Americans have conceived of foreignness and their own exceptionalism throughout the nation’s history.