Paul Fleischman
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything needs rethinking - suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices. It's a changed world. This book explains it. Using politics, psychology, and history for attitude, Eyes Wide Open shows how to see the principles driving events...
2) Whirligig
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Language
English
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While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brent finds forgiveness and atonement.
3) Seedfolks
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Language
English
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A vacant lot, rat-infested, and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Suddenly, the soil holds promise: to Curtis, who believes he can win back Lateesha's heart with a harvest of tomatoes; to Virgil's dad, who sees a fortune to be made from growing...
4) Bull Run
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sixteen voices—not the heroes, not those who would become eulogized in history books and synonymous with the glory of war. No, these are the voices of the common soldiers and their leaders, their families, their comrades. North/South, white/black, adult/child—a disparate and compelling choir of voices. Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman has written a tour de force that lends itself perfectly to multivoiced narration. From eager eleven-year-old
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Publisher
Audio Bookshelf,LLC
Language
English
Description
Paul Fleischman is a master of sound, incorporating a soaring, energetic musicality into his writing. Both of his books of Poems for Two Voices make for irresistable listening. Whether funny, sad, boisterous or serene, each poem in this recording is a virtuoso performance - skillfully illuminating a unique personality from the natural world.