Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table
10 best books like Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table (Sara Roahen): Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine, K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, Why New Orleans Matters, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading, Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans!, 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 Up: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above.
From the moment a doctor in Raleigh, North Carolina, put "male" on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate, everything...
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 1400069998 |
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during which she...
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0525560378 |
The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation,...
| Author | Edward Lee |
| ISBN | 1579657389 |
There is a new American culinary landscape developing around us, and it’s one that chef Edward Lee is proud to represent. In a nation of immigrants who bring their own culinary backgrounds to this country, what happens one or even two generations later? What does their cuisine become? It turns into...
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
| Author | Tyler Kepner |
| ISBN | 1984883291 |
From
The New York Times
baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today
The baseball...
| Author | Tom Piazza |
| ISBN | 0061124834 |
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring...
The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters
After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. He quickly realized that Katrina was not the most...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 9780325046 |
"Notice and Note" picks up where Keene and Zimmermann left off (or left us hanging) with strategy-based comprehension instruction. Like many teachers in the 1990's, after I read Keene & Zimmermann's "Mosaic of Thought" I attempted to explicitly teach visualizing, connecting, inferencing,...
Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: . . . and Other Streets of New Orleans!
| Author | John Churchill Chase |
| ISBN | 1565549317 |
"John Chase has taken what in lesser hands would have been a dull recounting of fact and made a delightfully accurate yet breezy book." -New Orleans Times-Picayune
"History in its most painless form . . . lightened not only by cartoons but by narrative approach."
-New York Herald Tribune
The...
6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 Up: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing With This Powerful Model
| Author | Ruth Culham |
| ISBN | 0439280389 |
Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing. With this book, teachers will learn how to assess student work for these traits and...
From the Corner of the Oval
| Author | Beck Dorey-Stein |
| ISBN | 0525509127 |
The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love, and finding her place in the world.
In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in DC when a posting on Craigslist...
Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
| Author | Peg Dawson |
| ISBN | 1593859872 |
There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your "smart but scattered" 4- to 13-year-old might also have trouble coping with disappointment...
