Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit
10 best books like Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit (Brigid O'Donoghue): Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth, Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath, The Worst Witch at School, Side Effects, Grace: Secret Lives of a Princess, Behind the Secret Window, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Shorter Fifth Edition, Timebends: A Life
| Author | Paul S. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0674785266 |
Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.
The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0606168486 |
I checked this out from the library thinking it would be one of Jean Fritz's picture books such as Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?--which I love! It actually ended up being a 76 page biography (with a few illustrations) but was still wonderfully lively, sensitive and humorous--not to mention...
| Author | Elizabeth Partridge |
| ISBN | 0670059544 |
Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Partridge dives into Lennon’s life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on Liverpool, deftly taking us through his turbulent childhood and his rebellious rock’n’roll teens to his celebrated life writing, recording, and performing...
On a bleak February day in 1963 a young American poet died by her own hand, and passed into a myth that has since imprinted itself on the hearts and minds of millions. She was and is Sylvia Plath and Your Own, Sylvia is a portrait of her life, told in poems.
With photos and an extensive list of facts...
| Author | Jill Murphy |
| ISBN | 0763634352 |
I loved my book so much.It was so funny.It was funny because of the things Mildred did.Like how she turned Ethel into a pig.It was so funny.I couldn't wait until I got to the next book.I loved it.I really enjoyed Mildred as a person too.Pg.22 and 23.
Someone who would like this book is someone who likes...
| Author | Amy Goldman Koss |
| ISBN | 1596432942 |
As if it doesn't suck enough to have cancer, practically every time you pick up books or see movies where characters get sick, you know they'll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers, go through unspeakable torture and painful treatments, but walk away fine in the end. From...
| Author | James Spada |
| ISBN | 0440201071 |
Published in 1987, five years after Grace Kelly's death, this book may have been more of a shocker than it is now. Up to her death, Kelly's image was of an ice princess with high morals. As this book revealed, the truth was otherwise, but it really is more of a 'whatever', as it seems the author wanted to make...
| Author | Nelly S. Toll |
| ISBN | 0803713622 |
For thirteen months during World War II, Nelly Toll and her mother were hidden from the Nazis in the small bedroom of a Gentile couple in Lwow, Poland. Just eight years old when she went into hiding in 1943, Nelly began keeping the diary that would inspire this powerful and moving memoir of her childhood....
| Author | Margaret Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0393979210 |
Great anthology, but I’m surprised that there are some key missing poems from famous poets... lots missing from ee cummings but that makes sense because they can’t include ~every~ poem he’s written. I’m surprised they chose “A Blessing” over “Lying on a Hammock at William Duffy’s...
| Author | Arthur Miller |
| ISBN | 0140249176 |
The trouble with autobiographies is that only part of most people's lives is interesting. So it is here. I wanted to read about Marilyn Monroe but we get only small parts out of two chapters. Miller glosses over the breakup of his first marriage and the formation of his relationship with the most famous...
| Author | Jenny McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0525950117 |
One morning Jenny McCarthy was having a cup of coffee when she sensed something was wrong. She ran into her two-year-old son Evan's room and found him having a seizure. Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed Evan until after many harrowing, life-threatening episodes one good doctor discovered that Evan...
| Author | Diana Maychick |
| ISBN | 0806580003 |
When she began writing her biography of Audrey Hepburn, author Diana Maychick never dreamed she would have such unprecedented access to the reclusive and legendary star. Audrey Hepburn insisted that a proper biography could never be completed unless she was willing to share some intensely personal...
| Author | Edith Head |
| ISBN | 0525242007 |
Edith Head is a legend in the Hollywood film community. As the doyenne of the costume department of Paramount Pictures, and later designing for Universal Studios, she's credited with outfitting the stars of myriad motion pictures over the course of her fifty-year professional career, and accrued...
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 0525552723 |
Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Gandhi in this inspiring graphic novel biography.
As a young man in India, Gandhi saw firsthand how people were treated unfairly. Refusing to accept injustice, he came up with a brilliant way to fight back...
| Author | Marcia Williams |
| ISBN | 0763631973 |
Canterbury Tales are a bit bawdy.This is a version adapted for children. Some of the thematic elements just can't be avoided! And humor during the middle ages included potty humor (read: tooting and whatnot). That being said, I thought this was done appropriately and the girls think it is HYSTERICAL....
| Author | Karen Blumenthal |
| ISBN | 1250060141 |
Age Range: 12 to 18
"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. . . . And, when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on." -Hillary Rodham Clinton
As a young girl growing up in the fifties, Hillary Diane...
| Author | Deborah Davis |
| ISBN | 0618720936 |
"Starting a new chapter" is how Kayla’s mother, Marilyn, has always referred to their abrupt moves—five in the past two years. But what 15-year-old Kayla hates even more than moving is Marilyn’s drinking. It once landed Kayla in foster care, and she’ll do anything to keep that from happening...
Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years,...
| Author | George Barris |
| ISBN | 0806524537 |
No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, she was no ordinary screen goddess. Few really knew her. What others wrote, she called "Lies! Lies! Lies!"
Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroe's account, in her own singular voice....
| Author | Starr Smith |
| ISBN | 0760328242 |
Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II--and they were legion--Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform: as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air...
| Author | Anna Maxted |
| ISBN | 0525949739 |
The bestselling author of Getting Over It and Running in Heels, a writer who “excels at creating winning characters and placing them in artfully crafted muddles” (Florida Sun-Sentinel) has created an unforgettable story of siblings in the best of times and the worst of times in London.
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| Author | Annette Blair |
| ISBN | 0425207234 |
Jason Pickering Goddard's career as a playboy ice hockey star came to a dramatic halt when a car accident left him unable to play. At the insistence of his grandmother he is the new Director of Special Events at the struggling Pickering Foundation, hoping his fame will save the foundation's boys foster...
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison’s text—a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children who lived...
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 1400041597 |
They didn't ask to be remembered, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: Well-behaved women seldom make history.Today those words appear almost everywhere on...
| Author | Marc Eliot |
| ISBN | 0307209830 |
Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Cary Grant: A Biography is a complete, nuanced portrait of the greatest star in cinema history. Exploring Grant’s troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, and lifelong insecurities, as well as the magical amalgam of characteristics that allowed...
