What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking
7 best books like What's the Big Idea?: Question-Driven Units to Motivate Reading, Writing, and Thinking (Jim Burke): A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Invisible Man, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr, Race: A History Beyond Black and White, The Tasty Treat (Nocturnals Early Reader), The Kooky Kinkajou, Save Me a Seat
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0440401585 |
In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not...
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects...
The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
| Author | Susan Holloway Scott |
| ISBN | 1496719182 |
Inspired by a woman and events forgotten by history, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott weaves together carefully researched fact and fiction to tell the story of Mary Emmons, and the place she held in the life--and the heart--of the notorious Aaron Burr.
He was a hero of the Revolution,...
Race: A History Beyond Black and White
| Author | Marc Aronson |
| ISBN | 0689865546 |
Race. You know it at a glance: he's black; she's white. They're Asian; we're Latino.
Racism. I'm better; she's worse. Those people do those kinds of things.
We all know it's wrong to make these judgments, but they come faster than thought.
Why? Where did those feelings come...
The Tasty Treat (Nocturnals Early Reader)
In The Tasty Treat, Dawn the fox wakes up and goes looking for her friends, Tobin the pangolin and Bismark the sugar glider, to share a tasty treat—a pomelo! Using basic language, emerging readers are introduced to the Nocturnal Brigade.
Includes bonus pronunciation guide (Ages 4-6)
Themes...
Tobin, Bismark, and Dawn are bored. There's nothing to do! So when Karina the kinkajou comes along, she gives them a lesson on using their imaginations. Soon the three nocturnal friends are following Karina and the ‘sparkle sprite’ over rivers, under waterfalls, and to the end of a rainbow.
Includes...
| Author | Sarah Weeks |
| ISBN | 0545846609 |
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.
Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own.
Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding...
