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Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 1416903283 (1-4169-0328-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil. But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrison's house like a great white mountain, was far away in a delicious world where a certain school-teacher was doing a wonderful work, shaping the destinies of future statesmen, and inspiring youthful minds and hearts with high and lofty ambitions. [via]
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Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0765199793 (0-7651-9979-3)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub

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Anne of Windy Poplars
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0553213164 (0-553-21316-4)
Softcover, Skylark

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Anne Shirley's love for Gilbert Blythe grows during her three years as a high-school principal. [via]
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Arthur's Teacher Moves in
by Marc Tolon Brown

ISBN 0316119792 (0-316-11979-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
by Bill Martin

ISBN 0805002014 (0-8050-0201-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co

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The gentle rhyming and gorgeous, tissue-paper collage illustrations in this classic picture book make it a dog-eared favorite on many children's bookshelves. On each page, we meet a new animal who nudges us onward to discover which creature will show up next: "Blue Horse, Blue Horse, What do you see? I see a green frog looking at me." This pattern is repeated over and over, until the pre-reader can chime in with the reader, easily predicting the next rhyme. One thing readers might not predict, however, is just what kinds of funny characters will make an appearance at the denouement! Children on the verge of reading learn best with plenty of identifiable images and rhythmic repetition. Eric Carle's good-humored style and colorful, bold illustrations (like those in The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, and Have You Seen My Cat?) have earned him a prominent place in the children's book hall of fame. (Baby to Preschool) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Complete Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0553609416 (0-553-60941-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Av... [via]
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Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
by Esme Raji Codell

ISBN 1565122798 (1-56512-279-8)
Softcover, Algonquin Books

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Esmé Raji Codell has written a funny, hip diary filled with one-liners and unadorned thoughts that speak volumes about the raw, emotional life of a first-year teacher. Like Ally McBeal in the classroom, the miniskirted and idealistic Codell sometimes fantasizes her career is a musical. Her inner-city Chicago elementary school fades to black as the lunch lady strikes an arabesque or a struggling student performs the dance of the dying swan, all set to her interior soundtrack. (Tina Turner's "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" echoes whenever her idea-stealing, dimwitted principal harangues her.) She's a rash, petite, white lady who roller-skates through the halls and insists that her fifth-graders call her "Madame Esmé." But it's not all fun and games: she introduces us to children who fling their desks and apologize in tears, and at one point, after reporting a disruptive student to her mother, who subsequently thrashes the young girl, she dry heaves into her classroom's trash can.
Codell's 24-year-old voice is loud and clear ("Serious gross out," she writes after the scorned principal hugs her), though, on the principle that kids say the darnedest things, she often simply repeats their comments for comic effect. She's got sass, maybe too much self-confidence at times, and though there's no deep introspection in Educating Esmé, you'll be convinced her 10-year-old charges emerge the better for knowing her. --Jodi Mailander Farrell [via]
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- Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year: ISBN 1565122259 (1-56512-225-9)
  Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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An Invisible Sign of My Own
by Aimee Bender

ISBN 0385492243 (0-385-49224-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Aimee Bender's funny, delicately shaded first novel is a constant delight, even at its most warped. An Invisible Sign of My Own tells the story of Mona Gray, a math wiz and a high school track star, whose ordinary childhood comes to pieces when her father is stricken with a mysterious illness. There doesn't seem to be a name for it, but he looks sort of gray and seems frail and unhappy. Whether there's anything really wrong with Mona's dad is unclear, but her fear that he will die, as well as his withdrawal from family life--no more vacations, no running practice with his daughter, no unplanned outings--triggers a corresponding withdrawal in her. Whenever she does well at anything, or starts to enjoy herself, she quits: piano class, dancing lessons, her first boyfriend, running.
I quit dessert to see if I could do it; of course I could; I quit breathing one evening until my lungs overruled; I quit touching my skin, sleeping with both hands under the pillow. When no one was home, I tied ropes around the piano, so that it would take me thirty minutes with scissors to get back to that minuet. Then I hid all the scissors.
Instead of working out her problems, Mona develops a habit of knocking on wood, and sometimes knocks for an hour before getting to sleep. Eating soap is her other dark indulgence: a surefire anti-aphrodisiac that she calls on whenever she feels sexually attracted to a man.
At 20, Mona is recruited to teach math at the local elementary school. To her surprise, she is a brilliant teacher, making addition and subtraction tangible to second graders with a game called Numbers and Materials, in which the students bring in natural or man-made objects that take the form of numbers. When 7-year-old Lisa Venus brings in a zero made of IV tubing from her dying mother's hospital room, Mona recognizes a kindred spirit. But she will have to be healthy herself to help Lisa resist her urge to take on her mother's illness out of grief and loyalty. The complicated connection between children and adults is the underlying theme of this big-hearted novel. However quirky and alarming Bender's methods may seem, An Invisible Sign of My Own is no darker than a fairy tale, and the witch--even if it's the witch within--is reliably vanquished in the end. --Regina Marler [via]
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- An Invisible Sign of My Own: ISBN 0385492235 (0-385-49223-5)
  Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
- An Invisible Sign of My Own: ISBN 0385492243 (0-385-49224-3)
  Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte, Willis Hall, David Cuzik

ISBN 8429449116 (84-294-4911-6)
Softcover, Alfaguara Infantil

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The Lilly Book & Toy Box
by Kevin Henkes

ISBN 0688164374 (0-688-16437-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Ever since Lilly first appeared on the scene in Kevin Henkes's beloved books, kids have loved this rambunctious rodent for her unquenchable spirit, her slightly defiant nature, and her all-too-human emotions, from jealousy to anger to remorse. (She didn't really mean to draw a nasty picture of her favorite teacher when he temporarily confiscated her lovely yet disruptive, music-playing purse!) This adorable, 7-inch-tall, anything-but-mousy mouse leaps straight from the pages of the award-winning, bestselling Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse--complete with purple plastic purse (which opens and closes, so you can actually put three jingling quarters in it), removable clothes, star-studded red vinyl boots, a red cape, and a yellow felt crown. Each tall gift package comes with one Lilly mouse and one hardcover edition of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. This spitfire mouse will be a sure-fire hit! (Ages 4 and older) [via]
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- The Lilly Book & Toy Box: ISBN 0688164374 (0-688-16437-4)
  Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
by Kevin Henkes

ISBN 0688128971 (0-688-12897-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Matilda
by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

ISBN 2070512541 (2-07-051254-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Matilda es una lectora empedernida con sólo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Además tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos... Un día, Matilda decide desquitarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull. [via]
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- Matilda: ISBN 9681903269 (968-19-0326-9)
  Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten
by Joseph Slate, Ashley Wolff

ISBN 0140562737 (0-14-056273-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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On the first day of kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten must prepare her classroom for her beloved students. This noble, whimsical teacher greets her dark, summertime-empty classroom with an explosion of color--a bouquet of fall leaves, a goldfish, rolled-up posters, and shoeboxes full of no-doubt-delightful surprises. Meanwhile, her young students get ready, too: "Adam Krupp wakes up. Brenda Heath brushes her teeth. Christopher Beaker finds his sneaker." Author Joseph Slate matches each animal character with a letter of the alphabet, and readers can flip to the back to discover that Adam is an alligator, Brenda is a beaver, and Christopher is a cat--and so on, through the more obscure animals such as the quokka and the Uakari monkey. Youngsters will relish the scenes of school preparation, adorned by rhyming text: a mother iguana dragging her son Ian Lowe (who cries "I won't go!") out the front door, and the little vole Vicki Densel biting her pencil. And of course Miss Bindergarten is the kindergarten teacher we either remember fondly or wish we had. The final back-to-school classroom scene explodes with love and pride and the smell of freshly sharpened pencils. For kids who adore this book--and there are thousands--don't miss Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff's second loving tribute to teachers and students, Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten. (Ages 4 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten: ISBN 0525454462 (0-525-45446-2)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten: ISBN 0140562737 (0-14-056273-7)
  Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Miss Nelson Has a Field Day
by James Marshall, Harry Allard

ISBN 0395486548 (0-395-48654-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and help them to win at least one game.
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- Miss Nelson Has a Field Day: ISBN 0395366909 (0-395-36690-9)
  Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Miss Nelson Is Back
by Harry Allard

ISBN 039541668X (0-395-41668-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Miss Nelson is Back Harry Allard. When their teacher has to go away for a week the kids in Room 207 plan to really act up. This is an artful spoof that s not to be missed. Booklist. [via]
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- Miss Nelson Is Back: ISBN 0395329566 (0-395-32956-6)
  Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
- Miss Nelson Is Back: ISBN 039541668X (0-395-41668-X)
  Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
by Harry Allard

ISBN 0395401461 (0-395-40146-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Miss Nelson Is Missing!
by James Marshall, Harry Allard

ISBN 0395252962 (0-395-25296-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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My Great-Aunt Arizona
by Gloria Houston, Susan Condie Lamb

ISBN 0064433749 (0-06-443374-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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Arizona was born in a log cabin her papa built. She grew into a tall girl who liked to sing, square-dance, and -- most of all -- read and dream of the faraway places she would visit one day.
Arizona never did make it to those places. Instead she became a teacher, helping generations of children in the one-room schoolhouse which she herself had attended. Gloria Houston's Joyous recounting of her great-aunt Arizona's quiet yet meaningful life reminds us of the magical place a special teacher can hold in our hearts.
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Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking
by Zoe Heller

ISBN 0312426097 (0-312-42609-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them. Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an affair with 15-year-old pupil Connolly; part of what is admirable about this novel is that there is no real attempt to extenuate this--it's wrong and she knows this from the start, enough to lie to herself and others about it. It's an abuse of her very limited power--he is one of the few of her pupils interested in art, not interested in perpetually disrupting her lessons.
Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Oso Pardo, Oso Pardo, Que Ves Ahi?
by Teresa Mlawer, Bill Martin, Eric Carle

ISBN 0805069011 (0-8050-6901-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co

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The beloved classic in a Spanish language edition, now available in board book format.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a classic of children's literature. Bill Martin's rhythmic text speaks directly to young children, and Eric Carle's gorgeous illustrations hold children enraptured reading after reading.

With this Spanish translation, now in a sturdy board book format, Spanish-speaking and bilingual children will be able to share the magic of the much loved Brown Bear and his friends.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Library Edition
by Muriel Spark

ISBN 1568496982 (1-56849-698-2)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books

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The elegantly styled classic story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special--and ultimately dangerous--relationship with six of her students. [via]
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The Professor
by Charlotte Bronte

ISBN 1934169439 (1-934169-43-9)
Softcover, Norilana Books

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The Professor (1857) was Charlotte Brontë's first and least regarded novel, rejected by all publishers during her lifetime and published posthumously by her widower A. B. Nicholls.
Charlotte herself defended the novel passionately. "I said to myself that my hero should work his way through life as I had seen real living men work theirs -- that he should never get a shilling he had not earned."
Indeed, William Crimsworth, the hero, is the self-made master of all his life's ambiguous fortune, including his career as a professor in Brussels, and his true love. Whatever the comparisons to Charlotte Brontë's other, more popular novels, The Professor deserves a closer examination and a new reader perspective. [via]
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl

ISBN 0143112120 (0-14-311212-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledgeand is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannahs friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guideor misguideher.
Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class and containing ironic visual aids (drawn by the author), Pessls debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible. It combines the suspense of Hitchcock, the self-parody of Dave Eggers, and the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt with a dazzling intelligence and wit entirely Pessls own. [via]
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- Special Topics in Calamity Physics: ISBN 067003777X (0-670-03777-X)
  Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics: ISBN 0143112120 (0-14-311212-0)
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Teacher Man: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt

ISBN 0743243781 (0-7432-4378-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parents, and actually enjoying his job. He tried to present a consistent image of composure and self-confidence, yet he regularly felt insecure, inadequate, and unfocused. After much trial and error, he eventually discovered what was in front of him (or rather, behind him) all along--his own experience. "My life saved my life," he writes. "My students didn't know there was a man up there escaping a cocoon of Irish history and Catholicism, leaving bits of that cocoon everywhere." At the beginning of his career it had never occurred to him that his own dismal upbringing in the slums of Limerick could be turned into a valuable lesson plan. Indeed, his formal training emphasized the opposite. Principals and department heads lectured him to never share anything personal. He was instructed to arouse fear and awe, to be stern, to be impossible to please--but he couldn't do it. McCourt was too likable, too interested in the students' lives, and too willing to reveal himself for their benefit as well as his own. He was a kindred spirit with more questions than answers: "Look at me: wandering late bloomer, floundering old fart, discovering in my forties what my students knew in their teens."
As he did so adroitly in his previous memoirs, Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, McCourt manages to uncover humor in nearly everything. He writes about hilarious misfires, as when he suggested (during his teacher's exam) that the students write a suicide note, as well as unorthodox assignments that turned into epiphanies for both teacher and students. A dazzling writer with a unique and compelling voice, McCourt describes the dignity and difficulties of a largely thankless profession with incisive, self-deprecating wit and uncommon perception. It may have taken him three decades to figure out how to be an effective teacher, but he ultimately saved his most valuable lesson for himself: how to be his own man. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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To Sir, With Love
by Edward Ricardo Braithwaite

ISBN 1567232086 (1-56723-208-6)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd

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Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Lifes Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom

ISBN 1568959672 (1-56895-967-2)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - MItch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. [via]
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What Teachers Can't Do
by Douglas Wood, Doug Cushman

ISBN 0689846444 (0-689-84644-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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What Was She Thinking
by Zoe Heller

ISBN 0312421990 (0-312-42199-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novel
by Zoe Heller

ISBN 0805073337 (0-8050-7333-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them. Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an affair with 15-year-old pupil Connolly; part of what is admirable about this novel is that there is no real attempt to extenuate this--it's wrong and she knows this from the start, enough to lie to herself and others about it. It's an abuse of her very limited power--he is one of the few of her pupils interested in art, not interested in perpetually disrupting her lessons.
Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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- What Was She Thinking? : Notes on a Scandal: A Novel: ISBN 0805073337 (0-8050-7333-7)
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Anne, LA De Avonlea/Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 0613068777 (0-613-06877-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Aquellos Anos Dorados
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

ISBN 8427932553 (84-279-3255-3)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns

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Encuentros Con Morrie
by Mitch Albom

ISBN 9580448671 (958-04-4867-1)
Softcover, Grupo Editorial Norma USA

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En marzo de 1995, el escritor Mitch Albom viajó cerca de mil kilómetros para pasar una tarde con un hombre moribundo -Morrie Schwartz, su antiguo profesor de sociología- y encontró algo que no se esperaba. Aunque Schwartz estaba reducido a una silla de ruedas y se encontraba en las fases finales de una terrible enfermedad, estaba viviendo uno de los momentos más productivos de su vida: trabajando en un libro de aforismos, rodeado de amigos y estudiantes, difundiendo su sabiduría a través de un conocido programa de televisión. "Entonces pensé", dice Albom, "yo tengo 37 años y estoy en perfecto estado de salud. Él tiene 78 y se está muriendo; sin embargo, él parece definitivamente más feliz y satisfecho".
Éste fue el inicio de la serie de encuentros que dieron lugar a este libro y que constituyen la mayor lección que alguien puede recibir. En sus encuentros, que siempre tienen lugar los martes, Morrie y Mitch hablan sobre todas las cosas importantes de la vida, pero sobre todo Morrie comparte con su antiguo alumno lo que ha aprendido de la vida desde el momento en que supo que iba a morir. Y su mensaje, para sorpresa de todos, es una lección de optimismo, entereza, amor y generosidad. Al final, como dice Albom, "Encuentros con Morrie no es en absoluto un libro acerca de la muerte. Es un libro acerca de cómo vivir bien y encontrar la satisfacción".
"Mientras nos queramos unos a otros y tengamos presente el sentimiento del amor que tuvimos, podemos morir sin irnos del todo. Todo el amor que uno creó queda allí. Todos los recuerdos siguen allí. Uno sigue viviendo en los corazones de todos los que tocó y quiso mientras estuvo aquí... La muerte es el final de una vida, pero no de una relación", le dice Morrie a Mitch, en uno de sus últimos encuentros. [via]
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Freakonomics: Un Economista Polfticamente Incorrecto Explora El Lado Oculta De Lo Que Nos Afecta
by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

ISBN 8466625127 (84-666-2512-7)
Softcover, Ediciones B

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Presenting economics as the underlying connection between seemingly unrelated events or phenomena, this international bestseller establishes a new way of looking at the world. The authors explain the hidden side of everything, from violent crime, parenting, and baby names to the Ku Klux Klan and real estate, demonstrating how economics isn't just about numbers, but a study of incentiveshow people get what they need and want when others need and want the same thing.

Comprobando que el estudio de la economía puede explicar como se relacionan fenómenos distintos, este bestseller internacional establece una nueva manera de ver al mundo. Los autores explican el lado escondido de todo, desde crímenes violentos y nombres de bebes hasta el Ku Klux Klan y bienes raíces, demostrando que el estudio de la economía es un estudio de los incentivos: el modo en que las personas obtienen lo que desean o necesitan, especialmente cuando otras personas desean o necesitan lo mismo.
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Lily Y Su Bolso De Plastico Morado / Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
by Teresa Mlawer

ISBN 8424133668 (84-241-3366-8)
Hardcover, Everest De Ediciones Y distribucion

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Matilda
by Not Available

ISBN 8420464546 (84-204-6454-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc

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Matilda es una lectora empedernida con sólo cinco años. Sensible e inteligente, todos la admiran menos sus mediocres padres, que la consideran una inútil. Además tiene poderes extraños y maravillosos... Un día, Matilda decide desquitarse y empieza a emplearlos contra la abominable y cruel señorita Trunchbull. [via]
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Oso Pardo, Oso Pardo, Que Ves Ahi?
by Teresa Mlawer, Bill Martin, Eric Carle

ISBN 0805059679 (0-8050-5967-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co

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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is a classic of children's literature. Bill Martin's rhythmic text speaks directly to young children, and Eric Carle's gorgeous illustrations hold children enraptured reading after reading.

With this Spanish translation, Spanish-speaking and bilingual children will now be able to share the magic of the beloved Brown Bear and his friends.
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LA Senorita Nelson Ha Desaparecido/Miss Nelson Is Missing
by James Marshall, Harry Allard, Yanitzia Canetti

ISBN 0395900085 (0-395-90008-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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A Spanish-language edition of the very popular Harry Allard-James Marshall collaboration about Room 207's missing schoolteacher. Miss Nelson is the nicest teacher in the whole school. She never yells, and she gives the easiest assignments. Then one day Miss Nelson is not at school. There is a substitute, Miss Viola Swamp, who immediately lays down the law - no talking, no goofing off in class - and gives lots of homework. Where is the wonderful, unappreciated Miss Nelson? Is she ever coming back? Allard and Marshall, with their incisive feel for the nuances of relationships, point out with imagination and much humor the folly of being inconsiderate and unappreciative.
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Ours Brun, Dis-Moi
by Eric Carle, Bill Martin

ISBN 2871421897 (2-87142-189-7)
Softcover, Editions Du Seuil

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Les auteurs invitent les plus petits à reproduire les cris des animaux. [via]
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