Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B.
Summary: This book delves into the heated political battles over what kids eat at school, shedding light onto how policymakers craft food policy for schools. The book takes readers inside schools, through the history of school food programs in the United States and England, and into the policy terrain that makes school lunch difficult to change. Through diverse case studieshungry linebackers, pink...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.716 WEAMcCarney, Rosemary A
Summary: Describes the different ways children in developing countries travel to school, crossing rivers, mountains, and fields of ice, emphasizing the difficulties of accessing education in remote areas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2015
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Summary: "A little girl moves with her family from China to Canada and must find a way to learn English in order to make friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nanny enrolls Eloise in the prestigious Hawthorne Academy, but she soon finds out it isn't exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teachers, and so many rules. Eloise decides it is time to make school fun again, she's teaching her new friends to stand up to bullies, helping her teacher understand there are a lot of different ways to learn and having...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ELOPallotta, Jerry.
Summary: A student considers various creatures that she could take to school instead of the "smelly school bus."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cartwheel Books/Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PALCurtis, Andrea.
Summary: Discusses what students eat for lunch around the world, including information on food culture and global issues surrounding food and nutrition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Deer Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.12 CURCooper, Ann.
Summary: Two chefs cite the health risks associated with poor eating habits in children, providing one hundred school lunch recipes that are comprised of healthy foods specifically selected to help young people to make better choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2083 COOKrosoczka, Jarrett
Summary: Serving justice...and lunch! Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn't dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn't just serve sloppy joes - she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it's no match for lunch lady in these two exciting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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Summary: April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a buddy bench monitor for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC PEAStarmer, Aaron
Summary: "It's the first day of the fourth grade at Arthimos Elementary and things are already off to a strange start--poisonous cookies, a zipline disaster, a missing iPad, and what are those strange sounds coming from the school custodian's wheelbarrow? Luckily the Prime Detectives--Abby "the Abacus" Feldstein, Cameron "Cam" McGill, and Gabriel "Gabe" Kim--are on the case! Using arithmetic, geometry,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Odd Dot 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STAOgle, Rex
Summary: "A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: Explains what school is like for different children around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2007
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE CHASummary: Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPEAzuma, Kiyohiko.
Summary: "The best high school stories are simultaneously funny, warm, and endearing - but most importantly, the characters come alive on the page. Get to know the girls who set a new standard for the high school experience! The original phenomenon from Kiyohiko Azuma, beloved creator of YOTSUBA &!, is collected in this deluxe edition and is an absolute necessity for any manga enthusiast's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2010
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Summary: Sonia Patel hopes having a full summer in her new house in Metropolis Grove will let her make friends before school starts, but new pals Duncan and Alex do not believe her when she tells them she has actually seen Superman in their town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BROMiller, Donalyn.
Summary: Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. She shares her teaching methods and includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" that helps parents and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.6 MILRand, Johnathan.
Summary: Join Freddie, Chipper, and Darla for one of the wackiest, zaniest dog-gone adventures ever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audiocraft Pub. 2005
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Summary: There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are lots of reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from. Maybe it's what you eat or something just as random. Whatever it is, it's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody knows you, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG WOOMartin, Steve
Summary: A boy finds adventure, danger, and fun as he races around the house and through the neighborhood in order to make it to school on time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Martin 2010Miller, Donalyn.
Summary: "Explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching 'wild' reading. Based on survey responses from over 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, [the book] offers ... advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess key lifelong reading habits, including dedicating time for reading, planning for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372.4 MILShimura, Takako
Summary: V.1: "The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2011
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Summary: Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Dakota State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 LAJRobinson, Ken
Summary: With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element--the point at which natural talent meets personal passion--and then outlines an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009