Knowles, Elizabeth

Presents a practical resource guide that helps children and young adults better understand diversity and acceptance through literature.

Presents alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions and explanations of over 20,000 phrases and allusions used in modern English language. Includes quotations, cross-references, and biographies of real and fictional people.

Offers information to teachers, librarians, and parents on how to establish a book club in which members explore current children's literature and help children become lifelong readers; covering the topics of the arts, humor, families in transition, social issues, folklore and mythology, sports fiction, magazines, and others.

Contains 20,000 quotations, arranged alphabetically by author, and includes special collections within the regular text, as well as thematic and keyword indexes, and cross-references.

A guide to differentiated instruction in reading in kindergarten through eighth grade that discusses instructional strategies and research and includes lesson ideas and annotated lists of resources.

Presents over five thousand memorable quotations from the twentieth century, arranged alphabetically by author; and includes keyword and thematic indexes.

Offers K-12 teachers and librarians a wide range of materials and activity ideas designed to help students learn twelve character-building virtues, including empathy, respect, courage, humor, loyalty, and honesty.

Examines over 250 well-known misquotations; exploring why they are misquoted, what was actually said, and who the quote is attributed to.