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Approaches to teaching Garc?a M?rquez's One hundred years of solitude

Collects essays that discuss different techniques that teachers can use to help students read and comprehend Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez's award-winning novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude.".
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Christmas at Eagle Pond

2012
Twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents on the farm at Eagle Pond, where Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces; Donnie's eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh that no one uses anymore, and when the gifts are exchanged and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time.
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They changed the world

Crick & Watson
A biography, in graphic novel format, of biologists James Watson and Francis Crick, who formulated the model for DNA.

Night

1960

The annotated and illustrated double helix

2012
Presents an annotated, updated version of James Watson's 1968 memoir "The Double Helix," in which Watson reflects on his efforts to determine the structure of DNA and the competition and rivalry that fueled his efforts. Features black-and-white photographs throughout.

Night

2008
Presents a true account of the author's experiences as a Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp.

Trilog?a de la noche

la noche, el alba, el d?a / [Spanish version]
2013
Presents Elie Wiesel's first three books, including "Night," his personal Holocaust memoir; "Dawn", a novel in which the narrator, the only survivor of a family murdered at Auschwitz, meditates on the act of murder; and "Day," a novel about the spiritual and physical struggles of a man who has seen too much evil.

Elie Wiesel goes home

2001
Nobel Peace Laureate and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is shadowed by a documentary crew as he returns to his native village in Romania and relates the story of his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Birkenau as a child.

A talk with Eve Bunting

2000
Presents an interview with children's author Eve Bunting at her Pasadena home in which she discusses her life and writing, recalls her childhood in Ireland, reads from "Night of the Gargoyle," and talks about her Caldecott Medal-winning book "Smoky Night.".

Night

A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, his innocence, and his God.

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