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Linda Jacobs Altman

Autor(a) de Amelia's Road

78 Works 1,459 Membros 35 Críticas 1 Favorited

About the Author

Linda Jacobs Altman specializes in writing about history, social issues, and multicultural subjects for young people
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Séries

Obras por Linda Jacobs Altman

Amelia's Road (1995) 702 exemplares
The Legend of Freedom Hill (2000) 176 exemplares
Singing with Momma Lou (2002) 45 exemplares
California (Celebrate the States) (1997) 23 exemplares
African Mythology Rocks! (2011) 18 exemplares
Colorado (It's My State!) (2004) 8 exemplares
The Importance of Cesar Chavez (1996) 7 exemplares
Texas (It's My State!) (2003) 7 exemplares
Parrots (Perfect Pets) (2002) 6 exemplares
Small Dogs (Perfect Pets) (1998) 5 exemplares
Big Dogs (Perfect Pets) (2002) 5 exemplares
African Mythology (2003) 3 exemplares
Trade and commerce (2015) 3 exemplares
Henry Winkler, Born Actor (1978) 2 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Blackburn, Claire
Sexo
female

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Críticas

This book is great for teaching about Texas in history or geography. It covers the history, people, culture, plants, cities, and more.
 
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rachel.noordam | Jan 29, 2024 |
The story begins with a young girl named Amelia extolled her hatred for all manner of roads. Quickly we discover that Amelia's family are migrant workers, and she resents the constant travel and moving necessitated by her family's need to move for work. Amelia has to get up and pick apples for three hours before school starts. Unlike previous years, this year Amelia's teacher takes steps to make sure she is included in the class. After school, Amelia discovers an "accidental" road, more of an overgrown footpath, that leads her to a large tree. Following her personal road each day, she sits beneath the tree, a rare representation of permanence in her life. However, the end of the harvest nears and Amelia begins to dread the impending move. Amelia comes to the solution of creating an "Amelia box" full of things that she identified with, and buried it at the old tree like a time capsule. Now that she had a place to call her own, Amelia didn't dread moving so much anymore. Many more children than specifically the children of migrant workers are going to be able to identify with this book, particularly military children, but really any kids that have had to make significant moves in their lives. The sense of belonging and security is something universally experienced and desired, so we can all find some part of ourselves in Amelia. On the surface level, this book can also introduce the concept of migrant workers to school-age children, and in some schools, help normalize the population of migrant children to other students unfamiliar with the practice.… (mais)
 
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GIJason82 | 19 outras críticas | Feb 25, 2022 |
This book is about a little girl who comes across her grandmothers scrapbook. The scrapbook has memories that the grandmother wrote. She is comes across a particular page that are song lyrics and is curious to hear her grandmother sing them. She goes out to find her grandmother, in hopes that her grandmother is willing to sing with her. “I don’t know if I can sweetheart, but I know your voice will be able to.”
 
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vivianarama | 2 outras críticas | Nov 16, 2020 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
78
Membros
1,459
Popularidade
#17,609
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
35
ISBN
158
Línguas
1
Marcado como favorito
1

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