Jacqueline Snider
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Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It
Every educator, from kindergarten teachers to graduate and undergraduate school teachers, struggles with reducing distraction in the classroom. Lang tackles this problem by offering strategies for students and constructive approaches and tools to encourage attentive behavior.
The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom
This extensively researched, well-written examination of racism, integration, and violence in the postsecondary environment is a major contribution to the field of higher education.
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You Are Not What We Expected
Readers familiar with Toronto will appreciate the insider’s portrayal and even recognize specific buildings and blocks, but all readers can enjoy Ludwig’s (Holding My Breath) writing. She shows great empathy for her characters, even when they behave badly.
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Sisters
A haunted house, troubled girls, and sinister events combine to create a tightly crafted story; highly recommended.
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Charter School City: What the End of Traditional Public Schools in New Orleans Means for American Education
Harris effectively presents one side of an ongoing debate; readers interested in K–12 education and charter schools should look to researchers such as Bruce Baker and Andrea Gabor for more critical views of what charters accomplished in New Orleans.
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Miss Iceland
In this excellent introduction to her work, Ólafsdóttir creates a world where either escape or hiding one’s true nature are the only choices. [See Prepub Alert, 12/2/19.]
Reproduction
There is a breathless quality to the novel, and at times Williams appears to take on too much. Nevertheless, this work successfully examines major themes of empathy, responsibility, secrecy, race, multiculturalism, misogyny, and honesty.
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Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible
This is an inspiring account that reminds us that with trust and empathy, there’s no limit to what students and teachers can accomplish together.
Amnesty
Like Valeria Luiselli in Lost Children Archive, Adiga bears witness to the disruption, pain, and hardship inherent in needing to leave one’s country and find refuge elsewhere. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, 8/5/19.]