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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
7) Teaching with poverty in mind: what being poor does to kids' brains and what schools can do about it
Author
Publisher
ASCD
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covers why and how the effects of poverty have to be addressed in classroom teaching and school and district policy. Topics include what poverty does to children's brains and why students raised in poverty are especially subject to stressors that undermine school behavior and performance.
Series
Children's well being indicators and research volume Volume 10
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
12) American children in chronic poverty: complex risks, benefit-cost analyses, and untangling the knot
Author
Publisher
Lexington
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life. Includes a brief biography of the author.
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