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The Berenstain bears and the week at grandma's
When Brother and Sister Bear get left with their grandparents for a whole week, they have a better time than they expected.
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The White Girl
A searing new novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch that explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love.Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town.
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The truth about grandparents
A child relates strange things that might be heard about grandparents, but concludes that they are amazing.
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The Mulatta and the Politics of Race
From abolition through the years just before the civil rights
struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race
woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the
battle for racial justice.
The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key
instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially
mixed woman to assault the color line. In the oratory and fiction
of black women from the late 1840s through the 1950s, Teresa C.
Zackodnik finds the mulatta to be a metaphor of increasing
potency.
Before the Civil War white female abolitionists created the image
of the \"tragic mulatta,\" caught between races, rejected by all.
African American women put the mulatta to diverse political use.
Black women used the mulatta figure to invoke and manage American
and British abolitionist empathy and to contest racial stereotypes
of womanhood in the postbellum United States. The mulatta aided
writers in critiquing the \"New Negro Renaissance\" and gave writers
leverage to subvert the aims of mid-twentieth-century mainstream
American culture.
The Mulatta and the Politics of Race focuses on the
antislavery lectures and appearances of Ellen Craft and Sarah
Parker Remond, the domestic fiction of Pauline Hopkins and Frances
Harper, the Harlem Renaissance novels of Jessie Fauset and Nella
Larsen, and the little-known 1950s texts of Dorothy Lee Dickens and
Reba Lee. Throughout, the author discovers the especially valuable
and as yet unexplored contributions of these black women and their
uses of the mulatta in prose and speech.
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The Impact of Interactive Shared Book Reading on Children's Language Skills: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Purpose: Research has indicated that interactive shared book reading can support a wide range of early language skills and that children who are read to regularly in the early years learn language faster, enter school with a larger vocabulary, and become more successful readers at school. Despite the large volume of research suggesting interactive shared reading is beneficial for language development, two fundamental issues remain outstanding: whether shared book reading interventions are equally effective (a) for children from all socioeconomic backgrounds and (b) for a range of language skills. Method: To address these issues, we conducted a randomized controlled trial to investigate the effects of two 6-week interactive shared reading interventions on a range of language skills in children across the socioeconomic spectrum. One hundred and fifty children aged between 2;6 and 3;0 (years;months) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a pause reading, a dialogic reading, or an active shared reading control condition. Results: The findings indicated that the interventions were effective at changing caregiver reading behaviors. However, the interventions did not boost children's language skills over and above the effect of an active reading control condition. There were also no effects of socioeconomic status. Conclusion: This randomized controlled trial showed that caregivers from all socioeconomic backgrounds successfully adopted an interactive shared reading style. However, while the interventions were effective at increasing caregivers' use of interactive shared book reading behaviors, this did not have a significant impact on the children's language skills. The findings are discussed in terms of practical implications and future research.
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Silas' seven grandparents
\"In this picture book, Silas finds a unique solution for keeping up with his seven adoring grandparents and stepgrandparents.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Thérapie de milieu en institution psychiatrique
Malgré les changements apparents survenus dans les institutions psychiatriques, plusieurs chercheurs sont d'avis que l'efficacité des soins dispensés aux patients psychiatriques chroniques ne s'est pas réellement améliorée. Bien plus, certains affirment que ce système de soins provoque une détérioration du comportement des sujets qui y résident.
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Knuffle Bunny free : an unexpected diversion
While traveling with her family to Holland to visit her grandparents, Trixie once again loses her beloved Knuffle Bunny.
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Alma's way. Season 2, episode 13, Alma wings it/The grandparent trap
Alma really wants to see Granny Isa working as a flight attendant. But since she can’t go to work on an airplane with her, Alma and Junior go to flight attendant school at home with Granny ... and Alma thinks Abuelo would be so happy if he got married to Granny Isa again. She enlists Junior’s help to convince them to get back together. But maybe they’re happy apart?
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