This collection of essays explores New England as it was in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The 19th century chapters illustrate the spawning of ideas and inventions which made history; the 20th century shows us reacting to events, like hurricanes, and juggling consequences.In the 19th century, through the Industrial Revolution, we drew upon a new workforce (women), and created a market for manufactured goods. In the early 20th century—we shopped—in grand, fami...

The week before Christmas 1951, Juliet and Elmer are hired by a retired factory owner to find the missing money his son-in-law stole sixteen years ago. The culprit is being released from prison. His wife is expecting him. So is her younger sister. So is the former co-worker who arrives to meet him at the train station with a gun.Did the thief have an accomplice? How many, Juliet and Elmer included, are going to follow him in hopes of retrieving the stolen money from its hiding plac...

I Am Who I Am uses the letters of the alphabet to affirm and empower young readers. These powerful affirmations will help to build your child's self-esteem and transform their view of self. Author Jacqueline Lynch wants children to know that they are God's masterpiece. The book is a great way to encourage a positive self-view and a great gift for every child.

This book provides a systematic exploration of family literacy, including its historic origins, theoretical expansion, practical applications within the field, and focused topics within family literacy. Grounded in sociocultural approaches to learning and literacy, the book covers research on how families use literacy in their daily lives as well as different models of family literacy programs and interventions that provide opportunities for parent-child literacy interactions and that supp...

This compilation of research and stories from the field about multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and consider strategies that disrupt normative ways in which multilingual families are included in educational decisions. The authors present family-school partnerships in educational and non-educational settings across the United States, and identify frameworks, models, and practices for engaging multili...

In a world filled with darkness and despair, one young girl's journey shines as a testament to resilience. She faced unimaginable hardships-sexual abuse, mental health battles, and the terror of domestic violence. Yet, despite the overwhelming odds, she refused to be broken. This book tells her story; the raw pain, the moments of hopelessness, and the quiet strength she discovered within herself. With each chapter, we see a soul rising from the ashes, finding courage in the face of fear, a...

More than 100 people died of a companionable drink in several towns and cities in New England on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1919, nearly half of them in the city of Chicopee, Massachusetts. How this came to happen, and even how it came to be forgotten are both intriguing aspects to the tragedy.The story of the grisly incident of unknowingly ingesting poisonous wood alcohol and how it played out in one New England city might stand as a microcosm of the conflict created between ...

Past is prologue. Our greatest gift from the Greatest Generation was freedom from fascism...until now. Relive, and celebrate, how evil was faced, discussed, dramatized...and fought.Classic films were the weapon.The Greatest Generation received instruction, inspiration, and, of course, entertainment from a source that affected them perhaps more than even the generations to follow, who grew up with greater technology: the movies.The movies of the day tell us a lot abo...

Christmas turns everyone who celebrates it into a classic film fan—at least for that special season.The average person, unlike devoted classic film fans, may not recognize images of Clark Gable or know who James Wong Howe was, or be able to tell you why 1939 was such a spectacular year for films. But when yuletide rolls around, they rejoice with Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, and of course, White Christmas.We find a vast treasure of Christmas scenes in films...

The first book on the career of actress Ann Blyth. Multitalented and remarkably versatile, Blyth began on radio as a child, appeared on Broadway at the age of twelve in Lillian Hellman's WATCH ON THE RHINE, and enjoyed a long and diverse career in films, theatre, television, and concerts. A sensitive dramatic actress, nominated for her breakout role as the manipulative daughter in MILDRED PIERCE (1945), she also displayed a gift for comedy and was especially endeared to fans for her expres...

Experience World War II like an American twelve-year-old.From Cherry Ames and Ann Bartlett nursing in war zones from the Pacific to Europe, from aviators Dave Dawson and Stan Wilson in aerial dogfights with the enemy, the middle-grade and teen readers growing up in the early 1940s received through these characters an amazing window on a world at war.The World War II-themed series novels discussed in this book were their companions in the baffling and exciting era of their a...

Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s reflected their era—and sometimes created it.Today, classic films are the moving image scrapbooks of collective memory, but when they were shown long ago in downtown movie palaces or neighborhood second-run movie houses, they were, as much as the newsreels, a catalogue of current events.Movies in Our Time – Hollywood Mirrors and Mimics the Twentieth Century is a collection of thoughtful, humorous, and insightful essays on thr...