Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewish friend during the German occupation of Paris.

1. Character -- 2. Setting -- 3. Plot -- 4. Expanding the reading and wrting experience.

Resource connects historical fiction, biography, history books, CD-ROMs, and videotapes for individual grade levels within specific time periods and geographic areas.

Introduction -- Great objectives -- Great books -- Great instruction -- Great discussions -- Great answers -- Forming a general understanding -- Developing an interpretation -- Connecting and reacting to text --Examining the content and structure of text.

Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewish friend during the German occupation of Paris.

This collection of academic essays have been written in tribute to Professor Zev Garber, and are divided to reflect the areas in which Professor Garber has devoted his teaching and writing energies: the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian relations, philosophy and theology, history and biblical interpretation.

A discussion of character education and the history of character education introduces an annotated bibliography of picture books that show positive character traits. Each trait cites a number of book titles, summaries of the stories, how the trait is demonstrated, and other character traits shown in the story.

A complete and current guide to international children's literature. The annotated bibliography contains over 700 titles from 29 different countries printed between 1950 and 1996. All titles are available in English; many have been translated and others have originated in other English-speaking countries. Indexes include Author-Title Index, Country of Origin Index, and Subject Index. Sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)

This is a bibliography of approximately 640 titles. Arranged alphabetically by author, each entry briefly describes a book. The description is accompanied by a subject list that includes themes, genres and topics to enhance the book's potential classroom use, as well as to help match books with readers. Following the annotations are specific suggestions for including each book in the curriculum. Icons representing the curriculum ideas indicate classroom applications and suitable curriculum areas. Author/illustrator, title and subject indexes help users locate specific works.

Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infuse diverse texts into their classrooms and find support for their endeavours in teacher inquiry communities. Through carefully analyzed, ethnographically informed portraits of classroom life alternating with teachers’ own accounts of their teaching and learning experiences, it demonstrates how students are moved to question, debate, and take action in response to global texts. This multi-vocal work both emerges from and responds to tensions and debates related to the purpose and practice of literature education in a time of Common Core State Standards.