Patricia mckissack (Oltre 3100 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Carrilho, Andre (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Don't wait for opportunities to come.get up and make them, said Madam C. J. Walker. She rose from laundry woman to become America's first black woman millionaire. Born in poverty, Walker set her sights on a better life and made her fortune by developing hair care and beauty products specially formulated for African Americans. As her wealth and influence grew, she also channeled her energies into working for civil rights and social change. This real-life rags-to-riches story is presented here in an engaging narrative by the McKissacks.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Carrilho, Andre (illustratore).

Hardback. Condizione: Fair.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. An amazing chapter in American history is now available in Step into Reading, the premier leveled reader line. In 1838, a slave ship named the Amistad took hundreds of kidnapped Africans on a long journey across the Atlantic. But the brave captives would not give up their freedom, taking over the ship so they could sail back to their homeland. This History Reader is not to be missed.    Step 4 Readers use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence. Stanley, Sanna (illustratore).…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Illus. in full color."Mirandy is sure she'll win the cake walk if she can catch Brother Wind for her partner, but he eludes all the tricks her friends advise. This gets a high score for plot, pace, and characterization. Mirandy sparkles with energy and determination. Multi-hued watercolors fill the pages with patterned ferment. A treat to pass on to new generations."--(starred) Bulletin, Center for Children's Books. Cassette running time: 20 min. Pinkney, Jerry (illustratore). …

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Illus. in full color."Mirandy is sure she'll win the cake walk if she can catch Brother Wind for her partner, but he eludes all the tricks her friends advise. This gets a high score for plot, pace, and characterization. Mirandy sparkles with energy and determination. Multi-hued watercolors fill the pages with patterned ferment. A treat to pass on to new generations."--(starred) Bulletin, Center for Children's Books. Cassette running time: 20 min. Pinkney, Jerry (illustratore). …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Newbery honor author Patricia C. McKissack's original yarn of the Louisiana bayou is "told with verve and sly wit." (Publishers Weekly, Starred review)   Hugh Thomas knows that the Bayou Clapateaux is a mighty peculiar place. Why, back in 1903, Papa-Daddy and Elder Abbajon caught a turkey that weighed 500 pounds.more or less. 500 pounds?! Hugh Thomas isn't so sure about that, until he's left alone on the bayou with only his fishing pole for company. Soon he catches three fish, and then.a million more! But after meeting up with raccoon bandits, thieving crows, and a hungry cat named Chantilly, Hugh Thomas returns home with just enough fish for breakfast.and a fantastic story, of course.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. MIAMI JACKSON CAN?T wait for school to end. But who ever thought five days could be so long? His teacher is leaving for Ghana, his arch-enemy, Destinee Tate, is on his case, and now Miami?s keeping secrets from his best friend, String. Summer can?t come soon enough. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore). …

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Little David Earl always knows what day of the week it is. He can tell by the clean, snappy-fresh apron Ma Dear is wearing -- a different color for every day. Monday means washing, with Ma Dear scrubbing at her tub in a blue apron. Tuesday is ironing, in a sunshine yellow apron that brightens Ma's spirits. And so it goes until Sunday, when Ma Dear doesn't have to wear an apron and they can set aside some special no-work time, just for themselves. In their first collaboration, Newbery Honor author Patricia McKissack and award-winninng illustrator Floyd Cooper lovingly recreate a slice of turn-of-the-century Southern life as it was for a single African-American mother and her son. Cooper, Floyd (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. MIAMI JACKSON CAN?T wait for school to end. But who ever thought five days could be so long? His teacher is leaving for Ghana, his arch-enemy, Destinee Tate, is on his case, and now Miami?s keeping secrets from his best friend, String. Summer can?t come soon enough. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore). …

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Newbery honor author Patricia C. McKissack's original yarn of the Louisiana bayou is "told with verve and sly wit." (Publishers Weekly, Starred review)   Hugh Thomas knows that the Bayou Clapateaux is a mighty peculiar place. Why, back in 1903, Papa-Daddy and Elder Abbajon caught a turkey that weighed 500 pounds.more or less. 500 pounds?! Hugh Thomas isn't so sure about that, until he's left alone on the bayou with only his fishing pole for company. Soon he catches three fish, and then.a million more! But after meeting up with raccoon bandits, thieving crows, and a hungry cat named Chantilly, Hugh Thomas returns home with just enough fish for breakfast.and a fantastic story, of course.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. MIAMI JACKSON CAN?T wait for school to end. But who ever thought five days could be so long? His teacher is leaving for Ghana, his arch-enemy, Destinee Tate, is on his case, and now Miami?s keeping secrets from his best friend, String. Summer can?t come soon enough. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore). …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Newbery honor author Patricia C. McKissack's original yarn of the Louisiana bayou is "told with verve and sly wit." (Publishers Weekly, Starred review)   Hugh Thomas knows that the Bayou Clapateaux is a mighty peculiar place. Why, back in 1903, Papa-Daddy and Elder Abbajon caught a turkey that weighed 500 pounds.more or less. 500 pounds?! Hugh Thomas isn't so sure about that, until he's left alone on the bayou with only his fishing pole for company. Soon he catches three fish, and then.a million more! But after meeting up with raccoon bandits, thieving crows, and a hungry cat named Chantilly, Hugh Thomas returns home with just enough fish for breakfast.and a fantastic story, of course.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Pinkney, Jerry (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. MIAMI'S CLAS HAS a brand-new teacher, no-nonsense Miss Amerita Spraggins. She's a real tough lady. She insists on assigned seats. She hands out detentions like coupons. She even refuses to call kids by their nicknames. Miami can't take a whole year with crazy Miss Spraggins. He has to get out of her class. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore).…

hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Cooper, Floyd (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Pinkney, Jerry (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. MIAMI'S CLAS HAS a brand-new teacher, no-nonsense Miss Amerita Spraggins. She's a real tough lady. She insists on assigned seats. She hands out detentions like coupons. She even refuses to call kids by their nicknames. Miami can't take a whole year with crazy Miss Spraggins. He has to get out of her class. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Pinkney, Jerry (illustratore).

paperback. Condizione: Fair.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. MIAMI'S CLAS HAS a brand-new teacher, no-nonsense Miss Amerita Spraggins. She's a real tough lady. She insists on assigned seats. She hands out detentions like coupons. She even refuses to call kids by their nicknames. Miami can't take a whole year with crazy Miss Spraggins. He has to get out of her class. Chesworth, Michael (illustratore).…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The CLONE CODES sci-fi adventure trilogy continues with this second book that blends a futuristic society with pivotal moments in world history.In the next Clone Codes installment, Houston, a cyborg, tells his story. Set in the year 2130, The World Federation of Nations determines through laws and regulations that all enhanced persons with three or more synthetic body or organ replacements are classified as three-fifths of a human being. As such, Houston is considered less than human and must fight to overcome the rules of his strange universe. Drawing on parallels to slavery, terrorism, caste system oppression, and war, readers confront the troubling and complex moral questions probed throughout history.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.