I got the sense that one reason for Lee’s obsession with Laura and Rose is to find a connection between her murky past (she knows very little about her ancestors’ lives in Vietnam) and a quintessential American figure. Lee asks herself, “How many times during the years of myLittle Ho...
Why we love it: This story about immigration is long enough for a mini-unit, and it’s great for teaching the basics of storytelling and style. It’s also a great story for helping students think about the immigration experience. 22. The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers Why ...
Immigration from the mainland took awhile to gather steam after the country was liberalized in 1976; according to Liu, the first “real” surge hit in the ’90s, when he arrived in Utah from Guangdong, and the speed has only intensified since. The SGV has become a place where you don’...
Reading historical fiction can be a wonderful way to get kids interested in history and keep them reading. This book summarizes short stories that you can use to teach children about historical fiction. Reading Historical Fiction Are you a teacher or parent who is trying to get your children ...
Over the holiday period, we would spend some time singing Christmas Carols in mom’s room and other locations in the hospital. Most often this included our little band of six-eight kids who ranged in age from five or six to their mid-teens. Sometimes two or three of us would just sit...
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Here are our favorite fiction books about Hanukkah for kids that we found in our local library: (Amazon affiliate links below) I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie (Picture Puffins) by Caryn Yacowitz and David Slonim Honeyky Hanukah ...