Chicago Review Press: 838 books
George Washington Carver for Kids
His Life and Discoveries, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
George Washington Carver was born into the violent era of slavery, yet he had big ideas. The first was to get an education. That meant leaving his Missouri home at a young age, washing people's clothes to pay for school, moving from town to town, and fleeing a lynch mob. Carver's second big idea was...
Becoming Emily
The Life of Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) wrote short, often-enigmatic poems that are widely anthologized, quoted, and read by students of every age. Yet, as widely known as her poetry is, Dickinson as a person is considered to have been an inscrutable recluse—a silent figure who wore only white, wrote in secret,...
by Margaret A. Bryant, Marjorie Keiper, Anne Petit
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Taking a thematic approach to learning that employs seeing, hearing, reading, and writing, these books outline three four-week, cross-curricular units that develop the competencies children need to become fluent, independent readers and writers. While each unit focuses primarily on language-phonic...
Roll On
A Trucker's Life on the Road
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Roll On, the first book from author Fred Afflerbach, takes readers on an interstate journey with a long-haul trucker. Ubi Sunt is addicted to his life on the road and, if he had his way, he’d continue driving until he no longer could. But forces in his life are threatening to take away Ubi’s driving...
by David Schmahmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A Jewish family of South African expatriates is torn by emotional conflicts and a battle over possessions, revealing their illusions about the past and the realities of life in South Africa post Nelson Mandela.
Empire Settings
A Novel of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Danny Divin is a young white man in South Africa who enters into an illicit romance with a mixed race schoolgirl, the daughter of a black domestic servant. When social constraints force Danny to end the romance, he travels to America with the hOut of Printes of starting a new life. There he meets...
Art Matters
Strategies, Ideas, and Activities to Strengthen Learning Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This collection of ideas and lesson plans will help classroom and homeschool teachers integrate art into their general curriculum. These inventive and effective methods use the visual arts to inspire creative writing and drama; explore math, music, science, and history; and cultivate critical thinking...
Big Ideas for Growing Mathematicians
Exploring Elementary Math with 20 Ready-to-Go Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Introducing sophisticated mathematical ideas like fractals and infinity, these hands-on activity books present concepts to children using interactive and comprehensible methods. With intriguing projects that cover a wide range of math content and skills, these are ideal resources for elementary school...
Make It! Write It! Read It!
Simple Bookmaking Projects to Engage Kids in Art and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Crafting projects that provide literacy and curriculum ideas to enrich the classroom
Make It! Write It! Read It! develops art and literacy skills through the craft of bookmaking, inspiring elementary-aged children to read, write, and tell stories with their creations. Creative, fun, field-tested...
Too Late for the Festival
An American Salary Woman in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2011
Rhiannon Paine, a technical writer for Hewlett-Packard in Silicon Valley, agreed reluctantly to transfer to their Tokyo branch. She had no idea what she was in for, and neither did her Japanese colleagues. While they coped with her social gaffes, like arriving late to work and blowing her nose in...
By Any Greens Necessary
A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
With attitude and inspiration, this lifestyle guide shows black women how they can be healthy, hippy, and happy by eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and legumes as part of an active lifestyle.African American women face a health crisis and explosive rates of death and disability...
Big Ideas for Small Mathematicians
Kids Discovering the Beauty of Math with 22 Ready-to-Go Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Introducing sophisticated mathematical ideas like fractals and infinity, these hands-on activity books present concepts to children using interactive and comprehensible methods. With intriguing projects that cover a wide range of math content and skills, these are ideal resources for elementary school...
The Admiral and the Ambassador
One Man's Obsessive Search for the Body of John Paul Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones’s grave—and, in fact, the exact location of St. Louis cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792—was forgotten: information on his death and burial were destroyed in the Paris Commune and the few who had attended his...
No tan rápido
Cómo orientar a sus adolescentes acerca de los peligros de conducir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Most driving literature for parents focuses on how to teach a teen to drive without explaining why teen driving is so dangerous in the first place or giving parents a plan to preempt the hazards teens face. By contrast, No tan rápido empowers and guides parents to understand the causes and situations...