Newsage Press: 5 books
by Mary Matusda Gruenewald, Maureen R. Michelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Mary Matsuda is a typical 16-year-old girl living on Vashon Island, Washington with her family. On December 7, 1942, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and Mary's life changes forever. Mary and her brother, Yoneichi, are U.S. citizens, but they are imprisoned, along with their parents, in a Japanese-American...
Montessori Learning in the 21st Century
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
This book fills a growing demand for contemporary books on Montessori education and how it applies to childhood learning and education in the 21st Century. Dr. Maria Montessori developed her theories and methods for educating young people more than a hundred years ago. Today, much of Dr. Montessori's...
Food Pets Die For
Shocking Facts About Pet Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The commercial pet food industry has a secret to hide - and Ann Martin wants to make sure you know it. Her research reveals some startling facts: that the pet food industry conducts animal testing in order to improve their product, and includes euthanized cats and dogs in the mix to heighten protein...
Looking Like the Enemy
My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2005
The author at 16 years old was evacuated with her family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, along with 110,000 other people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. She faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire in crowded, primitive camps. She struggled for survival and dignity,...
Becoming Mama-San
80 Years of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In this book, 86-year-old author Mary Matsuda Gruenewald has distilled her lifetime of wisdom into ten stories, each one conveying an essential life lesson. Each chapter is a story from the author's life and how she learned the specific life lesson connected to each story.Mary lived through the Great...