Social studies emergent readers

In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent them by the adult world. . Visceral, filled with suspense and surprise, Shelter is an extraordinary achievement. Jayne Anne Phillips continues to explore family ties and generational complexities. She questions the idea of the existence of evil and brings to startling immediacy the primal divinity of the isolated, mountainous landscape of rural Appalachia. Shelter is a novel of transcendent beauty by one of the finest writers of our time.

Il 13 settembre 1973, a Santiago del Cile, avrebbe dovuto essere inaugurata l'esposizione Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros. Pintura mexicana, ma due giorni prima il generale Augusto Pinochet ruppe gli indugi dando il via al golpe che lo mantenne al potere nei diciassette anni successivi. I quadri di José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera e David Alfaro Siqueiros vennero quindi imballati in tutta fretta e imbarcati su un volo di Aeroméxico insieme ai famigliari dell'appena destituito Salvador Allende, facendo ritorno nei musei messicani dai quali provenivano. Dopo oltre quarant'anni, il volume documenta la mostra sospesa, come venne poi definita, attraverso una selezione di opere dei tre artisti, esponenti di spicco della pittura muralista: capolavori a contenuto politico che testimoniano, in modo efficace e coinvolgente, la loro poetica, emblema della modernità messicana nel mondo. Il volume è infine arricchito da un'ampia e affascinante raccolta di foto d'epoca, scattate da personaggi e fotografi noti, dedicata alla vicenda artistica e sentimentale di Diego Rivera e Frida Kahlo che, alternando grandi passioni a drammatici scontri, è diventata quasi un paradigma del loro tempo. Testi di: Carlos E. Palacios, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Marina Vazquez Ramos, Luis Rius Caso, Magdalena Zavala Bonachea. Exhibition: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy (23.05-09.09.2018).

Simple text and photographs introduce different sports, including baseball, soccer, skiing, surfing, and football.

Simple text and photographs explore the different things people do in their jobs, including making things, growing things, and helping, as well as the one thing they all have in common.

Photographs and simple text present various things that people can do together, including reading, playing, and hugging.

Simple text and photographs of Mae Jemison and other astronauts introduce some aspects of living and working in space.

Simple text and photographs explore the colors of the American flag and present other American things that are red, white, or blue.

Simple text and photographs explore the beauty and diversity of the United States, including its forests, deserts, beaches, marshes, and mountains.

Simple text and photographs present the accomplishments of Pelé, who has been called the king of soccer.