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- The oldest student : how Mary Walker learned to read / by Hubbard, Rita L.; Mora, Oge.;
"A picture book biography sharing the inspiring and incredible true story of the nation's oldest student, Mary Walker, who learned to read at the age of 116"--Provided by publisher.LSC- Subjects: Walker, Mary, 1848-1969; Women slaves; Freedmen; Illiterate persons;
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- The book thief [videorecording] / by Allam, Roger.; Nélisse, Sophie.; Percival, Brian.; Rush, Geoffrey,1951-; Schnetzer, Ben.; Watson, Emily,1967-; Zusak, Markus.Book thief.Videorecording.; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Sophie Nelisse, Roger Allam, Ben Schnetzer.The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1 (English), Dolby digital 2.0 (Spanish, French).- Subjects: Adoptive parents; Books and reading; Feature films.; Historical films.; Illiterate persons; Jews; Reading; Storytelling; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; War films.; World War, 1939-1945;
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- I cheerfully refuse : a novel / by Enger, Leif,author.;
"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy's private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake."--- Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Boats and boating; Grief; Love; Missing persons; Musicians; Ocean travel; Oligarchy; Quests (Expeditions); Sailing;
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- Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India / by Gidla, Sujatha,1963-;
"The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary--and yet how typical--her family history truly was. Her mother, Manjula, and uncles Satyam and Carey were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. In the slums where they lived, everyone had a political side, and rallies, agitations, and arrests were commonplace. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor and working people, little changed. Satyam, the eldest, switched allegiance to the Communist Party. Gidla recounts his incredible life--how he became a famous poet, student, labor organizer, and founder of a left-wing guerrilla movement. And Gidla charts her mother's battles with caste and women's oppression. Page by page, Gidla takes us into a complicated, close-knit family as they desperately strive for a decent life and a more just society. A moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, Ants Among Elephants is also that rare thing: a personal history of modern India told from the bottom up"--Provided by publisher.LSC- Subjects: Gidla, Sujatha, 1963-; Gidla, Sujatha, 1963-; Dalits; Families; Teachers; Poets, Indic; Revolutionaries; Caste;
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