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  • Audiobook

    The Wild Robot Protects

    by Peter Brown ...
    Narrated by Kathleen McInerney ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 48 min

    The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island!Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources.Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Socially Just School

    Making Space for Youth to Speak Back

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth, the concept of school culture, school/community relations, socially critical pedagogy, curriculum ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Wild Robot Escapes

    by Peter Brown ...
    Narrated by Kathleen McInerney ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Wild Robot

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    The sequel to thebestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter BrownShipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Becoming Educated

    Young People’s Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity

    Series Book 67 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and communities in demeaning ways that convert them into mere ‘consumers’ – that the resulting misdiagnoses ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Doing Critical Educational Research

    A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth

    Series Book 7 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth’s version of critical research is his passion for ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Living on the Edge

    Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition

    Series Book 70 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Madlenka Soccer Star

    by Peter Sís ...
    Illustrated by Peter Sís ...
    This ebook includes audio narration.Three-time Caldecott Honoree Peter Sis rides the rising tide of soccer enthusiasm to score another winner.Madlenka—that cosmopolitan little girl whose city block is a world of its own—is back and ready to play! When she dribbles her brand new soccer ball out the door and around the corner, it seems that everyone wants to get in the game—the mailbox, a dog, even ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Wild Robot on the Island

    An Illustrated Picture Book Adaptation of The Wild Robot

    by Peter Brown ...
    Narrated by Kathleen McInerney ...

    Unabridged

    10 min

    This gorgeously illustrated picture book brings to full color the adventures of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Wild Robot.Roz is not where she’s supposed to be.You see, the robot wasn’t designed to live in the wilderness. But when she washes up on an island, she must learn from the animal inhabitants and adapt to her new, natural surroundings, and before long, the island begins to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Wild Robot

    by Peter Brown ...
    Narrated by Kate Atwater ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Wild Robot

    Unabridged

    4 hours 14 min

    This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness.Can a robot survive in the wilderness?When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice

    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Critical Pedagogy Today
    We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities, and researchers can develop narratives that amount to working with and for those who are increasingly ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Ethical Issues in Social Work

    Edited by Richard Hugman, David Smith ...
    Series series Professional Ethics
    It has always been recognised that the practice of social work raises ethical questions and dilemmas. Recently, however, traditional ways of addressing ethical issues in social work have come to seem inadequate, as a result of developments both in philosophy and in social work theory and practice. This collection of thought-provoking essays explores the ethics of social work practice on the light ... Read more

    $66.99 USD