Any Small Goodness: A Novel Of The Barrio
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780439233842 |
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| Publisher: | Scholastic, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 05/30/2003 |
| Series: | Any Small Goodness |
| Edition description: | Reissue |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Sales rank: | 136,071 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 7.63(h) x (d) |
| Age Range: | 7 - 10 Years |
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Any Small Goodness: A Novel Of The Barrio
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I'm a high school teacher working with teens who struggle with reading in an inner city neighborhood. This book is easy to read but also contains mature topics that resonated with my students. I found that this book is a great spring board to discusions about metaphors, social justice, poverty, immigration and many other topics. Completing this book gave my students more confidece in their reading abilities. It leaves the reader with a sense of hope that any small goodness does count.
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I found this book hard to follow as I flipped back and forth between the Spanish dictionary and the material. I also had a VERY hard time following the story line.
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Arturo and his family move to LA and run head on into both the terrible problems of the city and the amazing love of the town. Arturo¿s Papi is very wise, showing the children how to find good in the world and revealing to them how to make good from bad. p. 16 On the way home Papi says, ¿This Leo Love is a brave man. In spite of fear he saved Huitla. When no eyes are upon him, that is a person¿s true test.¿ p. 103 ¿Mijo.¿ With carino, Papi touches my shoulders and looks into my face. The world seems to wait while he arranges his thoughts. Then slowly he says, ¿In life there is bueno and there is malo. If you do not find enough of the good, you must yourself create it.¿ A big speech for him. And I can tell he¿s not done. After a moment he says, ¿Remember this thing --- any small goodness is of value.¿
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My husband and I are both tecahers. He teaches high school and I teach middle school. We both have read this book with our students and the kids liked it very much. This book mede us laugh.
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I love this book, and love the way Tony uses words to describe characters and the whole story. One quick book to read to feel warmth and goodness in people.
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this book was ok but it mostly sucked!!! ok there was nothing exciting. This book was a great suckfest! It only talks about a boy going through life. At times he's really stupid. This author should be able to write better books
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I dislikes Any Small Goodness because it was very boring and didn't appeal to me at all.Please don't waste your time with it.
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