Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: language, questions, everyday, guide, matters
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-03-27
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0195160487
ISBN-13: 9780195160482

Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguist Donna Jo Napoli points out in this short and highly entertaining volume, many of our most deeply held ideas about the nature of language and its role in our lives are either misconceived or influenced by myths and stereotypes Napoli provides an en

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Puffi
Keywords: circle, magic
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0140374396
ISBN-13: 9780140374391

A midwife-sorceress, tricked by the devil’s minions, loses her gifts, is forced to become a witch, and lives her life alone in the forest, until two children--named Hansel and Gretel--wander by. Reprint. SLJ. PW. AB.

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Keywords: trees, kenya, maathai, wangari, miti, mama
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416935053
ISBN-13: 9781416935056

One woman. One seed. One hope for the future. Thayu nyumba -- Peace, my people. Wangari grew up in the shadow of Mount Kenya listening to the stories about the people and land around her. Though the trees towered over her, she had loved them for as long as she could remember. So strong, so beautiful, how the trees made her smile. Wangari planted trees one by one to refresh her spirit. When the women came to her for help with their families, she told them to do the same. Soon the countryside was filled with trees. Kenya was strong once more. Wangari had changed her country, tree by tree

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Puffi
Keywords: water, stones
Number of Pages: 209
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0141306009
ISBN-13: 9780141306001

When Roberto sneaks off to see a movie in his Italian village, he has no idea that life as he knows it is over. German soldiers raid the theater, round up the boys in the audience, and pack them onto a train. After a terrifying journey, Roberto and his best friend Samuele find themselves in a brutal work camp, where food is scarce and horror is everywhere. The boys vow to stay together no matter what. But Samuele has a dangerous secret, which, if discovered, could get them both killed. Lovers of historical fiction will be captivated by this tragic, triumphant, and deeply moving novel."A grippi

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Keywords: venice, daughter
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-12-09
List price: $6.50
ISBN-10: 0440229286
ISBN-13: 9780440229285

In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away,

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Keywords: sirena
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0590383892
ISBN-13: 9780590383899

In Donna Jo Napoli’s beautiful prose, the tragic love story between a mermaid and a mortal comes to life for young readers. When Sirena meets Philoctetes, Hercules’ friend, she falls in love. But the young warrior must return home to fight the Trojan War and leave his magical love behind.

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: albert
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0152052496
ISBN-13: 9780152052492

The morning begins like any other. Albert reaches out the window to check the weather. But from the moment a twig lands in the palm of his hand, life is never the same.