6 must-read nonfiction books like A Walking Curriculum: Evoking Wonder And Developing Sense of Place (K-12) by Gillian Judson

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A Walking Curriculum: Evoking Wonder And Developing Sense of Place (K-12)

By: Gillian Judson

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

The Walking Curriculum is an innovative interdisciplinary resource for educators K-12 who want to t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Walking Curriculum: Evoking Wonder And Developing Sense of Place (K-12) by Gillian Judson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

3.44

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

In Maria , Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Right… read more

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"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"...or like the flash which divides the threatening clouds of angry heaven only to display the horror which darkness shrouded"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

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2. Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

By: Louise Penny

4.36

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Arm… read more

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"The night is a strawberry."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"If less was more, she had a great deal."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"Things are strongest where they're broken."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

"I sometimes think we’re a rowboat society."

-Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)

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3. The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.97

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more

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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

4. Fatty Legs

By: Christy Jordan-Fenton , Margaret Pokiak-Fenton , None

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact. Ei… read more

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5. Scarborough

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more

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6. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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7. Sounder

By: William H. Armstrong , James Barkley

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Soun… read more

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8. The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5)

By: Louise Penny

3.17

Format: None pages,

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prep… read more

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9. Homecoming

By: Kate Morton

4.07

Format: 547 pages, Hardcover

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the groun… read more

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"Stress can make even the most loving mother lose control."

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

"What is the truth anyway?" Jess had once been asked by a curious friend. "It's what happened." "According to whom?"

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

"There's other ways to travel." She was right. He had books, and there was no barrier to the places he could visit in his own mind."

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

"Bad things happen to the best of people, and we cannot let them overwhelm us. Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan, but it does work out in the end."

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

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10. Neither

By: Airlie Anderson

4.17

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

In this colorful and touching story that celebrates what makes each of us unique, a little creature… read more

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11. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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12. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

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13. The Perfect Nanny

By: Leïla Slimani

3.40

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780143132172. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer… read more

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"The baby is dead."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Nous devons prouver que, vous aussi, vous êtes une victime."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Several times during the night, she opened her eyes, unsure if an hour had passed or a month."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Yeah. Maybe. But honestly, I don’t understand.’ ‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

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14. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

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15. Five Little Indians

By: Michelle Good

4.48

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more

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16. Dragons in a Bag (Dragons in a Bag, #1)

By: Zetta Elliott

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author!When … read more

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17. The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough… read more

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"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because…"

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

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18. Looking for Jane

By: Heather Marshall

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more

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19. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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20. From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By: Jesse Thistle

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle—once a high school dropout and now … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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22. The Spoon Stealer

By: Lesley Crewe

4.40

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fi… read more

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"So much of our lives depend on just one move, one way or the other. If I'd turned left instead of right that day..."

-Lesley Crewe, The Spoon Stealer

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23. Hunting by Stars

By: Cherie Dimaline

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A new story about hope and survival. Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions … read more

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24. Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Library Binding

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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25. Refugee 87

By: Ele Fountain

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A young refugee embarks on a dangerous journey in this timeless and award-winning novel of survival… read more

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26. Outdoor Science Lab for Kids: 52 Family-Friendly Experiments for the Yard, Garden, Playground, and Park

By: Liz Heinecke

4.35

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspire a lifelong passion for science and nature with these outdoor physics, chemistry, and biolog… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
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27. A Walking Curriculum: Evoking Wonder And Developing Sense of Place (K-12)

By: Gillian Judson

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

The Walking Curriculum is an innovative interdisciplinary resource for educators K-12 who want to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education

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Transform Your Habits

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Gretchen Rubin

3.72

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