Rafe Esquith, Author . Pantheon $21 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-42202-7
What's a Los Angeles middle-school teacher to do when charged with a bunch of fifth and sixth graders, none of whom speak English at home and most of whom are eligible for free lunches? If you're Esquith, you have them read Twain, perform...
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Rafe Esquith, Author . Viking $24.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-670-03815-2
Esquith might be the only public school teacher to be honored by both Oprah Winfrey and the Dalai Lama; he is the only school teacher ever to receive the president's National Medal of the Arts. For the past 25 years, Esquith has taught fifth...
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Rafe Esquith, Author Viking Books $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-02108-6
In his follow-up to Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, elementary school teacher Esquith focuses on financially disadvantaged but scholastically ambitious fifth-graders from Hobart Elementary School, located in the middle of a critically poor Los...
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Rafe Esquith. Viking, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-01464-4
In his fourth book, Los Angeles elementary school teacher Esquith (Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire), who has become famous for transforming his classroom of underprivileged fifth-graders into classical music–playing, Shakespeare-performing...
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