Kathleen Marie Doyle

Blue's River (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Holler, Marsha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Andie Grove must do one more assignment before she graduates from the fifth grade and spends her summer days swimming at Silver Lake. There is only one problem. She is terrified of public speaking.

Old Blue loves history and has been the guardian of the Saint Jones River for 400 years. There is only one thing that he fears more than great-horned owls and bald eagles: the destruction of his river.

For centuries, Blue's river has taken great care of people and other living beings, always giving them what they needed.

Now the river has reached the point where it cannot give anymore.

Old Blue believes Andie is the right human to save his river.

Together, they travel through history where Andie learns how and why her town of Dover, Delaware, developed along the Saint Jones and how a growing population took advantage of a generous river.

Can a ten-year-old girl who is afraid to do a simple speech save Blue's river?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: DelDove Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781734043211
• Artikelnr.: 58112692

Autorenporträt

Extended Author Bio - Website Kathleen Marie Doyle is a writer and award-winning teacher committed to education, the environment, and democracy. Kathleen has been teaching teachers and teenagers in Delaware for over 30 years. She earned her Master of Arts in Teaching Secondary Social Studies at Brown University where she studied with renowned education reformer Theodore Sizer. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Thought and Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst where she grew to love history (her least favorite subject in high school), and where her interest in social and environmental justice was nurtured. She is also a graduate of The Institute of Children's Literature. She began her environmental activism in the fifth grade when she wrote a letter to her hometown newspaper asking people to stop polluting the local pond and stream. Her most recent book, Blue's River, began to germinate the day her children learned that, due to pollution, there would be no more swimming at their local lake. In addition to numerous letters to the editor, her other published works include Allies for Justice: How Louis Redding and Collins Seitz Changed the Complexion of America's Schools, a YA book about Delaware's role in the Brown versus Board of Education case. Look for a republished version in 2021. She has also published in Social Education, a magazine for social studies teachers. Like Andie in Blue's River, Kathleen used to be terrified of public speaking. Also like Andie, she overcame her fear, and now spends a lot of time speaking in front of people. She also sings, plays the piano, guitar, and ukulele in Celtic Harvest, an Irish band. Kathleen lives with her husband in Dover, Delaware, where they are empty nesters with seven goldfish. Their daughter is a social worker in Washington, D.C. and their son is an actor in New York City. Look for her online at KathleenMarieDoyle.com.