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Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
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English
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"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found...
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Fact sheet. Consumer volume no. 10.246
Publisher
Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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Fact sheet. Consumer series. Family volume no. 10.246
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English
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Bulletin volume 169A
Publisher
Colorado Agricultural College, Extension Service
Pub. Date
[1920]
Language
English
Description
Much interest is being shown in the movement to provide some form of hot food to supplement the cold lunch that the child attending rural school must carry from home. In our country there are between five and six million under-nourished school children.
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Issue brief volume 16-17
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This issue brief outlines federal and state school nutrition programs, including eligibility, funding, and reimbursement.