My Great-Aunt Arizona (Hardcover)

from rrossi1

Amazingly, this book is about the author's actual great aunt named Arizona. She grew up in a small town with an even smaller one room schoolhouse. Arizona loved all aspects of life, and she always wanted to go to "faraway places" to explore even more of what life had to offer. Instead of going to...

from kholec1

This was a truly inspiring book that all children can relate to. Children have had at least one teacher that has made a huge impact on their life. They can remember so many details from that teacher's class even if they had that teacher years ago because the teacher was so inspiring. This book ge...

from Maria.Vasquez

This book represents the idea of a teacher that motivates students to go out and experience the world by saying that ...''someday they may go where she has never been''. I enjoyed this reading because it made realize how teacher language can be implemented in a book to bring enthusiasm in students.

from ashoemak

A wonderfully illustrated story of the life of a school teacher who spent her days teaching in a one room school house in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Another great book for young readers to explore how schools worked in the past.

from mstanley33

My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston is a multicultural book that is about Appalachain Americans. This story is about a girl named Arizona who loved to read, sing, and dream about traveling to far away places. Arizona and her brother attend a one room schoolhouse until her mother dies then Ari...