Leslie Rae Bowman

Wings

At first it looks like a small gray ball of fluff, its head a cloud of frizzy feathers, fine as dandelion seeds. The baby bird isn't even strong enough to spread its wings, but ten-year-old Nick is determined to save it. Together with his best friend, he coaxes the wild bird he names Marcy to eat wo...

Hannah (Stepping Stone, paper)

Nine-year-old Hannah would do almost anything to go to school with all the other children in town. But Hannah is blind, and her parents keep her at home, where she is safe. Then Lydia Robbin, a strong-willed teacher, comes to town and convinces Hannah’s parents to send her to school. At first Hannah...

Night Of The Full Moon (Stepping Stone, paper)

In the winter of 1840, the night of the full moon is approaching. Nothing will stop Libby Mitchell from visiting her best friend, Fawn, during a special ceremony at the nearby wigwam camp. But Libby’s adventure takes an unexpected turn when soldiers suddenly rush in. They order everyone at the camp,...

American Arts and Crafts: Virtue in Design (A Catalogue of the Palevsky/Evans Collection and Related Works at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art)

Influenced by developments in Europe, American proponents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries successfully promoted the "minor arts" as fine art hand-wrought by individual craftsmen, extolling the virtue of everyday objects and a return to honest, simple materials and workmanship. The designs ...

Monticello in Measured Drawings: Drawings by the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, Nationa Park Service ... Press for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation)

Each year approximately 500,000 people journey up the winding, narrow road from Charlottesville, Virginia, to visit Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. In 1990 a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) made this same journey to record Jefferson's residence inside ...

Creating Communities of Practice (Online Teaching and Learning)

A Community of Practice is an exciting development that has the potential to revolutionize standards of online education. In an andragogical shift from traditional online discussions, the COP creates a culture of interest, inquiry, risk-taking, and problem solving through knowledge deficit diagnosis...

Online Teaching for Adjunct Faculty: How to Manage Workload, Students, and Multiple Schools (Online Teaching and Learning Book 3)

With the recent trend in schools' cutting classes for adjunct faculty, adjuncts are resorting to teaching fewer classes at each of more schools. Gone are the days when we could teach at just one or two schools and have enough classes to make a decent income. Some adjuncts are teaching for fifteen or...

Grading Made Fast and Easy for Online Faculty (Online Teaching and Learning Book 1)

Do you spend too much time in “grading jail” every week? Do you sometimes find that it’s just too time-consuming to write substantive comments on students’ papers? Do you wish that students would read and apply the feedback you take so much time to provide each week? Does the thought of grading 50 o...

Wings

Rich Lizard

Shadows

Balloons

Rich Lizard and Other Poems: And Other Poems

Shadows

A Christmas Sonata

The Night the Bells Rang