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Books Recommended by Friends
When friends recommend books, I listen carefully. Here is where we will list books recommended by friends, be them teachers or not. Books are listed in alphabetical order. As an Amazon Associate LTL earns from qualifying purchases.
- 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow by John C. Maxwell
- Art and Science of Leadership by Afsaneh Nahavandi
- Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities by Richard Bucher
- Drive: Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott
- Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
- Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros and Katie Novak
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
- Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr
- Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath and Barrie Conchie
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Teach Boldly: Using Edtech for Social Good by Jennifer Williams
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington
- Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara
- Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art by Nancy Heller
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Books about Friendship for Kids (and not so young)
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- Cerca – So Close – (Spanish) by Natalia Colombo
- El día en que descubres quién eres by Jacqueline Woodson
- La escalera roja by Hernando Pérez Hernando (Visit: Plans)
- Las tres preguntas by Jon J. Muth
Children’s Books used in Middle School
Using children’s books with middle schoolers helps dig deeper into themes that middle school students understand and have opinions about but they may feel that they do not have the vocabulary to express them in another language. This is a list of some of those books that we have used in our Spanish classes. As an Amazon Associate Language Teaching Lab earns from qualifying purchases
- Árboles by Lemniscates (Visit Plans: Arboles)
- El libro negro de los colores by Menena Cottin
- Frieda hace la diferencia by United Nations
- Inventos a la basura. Qué locura by Jo Seung Hyeon, In Kang, Hae, Yeong (Visit Plans: Inventos a la basura. Qué locura)
- Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match/ Marisol McDonald no combina by Monica Brown
- Nadarín by Leo Lionni
- Por cuatro esquinitas de nada by Jerome Ruillier (Visit Plans: Por cuatro esquinitas de nada)
- Siete ratones ciegos by Ed Young