When she discovers her students are hiding their true thoughts and feelings, Carla (Jutta Hoffmann), a young and idealistic teacher at the start of her career, goes against the routine opportunism, hypocritisy and small-mindedness all around her. Her superiors view her actions with unease, however, and eventually step in to discipline her. This film, written by renowned author Ulrich Plenzdorf, was considered nihilistic, skeptical and hostile by officials....

Story of a fourteen-year-old New York boy and his relationships with a stray tomcat, an eccentric old woman, a troubled older boy, the first girl with whom he has been friends, and his father.

"In a book for young people, Chelsea Clinton informs readers about issues facing our world and what kids can do to help solve them"--

The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

"Paula sufre por un amor imposible, del que no puede hablar a nadie, y Janine, la chica de la talla 40, guarda un secreto que, de saberse, la pondr?ia en peligro. Su amigo Gorka, obsesionado con el sexo, empieza a sentir algo m?as por la persona equivocada, y Mario, el repetidor que hace bullying, se encuentra de pronto con que es ?el por primera vez quien est?a siendo chantajeado. A Mar?ia Elena la llaman Melena en Las Encinas porque en una ocasi?on...

"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...