Garn Press

In 5-13: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Survival, the realities of sharing life and death exemplify what it means to live and to love and will resonate with readers. It's two days after Christmas and...

Beware the Roadbuilders: Literature as Resistance was born out of blogging as an act of social justice. Over a period of about two years, many posts built the case against market-based education...

An epic romance about the naive Irish girl Kate and her mysterious lover, whom she rejects in panic and then spends her life seeking. After the opening rejection, Kate recalls her Irish upbringing,...

"A slow-building murder tale, but the complicated hero and serpentine wrap-up make it a worthy mystery." - Kirkus Review Felix Allaben is a haunted man. Haunted by the memory of his wife, gunned down...

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards in the Historical Fiction category, Devil Knows: A Tale of Murder and Madness in America's First Century is a...

When fourth grade ends, Ricky is on his own for the summer because his parents have jobs and his sisters are sisters so he's not interested in them. The summer begins on a high note as he rides his...

Family literacy initiatives are ubiquitous in the U.S., Canada and many countries in Europe, and in many economically advantaged countries family literacy programs are available for refugees and...

A Welsh great grandfather's loving memoir, celebrating family and Welsh 20th century working class life.Reading Gareth Lyn Jones' memoir takes you back more than three quarters of a century and sets...

Playhouse serves as more than just a school for children. It is a learning community for parents, where they can learn and embrace progressive models of education.Author: Monica TaylorPublisher: Garn...

Preparing The Nation's Teachers To Teach Reading: A Manifesto In Defense Of "Teacher Educators Like Me" by Curt Dudley-Marling offers a spirited defense of the work of university-based teacher...

Raising Peacemakers tells a twenty-two year story of kids growing up with peacemaking as their foundation. At Downtown Alternative School (DAS), a small public elementary school in Toronto,...

Rat-a-tat-tat! I've Lost My Cat! is a picture story book written by renowned literacy scholar Denny Taylor to entertain and be great fun for children learning to read. When read aloud the story hums,...

"She died within seconds of falling," Rosie's Umbrella begins in 1955. "She could see the shadows that went with the echoes of screams from up above, but the patterns of light and the fading sounds...

Teaching without Testing: Assessing the Complexity of Children's Literacy Learning by Denny Taylor is the second book in Garn Press Women Scholars Series. This book revisits Taylor's seminal and...

From the Common Core to test-based teacher evaluation systems cropping up around the country, to the rapid expansion of semi-private charter schools, the Gates Foundation has had a huge, largely...

The future is often foretold in stories of the past. As families flee the Debaltseve in Eastern Ukraine in 2015, Ken Goodman's The Smart One: A Grandfather's Tale takes us back to families fleeing...

Time in Education : Intertwined Dimensions and Theoretical PossibilitiesAuthor: Catherine Compton-LillyPublisher: Garn PressPublication Date: Jun 29, 2020Number of Pages: 110 pagesLanguage:...

Toodle-oo is a touching story about two little girls - Ruby Blue and Lilly Wu - saying goodbye to each other.Part poem, part song - the words rhyme as Ruby Blue and Lilly Wu remember playing...

What's Whole in Whole Language in the 21st Century? includes a new introduction by Ken Goodman, commentary by Michael Rosen, and excerpts from a series of never published interviews conducted in...