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DescriptionTrailblazer is a seven-level English language and literacy program that empowers and supports young learners to thrive in a multicultural world. Trailblazer cultivates critical thinkers, readers, and writers and provides the language support they need to be ready to study subject-matter content in English. Trailblazing students take meaningful action beyond the classroom by developing the ability to shape their own answers to life's big questions and to view these questions through multiple perspectives.MULTIPLE LITERACIES: Trailblazer takes a multiple literacy approach to prepare students for meaningful real-world interaction by developing five key literacies: textual literacy, visual literacy, global literacy, social literacy, and media literacy.CRITICAL THINKING: Lessons that engage students with authentic nonfiction, globally diverse fiction, and information presented through multimedia inputs prompt students to think critically and apply their language and skills to rea

A whimsical, adventure-filled mystery about a young orphan at the edge of society who finds herself at the center of a city's secrets. For fans of The Swifts and A Series of Unfortunate Events. "I was hooked from the beginning ... Move over Lemony Snicket!" --Karen Foxlee, award-winning author of Lenny's Book of Everything Maggie Fishbone is not expecting much when she's sent to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways, and Wayward Girls--the last resort after causing a ruckus at the orphanage where she was living. Except . . . the Institute isn't some dreadful, dreary place like she thought. Instead it's full of curious girls training to solve mysteries, fight bad guys, and keep the city safe. In between fencing lessons and discovering all the shortcuts in the building, Maggie finds herself making friends at the Midwatch and finally feeling like she's home. And when a woman goes missing, Maggie's off on her first assignment, with each step leading her deeper into the secrets of th