"These lessons work. And not just for kids who read well. They also work for kids who struggle in reading, who don't respond to abstract concepts." -Tanny McGregorInside, every kid wants to love readi
2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarterfinalist!Macy needs a break. Her parents are dead and a moody trespasser has set up camp on the property she has inherited. When the stranger confesses hims
Life Lessons from My Five-Year-Old shares the journey Kimber Lynne took to remember what matters most in life. Her "aha" moment came when she realized that her young daughter could save her from herse
This introduction to botanical illustration is formed of ten graded lessons. An experienced teacher, Val Price shows the uninitiated illustrator how to produce accurate and beautiful results using ste
About ten years ago, I inherited a bundle of love letters and diary notes written by my maternal grandfather, David Clarence Hurd. He composed these writings while living in Brooklyn, New York. "Papa,
About ten years ago, I inherited a bundle of love letters and diary notes written by my maternal grandfather, David Clarence Hurd. He composed these writings while living in Brooklyn, New York. "Papa,
Moving into an inherited mansion in Maine with their mother and stroke-afflicted father, three siblings uncover a mystery involving hidden passageways, family rivalries, and healing waters.
Seven practical, down-to-earth lessons that include everything from finding the best lakes to solutions for slow days Finding prime water, locating the trout, and presenting the fly Real-life scenario
Favorite poet and author Georgia Heard shares step-by-step poetry lessons that guide students to identify figurative language, hear rhyme, rhythm, and other poetic conventions, and explore imagery and
In a magisterial work of narrative nonfiction that weaves together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons fro
"Lessons on diction, detail, figurative language, imagery, syntax, and tone help middle and early high school students understand the concept of voice in what they read and develop a strong, personal
"The matriarch of the MacNiall family hires Cybil Quindt, apprentice PI, to find her illegitimate, illegally adopted granddaughter who inherited major shares."--Publisher description.
Denise Reece returns to Peyton, Ohio for a variety of reasons. Her fiancee broke up with her, life in California didn't turn out like she hoped, and she's inherited a run-down theater. Things become e
Two young cousins discover they have jointly inherited a remote Scottish cottage with an intriguing history. They quickly learn what life was like there over a hundred years ago - but they discover ev
Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are "documents" of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and r
This volume examines the lessons and legacies of the U.S.-led "Global War on Terror," utilizing the framework of a political "moral panic."A decade after 9/11, it is increasingly difficult to deny tha
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), caused by mutational inactivation of the NF1 tumour suppressor gene, is one of the most common dominantly inherited human disorders, affecting 1 in 3000 individuals wor
Risk, Resilience, and Positive Youth Development: Developing Effective Community Programs for High-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project describes an approach to developing and testing ef
This collection of 42 short English lessons focuses on specific American idioms and common phrases. The thematic chapters are organized into seven categories: Let’s Get Started, Fun with Food, Body L
"Budo is art and is connected to all other arts. Even in the midst of battle, art can be found--at least, for those who survive." "There are no secrets in budo; there are only lessons that we refuse t
Richards (childhood education and literacy studies, U. of South Florida) and Lassonde (elementary education and reading, State U. of New York College at Oneonta) collect 22 mini-lessons from teachers,
Exceptional People: Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors is a unique work that describes disabled (exceptional) students’ and their parents’ perspectives as they journeyed through the educ
A revised edition of the best-selling book Before You Leap: A Frog's-Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons. This updated edition is a fun, full color gift book which includes two brand new chapters. It'
Darla Pettistone may have inherited her great aunt Dee’s Brooklyn bookstore, but it’s the store’s mascot—an oversized black cat named Hamlet—who acts like he owns the place. And when someone turns up
Spirituality and Growth on the Leadership Path: An Abecedary offers lessons not usually taught about leadership, lessons learned over the author's more than thirty years in higher education and nonpro
First-Time Beading on Fabric teaches nine beading techniques in nine easy lessons. Seed stitch, moss stitch, couching, backstitch, bugle beads, stacks, fringe, picot edge and peyote stitch. After pr
With a focus on climate change adaptation and predicated on research by Australia's Coastal Collaboration Cluster, this book explores the implications of lessons learned in contemporary Australian coa
The essays in the tenth volume of Lessons and Legacies offer a sense of the issues that run through current thinking about the Holocaust and ideas about the different ways we engage with a broad range
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now armed with his father's mysterious and
This follow-up to the highly acclaimed Lessons with a Grandmaster focuses on dynamic chess, developing chess imagination, and perhaps above all, the ability to visualize the chess board and calculate
Part memoir, part how-to, all Baxter Black, Lessons from a Desperado Poet is a humorous, witty take on making a living by doing the right thing and trying everything. According to Baxter Black, succes
Exceptional People: Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors is a unique work that describes disabled (exceptional) students’ and their parents’ perspectives as they journeyed through the educ
Telling stories from his long career as a distinguished health care executive and educator, Bernie Brown shows how he put Christian leadership to work in the secular world."Bernie Brown's Lessons Lear
Sandy Spiwak-Wallin has always been an animal lover, but when she and her husband inherited Sandy "The Sheltie," not only did it turn her family's life around but she was faced with daily challenges o
Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review. What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty contempo
The advice in Life Lessons is aimed specifically at women and their everyday concerns, such as finding time, making ends meet and balancing priorities.
During Chattanooga's post-Civil War industrial boom, A.M. Johnson subdivided land inherited by his wife, Thankful, from her industrialist father, James Whiteside. Located on the eastern side of Lookou
Mitochondrial cytopathies are mutations in the inherited maternal mitochondrial genome, or the nuclear DNA-mutation. Mitochondrial respiratory chain disorders (RCD) are a group of genetically and clin
