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With a new addition to the family, Frances is feeling left out. So Frances decides to run away?but not too far! This new edition of Russell and Lillian Hoban?s beloved classic is perfect for beginning

Independent learning is not a new concept for language educators but while teachers, curriculum designers and policy makers have embraced it as underpinning modern notions of education, it remains a d

′I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.′Adventurous and spirited in tone, The Three Musketeers is considered one of the greatest historical French novels. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis be

Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 3 (Age 5 - 5½)Cook, Pot, Cook! is based on the traditional tale The Magic Porridge Pot. What will happen when a magic pot will not stop cooking and porridge flow

Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 4 (Age 5 - 5½)The Foolish Fox is based on the traditional tale of the lazy fox who does not like working. He asks some sheep to farm the land for him, in return

Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, lesbians often locate alternative spaces to develop s

Tiny likes to go places with his best friend. But when they go to the library, Tiny has to wait outside. Soon it’s time to bring the books home. Tiny is a very big help! Not since Clifford has a big d

Will, you will survive this battle, but others may not be so lucky.You are on the trail of an evil gang - the Outsiders, who have escaped justice for their crimes.Halt is determined to stop them but t

A duck with no quack? Who has ever heard of that? Certainly not Splat?and he decides to investigate. Beginning readers will love the zany wordplay in this Splat book!

“The Business Process Improvement methodology established by Dr. H. James Harrington and his group brings revolutionary improvement not only in quality of products and services, but also in the busine

Boost productivity by making the switch from 'boss' to COACH!Effective managers know their job is to help employees succeed, not to give them orders. They create relationships that build collaboration

Studying Korean can be intimidating. Not only do you face the usual challenges of learning a new language-vocabulary, grammar, verb tenses-but you also have to contend with a non-Roman script. The ext

Honoria Smythe-Smith is: A) a really bad violinist B) still miffed at being nicknamed "Bug" as a child C) not in love with her older brother's best friend D) all of the above Marcus Holroyd is: A)

When budgets are dwindling, deadlines passing, and tempers flaring, the usual response is to browbeat the project team and point fingers of blame. Not helpful. For these situations, what is needed is

Unimaginative. Risk-adverse. Prone to group think. These are not just empty complaints about today's employees. A recent article in "Newsweek" found solid data that proves a 'creativity crisis' is pla

For Drucker, management was a moral force, not merely a tool at the service of the amoral market . . ."Maciariello and Linkletter provide a very thoughtful and challenging journey in understanding Dru

Social networking sites are dramatically changing the way people stay connected. Not surprisingly, sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace, along with "tweets," blogs, and personal Web pages, ar

The 2007-09 global financial crisis was predictable and avoidable but American and British regulators chose not to intervene. They failed to enforce legislation or implement their own policies because

A noted zoologist teams up with a playful illustrator to present a fun, fact-filled guide to the fascinating (if not fragrant) world of poop across species.Hippos navigate by it, sloths keep in touch

Mountain Lion terrorises all the forest animals, and preys on them for his supper. One day, they come up with a plan to try to protect themselves, yet they are not safe until Rabbit cooks up a cunning

Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home

Put the romance of adventure back into your travels by making language part of your journeyIl souvenir: Italian Phrasebook and Journal is not just a phrasebook and it isn't just a journal; in fact, it

It isn’t that Abby Carson can’t do her schoolwork. She just doesn’t like doing it. And consequently, Abby will have to repeat sixth grade—unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra credit project: find a pen pal in a distant country. But when Abby’s first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, complications arise. The elders agree that any letters going back to America must be written well, but the only qualified English-speaking student is a boy. And in this village, it’s not proper for a boy to correspond with a girl. So, Sadeed’s sister will dictate and sign the letters for him. But what about the villagers who believe that girls should not be anywhere near a school? And what about those who believe that any contact with Americans is...unhealthy?As letters flow back and forth—between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of central Asia, across cultural and religious divides, through the minefields of different lifestyles and traditions—a

Clawson is concerned here not so much with what forest policy should be, but more with the criteria by which it should be determined. He lists such questions as how much land to devote to forests, how

A lively and brilliantly coloured picture book about the importance of judging people on talent, not on size.Four friends decide to enter a Talent Show. A small red bird asks to join them, but they la

A box arrives for Fortune from her Uncle Albert with seven fortune cookies. How wonderful! A cookie and a fortune for each day of the week! Best of all, each fortune comes true...but not in ways that

Harry thinks he's too old for his bucketful of dinosaurs but they have other ideas. He looked after them when he was little and now they're determined to stick by him . . . for life.And Harry is not t

′"I′ll not listen to reason," she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. "Reason always means what someone else has got to say."′First published in seria

′When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.′Set in 16th Century England and

′I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.′Humble a

′Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.′An idyllic snapshot of a boy′s childhood alon

It is not easy raising a family and balancing work and personal commitments in academia, regardless of gender. Parents endure the stress of making tenure with the demands of life with children. While

Mr. Larch is not a very neighborly neighbor. He never has any visitors. His gray, gloomy house never has any decorations. He avoids everyone and everyone avoids him.But now Mr. Larch has a new neighbo

Every super hero has a power, be it super strength, mind control, special gadgets or super speed. In this book you'll not only discover how to draw original heroes in their unique costumes, but also h

Big sister Beezus Quimby tries to be patient with her four-year-old little sister, Ramona, but it isn't easy, not when Ramona powders her nose with marshmallows and invites her nursery school class to

Being seven-and-a-half years old is no picnic! Just ask Ramona. She can hardly get her mother to herself these days, and yet baby Willa Jean has no trouble getting all the attention she wants. Ramona may not be small anymore, but that doesn’t mean she can’t still be her mother’s girl, right? Beverly Cleary once agains perfectly captures a piece of growing up that every child (and former child) can relate to.

Aldo Zelnick is not an athlete like his older brother or a rock collector like his best friend; he’s just a regular kid who likes to draw. One summer Aldo's grandma, Goosy, gives him a sketchbook in w

Pete has a hard time fitting in at his new school, but he soon learns that bullying and tolerating bad behavior is not in keeping with Mandell Elementary's "Promise."

The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When the Best Technology Writing series was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Now they define our 21st-century lives. As Julian Dibbell writes in hi

My name is Katniss Everdeen.Why am I not dead?I should be dead.Katniss Everdeen, the 'girl on fire', has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped to District 13. Katniss' fa