"This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills -- starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Early Developing packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: - Participates in conversation - Asks questions to clarify uncertainty - Understands the organization...

Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. This fun and educational game introduces kids to the water crisis and helps them think critically about the topic of water and its direct impact on education. Travel with Maya on her quest for clean water. The more water Maya...

Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks. Today is the day of the big test! Will Mia earn her fairy princess crown? Follow this adorable story about a witch, a prince, a little girl and the monkey. This classic tale of the little girl with the beautiful voice will...

"Since Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age novel in her semiautobiographical The Bell Jar. Each new biography has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath's life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume...

"Read about the life of Madam C.J. Walker, and find out how she created a hair care empire, and helped African Americans in the early 1900s"--Provided by publisher.

"Students in the logic stage (grades 6-8) are no longer content just to memorize chants and vocabulary -- they are ready to master the systems that make Latin the most approachable of the classical languages, and to dive into the stories that make it the most legendary language. Kraken Latin 1 contains thirty-two weeks' worth of clear teaching on all the indicative tenses, demonstratives, and personal pronouns, weekly worksheets and readings, English-to-Latin...

"From the time Courtney Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her chest for long walks, she was curious about Emerson Elementary, a public school down the street from her Oakland home. She learned that White families in their gentrifying neighborhood largely avoided the majority-Black, poorly rated school. As she began asking why, a journey of a thousand moral miles began. Learning in Public is the story not just of Martin's journey but of a whole...

Children with learning disabilities face many challenges. It is the goal of the authors through the publication of this book to break the isloation children feel and to encourage them that with proper interevention they too can be successful. Children will identify with confident students like Nora Green. This precocious eight-year old will serve as a positive role model for elementary age children. Nora Green will help children, parents and educators...

After spending thirteen years teaching elementary education, Liz Parsons has gained a lot of experience raising kids. And with two boys of her own, she has learned that the ultimate key to survival is laughter (and possibly this book). It is a secret she shares over and over again in "Raising Huck and Ted "a collection of rollicking, fun stories about raising two boys. As the tales of laughable events and heartwarming moments unfold, Liz exposes readers...

A collection of new tales with brilliant new writers and lost souls from the darkest corners of literature and legend: Morrigan's ravens in Celtic myth mingle with Dante's infernal spirits and the work of John Milton. And with the dark fiction of William Hope Hodgson and Arthur Machen this promises to be a haunting, chilling read.