This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
Nothing, that is—until a chain bookstore called Prologue opens across the street and threatens to shut them down. Madeline sets out to demolish the competition, but the guy who works over at Prologue seems intent on ruining her life.
The authors provide an account of their journey around the world in search of endangered animals, including the kakapo of New Zealand, white rhinos in Zaire, and the Komodo lizard
Last Chance is just as charming as she remembered. She's even invited to join the local book club, where talk soon turns to Savannah's plan to bring the ramshackle downtown movie theater back to life.
Looking at how we treat violent young offenders, a powerful study goes inside Texas's Giddings State School to detail their remarkably effective treatment program for young offenders, following a boy and girl through the harrowing group ...
Packed with surprises, heart, and stories within stories, this irresistible novel from an award-winning author celebrates food, fortune, and family.
In this thrilling conclusion to the highly-popular trilogy. McKenna Sloan, an operative for Last Chance Rescue, must save the man she secretly loves--Lucas Kane--from his captors without blowing her cover. Original.
To save the place and the books that mean so much to her, June must finally make some changes to her life. For once, she's determined not to go down without a fight.
Great science voices such as James Hansen, Bob Corell, Rosina Bierbaum, Camille Parmesan, Henry Pollack, Tim Flannery, Virginia Burkett, Thomas Lovejoy, Heidi Cullen, Stephen Schneider, Susan Solomon, Katey Walters, George Woodwell, ...
Will Lovejoy turn from the promise of a new life and return to the safety of her past? Or will this last chance for love lead her to a future she had never dreamt possible?
I looked forward to seeing Mr. Ellis three times a week as I learned to play the violin. Mr. Ellis played every instrument he taught: percussion and piano, cello and bass and violin. He could take the sax out of a kid's hands and show ...