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The ultimate multiplication guide for grade-schoolers to develop practical math skills, versatile thinking, and problem-solving in real life! With interactive word problems, your child can begin to develop an array of skills all at once, while having fun solving math problems! This innovative approach is a bridge between the abstract world of math and its practical application in daily life. Your child can fantasize about amusement parks, family barbecue parties, or cute animal shelters while engaging in math activities.

Magazine articles don't just magically appear on the page. Good writers grab your attention. Then they keep you reading.

This series is a thank-you to emergency workers! Each title will look into an emergency worker job, the training it takes, and what a day in the life looks like.

Sunrise Elementary School had a BIG problem. Their new librarian was a real Dragon! When Miss Lotta Scales read an ad for a thick-skinned librarian with a burning love of books, she knew she was perfect for the job. After all, who could guard books better than a real dragon? She took her job seriously: hundreds of new, clean books replaced the old, smudged ones. The thought of sticky little fingers touching and clutching her precious books made her hot under the collar!

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson received the Coretta Scott King Award for her children’s book Almost to Freedom. Here she relays the extraordinary story of Bass Reeves, a lawman in the Old West who escaped slavery to become one of the most successful U.S. Marshals in history.

Если вы не верите, что можно заменить черную полосу в своей жизни на белую, искренне полюбить нелюбимый школьный предмет, что все желания когда-то исполняются или возможно даже принять свою внешность за вполне симпатичную, то вам просто обязательно надо прочитать эту книгу. В вашей голове, а соответственно и вашей жизни, все встанет на свои места и произойдут чудесные превращения. Надо только выполнить несколько условий… И уверенность, принятие мира, любовь и уважение к самому себе произведут потрясающий эффект, который удивит не только вас, но и окружающих.

As a preteen or young teen girl, you're changing more than ever before—and it's natural to feel a mix of excitement and worry. You're seeing the world in new ways. Your social life has gotten a lot more complicated. And whether you're experiencing the onset of puberty, or have already begun menstruation, the physical changes you're going through can also feel overwhelming. Written by a teen mental health expert, The Middle School Survival Guide for Girls is packed with tips and tools to help you adjust to the pressures of middle school—as well as to your changing mind and body.

Neftalí siente admiración y curiosidad por todo: los colores del aceite en un charco, un guante perdido, el viento al navegar, el canto de los pájaros. A Neftalí le encanta coleccionar tesoros, soñar despierto y escribir -pasatiempos que su padre piensa que le hacen perder el tiempo. Sin embargo, a pesar de todas las adversidades, el espíritu de Neftali prevalece a pesar de su timidez y la crueldad de su padre hasta llegar a convertirse en uno de los poetas más leídos en todo el mundo, Pablo Neruda. Este libro inspirara' a jóvenes escritores y artistas.

Vote for me! It's election time, and campaign ads are everywhere. But what does fundraising, door knocking, and campaigning have to do with getting elected? Listeners learn all about political campaigns and how they play a part in our elections.

In a timeless desert, a solitary traveller hears a mysterious voice from the clouds commanding a life-changing mission: "Water the garden of a man named so-and-so." Intrigued, he follows the cloud as it absorbs water from the rocky landscape and nourishes a nearby garden. There, he meets the gardener, who shares the secret of his bounty: a heartfelt commitment to divide his harvest into three parts—one for his family, one for the garden's care, and one for those in need.

Young Linguists teaches kids essential language skills fast. That means 20 minute lessons to help kids stay engaged, and daily repetition to reinforce learning. We also narrow down vocabulary to the most-used words and phrases, so that you are learning what you can apply. These books also included detailed sections in English on effective strategies for learning new languages and ideas to carry on learning and applying what you know once the course is complete. In addition, there are complete review sections for learning, comprehension and speaking repetition.

This is a simple guide to key words and phrases in Arabic for young learners. The emphasis is on making learning fun with games and activities and on teaching vocabulary that can easily be put to use. The course is divided into 10 daily sessions of 25 to 35 minutes each to learn new content and reinforce earlier learning by revisiting topics from earlier in the course. This is an ideal way to introduce young learners to the Arabic language.

A coleção "Hey Sabine!" inova com um conto de leitura que, ao mesmo tempo em que oferece uma história bilíngue para leitura tradicional ou linear, incorpora um encadeamento escolhido pela própria criança no ato da leitura, sequenciando ou espiralando a narrativa. Além disso, você encontrará 10 atividades ludo didáticas para auxiliar com o aprendizado da língua inglesa, em módulos progressivos, abrindo caminho para o domínio do inglês, de maneira mais divertida.

My Mom is Dominican: Sayings from the Heart is a loving tribute to the wisdom, warmth, and wit of Dominican mothers, told through the cherished sayings that have been passed down from generation to generation.

The Boxcar Children and their grandfather are going to New Orleans. The Aldens like exploring the city. Most of all, they like helping Grandfather's friend clean up her old, dusty bookstore. They discover lots of interesting things in the store, especially a beautiful set of fairy tales. But then mysterious things start to happen. One of the books in the set is missing! Someone is after something the Boxcar Children have. Will they be able to solve this new, exciting mystery?

Have you ever put money into a bank account? Or withdrawn money to buy a video game? Then you’ve used a bank! Banks are businesses where people keep their money. Banks help us save and spend wisely. So how do banks work? What kinds of bank accounts do people have? Listen to this audiobook to find out!

The book energizes how early learners and everyone else apply math in our daily lives! We can count on numbers and math. Where else can zero, which means nothing, become millions and more? With math on our team, we add to find out how many of something we have. With take-away, we see how much money we get back at the store. We multiply to make numbers bigger like dollars in paychecks. We divide to make them smaller like pieces of yummy pie. All around us are everyday objects made of shapes that math helps us understand.

Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you're in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them - to jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move.

Elle pensait être sur le chemin de la gloire. Elle pensait avoir le monde du ballet à ses pieds. Elle pensait que ses rêves allaient se réaliser. Natalya Pushkaya, seize ans, a un seul rêve: devenir la meilleure ballerine du monde entier. Elle a consacré sa vie entière à la danse. Elle a tout sacrifié: elle a perdu de vue ses amis, elle ne pense pas à l’amour, elle a déménagé loin de sa famille....

This ten-session course broadens vocabulary for 8th graders in multiple ways, including definitions of words, usage in context, stories, quiz questions and pairing of words with similar ones. This is an ideal way to foster vocabulary development. Vocabulary included in this 8th grade course includes terms such as juxtapose, velocity, technical, surmise, validate, abhor and many others. 8th grade is a target level for this course, but depending on a child's vocabulary development it may be useful for other or younger children.