 | The Gifted Gabald
Publication Date: October 1, 2008Having lost their mother in early childhood, the Gabaldón sisters consider Fermina, their elderly Pueblo housekeeper, their surrogate Grandmother. The mysterious Fermina love the girls as if they are her own, and promises to endow each with a "special gift" to be received upon her death. Mindful of the old woman's mystical ways, the sisters believe Fermina's gifts, bestowed based on their natural talents, magically enhance their lives. The oldest sister, Bette Davis Gabaldón, always teased for telling tales, believes her gift is the power to persuad...
 |  | City of Dreadful Night (Canongate Classic)
Publication Date: January 1, 2001| Series: Canongate Classic In this haunting poem from the latter part of the 19th century, Scots-born writer James Thomson anticipated the modern age’s nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation, and spiritual despair. In contrast to the late Victorian confidence all around him, Thomson dared to face the possibility that the universe was utterly indifferent to human affairs. The strange and dark images in The City of Dreadful Night have become a landmark of modern literature, for the tomb-like streets and empty squares in this me...
|  | Firestorm (First Responders)
Publication Date: July 19, 2011| Series: First Responders Firefighter paramedic Mallory "Ice" James commands a crew of smokejumpers—twenty women and men who eat together, sleep together, and parachute into the face of raging forest fires together. Discipline and teamwork mean the difference between life and death on the line, and she's earned her reputation as cool and controlled in the face of danger. "Hot Shot" Jace Russo never met a rule she wouldn't break and doesn't plan to stop just because the woman setting the terms is drop-dead gorgeous and hotter than the blazes they're suppos...
|  | The Joys of Friendship and Love (Come Sit Awhile--Inspiration from the Front Porch)
Release Date: April 20, 2005| Series: Come Sit Awhile--Inspiration from the Front Porch Come Sit Awhile-The Joys of Friendship and Love invites readers to enjoy all the comfort, warmth, and love a visit with friends on the front porch has to offer. Memorable words and charming four-color illustrations grace every page of this little volume. The addition of a presentation page allows consumers to add their own personal message for gift giving. With heartwarming memories, recipes for tasty treats, inspiring scriptures, and more-all for the value price of only $7.97-Come Sit Awhile-The Joys of ...
|  | Kamishibai Story Theater: The Art of Picture Telling
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 1591584043 | ISBN-13: 978-1591584049De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use, borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling through pictures. The book offers tips on rehearsing and detailed discussion and background of the Kamishibai processes, and it describes how to coordinate grade-level story presentations. Reproducible tales can be distributed to each member of the class to aide in creating illustrations. The stories in Kamishibai Story Theater will delight children in grades 2-6, enticing them to par...
|  | Sir Gadabout Out of Time
Publication Date: November 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 1842556150 | ISBN-13: 978-1842556153King Arthur desperately needs a haircut, and with the royal barber away, he foolishly accepts Sir Gadabout's offer to do the job. The result is a disaster, of course, so he turns to Merlin for help. Merlin's quick solution is a "turn back time" spell, so that Arthur can return to the hour just before Sir Gads wreaked havoc on his hair. However, Sir Gads intervenes once more, and King Arthur finds himself unexpectedly in the present day instead. Trapped in the future, Sir Gads must find a way to help Art...
|  | Ugly Duckling in Signed English
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|  | Dear Dumb Diary Year Two #1: School. Hasn't This Gone on Long Enough?
Publication Date: January 1, 2012| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | Creatures of Earth, Sea, and Sky: Animal Poems
Publication Date: January 1, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Creatures of land, water, and sky are featured here in short poems for early readers. Noted poet and educator Georgia Heard writes about baboons and bears, eagles and bats, dragonflies and frogs. Naturalist and illustrator Jennifer Dewey captures each animal in dramatic detail. The book is written and illustrated with a reverence for the natural world and for wildlife and will find an audience not only in children but in nature-lovers of all ages. ...
|  | Piggies: Book and Musical CD (Book & CD)
Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | Mammals at Your Fingertips
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|  | Dolphins
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|  | The Baby That Roared
Release Date: July 10, 2012| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up When Mr. and Mrs. Deer find a little antlered bundle on the doorstep, Mrs. Deer thinks their wish for a baby has come true; Mr. Deer thinks that the baby is very, very peculiar. It won’t stop roaring, so they ask advice from friends and family, who in turn send them off to fetch what they think the baby needs. But each time Mr. and Mrs. Deer return home from an errand, someone is missing and the baby is still roaring. It takes wise old Granny Bear to spot the problem. The baby’s not a baby - it’s a lit...
|  | Farthest from the Sun: The Planet Neptune (Amazing Science)
Publication Date: January 2008| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
|  | Descubramos Japon/ Looking at Japan (Descubramos Paises Del Mundo / Looking at Countries) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Junior School Atlas
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|  | the African Union (Africa: Continent in the Balance)
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| | Holt McDougal United States History: Student Edition Grades 6-9 Civil War to the Present 2009
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|  | How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear?: What Are Homonyms and Homophones? (Words Are Categorical)
Publication Date: September 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up...
|  | American Christmas Cards 1900-1960 (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture)
Publication Date: November 29, 2011| Series: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, the presumed antiquity of its traditions, and its ability to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable and ubiquitous, but in recent years the genre has been visibly in decline. It is now evident that the Christmas card was a culturally specific artifact, a distinctive way in which a fundamental human gesture could be expressed within a commercial, materialistic, and rapidl...
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