This resource equips educators with 180 engaging, ready-to-use lessons to help students expand their vocabulary and strengthen their understanding of word roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Designed to be implemented in just a few minutes each day, the lessons are ideal for fostering vocabulary development and preparing students for standardized tests. Each entry focuses on a high-utility word, pro…
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is a poignant and immersive novel that explores the intricate dynamics of creativity, friendship, and ambition. The story follows Sam Masur and Sadie Green, childhood friends who reunite in college and collaborate on creating groundbreaking video games. Their partnership becomes a decades-long journey of highs and lows, as they navigate pe…
Caraval by Stephanie Garber is a spellbinding fantasy novel that follows Scarlett Dragna, a young woman who has spent her life yearning to escape her oppressive home. When Scarlett and her sister, Tella, receive an invitation to Caraval—a magical, once-a-year performance where the audience participates—Scarlett is drawn into a world of wonder and danger. However, when Tella is kidnapped as …
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winn…
In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forsed to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close to death before. For her, survival is second nature.
Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen t…
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge
A veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth
303 Preschooler-Approved Exercises and Active Games is written specifically for children ages 2-5 years old. In the Building Blocks of Fitness section, each fitness and sport skill is taught in different stages. This allows teachers, counselors, or parents to teach their preschooler a skill that sets the foundation of a more difficult skill; the next level adds a new and more complex element. B…
Shares one hundred activities and games that will teach children about science, music, art, writing, math, reading, and global studies using household objects.