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"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it." What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the all-pervasive internet turning readers into web-surfing...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
160 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child?s reading readiness.
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English
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What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a diabolical murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book Club than Agatha Christie's Crooked House? Lyla Moody and her friends are soon embroiled in debate over whether the heroine's actions are particularly believable. But, not long after the meeting, sleepy Sweet Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel in question.
When Lyla and...
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English
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Are your students ready to become the engaged and informed citizens our democracy needs right now? Your classroom can be a place for them to experience what it means to live in community with others, to balance their own interests with those of the group, to challenge themselves to overcome differences, and to ask the questions that help them understand the crux of an issue.
Powerful reading and writing are fundamentally linked to civic education....
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English
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An ancient secret...A deadly conspiracy.
For reader's of Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar, or the works of Dan Brown, this high-octane commercial thriller tells of a hunt for the lost prophecies of Nostradamus and the two men who will do anything to discover their secrets. Nostradamus wrote a thousand prophecies. Only 942 have survived. What happened to the missing quatrains? What secrets did they contain to make it necessary for them to remain...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 video files, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In Kelly Gallagher's high school classroom in Anaheim, California, students are not only learning to comprehend difficult novels and texts, they are developing the skills and behaviors of lifelong readers. Drawing from his books Reading Reasons and Deeper Reading, Kelly's new video set brings effective reading strategies to life. Presenting examples of both small- and whole-group discussions, Building Adolescent Readers demonstrates how to engage...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Hi, there! I'm a dandelion. You might see me everywhere, but have you ever stopped to think about how I got there? Learn more about my life cycle and how I went from a tiny little seed to a bold, beautiful flower"--
11) Quake
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Publisher
Tracey Alvarez
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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He'll shake her foundations. . . Ana Grace is living a single mother's worst nightmare. Separated from her two kids by a catastrophic earthquake, she's trapped in her office building with a man she's only just met. He's a sexy former soldier, and possibly the only man able to help her navigate the dangerous landscape home. Daniel Calder is tired of failing people he's tried to help, but since Ana is his younger sister's boss, he's caught between a...
12) Me on the map
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
280L
Language
English
Description
A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world.
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English
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Rhyming text and illustrations present some of the ways dinosaurs can play with their friends, from hogging the swings to sharing toys.
Read along as little T. Rex explores the wilderness and stumbles upon many dinosaurs who would like to have him for lunch! Introduces short vowels, suffixes, word building, dinosaur facts.
16) In the city
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 16 cm.
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English
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"Reading begins at birth! It's never too early to share a book. This series is made especially for you and your new baby. Enjoy it together!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A narrative history of con artistry in America documents the early twentieth-century efforts of J. Frank Norfleet to track down a gang of confidence men who swindled him out of everything he had.
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Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
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xii, 354 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
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English
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"A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. With diligence and grace, Ba?ez mounts a compelling investigation...
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