A student's guide for language arts skills and strategies and countdown to testing.

Integrates phonics and literature-based reading and process writing instruction for a balanced approach to teaching literacy. Contains innovative ideas for supporting the most at risk students. Emphasizes the integration of literacy with science and social studies instruction. Discusses strategies and techniques for fostering children's use of decoding and comprehension strategies, and includes workable, practical strategies and activities to use...

"This eBook helps you fine-tune your knowledge of grammar essentials with quick but thorough lessons that take only 20 minutes a day! Use the tests and lessons within to sharpen your grammar skills and quickly improve your writing skills." --

Although Rhennthyl is the son of a leading wool merchant in L'Excelsis, the capital of Solidar, the most powerful nation on Terahnar, he has spent years becoming a journeyman artist and is skilled and diligent enough to be considered for the status of master artisan -- in another two years. Then, in a single moment, his entire life is transformed when his master patron is killed in a flash fire, and Rhenn discovers he is an imager -- one of the few...

Two caterers team up with a bumbling detective in Barcelona to find a pickpocket only to discover that she has been kidnapped by a gang of local mobsters.

The newly discovered Avatar, twelve year-old Aang, must learn to master the four elements to save his world from the Fire Nation.

"While Aang grapples with a life-changing decision that only he can make as the Avatar, Toph and Katara implore him--from opposite sides--to choose a path. Meanwhile, Ru and Yaling concoct a fiery ploy to get their mother back. The bender vs. non-bender conflict finally reaches a powerful boiling point, and for better or for worse, Cranefish Town will never be the same!"--

In the summer of 1974, an aspiring artist goes against his father's wishes and spends the summer under the tutelage of a Russian master painter.

"There's something fishy going on in Cranefish Town, and it's up to Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Toph to find out what, before the simmering conflict between benders and non-benders boils over into all-out war. But danger lurks where they least expect it, and uncovering the truth will reveal a threat unlike any they've ever faced--and a fateful choice for Aang he can never unmake!"--

"Sci-Fi Art: A Graphic History traces the evolution of this popular art form from the earliest illustrations of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells through the classic cover art of pulp magazines from the 1920s and 1930s, to graphic novels in the 1960s and 1970s, and right up to contemporary film posters, movies, television shows, toys, games, collectibles, and much more. Including a foreword by acclaimed sci-fi author Brian Aldiss, this book is a comprehensive...