The Giver

The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054434068X

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476746605

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

The Stone Child

The Stone Child
Author: Dan Poblocki
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375842551

What if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real? Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. That's why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes a dream come true when Eddie discovers that Olmstead lived there before mysteriously disappearing thirteen years ago. Even better, Eddie finds a handwritten, never-before-seen Nathaniel Olmstead book printed in code and befriends Harris, who's as much an Olmsteady as he is. But then the frightening creatures of Olmstead's books begin to show up in real life, and Eddie's dream turns into a nightmare. Eddie, Harris, and their new friend, Maggie, must break Olmstead's code, banish all gremlins and monster lake-dogs from the town of Gatesweed, and solve the mystery of the missing author, all before Eddie's mom finishes writing her own tale of terror and brings to life the scariest creature of all.

My Revision Notes: Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Child Development: Second Edition

My Revision Notes: Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Child Development: Second Edition
Author: Judith Adams
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1398350397

Set your students on track to achieve the best grade possible with My Revision Notes: Level 1 / Level 2 Cambridge Nationals in Child Development. Our clear and concise approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide that can be relied on to build both knowledge and confidence. br” Consolidate knowledge with clear, concise and relevant content coverage, based on what examiners are looking for.br” Extend understanding with our regular 'Now Test Yourself', tasks and answers provided online for students to access .br” Improve technique through our increased exam support, including exam-style practice questions, expert exam tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid.br” Identify key connections between topics and subjects with our 'Making Links' focus and further ideas for follow-up and revision activities.br” Plan and manage a successful revision programme with our topic-by-topic planner, new skills checklist and exam breakdown features, user-friendly definitions and glossary.

Treatment Protocols for Language Disorders in Children, Volume II

Treatment Protocols for Language Disorders in Children, Volume II
Author: Hegde, M.N.
Publisher: Plural Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1597568716

Contains protocols for basic language skills most children with language disorder need to be taught in the initial stages of treatment. The protocols give scripted scenarios for teaching most of the bound morphemes of English that children with language disorder typically lack. These include: basic words; regular and irregular plurals; possessive; present progressive; prepositions; pronouns; auxiliaries and copula; regular and irregular past tense; articles; conjunctions; adverbs; regular third person singular. For each target skill, 20 exemplars are available for the clinician to baserate, treat, and probe for generalized production. Most children can be advanced to relatively complex social communication skill level training only when they have mastered the basic morphologic features.

One White Wishing Stone

One White Wishing Stone
Author: Doris Gayzagian
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780792251101

A girl gathers natural objects to decorate her sandcastle, saving some of them to take back home from the beach.

Silent as a Stone

Silent as a Stone
Author: James H. Forest
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780881413144

The Sword in the Stone

The Sword in the Stone
Author: Grace Maccarone
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Arthurian romances
ISBN: 9780833591135

For use in schools and libraries only. Despite the boasting of grown men, only young Arthur is able to draw a sword from a stone, thereby becoming king.

Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education

Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education
Author: Lyn D. English
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 830
Release: 2010-04-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135192839

The second edition continues the mission of bringing together important new mathematics education research that makes a difference in both theory and practice. It updates and extends the Handbook’s original key themes and issues for international research in mathematics education for the 21st century, namely: priorities in international mathematics education research lifelong democratic access to powerful mathematical ideas advances in research methodologies influences of advanced technologies. Each of these themes is examined in terms of learners, teachers, and learning contexts, with theory development being an important component of all these aspects. This edition also examines other catalysts that have gained increased import in recent years including a stronger focus on the teacher and teacher practice, a renewed interest in theory development, an increased focus on the mathematics needed in work place settings, and a proliferation of research designs and methodologies that have provided unprecedented opportunities for investigating (and ultimately improving) mathematical teaching and learning. This edition includes ten totally new chapters; all other chapters are thoroughly revised and updated.