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A study guide for students preparing to take the Advanced Placement English language and composition exam that includes subject reviews, guidance on the multiple-choice questions and essays, sample scored argumentative and expository essays by students, a vocabulary guide, and 7 full-length practice tests with explanations.

A preparation guide for the SAT that provides subject reviews, full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations, test-taking strategies, and other resources.

Provides tips and strategies to prepare for the Advanced Placement Physics 1 exam, including 2 full practice tests.

A study guide for the AP European history exam that offers test-taking strategies, subject reviews, 6 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations, and practice questions.

A study guide for the AP U.S. history exam that offers test-taking strategies, discussion on document-based and free-response essays, topic reviews, and full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations.

"Richard Bowmaster--a sixty-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz--a sixty-two-year-old lecturer from Chile--for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia."--Provided by publisher.

"Tracking an underground language from one family's obsession to the outcasts who spoke it in order to survive. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know)-vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves. This hybrid language was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being in a pickle." And beginning with Martin Luther, German Protestants who disliked its speakers wanted to stamp it out. The Nazis hated it most of all. As a boy, Martin Puchner learned this secret language through his father and uncle. Only as an adult did he discover, through a poisonous 1930s tract on Jewish names, that his own grandfather, an historian and archivist, had been a committed Nazi who hated everything his sons and grandsons loved about "the language of thieves." Interweaving family memoir with scholarship and an adventurous foray into the politics of language, Puchner crafts an entirely original journey narrative"--Provided by publisher.

College freshman Andie is used to fixing other people's problems, but when her seemingly perfect plan for her future starts to crumble, Andie struggles to fix them and learns that the best-laid plans are not necessarily the right ones.

Provides strategies and activities for learning, preparing to use, and practicing the sixty-three essential techniques of teaching like a champion.

While on a cross-country RV trip with her family, aspiring video game animator Norah reunites with an old friend, prepares for her college interview, and encounters unexpected romance and revelations.