About a mother of two young children who, by confronting a masked intruder in her home, slips into an existential rabbit hole where she grapples with the dualities of motherhood.
Emily Lonergan's best friend died last year. And Emily hasn't stopped grieving. Lizzie Porter was lively, loud, and fun---Emily's better half. Emily can't accept that she's gone. When Lizzie's parents and her sister come back to town to visit, Emily's heartened to see them. The Porters understand her pain. They miss Lizzie desperately, too. Desperately enough to do something crazy. Something unthinkable. Suddenly, Emily's life is hurtling toward a very dark place---and she's not sure she'll ever be able to return to what she once knew was real.
Introduces the think-aloud technique for improving intermediate, middle, and high school students' reading comprehension, and presents classroom scenarios, lessons, activities, and sample student work.
everything you need to make small-group reading instruction work in your classroom
Schulman, Mary Browning
2006
Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing reading instruction in the classroom, and contains thirty reproducible short texts along with assessments, reading strategies, and literacy instruction.
The middle child in a family of monsters, Bub feels ignored and overlooked, but when he wishes for invisibility, he discovers how much his family loves and misses him.
"Advises the reader on many aspects of being eight, from how to make rubber cement boogers to how to smell delightful or where to hunt for fairies and gnomes"--Provided by publisher.
52 mouth-watering recipes and the everyday science that makes them taste amazing
Heinecke, Liz Lee
Presents recipes for exploring food science in your own kitchen, featuring drinks, healthy snacks, main dishes, dips, dressings, sauces, desserts, and more.
When Eve Duncan's daughter Bonnie vanished at the age of seven Eve thought the nightmare would go on forever, but she came out of it a stronger woman and is now a forensic sculptor, but as she digs deeper into her daughters case it starts to look like Bonnie's disappearance was not as random as everyone thought and she realizes that Bonnie's father is a key player.
"Advises the reader on many aspects of being nine, from how to handle ghosts and monsters to how to help someone who is choking"--Provided by publisher.
