how a girl of spirit gambles all to expand her vocabulary, confront a bouncing boy terror, and try to save Califa from a shaky doom (despite being confined to her room)
Wilce, Ysabeau S
2010
Fourteen-year-old Flora Fyrdraaca fights a giant sea creature, rescues her best friend from a mass murderer, and more, all while lamenting her father's newly strict enforcement of household rules now that he is no longer drinking.
Provides a historical summary of the rise of English as a global language, analyzes the spread and status of English as a first and second language internationally, and assesses the future use of English throughout the world.
Beatrix (known as "B") is convinced that a witch who is part of a circus isn't really a witch. But when B's best friend George ends up hexed, B needs to find a way to make all the bad things stop happening.
Now that Beatrix (known to her friends as B) is eleven, she should be able to cast spells, just like everyone else in her magical family, but no matter how hard she tries, it doesn't work.
multilevel, hands-on phonics and spelling activities
Cunningham, Patricia Marr
1997
Contains 140 phonics and spelling lessons in which students in grades one through three use preselected letters to make fifteen to twenty progressively longer words, and then sort them into patterns. Includes warm-ups and guidelines for creating additional lessons.
