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Shows parents and teachers how to use popular children's books to teach reading, writing, math, and conceptual skills, featuring summaries of twenty-eight books, each with instructions for several related games.

A companion to reading fifty works of classic literature for pleasure, providing commentary on what to look for in each book, and including notes on the best lines, what to skip, sexy parts, jokes in the text, and other interesting facts.

Provides information about the lives and works of twenty-four creative artists of interest to middle and high school students, including novelists, playwrights, poets, painters, performers, photographers, and musicians.

A literary guide to 500 books from around the world that are considered classics with notes on the merits of each.

Concise discussions of the lives and works of writers of each era are complemented by annotated bibliographies and lists of key references.

Contains 1,300 titles published between 1996 and 1998 to provide books for all young adult reading levels and interests.