Join Jake on an unforgettable Christmas Eve adventure in The Christmas Cruise Ship Adventure! When Jake boards the magical S.S. Snowflake, a cruise ship that sails only once a year to the North Pole, he’s in for a holiday unlike any other.Along the way, he’ll stop at holiday islands—Candy Cane Cove, Reindeer Ridge, Gingerbread Glacier, and Tinsel Tree Tropics—each with a unique challenge to solve.With the help of friendly elves, talking snowmen, and even a surfing ...

When Solar City—the magical station that brings light and warmth to the whole solar system—is threatened by a team of wild space villains, only three heroes can save the day.Winslow, a genius boy scientist, his quick-witted robot Spark, and Nova, a brave alien, must race across planets and outsmart icy queens, fiery comets, shadow masters, and more!With teamwork, kindness, and clever inventions, they turn enemies into friends and save Solar City from darkness.

This is not a book by Barbara Kingsolver nor is it affiliated with her it is an independent publication by Andrew Wright that summaries her book in detailsAbout The Original BookSet in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voi...

Art, craft, and design activities offer children an excellent way to learn language while developing creative skills and an awareness of the world around them.

This popular series addresses the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee teachers.

Growing up in 18th Century England, Elizabeth's privileged life left her in need of nothing but wanting for more. As a plague sweeps across the country taking those closest to her, she realizes her world is not as safe as she once thought. No longer under the protection of her family, she discovers the Striga, a race of supernatural humans and their enforcers. Their hidden agenda forces Elizabeth to flee from the only home she's ever known in search of answers.Along with her protec...

One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively ‘pure’, uncontaminated by the subjectivity of local place, specific time and particular culture.Wright aims to address the lack of any substantial and sustained engagement between critical realism and theological critical realism with particular regard to: (a) the distinctive ontological claims of Christianity; (b...

Religious Education and Critical Realism: Knowledge, Reality and Religious Literacy seeks to bring the enterprise of religious education in schools, colleges and universities into conversation with the philosophy of Critical Realism. This book addresses the problem, not of the substance of our primal beliefs about the ultimate nature of reality and our place in the ultimate order-of-things, but of the process through which we might attend to questions of substance in more attentiv...

This book, the first to explore religious education and post-modernity in depth, sets out to provide a much needed examination of the problems and possibilities post-modernity raises for religious education.At once a general introduction to this topic and a distinctive contribution to the debate in its own right, Religion, Education and Post-modernity explores and illuminates the problems, and possibilities opened up for religious education by postmodern thought and culture...

Spirituality and Education introduces the basic contours of current debate in a form accessible to both classroom teachers across the curriculum range, and to school managers. It covers all key areas, including:* problems of defining spirituality* government legislation and supporting documentation* relevant empirical research* the social dimension of spirituality* secular and religious manifestations of spirituality in contemporary socie...

Exploits children's natural love of stories by using them to develop an awareness of the sound and feel of English, and an understanding of language points. Presents a wide variety of ideas for using stories to teach English to children. Includes a selection of ready-to-tell stories, although the activities can be used with any story. Provides photocopiable worksheets.

Do rising tides always lift all boats?Third Flatiron's all-original science fiction/fantasy/horror/humor short story anthology has the theme, "After the Gold Rush." Twenty-two authors explore themes related to complications of booms and bubbles, including effects of accelerated culture; ecological consequences caused by human over-expansion, such as climate disasters; and economics (for example, monopolies on resources and commodities). Includes a flash humor section, "Grins & Gurg...