**"Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear MartinThe Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.**Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is...

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller about a wrongly accused teen desperate to recclaim both his innocence and his first love.Life can change in an instant.When you’re wrongfully accused of a crime.When a virus shuts everything down.When the girl you love moves on.Andre Jackson is determined to reclaim his identity. But returning from juvie doesn’t feel like coming ...

What if abundance didn't require struggle? The Laws of Effortless Abundance is a powerful, eye-opening guide that challenges everything you've been taught about success, money, and manifestation. Instead of pushing harder, chasing more, or burning yourself out, this book reveals a simpler truth: abundance flows naturally when you align your thoughts, beliefs, and energy with it.In this concise yet impactful read, you'll discover the hidden laws that govern prosperity—laws ...

**A collection of 16 remarkable short stories for aspiring teen activists centered on the climate crisis, highlighting how small actions can make Earth sustainable against climate change.Young adult powerhouse authors such as Erin Entrada Kelly and Jeff Zentner come together in this anthology of speculative, dystopian, and contemporary realistic fiction.**This inspiring collection of sixteen short stories is packed with fascinating characters and settings that illuminate cu...

In these times of economic uncertainty, dressing to impress has never been more important, so here's a guide that will show you how to dress to find a job, keep a job, and get a better job.Drawing on interviews from top professionals and their own vast experience via their book line, AOL column, and InStyle monthly advice section, veteran style mavens Jeff Stone and Kim Johnson Gross put a sexy spin on the age-old question of how to dress for success....

**In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught between two worlds, a teen boy puts his family at risk as he uncovers racist secrets about his suburb. A new social justice thriller from the acclaimed author of This Is My America!WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE • A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR**Calvin knows how to pa...

In What to Wear for the Rest of Your Life, Gross helps us reconsider our closet identity, and discover who we want to be.Every woman's closet—no matter the size—is a room of her own. In that space hang side by side the special occasions and the everyday, the triumphs and the disasters, the memories we want to keep—and those we should jettison.She shares her personal journey and the intimate, poignant, and often humorous stories of the dozens of wom...

This work investigates and documents the different technical, musical and organizational steps by which the steelband movement was born and grew to maturity.

Shocking, appalling, or disgusting! Naughty, racy, or raunchy! Funny, Filthy or Smutty! Any way you slice it, this is an extensive and in-depth collection of dirty little words in modern American English, accompanied by compendious explanations, and jam-packed with lively, humorous, and illustrative examples of common usages. Copyrighted unique tabular format in its presentation, this is an extremely valuable quick reference for readers, writers, and the general public. You will probably g...

Assessing Students with Poetry Writing Across Content Areas reimagines formative assessment by advocating for a dynamic, poetic approach that delves into students’ meaning-making processes. It is a guide for teachers seeking innovative approaches to formative assessment, promoting a holistic, creative, reflective, and collaborative learning environment. It challenges the limitations of traditional worksheets and quizzes, urging educators to move beyond seeking restrictive answers ...

Kim Johnson, or 'Sir', has spent his life striving to achieve outstanding education specifically for children with special educational needs, and to bring fulfilment and confidence to each and every one of his students' lives. A Journey to and Beyond the Blackboard follows the highs and lows of a life devoted to helping others, at times at a detriment to his own personal life. It examines the relationships with his colleagues, associates and students. His authority, knowledge and experienc...

A timely symposium entitled Body-Fluid Homeostasis: Transduction and Integration was held at Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2011. This meeting was convened as an official satellite of a joint gathering of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN) and the American Autonomic Society (AAS) held in Buzios, Rio de Janeiro. Broad inte