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Hip, hip, hooray! It's Hairiette's Birthday!With her glowy hair done and the perfect dress picked out, Hairiette is ready for her special seventh birthday present. But on the big day, there is no bike in sight! All she gets is a stinking barrette and comb. It looks like it isn't going to be a hip hip hooray day after all…until a class unit on imagination changes everything!i + magi + nation = My Magic Nation!Using the power of her imagination, Hairiette turns her bo...

Hip, hip, hooray! It's Fri-yay!With her parents out of town, Hairiette gets to spend the whole weekend with Aunt Zelda and her cat Olive! They have their Fish Fry Friday, watch movies, and dance around the house. But this Friday is even more special: Hairiette learns how to use her Magic Nation to be an entrepreneur and help her family's hair salon business.Step one: attempt to make Nana Grace's famous hair potion.Step two: When Aunt Zelda says she can't use the pot...

Hip, hip, hooray! Today is election day!Hairiette's class is starting a book club, and she wants to win the vote to be the club's president. No one loves books more than Hairette! Plus, she knows reading can keep her brain healthy—Dr. Bob told her so at her last checkup.But her classmates think reading is boring! Hairiette decides to show them that they're wrong—reading makes your brain healthy AND it can take you to magical places without ever leaving your...

Hip‚ hip, hooray! It’s Hairiette’s Birthday!With her glowy hair done and the perfect dress picked out, Hairiette is ready for her special seventh birthday present. But on the big day, there is no bike in sight! All she gets is a stinking barrette and comb. It looks like it isn’t going to be a hip, hip, hooray day after all … until a class unit on imagination changes everything!I + Magic + Nation = My Magic Nation!Using the power of ...

**Literacy Learning Begins at Birth . . . **. . . and continues throughout our lives! Birth to age 5 is a critical period in building the foundation for later success in reading and writing. Educators play a vital role in nurturing young children’s early language and literacy knowledge and skills. However, the specific practices that support literacy development in early childhood are often different than those used with older children.   From some of the foremost early lit...

This month, experience the true art of flirtation that Harlequin KISS brings with four original stories in one, fun and sexy bundle! Titles include Her Hottest Summer Yet by Ally Blake, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Boss? by Nina Harrington, If Only by Tanya Wright and Only the Brave Try Ballet by Stefanie London.Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin KISS!

If only I hadn't had that last drink…It might be the toughest night of the year for Micah O'Shea, but one tequila too many and suddenly she's seeing the world—and her best friend firefighter Josh Taylor—in a new light! Surely a bit of Dutch courage is all she needs to see if he tastes as good as he looks?Why did no one tell her that the morning after is way more awkward when you're friends with the man you threw yourself at? And that it gets more...

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association, and Dragon Awards. Some have been writing for decades, others are at the beginning ...

Inaugural title in the Common Core State Standards for Literacy Series, edited by Susan B. Neuman and D. Ray Reutzel.Vocabulary forms a relentless divide between children who succeed and those who do not. This divide is often between poor children and their privileged counterparts. Without vocabulary knowledge, children cannot interpret text meaningfully or respond in ways that enable them to fully participate in classroom discussions.All About Wordsis a p...

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see the evil hiding within others regrets receiving it. Letters written by a wizard in th...

From outer space to inner space, from realms of magic to the here-and-now, from the distant past to the far future, the twenty-one stories and poems in this third collection of science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers will take you on incredible adventures in the company of unforgettable characters.A pampered, overweight cat from the present saves the world from alien invasion in Ancient Egypt. A musician whose sp...

From the farthest reaches of our galaxy to the cozy-yet-mysterious spaces under beds and behind sofa cushions, from mystical realms of fantasy to the here-and-now and the very near future, the nineteen authors in this fourth collection of science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers offer readers a kaleidoscope of fantastical adventures in the company of unforgettable characters.The editor of a tyrannical bestselling ...