Fifteen-year-old Cassie's World is turned upside-down with the death of her father. Unable to cope, Cassie's mom finds solace in pills. Her brother, Jeremy, becomes lost in Virtual Reality, and her sister, Courtney, spends all her time with her friends, leaving Cassie seemingly unattended and unloved.At the same time, Cassie's class begins an in-depth unit on butterflies, Cassie's mom unexpectedly takes a trip, leaving her family in the hands of their widowed neighbor. Cassie can e...

Meatball Man is the Head Detective in Town-City, along with his best friends and fellow detectives, Cheese Stick and Bread Stick. When Sally the Salt Shaker barges into his office searching for her missing husband, Petey the Pepper Shaker. Meatball Man and his trusty detectives must follow the clues to bring Petey home.

Playing with Rain is a story about how children learned to play outside on rainy days. Read to find out how. Jugando con la lluvia es una historia acerca de cómo los niños aprendieron a jugar en el exterior en los días de lluvia. Lectura para averiguar cómo.

Grandpa and His Memory is for children to understand and know symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Growing numbers of grandchildren are mostly at home with their grandparents while the parent is working. When a child sees symptoms of Alzheimer's, they can alert their parents and have their grandparent seek help immediately. Even if a child is going through it, they can understand what's going on with their grandparent. This story is inspired by my grandpa who also had Alzheimer's.

Welcome to The Magical World of Poetry - a joyful, family-friendly poetry collection and writing guide created to help young readers fall in love with poems and feel confident creating their own.The Magical World of Poetry is a joyful, kid-friendly poetry collection and "how-to" guide designed to help children read, understand, and write poems with confidence. Inside you'll find 70+ poems across kid-loved themes like animals, sports, food, weather...

Me-Shell loved to swim and often dreamed of being a mermaid. Although she believed that mermaids were real, she never thought that she might be one. When she was a baby, she was found on a beach on the small island of Montserrat. Her friends thought that she was human because she had legs. On her sixteenth birthday, Me-Shell went swimming, disappeared under the water, and didn’t come back. Her family and friends were afraid that she was gone forever, but they are in for a surprise.

An adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into—and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same.In the 1950s, when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler, she was taken from her Lakota family on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Her adoption papers identify her as "a child of the Indian race," and her adoptive mother never let her forget it. This memoir of her removal from and return to her extended Lakota family is also the story of ...

It started with a girl called Nurl, a small, cute, illusive girl with very large eyes who had a ponytail and freckles. She attended Christian school with a lot of friends who did things together such as shopping, hiking, camping, and bike rides. Nurl loved treats, the sea, lakes, holidays, and pets. She lived in Nain, a town near the mountains, yet close to the beach. But most of all, Jesus was Nurl’s best friend, and she put Jesus first.The fun part of Nurl’s life in Nain was all t...

In higher education, a pressing issue has emerged—how to authentically connect academic pursuits with real-world challenges. The last decade has witnessed an escalating call for heightened interaction between universities and the "real world". Demands have grown for higher education institutions to instill democratic citizenship and address students' moral development. In response to this rise in demand, there has been a notable shift toward emphasizing service learning within academia. As...

The field of curriculum inquiry has grown rapidly over the last four decades resulting in many new forms of curriculum inquiry to be used as tools to answer unique curriculum-related research questions. There are few texts available that include concise descriptions and elements of curriculum inquiry methodologies and directed at enabling researchers to wisely choose a form of curriculum inquiry most appropriate for their study. Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies prese...

In recent years, new discourses have emerged to inform the philosophy and pedagogy of early childhood. This collection brings together contributions from leading scholars in early childhood education, and each chapter engages with the critical task of reformulating early childhood education and the philosophy of the child with a specific focus on pedagogy.The contributors to Philosophy and Pedagogy of Early Childhood explore pedagogy through a philosophical lens, and discu...

This collection of children’s stories offers a mix of some best-loved tales as well as newer favorites. Included are: “Puss in Boots,” read by Robby Benson; “A Day at Santa’s Workshop,” read by Betty White; “Elfis, the Elf Who Saved Christmas,” read by Brian Austin Green; “Jack and the Beanstalk,” read by John Ritter; “Peter Pan,” read by Sandy Duncan; “Wild Swans,” read by Michael York; and “The Elves and the Shoemaker,” read by Michael York.