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! 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 ...

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 awkward when you star...

8 BRAND-NEW ROMANCE AUTHORS – Fantastic new talented writers discovered in the So You Think You Can Write? CompetitionIF ONLY… by Tanya WrightAfter one tequila too many Micah O’Shea is suddenly 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…?A DEAL BEFORE THE ALTAR by Rachael ThomasGeorgi...

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...

Cursed with the second sight, Elienor of Baume les Nonnes dared not reveal her prophetic dreams for fear of meeting her mother's fiery end - though in her dreams she spied the Norsemen who would storm Brouillard castle - and she she saw him, the fierce, golden-haired Viking who would claim her as his prize....Revenge brought Alarik Trygvason to the shores of the River Seine. Destiny gave him a dark-haired beauty with violet eyes. Beguiled by Elienor's strange dreams and her fiery s...

Fiercely independent, Elizabeth Bowcock - 'Doc Liz' - as she's known by all - vows to raise her orphaned niece as her own. Unfortunately, the child's grandfather has declared the unwed doctor to be an unfit guardian and refuses to deliver her to Liz's care until she finds herself a man...Enter dark-haired, devil-eyed Cutter McKenzie. Outcast for his Cheyenne blood, the handsome half breed volunteers to pose as Elizabeth's husband. But though his wicked sex appeal threatens to under...

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...

**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...

She came to wed his brother… and stole the Dragon’s heart.The novel that launched Avon’s Romantic Treasures line, winner of RT’s K.I.S.S. Award, and a Historical Romance of the Year nominee.To end a bitter medieval feud, Dominique Beauchamp agrees to a political marriage with the lord of Drakewich. Duty demands obedience, but from the moment she rides through the castle gates, she feels a dangerous pull she cannot ignore—not toward her betrothed, but toward his brother, the...

Instinct brought Annie Franklin to Folly Beach, South Carolina to say good-bye to her grandmother. As a parting gift to her beloved gram, she also decides it’s time to live a freer, more openhearted life. Thanks to one very intuitive dog and a perfect stranger, she discovers that ‘letting go’ has as much to do with embracing the present as it does with shedding the past.New York Times best-selling author Tanya Anne Crosby makes her contemporary fiction debut with a novella about li...