Historically, students from ethnically, linguistically, and economically diverse backgrounds have been overlooked and underidentified for gifted services. The Young Scholars Model is a comprehensive approach to addressing the issue of underrepresentation through engagement of a schoolwide effort and commitment. This book:Shares how the model leads to increased representation in identification and student success in advanced academic programs.Describes the four major...

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:HER COWBOY CUPIDThe Cowboys of Garrison, Texasby USA TODAY bestselling author Sasha SummersMore than friends?Maybe by Valentine’s Day!Shy Kitty Crawl...

Our bodies bear witness to wounds that can be invisible to the undiscerning eye. We may not see the blood oozing from the flesh. Still, those invisible wounds bleed pain, grief, anxiety, shame, anger, and other emotional fluids that require more than an antiseptic wipe to clean.In Scarry Stories Tales from the Healed Side of Brokenness, diverse writers share stories that bear the markings of various wounds. Whether it's from an abrasive relationship, a puncturing rape, a lacerative...

Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection!This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes:MONTANA WELCOME (A Blackwell Sisters novel)by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda CurtisLily Harrison’s a runaway bride who’s just discovered a family she’s never known about. Conner Hannah’s the cowboy h...

Absent . . . One from Another is the second installment in the Hattiesville Trilogy. The first part, The Wedding Party was published in 2012. Absent... opens three years after The Wedding Party ends with an unanswered question and reveals some disturbing news about the bride. The characters in Absent... deal with past loves, past hurts, interracial relationships, death, infidelity, illness, and sibling rivalry, and then the story comes to a suspenseful end. Some new characters are introduc...

Love letter - what phrase conjures up more intense feelings than that simple phrase? Most of us have received a love letter. Many of us have written a love letter. Some of those letters were tucked away in the bottom of a drawer. Others were ripped to shreds or destroyed in symbolic flames. Whatever their fate, the one characteristic all love letters share is their raw and intense honesty. When we are declaring our love to another, we are speaking straight from the heart. Such words are pr...