The contrast between light and dark is not always as it seems, as a young woman find out as she returns to her condo.

A young German shepherd farm dog encounters miniature warriors in a ravine behind the far. She soon becomes embroiled in their conflict with their enemies and fight for survival.

A soldier and a beautiful girl meet over a century apart, the soldier falls for her intensely not knowing she is not of his world.

Learn how to develop effective, efficient and evaluable programs by following the sample framework provided by Program Logic For The Twenty First Century: A Definitive Guide. The prevailing thought of most program evaluators is that project design should follow a logical framework including relevant indicators, which facilitate the evaluation process to enable program corrections and ensure success. Program Logic For The Twenty First Century: A Definitive Guide, therefore, serves as a comp...

In the near future, 'father' takes two boys to cut some fire wood. The highway they ride the wagon on is empty of cars, but the have to be careful because the world is still a very dangerous place.

This irresistible first novel tells the story of a quiet boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father -- in a strange world beneath New York City. When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to p...

In the third installment of The Underland Chronicles, Gregor must stop a plague from spreading through the Underland. Book Two left off with Gregor reading the Prophecy of Blood: a prophecy that calls for Gregor and Boots to return to the Underland to help ward off a plague. But this time, Gregor's mother refuses to let Gregor return to the Underland ...until the rat Ripred assures the family that Gregor and Boots are needed only for a short meeting, which the crawlers will attend only if ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Winner's Trilogy comes Marie Rutkoski's Tor.Com Original short story, "The Bridge of Snow."Here readers are introduced to Arin during more innocent times. In his childhood, before the war, there was still time to tell stories.This story is set in the same world of the author's stunning YA trilogy, which begins with book one, The Winner's Curse.At the Publisher's request, this title ...

Sarah doesn't have a normal life.Her mom died and her grandma died.Her dad doesn't come home often, so she's pretty much alone all the time.When her life couldn't get any worse, she finds a peculiar box in her mom's room.When she opens the box, she finds herself regretting that she did open it for the rest of her life.

At a quiet restaurant in an unnamed city a man and a woman sit across from each other. She is distraught. He is quickly drunk. Neither can stop thinking of what they've just seen - a deed so brutal, so terrible as to leave the woman in tears. Was it a moment of meaningless urban violence or was it something more?From the author of the dark short story Hide and Seek and the bestselling novella The Sickroom comes a tale about the things we do for love and the devili...

Rusted Spur, Texas, is full of secrets…until nowDesperate to find her missing twin, Jessie Layton arrives at the Rayford ranch, the last place her sister was seen. But after meeting Zach Rayford and his fragile mother, the reporter is only left with more questions. Like why is the extremely handsome rancher defending his mother's obvious lies whenever Jessie mentions her sister?Zach vowed to protect his mother and the four-year-old girl mysteriously abandoned to their care af...

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to reflect and plan action steps.