Presents a selection of short fiction written by students in grades four through twelve followed by Bauer's comments on each, detailing what works well and making suggestions for improvements.
Author: Bauer, Marion Dane
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Recipes from Historic Texas will please your palate and nourish your mind. Enjoy an extraordinary bite of Texas history with visits to restaurants located in unusual historic settings - a gristmill, a church, a stagecoach, a gas station, and a...
The Islands of the Sun and the Moon in Bolivia's Lake Titicaca were two of the most sacred locations in the Inca empire. A pan-Andean belief held that they marked the origin place of the Sun and the Moon, and...
In this beautifully written story set in the north woods of Minnesota, four healthy wolf pups—Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker—are born one spring. And then one final, undersized pup emerges—Runt.Despite his size, Runt manage......
This attractive, practical guide explains how to transform backyard gardens into living ecosystems that are not only enjoyable retreats for humans, but also thriving sanctuaries for wildlife. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, th......
The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the...
A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth of Muhammad to the crowning...
A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world. Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The...
"This radical, provocative and inspiring book explores a tectonic shift at the very heart of business. A shift that's making the old bottom line of corporate profitability the servant of a new master: a new 'person-centric' bottom line of personal......
The ceque system of Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire, was perhaps the most complex indigenous ritual system in the pre-Columbian Americas. From a center known as the Coricancha (Golden Enclosure) or the Temple of the Sun, a...
Denise struggles through the challenges of a bad boss, a thankless job, a major winter ice storm, and squirrels invading her house. Three of her problems are solved by the unexpected intervention of the fourth. Upon reading this story, you...
Jennifer is disappointed on her birthday when her father gives her a little china horse and the promise of riding lessons instead of the real horse she's been expecting.
Author: Bauer, Marion Dane
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Giuseppe Verdi dominated Italian opera for 50 years, and his operas are performed throughout the world today. Verdi for Kids offers young readers an accessible, behind-the-scenes peek into the exciting world of opera and traces Verdi’s path ......
Help students make concrete, visual connections between words and their meanings.
Author: Stamper, Judith Bauer
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Vocabulary-Building Graphic Organizers & Mini-Lessons
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Mysterious and evocative, tantalising and erotic, this unique novel explores the qualities of love and obsession.Marienbad, the central European spa resort, is immortalised in the romantic imagination for its legendary doomed love affairs - Goethe......