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A comprehensive resource book that provides over 2,000 ideas and activities to help toddlers and twos strengthen their cognitive, physical, and social development through stories, music, and art.

Explains the meaning of learning disabilities; describes the characteristics of individuals with learning disabilities; reviews research on the topic; and offers lessons on the informal assessment and remediation of academic learning disabilities.

It's no secret that the art of effective communication is on the decline. Between the rise of technology and the increasingly erosive political landscape, Americans feel less connected and more divided than ever.

In an incredibly timely and insightful book, NPR veteran Celeste Headlee outlines strategies to become a better conversationalist and improve communication skills:

Be there or go elsewhere. Human beings are

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A group of cats provide a humorous introduction to nouns.

The first in a line of Animal Rescues chapter books, Dog Finds Lost Dolphins is a tale you'll not soon forget. In this charming and awe-inspiring story you'll meet Cloud, the black lab with a nose for rescue. She's the only dog certified to sniff out stranded dolphins. Cloud can sniff out a dolphin over a mile off the coast of the Florida Keys. She has even become friends with them, waiting on the dock for them to pop up and give her a...

My Mexican Heritage is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.2.4 and Literacy.L.2.4a. Full-page color photographs and narrative nonfiction text teaches readers about Mexican culture, traditions, holidays, and language. This book includes a graphic organizer.

From master of nonfiction Steve Jenkins comes the By the Numbers series—accessible readers packed with fascinating infographics and full-color cut-paper art. Insects focuses on the creepy-crawly world of bugs.
Through infographics and illustrations readers will learn about the sometimes gross and absolutely always fascinating world of insects. With astounding numbers, facts, and figures,...

No hay nada más fascinante que los dinosaurios. En este libro para niños de Nivel 1 en español, ellos aprenderán todo sobre estos gigantes aterradores que una vez habitaron la Tierra – ¡quizás hasta en el jardín de su casa! Quedarán asombrados con información nueva e ilustraciones increíbles de National Geographic, una fuente confiable en contenido para niños.

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive's quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What's happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world,"...

Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.