Bøger af Anne Biggs

Ireland holds the keys ... to love and to life. A late-night phone call, pulls her back to Dublin. A fall in the park; lost memories ... a mother's long buried fears. Catherine is going home.Things become complicated, as she re-discovers family dynamics overlooked as a teen. The middle of three sisters, she navigates between control and jealousy; an abusive husband, and the chance meeting of a past love. Dublin also holds secrets, long hidden, that can heal or destroy In her much anticipated sequel to The Swan Garden, Anne Biggs brings Alice's girls to the forefront. Rose, Catherine, and Francie, each with families of their own. Each with their own secrets.

Shared Gardens brings the Garden Trilogy full circle. Claire's journey in search of her birth-mother is chronicled in this intense fictionaliztion of the authors own story of abandonment and adoption.Alice's story of The Swan Garden and that of her daughters in Garden of Nails, are brought together from Finn's perspective, the child deprived of family by antiquated views of morality.It is heart-breaking. It is maddening.

Designed for California fourth grade teachers, Remembering the California Missions: A Curriculum Guide is a secondary supplement to the fourth grade social studies text that supports the Common Core Standards. This curriculum guide includes vocabulary and comprehension lessons, pre-post activities, review guides, and a number of additional activities which have been added to help diversify the learning process. This curriculum guide, which partners with the illustrated historical literature book Remembering the California Missions, by Pat Hunter and Janice Stevens, helps deepen students understanding and appreciation of the California missions and their history, while building skills in Common Core Standards including reading standards, writing standards, language standards, and social studies standards. Each chapter in Remembering the California Missions: A Curriculum Guide covers one of Californias 22 missions, presenting essential facts for students to know, vocabulary to master, and reading comprehension questions to gauge student progress. Additional resources offer instructional strategies for using mission-related material to boost students vocabulary and understanding of the meanings of new words, plus a wide variety of class activities using mission-related material for reading and writing assignments. All the material in the curriculum guide can be easily adjusted to meet students different skill levels.