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Susannah begins to learn about slavery in the South and the Abolitionist movement in the North, but the issues soon become more than idle gossip. Her father hires Jacob, an escaped slave, to work as a farmhand and live in the Allen's spare room. When tensions explode in her town, Susannah must face how to stand up to prejudice when it's a matter of life or death. The Spare Room is a story appropriate for all readers, ages 10 and up. The Spare Room by Jenny Land is a fast-paced, entertaining and thoughtful novel for young adults, the kind of book I loved to read as a child: not old-fashioned, but timeless, like Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird or the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House In The Big Woods series. The story is set in Vermont in 1843, almost twenty years before the onset of the American Civil War, during a time when abolitionists in New England were already calling for an end to slavery and escaped slaves from southern states were moving north toward Canada. Land has written a thoroughly engaging book, well grounded in the atmosphere of a time and a place when life was often very hard for families. The Spare Room brings this to the reader with carefully researched detail blended with the captivating energy of Susannah Allen s perceptive view of her world. This is a book that readers of any age will find hard to put down, and impossible to forget.The Spare Room reminds us that the freedom and equal opportunity we take for granted today were achieved only after a time of adversity and division, when many principled Vermonters took a stand. --Reeve Lindbergh, Author Land writes with the magical touch of Laura Ingalls Wilder. --Howard Frank Mosher, Author The Spare Room reminds us that the freedom and equal opportunity we take for granted today were achieved only after a time of adversity and division, when many principled Vermonters took a stand. --Jim Douglas, former Vermont Governor and historian

Your students are using social media every day at home. Now, for the first time, you can bring an important Internet tool, WordPress, into your classroom. WordPress for Student Writing Projects by Erik Bean and Emily Waszak is your resource for incorporating blogs for student writing into your ELA instruction. Whether you are an experienced blogger or have not tried blogging, WordPress for Student Writing Projects includes all the information you need to add student blogs into your English instruction. All the lessons in WordPress for Student Writing Projects have been teacher-tested in classrooms from grade 6 through high school. The lessons support writing informational text and include assessment rubrics tied to specific Common Core Standards for every grade. Examples from teachers who have adapted these lessons in their classrooms show how WordPress blogs can also be used for writing fiction, essays, and creating school newspapers. Inside WordPress for Student Writing Projects: - Hero Essay lesson - Thesis Writing and Research lesson - Birthday News Summary lesson - WordPress in Action - Operationalized Common Core Standards The lesson plans are simple to follow and are attractive because of the embedded connection to the Common Core writing standards. --Andrea Gumble, 9th and 11th grade English teacher and department chair, Chenango Forks Central School District, Ithaca, New York With today's use of technology in the classroom, these lesson plans will greatly benefit your students. --Claire Coffman, ELA 7th and 8th grade teacher, St. Peter s Catholic School, Clarkston, South Carolina The ease of implementation using various Common Core units makes these lesson plans so flexible. --Jacqueline Cherry, 9th - 12th grade English teacher, South Lyon Community Schools, South Lyon, Michigan

We all know we waste time at work, but most of us don't know how much. Author Harold C. Lloyd is convinced we can reclaim at least 5 hours each week by using the ideas he presents in his brand-new book, "It's About Time." The book focuses on techniques to easily improve your time management skills at work: - Start your day with a Disappearing Act to get your schedule in order. - ZAP! the distractions that take you away from the task at hand. - Create and follow a To-Do Today list to keep you organized. Plus, "It's About Time" has hundreds of tips on how to use everyday management tasks to free up more time at work. The book shows how you can improve delegating skills, run meetings more effectively, and even recruit and hire staff better to maximize time management and take control of your time at work. Read "It's About Time" and find your extra 5 hours each week! "I found my first five hours in the first four chapters. This book is a keeper." - Jennifer Kinner, President, Product Promotions "Read, highlight, and take notes -- this is a book to which you will return often throughout your career." - Dr. Kenneth Herbst, Asst. Professor of Marketing, Wake Forest University Schools of Business

Are You a Genuine Leader or a Pretender? Are you decisive or a procrastinator? Are you a positive influence with a ubiquitous physical presence, or are you a stealth bomber, seen only when some negative feedback needs to be dumped? Are you excited to develop your associates or are you threatened by their personal growth? In short, are you a Genuine Leader or only a Pretender? Am I The Leader I Need To Be?, a new book and DVD by Harold Lloyd, will help you find the Genuine Leader within you. Through discussion, examples, illustrations, exhortations, and exercises, this book will help improve your Leadership Quotient (LQ), a measurement crucial to your success. This companion DVD presents Harold Lloyd live at his seminar, Am I the Leader I Need to Be? . Harold s knowledge, passion, and enthusiasm shine through when you watch him at work with a live audience. The book and DVD are for everyone in the organization who manages people, not just the CEO. They will put everybody in your organization on the path to genuine leadership. Harold Lloyd s book will challenge and motivate leaders at every level of any business. His own words say it best. Reading this book will be an expedition of self-improvement. Enjoy the journey. --Ric Jurgens, Chairman of the Board, CEO, President, Hy-Vee, Inc. Am I the Leader I Need to Be? is an extremely valuable tool for anyone who takes the time to read and apply what you have written. It is easy to read, practical and informative. It is extremely well organized. It is thought provoking and emotionally touching. It pinpoints what is needed for someone to go about proactively changing things the right way. --David G. Zallie, Supermarket Owner, Shop-Rite Supermarkets. Sound ideas, excellent advice, and the ways and means to improve and grow as a person and leader are provided. A complete digest and an invaluable assessment tool to assist a person in truly becoming the leader he or she needs and wants to become. --J.H.Campbell, Jr. President/CEO, Associated Grocers, Inc.

The Crawfords have developed hundreds of brand-new Math-tivities that combine math instruction with arts and crafts, games, puzzles, and outdoor play to make math the most fun part of the day! All the Math-tivities are aligned with specific Common Core Standards for grades K to 2 so teachers can track their students' progress toward mastering each Standard. Math-tivities includes a wealth of printable activities for students including: Mathbooking a new combination of math journals + scrapbooking; Math Glyphs students answer math questions to create a personal work of art; Math and Tell combines storytelling with math word problems; Math Games and Puzzles brand-new math games to entertain students while they learn; Taking Math Outside use the great outdoors as your new location for math class; Holiday Math use special seasons of the year for showcasing math instruction Many of the Math-tivities provide opportunities for integrated and differentiated instruction to allow teachers to combine subject matter as well as pinpoint each student's individual needs. And the charming Math-tivities characters will delight young students as they learn math skills! Math-tivities is designed for teachers who want to enliven their approach to math, and it is perfect for homeschoolers with its wide variety of new printable activities. Math-tivities makes math crazy fun! But watch out! Your students will be begging you to do math and begging their parents to do math on the weekend! They will even beg to do math before anything else you might be learning! The book gives a multisensory approach to math and give teachers fun practice and learning options while also aligning with Common Core! So put away some boring book that practices math with no thought and use the Crawfords creative approach to math that will never have your students crying that they are bored. Math should be fun and that has been accomplished in this great book! My students love it! --Kimberley Arbouw, Teacher, Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 3, Roanoke, Virginias I adore the Math-tivities book! It is my new go to book. I love that I can use it on the computer or print a copy of an activity for my students. The activities in it are great for warm ups, review, R.T.I., and sub plans. I also keep a copy in case I get called for last minute meetings. My students love how the lessons incorporate art and math. --Michelle Divkey, Teacher, Kindergarten, California Brian and Yvonne Crawford have a dynamic way of approaching math. Their activities are versatile enough to challenge fast learners, while the readability of their word problems doesn't inhibit the students that lack a strong reading and vocabulary background. The lessons are rigorous, but still entertaining, which is a big plus in this era of digital gimmicks. Their activities meet CCSS standards while allowing me to differentiate to fit the needs and learning styles of the students in my classroom --Jennifer Ayers, Teacher, Grade 2, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Creating Characters using Writing Workshop by Christine DePetrillo is a complete program of instruction for teachers of grades 3 through 8 to help students learn how to create believable characters in their stories. The lessons in the book are designed to mesh with a Writing Workshop teaching model, although they can be used outside of that framework as well. Each teaching activity in the book is aligned with one or more specific Common Core Standards for Writing, Reading, and Language. Each of the four chapters addresses different aspects of character development, with five teaching lessons in each chapter. The book is designed to take students from their first concepts of potential characters to creating fully formed, fleshed-out characters. The book includes everything teachers will need when teaching character creation: printable graphic organizers that teachers can use with their students as they work through the lessons, along with checklists to assess the quality of the students work. DePetrillo suggests books for each grade level that include examples of strong characters, and she offers professional resources for teachers who want to find books and websites with more information. Christine DePetrillo is both an experienced teacher and a fiction writer, published under her pen name, Christy Major. The lessons in Creating Character using Writing Workshop have been tested in the classroom over many years and across a variety of grades. Units: - Observing Characters - Getting to Know Characters - Character Evolution - Character Voice Best of both worlds in an easy to use and immediately applicable format. Before I became a New York Times Bestselling romance author, I taught for 20 years in a variety of grades. I wish I'd had this resource then. Mrs. DePetrillo is an accomplished author herself and now has found a way to make the writing process more accessible to teachers and students. I've recommended this book to my friends who are still teaching and if you download the sample, I'm sure you'll see why. --Ruth Cardello, New York Times Bestselling Author Christine DePetrillo brings the talent and craft of a genuine author to this tool for teachers and students. The activities are aligned with Common Core State Standards and best practice in writing and they are authentic, clear, specific, and most important to a teacher, they are doable in the classroom. Every child and every teacher experiences success. --Kathryn Tancrelle, Principal, Hopkins Hill Elementary School Even the most skilled writing teachers will benefit from the innovative and easy to follow lesson plans found in Christine DePetrillo's text. Her knowledge and wit provide a quick, enjoyable read for the busy teacher, while her Common Core aligned lesson plans are adaptable to students of all ability levels. This book will help both teacher and student learn to become better writers of fiction. --Nicole Sisco, Special Educator K-5

The House of Comprehension is a complete guide for English Language Arts teachers to help teach students how to understand structure in litera-ture. The elements of literature character, plot/conflict, setting, theme, symbols, point of view, and tone are the building blocks of the house of comprehension. Each element contributes to the entire piece of literature, and students must learn what they all mean in order to fully comprehend the literature. Just like the Three Little Pigs, students need to know how to build strong "houses of comprehension" that expand their knowledge, enhance their perception of the structure of texts, and develop strong reading skills that will last a lifetime. No Big Bad Wolf can blow down a student s house of comprehension once a teacher uses the ideas laid out in this book! The House of Comprehension is a must-have text for teaching literature in grades 6-9. For new and experienced teachers, this student-tested manual will provide a solid foundation for teaching literature of all kinds. --Megan Trow Garcia, Fulbright New Century Scholar and founder, The Galapagos Project Casserly takes the typical classroom and transforms it into a high-energy learning environment. --Alex Hagerty, secondary English teacher Connie's genius is her ability to create lesson plans that engage not only a student's intellect but also the imagination. --Kathi Hamilton, secondary English teacher

Although teachers have been using the Reading Workshop approach successfully for years, until now there hasn't been a step-by-step guide for implementing the strategies in the upper elementary classroom. Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop offers an easy classroom-tested method for using Reading Workshop in your own classroom. You'll learn how to motivate readers by providing time for independent reading and reading conferences. As a result, your students will learn to love reading, and you'll improve reading test scores at the same time! In addition, this book includes a dozen Power Tools that allow you to differentiate your reading instruction for all students. The strategies have been thoroughly tested in grades 2 through 6 and will work well at those levels with little modification. Middle School and High School teachers may also be able to use the strategies, but they may need to modify them slightly for their students or their teaching situation. Highlights of Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide Step-by-step directions for the first 10 days of Reading Workshop How to upgrade your basic Reading Workshop to a Power Reading Workshop How to differentiate reading instruction using the Reading Power Tools A list of suggested books for reading mini lessons Hints for organizing reading instruction Tips for reading aloud to your students Information about how to conduct reading conferences Ready-to-print activity pages to make each step easy-to-implement Customizable online forms Special activities like Book Buzz and Magazine Power Hour How to help students set appropriate reading goals Once again, Laura Candler has created an easy-to-use guide that allows teachers to quickly start and properly implement a Power Reading Workshop. Her lessons provide students with activities that encourage creativity and foster success. Students develop a love for reading, while learning to choose readings that are varied. With the new Common Core State Standards, I am excited to implement this workshop again next year because it fits perfectly with these new standards. --Joelle Eden, 4th grade teacher, --Joelle Eden, 4th grade teacher I cannot tell you how much I have LOVED using the Power Reading Workshop program this year. I will confess that I got very nervous right before our state testing, but the results came in last week, and I am thrilled with the test score results! ALL of my students passed, even the ones that receive special services (such as Early Intervention, RTI, etc.). But what really excites me is how many student scores went up from the Meets category to the Exceeds category! Now you have a Forever Fan in me, Laura! --Jenny Owens, 4th grade teacher, GA I was able to begin using your materials and Reader's Workshop beginning 2nd semester last year. By the end of the 3rd quarter my students were hooked, and so was I. The students who were already readers were, of course, thrilled to have time to read books of their choice. The students who had been less enthusiastic readers turned into kids who asked for reading time, chose to read when they had a spare moment, and who groaned when Reader's Workshop time ended. Wow! What a difference! --Jewelia Oswald, KS

Animating Your Career is the exciting new book by filmmaker Steve Hickner, director of The Prince of Egypt and Bee Movie, who has been involved with the development of dozens of major animated motion pictures. Animating Your Career is your guide to navigating the journey of a career in the creative fields -- from getting your foot in the door to directing a project involving hundreds of artistic professionals. The book is filled with practical career advice from Steve and the many top animation creatives he has worked with over the years. Whether you are still in school and awaiting your first job, or are a seasoned professional, Animating Your Career will help guide you to success. Steve has tremendous experience with animation. For me, with zero experience, there couldn't be a better person. He really taught me how to do it. --Jerry Seinfeld An incredible asset to anyone starting out in the field today. --Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO, DreamWorks Animation Animating Your Career is a road map to making the most of your talents and a must read for anyone seeking to enter the workplace. --Max Howard, producer and animation executive

This comprehensive program by Dr. Shirley Disseler contains strategies and activities to teach your grade 3 5 students to master Common Core Mathematics Standards. Your students will develop a solid understanding of math concepts, procedural skill and fluency, and be able to apply math in their everyday lives. Inside Part 1 Operations & Algebraic Thinking Number & Operations in Base Ten Number & Operations Fractions Each chapter has doz¬ens of new activities that teachers can use to align their math instruction with the Common Core Standards for Mathematics. All the activities include the step-by-step procedure for teaching, along with game boards, activity cards, recording sheets, and assessment materials. The complete program (Parts 1 and 2) gives strategies and activities for teaching every Common Core Standard for Mathematics in grades 3 5. A series of relevant and engaging activities that will challenge students to think critically, problem solve, work collaboratively, and have fun while building, strengthening, and enhancing mathematical skills. --Tina Mashburn Executive Director, Middle Grades Education Provides teachers with mathematically sound, well-crafted instructional strategies that help children develop independent, effective mathematical critical thinking. --Christie Weatherly Principal A great resource, with easy-to-use and engaging activities that promote conceptual understanding of mathematics. --Sonja Parks Director of Elementary Education, Title I & AIG

This comprehensive program by Dr. Shirley Disseler contains strategies and activities to teach your grade 3 5 students to master Common Core Mathematics Standards. Your students will develop a solid understanding of math concepts, procedural skill and fluency, and be able to apply math in their everyday lives. Inside Part 2 Measurement & Data Geometry Mathematical Practices Across the Common Core Each chapter has doz¬ens of new activities that teachers can use to align their math instruction with the Common Core Standards for Mathematics. The last chapter helps synthesize students learning through puzzler-type activities that can also be used as enrichment. All the activities include the step-by-step procedure for teaching, along with game boards, activity cards, recording sheets, and assessment materials. The complete program (Parts 1 and 2) gives strategies and activities for teaching every Common Core Standard for Mathematics in grades 3 5. A series of relevant and engaging activities that will challenge students to think critically, problem solve, work collaboratively, and have fun while building, strengthening, and enhancing mathematical skills. --Tina Mashburn Executive Director, Middle Grades Education Provides teachers with mathematically sound, well-crafted instructional strategies that help children develop independent, effective mathematical critical thinking --Christie Weatherly Principal A great resource, with easy-to-use and engaging activities that promote conceptual understanding of mathematics. --Sonja Parks Director of Elementary Education, Title I & AIG

Laura Candler's Mastering Math Facts - Multiplication & Division: Aligned with the Common Core is a proven method for helping students achieve mastery of multiplication and division math facts. The program includes five components to help all your students become Math Facts Masters: - Alignment with the Common Core State Standards for Math Content and Practice - Lessons and activities to teach foundational multiplication and division concepts - Step-by-step instructions for the motivational system to ensure that every student in your class succeeds - Assessment techniques to keep students on track to achieve proficiency with the math facts - Math games and other strategies to make learning math facts fun Whether you teach third, fourth, or fifth grade, you will find Mastering Math Facts Multiplication & Division the best method to use for teaching the topic and reinforcing struggling students. Everything you need is included in the book reproducibles, patterns, activity sheets, games, and assessment materials. I started the Mastering Math Facts program just a week ago and my kids are already starting to learn the multiplication facts! They are actually excited every day to take the quiz. So easy to get started in the classroom. An awesome product! --Elaine Laws, Third Grade Teacher I have used Mastering Math Facts with both fourth and fifth grade. It doesn't matter how well they know the math facts when we start everyone learns them by December. We do the daily drill using white boards and a weekly fact test on Fridays that's random. A great resource that I use every year. --Tisa Fischer, Fifth Grade Teacher This was, by far, the easiest way to teach multiplication I've ever used. The students had nothing but positive comments, with most of them saying, Now I get it!; This was the first year that my students learned the multiplication facts to 12 by December! --Sharon Manka, Third Grade Teacher

In 1880, Dr. William Osler of McGill University in Montreal published an article in a medical journal entitled, "Heredity in Progressive Muscular Atrophy as Illustrated in the Farr Family of Vermont." In that article he reported on the case of a farmer from Sutton, Vermont named Erastus Farr, and told the story of Erastus's father, an uncle and an aunt, and four cousins, all of whom had died young of this disease of muscle wasting, now known as Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. In his well-researched book, Dan Swainbank tells the rest of the continuing story: of the family's losses over the next 135 years, of the advances in our understanding of ALS and the discovery of the family's defective gene in 1993, of the family's involvement in research and clinical trials, and the on-going search for a cure. It is also an account of a family's love and support, and the love and support of a community which keeps the hope alive that someday this sad story will have a happy ending. "This family has been of immense importance to studies of ALS. Through this family, and others like it, it was possible to discover the first ALS genes. In turn, those led to cell and animal models of the disease which have been critical in efforts to find treatments for ALS. It is possible that the first types of ALS to be treated will be those that have been so devastating to this wonderful family." Dr. Robert H. Brown. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Professor and Chair of Neurology. Discoverer of the first ALS-related gene. "It is because of the involvement in research of the Farr family and their descendants that we learned about SOD1 ALS and ways to treat it. Their love for each other and passion to help others fueled this research and has given hope to many who live with ALS. We are at an unprecedented time where several clinical trials to silence the genetic mutation in SOD1 are possible and happening. These include the use of antisense oligonucleotides and gene therapy approaches. It is a time of promise for SOD1 families and all people with ALS. Thank you Curtis, Clif, Mary and Dennis for inspiring all of us to fight against SOD1 ALS, until the cure is found." Dr. Merit Cudkowicz, Chief and Director of ALS Program, Neurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital "As a member of a family with a 150-plus year history of life and death with ALS, we understand just how insidious this disease can be. We do not want to be an orphan disease. We want to be adopted into the minds, hearts and financial support of caring individuals and organizations. This disease is too insidious to be allowed to continue to make "orphans" in young families who lose their mothers and fathers." Susan Lynaugh, Farr family member and activist All profits from the sale of this book will go toward the search for a cure for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital.

What if your speeches and PowerPoint presentations and web copy could be as entertaining as a blockbuster film? Or as gripping as well-crafted television drama? Or as meaningful as a hit stage play? Here's a start: stop looking at other businesses for ideas and start looking at show business. Connect with your audience. Tell better stories. Express ideas visually. Appeal to emotion. These are just some of the important lessons from acting that can help you communicate more persuasively and effectively. In this fun, practical guide, author Rob Biesenbach offers hundreds of useful insight and tips from both his corporate experience and study of acting and improv. Both business and acting have their share of drama, but Act Like You Mean Business captures their intersection perfectly. Whether writing the About Us section for a website or checking your fear during a crisis, this useful guide offers lots of practical advice and is like having your very own pocket communicator. --Pete Brace, Marketing/Communications Consultant and Former Communications Director, Gatorade --Pete Brace, Marketing/Communications Consultant and Former Communications Director, Gatorade Rob's characteristic savvy and wit come through loud and clear in this insightful and practical handbook for leaders. It's a great read and even greater resource! --Maril MacDonald, Founder and President, Gagen MacDonald I adore this book; it's chock full of very useful advice about how to communicate successfully for business people AND anyone! It should be required reading for every Fortune 500 CEO. --Tim Schellhardt, Senior Vice President, Edelman Public Relations and former Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal

The customer experience revolution has begun! Businesses that provide an extraordinary customer experience are more profitable and sustainable than their competition. They dominate industries and marginalize competing companies. In their innovative book, The Customer Experience Revolution: How Companies like Apple, Amazon, and Starbucks Have Changed Business Forever; authors Jeofrey Bean and Sean Van Tyne uncover valuable insights about leadership and decision-making. At large and small companies they call Experience Makers, the focus has surpassed products, services, and price toward the purpose-built customer experience and the user experience within it. Customer experience is an all-encompassing term that goes beyond traditional definitions of marketing, customer service, customer satisfaction, and product development. Delivering extraordinary customer experience is becoming more and more important, according to J.D. Power and Associates. We know from the data that people will pay for it, says Gary Tucker. Unique to customer experience books, Bean and Van Tyne capture the key elements of customer experience through interviews with business leaders. The book shows how Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz spearheaded a customer experience strategy using social media that built tremendous customer loyalty. An interview with executive Larry Tesler reveals the leadership qualities of Steve Jobs at Apple and Jeff Bezos at Amazon. It shows how Reed Hastings at Netflix brought down Blockbuster and continues to stay competitive. The book tells the story of Square (founded by Jack Dorsey of Twitter), as well as many other companies, including Intuit, LPL Financial, Skinit, EMN8, IDriveSafely, and more. These profiles of leaders in companies both large and small show the value of creating a complete customer experience ecosystem. Bean and Van Tyne found twelve essential leadership qualities common to the best companies in total customer experience management. They insist that these best practices can no longer be ignored for a company to remain successful. Customer expectations have risen and will continue to change. The Customer Experience Revolution shows why every business needs to make customer experience an integral part of its business strategy.The Customer Experience Revolution is a book that everyone who wants to succeed in business must read. --Todd Robinson, Founder and Former Chairman, LPL FinancialCompanies that delight their customers outperform their peers. This guidebook tells us why and how they do it in industries as diverse as retailing, smartphones, food service and driver education. I highly recommended it to anyone building a customer-focused business or refocusing an existing business on the experience of the customer. --Larry Tesler, Larry Tesler Consulting, former Vice President and Chief Scientist, Apple Computer