this exact book and any and all sellers with a higher greed quotient than intelligence quotient trying to sell any other books or any other versions or dates of this book should be reported posthaste to Amazon Community Rules Violations. Thank you. :)  (less)

kit, which includes: 100 stamps to get you started, stamp tongs, stamp hinges, and a magnifying glass. The book is approved by the California Department of Education for classroom use, and is already being used in elementary classes throughout the country. To aid in classroom use, the book comes with a free instructors guide. Lost Stamps received the Parents' Choice honors award in 1995.  (less)

She directs the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project and works regularly with teachers, both by teaching model lessons in classrooms and by leading staff development programs. Recently Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in s recognition of her publications and other accomplishments in the field of reading. She has also been awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California State University, Fresno./PPPreviously, Dr. Tompkins taught at Miami University in Ohio and at the University of Oklahoma in Norman where she received the prestigious Regents' Award for Superior Teaching. She was also an elementary teacher in Virginia for eight years./PPDr. Tompkins is the author of three books published by Merrill/Prentice Hall:ITeaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product,/I3rd (2000),I50 Literacy Strategies/I(1998), andILanguage Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies,/I5th ed. (2002). She has written numerous articles related to reading and language arts that have appeared inIThe Reading Teacher, Language Arts,/Iand other professional journals./PPBILiteracy for the 21st Century: Teaching Reading and Writing in Pre-Kindergarten Through Grade 4/B/Iprovides a solid foundation in the content of literacy instruction—phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—liberally spiced with Gail Tompkins's trademark minilessons and illustrated with children's writing samples. Included are a wealth of age-appropriate assessment tools, authentic classroom activities, and illustrative examples of how effective teachers engage children in preschool through primary gr?îzáG®ÿ¾Û€  (less)

junior high school classrooms). From 1978 to 1992 he was Executive Director of the Society, as well as Editor of Mercury Magazine and the Universe in the Classroom Newsletter. He has taught astronomy and physics at San Francisco State University, Canada College, and the University of California Extension Division. He is author of The Universe in the Classroom, co-author of Effective Astronomy Teaching and Student Reasoning Ability, and scientific editor of The Planets and The Universe, two collections of science and science fiction. For five years he was the lead author of a nationally syndicated newspaper column on astronomy, and he appears regularly on radio and television explaining astronomical developments (most recently as astronomy correspondent for Weekend All Things Considered.) In addition, he has organized three national symposia on teaching introductory astronomy at the college level, and over 20 national workshops on improving the way astronomy is taught in earlier grades. He has received the Annenberg Foundation Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the Klumpke-Roberts Prize of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his contributions to the public understanding of astronomy. Asteroid 4859 was named Asteroid Fraknoi in 1992 in recognition of his work in astronomy education.  (less)

they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be eighteen and on your own, without the family support and personal connections that most young people rely on? For many youth raised in foster care, it means largely unhappy endings, including sudden homelessness, unemployment, dead-end jobs, loneliness, and despair.IOn Their Own/Itells the compelling stories of ten young people whose lives are full of promise, but who face economic and social barriers stemming from the disruptions of foster care. This book calls for action to provide youth in foster care the same opportunities on the road to adulthood that most of our youth take for granted-access to higher education, vocational training, medical care, housing, and relationships within their communities.IOn Their Own/Iis meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the futures of our young people./DivDIVBMartha Shirk/Bspent twenty-three years as a reporter for theISt. Louis Post-Dispatch/I, where she wrote extensively about children's issues. She lives in Palo Alto, California.BMartha Shirk/Bspent twenty-three years as a reporter for theISt. Louis Post-Dispatch/I, where she wrote extensively about children's issues. She lives in Palo Alto, California.BGary Stangler/Bis executive director of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative and served as director of the Missouri Department of Social Services from 1989 to 2000. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.BMartha Shirk/Bof Palo Alto, California, is an award-winning journalist, formerly with theISt. Louis Post-Di@/  (less)

is an attractive, ambitious lawyer and investigator for the Office of Special Investigations, the Justice Department’s “Nazi Hunters.” Her quarry, known only by the name “Adalwolf,” was the brilliant young protégé of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Butcher of Auschwitz. Presumed dead for almost fifty years, Adalwolf has suddenly reappeared in the United States to take the lives of three people in a chilling, unusual way. Drawing on research started in the Nazi labs, Adalwolf is about to unleash a terrifying virus using Melissa’s soon-to-be born baby as a trigger. The tension builds unbearably as Melissa’s race to save her baby and stop Adalwolf forces her to confront the boundaries of good and evil.br/divDIVbStan Pottinger/bis a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He practiced law in California and served as director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and as assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C. He is theiNew York Times/ibestselling author ofiThe Fourth Procedure/i. Mr. Pottinger lives in the New York City area.br/div  (less)