Author: Shari Lallanilla
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477180249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Join Billy as he sing RIBBIT, SLURP, CHIRP CHIRP with a frog and crickets sitting in a log one night.

Author: Remy Lai
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 125087680X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Planet Earth meets Narwhal and Jelly in this funny and suspenseful early reader graphic novel series featuring heroic animals surviving in the perilous wilderness! Inspired by true events, the book includes facts about climate change, koalas, and how kids can help protect the environment. "A heartening and pensive story, told through irresistibly charming art, Star the Elephant is an utter delight." —John Patrick Green, New York Times-bestselling creator of InvestiGators, on Star the Elephant Rainbow the Koala is ready to go off and live on his own—or so his mom says. But Rainbow is scared! The kookaburra bird cackles at him and he struggles to find a tree to call his home. As scorching heat takes hold and Rainbow runs out of water, he'll soon face his most dangerous test: surviving a bush fire.

Author: Meg Fleming
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534449353
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Illustrations and rhyming text show how wonder about little things in nature can lead to big discoveries.

Author: Brian McGrory
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307953084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Award-winning journalist Brian McGrory goes head to beak in a battle royale with another male for a top-spot in his home, vying for dominance with the family’s pet rooster. Brian McGrory's life changed drastically after the death of his beloved dog, Harry: he fell in love with Pam, Harry's veterinarian. Though Brian’s only responsibility used to be his adored Harry, Pam came with accessories that could not have been more exotic to the city-loving bachelor: a home in suburbia, two young daughters, two dogs, two cats, two rabbits, and a portly, snow white, red-crowned-and-wattled step-rooster named Buddy. While Buddy loves the women of the house, he takes Brian's presence as an affront, doing everything he can to drive out his rival. Initially resistant to elements of his new life and to the loud, aggressive rooster (who stares menacingly, pecks threateningly, and is constantly poised to attack), Brian eventually sees that Buddy shares the kind of extraordinary relationship with Pam and her two girls that he wants for himself. The rooster is what Brian needs to be – strong and content, devoted to what he has rather than what might be missing. As he learns how to live by living with animals, Buddy, Brian’s nemesis, becomes Buddy, Brian’s inspiration, in this inherently human story of love, acceptance, and change. In the tradition of bestsellers like Marley and Me, Dewey, and The Tender Bar comes a heartwarming and wise tale of finding love in life’s second chapter - and how it means all the more when you have to fight for it.

Author: Robert A. Harris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351968602
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Writing with Clarity and Style, 2nd Edition, will help you to improve your writing dramatically. The book shows you how to use dozens of classical rhetorical devices to bring power, clarity, and effectiveness to your writing. You will also learn about writing styles, authorial personas, and sentence syntax as tools to make your writing interesting and persuasive. If you want to improve the appeal and persuasion of your speeches, this is also the book for you. From strategic techniques for keeping your readers engaged as you change focus, down to the choice of just the right words and phrases for maximum impact, this book will help you develop a flexible, adaptable style for all the audiences you need to address. Each chapter now includes these sections: Style Check, discussing many elements of style, including some enhanced and revised sections Define Your Terms, asking students to use their own words and examples in their definitions. It's in the Cloud, directing students to the Web to locate and respond to various rhetorically focused items, including biographies and speeches. Salt and Pepper, spicing up the study of rhetoric by stretching students' thinking about how their writing can be improved, sometimes by attending to details such as punctuation, and sometimes by exploring the use of unusual techniques such as stylistic fragments. Review Questions, providing an end-of-chapter quiz to help cement the chapter ideas in long-term memory. Questions for Thought and Discussion, a set of questions designed for either in-class discussion or personal response. New to the Second Edition Additional examples of each device, including from world personalities and the captains of industry More and longer exercises, with a range of difficulty Advice from classical rhetoricians including Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Cicero, and Quintilian.

Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385375166
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Nobody teaches kids the alphabet like the author of The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and Hop on Pop! This board book edition features abridged text for the littlest reader. Letters come alive on the page, as Dr. Seuss fills the alphabet with his classic colorful characters—from Aunt Annie’s alligator to the Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, with a lion licking a lollipop and an ostrich oiling an orange owl. Starting with the most basic building blocks of language, Dr. Seuss makes reading FUN! BIG A, little a, what begins with A? Big Bright and Early Board Books are super sturdy, simplified board book editions of classic Bright and Early and Beginner Books, available in a bigger size for smaller hands!

Author: Elisa Boxer
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0593372468
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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The inspiring true story of how one small turtle and kids all over the country sparked an environmental movement. Based on the viral video that created awareness of the harm caused by plastic straws, this heart-wrenching story is a perfect tool for teaching children about sustainability. Slurp! A boy finishes his drink and tosses it in the trash, straw and all. He moves on without another thought.... In the waters off of Costa Rica, scientists spot an endangered sea turtle and pull him aboard to study him. But he has something stuck in his nose. A barnacle? A stick? No...it's a plastic straw! This heroic story of one turtle's rescue reminds us that even the smallest straw can hurt our ocean life--and that the smallest demand for change can grow into something big!

Author: Eileen M Stark
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594858675
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 645

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CLICK HERE to download sample native plants from Real Gardens Grow Natives For many people, the most tangible and beneficial impact they can have on the environment is right in their own yard. Aimed at beginning and veteran gardeners alike, Real Gardens Grow Natives is a stunningly photographed guide that helps readers plan, implement, and sustain a retreat at home that reflects the natural world. Gardening with native plants that naturally belong and thrive in the Pacific Northwest’s climate and soil not only nurtures biodiversity, but provides a quintessential Northwest character and beauty to yard and neighborhood! For gardeners and conservationists who lack the time to read through lengthy design books and plant lists or can’t afford a landscape designer, Real Gardens Grow Natives is accessible yet comprehensive and provides the inspiration and clear instruction needed to create and sustain beautiful, functional, and undemanding gardens. With expert knowledge from professional landscape designer Eileen M. Stark, Real Gardens Grow Natives includes: * Detailed profiles of 100 select native plants for the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascades, plus related species, helping make plant choice and placement. * Straightfoward methods to enhance or restore habitat and increase biodiversity * Landscape design guidance for various-sized yards, including sample plans * Ways to integrate natives, edibles, and nonnative ornamentals within your garden * Specific planting procedures and secrets to healthy soil * Techniques for propagating your own native plants * Advice for easy, maintenance using organic methods

Author: 최주연
Publisher: 사람in
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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이제 영어로 묘사할 수 있다! 묘사할 수 있는 사람은 소통의 결과도 좋다! A는 모든 음식에 ‘맛있어’를 외친다. B는 개별 음식마다 ‘칼칼하고 톡 쏘면서 감칠맛이 있고 중독적인 맛이야’처럼 말한다. 누구 말에 마음이 가서 음식을 먹어 보고 싶을까? 당연히 B다. 사실, 우리의 일상은 묘사에서 시작해 묘사로 끝난다고 해도 과언이 아니다. 이런 묘사(설명)는 소통이라는 언어적 측면을 넘어 공감과 신뢰라는 외연으로까지 확장된다. 그렇다면 영어 실력을 한 단계 끌어올리는 방법 가운데 하나가 평소에 쓰는 묘사 표현이 영어로 무엇인지 아는 게 아닐까? 『거의 모든 묘사 표현의 영어』는 우리 주변의 다양한 상황과 주제를 묘사하는 데 필요한 표현을 꾹꾹 담았다. 뭐라고 묘사하는지 몰라서 못 했던, 그래서 영어 앞에서 단답형으로 과묵해지던 학습자들을 넉살 좋은 수다쟁이로 만들 『거의 모든 묘사 표현의 영어』. 묘사의 중요성을 인식하는 그 순간부터 영어 실력이 올라간다.

Author: Sarah McCarry
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250027098
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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This is a story about love, but not the kind of love you think. You'll see... In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes between them. His music is like nothing I have ever heard. It is like the ocean surging, the wind that blows across the open water, the far call of gulls. Suddenly, each girl must decide what matters most: friendship, or love. What both girls don't know is that the stakes are even higher than either of them could have imagined. They're not the only ones who have noticed Jack's gift; his music has awakened an ancient evil—and a world both above and below which may not be mythical at all. We have paved over the ancient world but that does not mean we have erased it. The real and the mystical; the romantic and the heartbreaking all begin to swirl together in All Our Pretty Songs, Sarah McCarry's brilliant debut, carrying the two on journey that is both enthralling and terrifying. And it's up to the narrator to protect the people she loves—if she can.