Chronicles the author's first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders.

Presents the history and culture of the Iroquois, from their earliest years on the North American continent to the present day.

Oh boy! Jump into phonics with Mickey, Minnie, and all their friends! This introduction to phonics and sight words is perfect for beginning readers who know and love Mickey & Friends! Beloved characters, familiar stories, and simple text will motivate and inspire early learners to practice sounding out words. Reading these stories again and again will boost phonics skills and help children learn to recognize simple sight words.

Counts things associated with a harvest feast in colonial Plymouth Colony, including pilgrims, Wampanoags, nuts, squash, and, of course, turkeys.

Children design a maze, then program a sequence of movements into the mouse which, when it runs, will result in it getting to the cheese with the goal of doing it in the fewest possible steps. Helps young children develop skills in problem solving, self-correcting errors, critical and analytical thinking, if-then logic, and distance and spatial concepts. Introduces basic coding and programming concepts in a fun way. Kit includes 16 maze grid pieces,...

Visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe, in a series of free-verse poems, the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens.

Consonant blends, endings, and a few sight words advance reading skills and create more complex stories. Summary: Stories and pictures to make learning alphabet sounds enjoyable.