Product Description: Boost your STEAM program with a wide variety of nonfiction titles for students in grades PK-8. The book is a valuable resource for extending and supporting a STEAM program by providing appropriate resource materials for students to use as references for their learning and problem solving in a PK-8 STEAM program...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Understanding Diversity Through Novels and Picture Books goes beyond the usual multicultural lists and looks at the wide expanse of the diversity of cultures and lifestyles impacting children's lives in America today and identifies good books to have in library collections for them to read...read more

Recommends six hundred books that encourage character traits such as responsibility, perseverance, and cooperation, and contains categorized entries that give a synopsis of each book.

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Discusses how teachers can motivate teenagers to read, covering such topics as creating a conducive reading environment at school and the use of interactive activities to interest students. (view table of contents)

Presents suggested topics, sample book club sessions, and an annotated book list organized by such subjects as gender equity and sports fiction to help educators launch a book club for children between kindergarten and eighth grade.

Made doubly marginal by their gender and by their religion, American nuns have rarely been granted serious scholarly attention. Instead, their lives and achievements have been obscured by myths or distorted by stereotypes. Placing nuns into the mainstream of American religious and women's history for the first time, Spirited Lives reveals their critical impact on the development of Catholic culture and, ultimately, the building of American society.Focusing on the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, one of the largest and most diverse American sisterhoods, Carol Coburn and Martha Smith explore how nuns directly influenced the lives of millions of Americans, both Catholic and non-Catholic, through their work in schools, hospitals, orphanages, and other social service institutions. Far from functioning as passive handmaidens for Catholic clergy and parishes, nuns created, financed, and administered these institutions, struggling with, and at times resisting, male secular and clerical authority. A rich and multifaceted narrative, Spirited Lives illuminates the intersection of gender, religion, and power in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America.

Product Description: Featuring five new chapters and a new Introduction, this new edition takes readers to gardens everywhere, including the grounds of Blithewold, the turn-of-the-century Rhode Island seaside mansion, with chief horticulturist Julie Morris. 24 illustrations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Establishing a book club is a great way to involve parents in promoting literacy to young readers. This book shows you how to start a book club in your school or community, and it provides bibliographies of literature resources for children...read more

A collection of jokes and riddles includes What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jaguar? and What did the mayonnaise say to the refrigerator?