Meet the Mendez family: Vera, Ricardo, David, and Carmen. The kids need new jackets, so they go shopping. At the store, Carmen meets a good friend. The Mendez family enjoys lunch at Kate’s Diner. Then, Ricardo starts to think about a new job as a food truck server. Will he take the new job? Meet the Yousef family: Dina, Abdul, Zara, Hassan, and Fariba. Fariba is happy to meet her friend Carmen at the store. On the way home, Dina needs to get some medicine at the pharmacy for Hassan. Hassan is sick, and he has a big soccer game in two days. Will he get better in time for the game? The families meet at the soccer park for the big game. David and Hassan play on the same team. Will they win? In Town helps English language learners practice reading in several ways. The stories help reading fluency. Sentences include useful vocabulary and many common words in English. Some stories have conversations that model spoken English. In Town features short and long vowel sounds, and common sight words.

A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.

This enhanced eBook features read-along narration. Winner: CLC Seal of Approval 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards, Silver, Preschool/Early Reader Fantasy Finalist: 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards 2017 PNBA Long-List When Ethan looks under the bed for his monster, he finds this note instead: "So long, kid. Gotta go. Someone needs me more than you do. –Gabe" How will Ethan ever get to sleep without his monster's familiar, comforting snorts? And who could need Gabe more than Ethan does? Gabe must have gone to Ethan's little sister's room! She has been climbing out of bed every night to play, and obviously needs a monster to help her get to sleep – but not HIS monster! Ethan tries to help his sister find her own monster, but none are the perfect blend of cute and creepy. Just when it seems that Ethan will lose his monster forever, an uninvited, tutu-toting little monster full of frightening fun appears. Following in the spooky-silly tradition of I Need My Monster, here's another irresistible monster-under-the-bed story with the perfect balance of giggles and shivers.

Runner-up for the Reading the West Book Awards

Not a Simple Story presents the modern Hebrew writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon in a new light--as an artist cum thinker whose novels and short stories manifest a deep understanding of the social and political crisis at the heart of modern Jewish life. Based on a close reading of Agnon's seminal novel A Simple Story, the book argues that Agnon was essentially a Jewish nationalist and secular modernist whose critical portrait of modern Jewish life seeks not to demean Jews but to hold them to a higher standard. By demonstrating all that Jewish society lacks, Agnon implicitly shows what it needs for it to thrive--a return to such lost notions as Jewish self-respect, heroism, and romantic love. Sharon Green's scholarly critique of this modern Hebrew classic offers students of Jewish studies a unique opportunity to penetrate the literary enigma Agnon has represented for almost a century.

May all glory, honor, and praise be unto God, the Father, to Jesus, His beloved Son, and to Precious Holy Spirit A message to loving parents: Following a prayerful and deep desire to serve my Lord in any way He might lead me, The Bible, in Story, from the Beginning came into existence. I have no children, nor have I ever lived or worked with them, yet our Lord chose me to write the Bible in story form for His children. I prayed for His guidance, for I had never written anything in my life. Dear Mother Teresa was quoted as saying in a documentary, The Holy Spirit directed me all the way. I just pushed the pencil. I can honestly say this publication was also written by the most famous author of all times, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Even the title was given to me by the Holy Spirit. With just a glance through this book, you will find the stories are written in chronological order, with a great deal of direct dialogue and biblical teachings. They are easy for children to understand and are written in a very personal way. I pray you and your loved ones will be blessed and enjoy The Bible, in Story, from the Beginning, which our Lord has provided for you.

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A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. In scenes charged with understated erotic tension it tells the stories of the flirtatious Miss Milner who falls in love with her guardian, a Roman Catholic priest and aristocrat, and of their daughter Matilda who, banished from her father's sight, craves his love. In her use of dramatic methods—expressive gestures, delayed revelations and economical dialogues—to present these two versions of the same power-struggle between an older father-lover figure and a young girl, Inchbald achieves a psychological intensity and subtlety of characterization rarely found in other late eighteenth-century novelists.

Writing activities for elementary to intermediate learners.