Use art to stimulate content-area language development and writing skills! From A to Z, the 81 animal patterns combine with 35 different activities to enhance your primary curriculum. You give each student a photocopy of the pattern, paper, scissors, and some materials to decorate the critter. You can use Snipper Critters with a content-area activity, in the language arts block, in writing workshop, or as art enrichment. The not-so-usual animals in Snipper Critters represent most major animal families. Activities use facts about the animals and information about their habitats. Students learn about the world's animals and have fun, too! Use Snipper Critters to: build content-area vocabulary; help meet grade-level curriculum standards for math, science, and social studies; teach critical, informational writing skills; create art extensions for math, science, and social studies projects; build skills in research, writing, and verbalization; and develop a child's imagination. Snipper Critter activities fit with any curriculum and adapt easily to specific grade and ability levels. And, to save you time, the resource includes a bibliography of children's literature that features the critters, an index of ways to group the critters, and lists of physical characteristics and habitats of the animals.

From the Author of, Icon of the Heart, Ron Schaeffer brings you The Zorcon Wars, Book 3, The Awakening. This is a fantasy Science Fiction about the mythical planet Zorcon, where the women have supernatural powers, but are subdued by a powerful group of elders who establish a government full of graft and corruption. After a thousand years of murder, and intimidation, mostly of the women, a common shoe cobbler, along with his beautiful and powerful wife Shella, rises in rebellion defeating the government and with the aid of a small rebel force, led by Thias Barthalomue, establishes himself and his wife as rulers of the planet. http://www.ronaldeschaeffer.com

The Invisible Rabbit runs the Invisible Carrot Bar where scared souls are healed. Collie is a little girl who got scared one day and ran away. Stumbing into the Invisible Carrot Bar she meets the Carrot Bar Bridgade, lsitens to their stories, discovers she is not scared anymore, and finds her way home.

Lovers of Scrabble[registered] and other language-based games will boost their chances to win with these huge, incredibly thorough word lists. Study it to increase your vocabulary, especially of words with hard-to-use J, Q, X, and Z; to understand the different letter combinations that frequently come up; and to get more hooks, those letters that can extend words already on the board for extra points. There's a cheat sheet that includes 2 and 3 letter words and their hooks; vowel dumps; and more. Load up on vowel-heavy words, including ones with multiple i and u. Find out which short words don't take s endings, or which finish in a surprise s. Get the best of the bingos, as well as alphagrams. The introduction comes from World Scrabble[registered] Champion Brian Cappelletto.

In this fun, fact-packed science book for kids, young readers will discover the bacteria, viruses, and other germs and microbes that keep our bodies and our world running, as well as how and when they can be harmful and the precautions we can take to prevent them from becoming so. Meet a glowing squid, traveling fungus spores, and much more. The Bacteria Book walks the line between "ew, gross!" and "oh, cool!," exploring why we need bacteria and introducing readers to its microbial mates—viruses, fungi, algae, archaea, and protozoa. The Bacteria Book is a fun and informative introduction to a STEM subject that brings kids up-close to the big world of tiny science. With remarkable photography, kooky character illustrations, and lots of fun facts, this book uses real-life examples of microbiology in action to show how tiny microbes affect us in big ways.

Tom Quest, hero of this exciting adventure series, finds action, suspense, and thrills... this time, in the mysterious and rugged American West! Fran Striker (born Francis Hamilton Striker) (August 19, 1903 – September 4, 1962) was an American writer for radio and comics, best known for creating The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon.