A young girl crosses Florida by covered wagon in 1892. She is separated from her parents in a yellow fever epidemic and has to survive on her own.

"Good writing is more than we say; it is how we say it. This book shows how to master fifty key target skills that will improve their writing and raise heir assessment scores."--Editor.

Why is a giraffe's neck so tall? Why do zebras have stripes? Did all of these things happen by accident? When John and Sarah visit the zoo, they ask these questions and many more. Their parents and the zookeepers keep using the word design, but what does that mean? With its relevant message and exciting presentation, this is the perfect book to help introduce children to intelligent design. Come find out in Amazing Animals by Design by Debra Haagen!

Twelve-year-old cousins Addie and Tanner spend an adventure-filled summer at Gram and Great-Uncle Henry's cottage on the banks of Florida's alligator-infested Oonawassee River.

Want to teach to the K-2 writing standards, get ideas galore, and have fun with your primary writing workshop, too? Of course. You want it all. And now you can have it! Primary Pizzazz Writing really helps you do it all!: Create a successful craft-centered writing workshop classroom; Directly address all of the nationally recognized primary writing standards with 30 Skill Units for every teaching setting--large and small groups, independent writing centers, and at-home writing; Engage the littlest writers and appeal to every learning style with make-and-takes, songs, poems, readers' theatre, games, and recipes; Add an interactive, performance dimension to writing workshop with a high-energy audio CD with 13 songs and 5 readers' theatre plays created and performed by Melissa Forney; and Link writing and reading with targeted literature selections and vocabulary for each skill unit. Melissa Forney also is the author of Dynamite Writing Ideas, Razzle Dazzle Writing, The Writing Menu, and Oonawassee Summer.

Junior high aged students will argue (and sometimes quarrel), but they won't argue well without good training. Young teens are also targeted by advertisers with a vengeance. From billboards to commercials to a walk down the mall, fallacious arguments are everywhere you look. The Art of Argument was designed to teach the argumentative adolescent how to reason with clarity, relevance and purpose at a time when he has a penchant for the why and how. It is designed to equip and sharpen young minds as they live, play, and grow in this highly commercial culture. This course teaches students to recognize and identify twenty-eight informal fallacies, and the eye-catching text includes over sixty slick and clever, ?phony advertisements? for items from blue jeans to pick-up trucks, which apply the fallacies to a myriad of real life situations.

When a young pioneer girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done.