Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /s/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will meet Sally the Seal and learn what makes her sad. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title Smelly Skunks: Practicing the S Sound. The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: * Word List with carefully selected grade-appropriate words featuring the /s/ sound found in the text * Teacher Talk that assists instructors in introducing the /s/ sound * Group Activity that guides students to identify the /s/ sound, decode the words that contain it, and use the words * Extended Activity that provides students with additional opportunities to think about, list, and use words containing the /s/ sound

Sometimes, just sometimes, a human being and a wild animal make a special connection that changes both of their lives. So it was with Rockport, Maine's Harry Goodridge and the harbor seal pup he named Andre. The two became inseparable, though the seal was free to come and go as he pleased. (His floating enclosure in the harbor simply minimized his presence in skiffs owned by yachtsmen, who complained about his sunbathing in their dinghies.)

While entranced by the seals that swim off the shore of the Maine island she visits during holidays, sixth grader Molly befriends an interesting girl her age who seems different from other humans.

The discovery of an abandoned baby seal on the desolate Norfolk coastline of England in the 1930's brings Rowena, an orphaned girl, together with Miriam, her reclusive aunt, when the seal's playfulness and pup antics break down barriers in their new relationship. Then Rowena turns their small cottage into a refuge for an assorted menagerie of wildlife, attracting the attention of a Canadian naturalist who becomes interested in Aunt Miriam as well.

*** A Standalone Short Story with No Cliffhanger! *** When Crag Boulder is sent to Vancouver Island on a special mission the Navy SEAL has no idea that the trip will change his life forever, as well as extending it by several hundred years. In a bar in the northern town of Port Hardy Crag meets Honoria, a girl he was once at school with, who never gave him the time of day. Now she’s in the Navy too, and all of a sudden she wants him and can’t get enough of him. In his room she bites his neck. What seems unusual, perhaps playful foreplay, turns out to be something else completely and Crag finds that he has been shapeshifted into a Werebear, with abilities he could only have dreamed of. But that’s not all he has to contend with. From mating with Honoria, to saving the President of the United States from assassination, Crag is in for the wildest ride of his life. And if he survives it, what else will lie in store for the newest bear in SEAL team 13?

Rules are made to be broken . . . When it comes to dating, ex-Navy SEAL Marcus Denali has a few simple rules. Never date a coworker. Never date a friend's sister. And never ever date a girl whose brother is a coworker, a friend, and a fellow SEAL. So why would Marcus dance so closely -- and flirt so shamelessly -- with Mandy Lawson? Simple. It's a Fourth of July masquerade ball. He doesn't know she's his buddy's little sister. And once the masks come off, the real fireworks begin . . . Mandy doesn't care about the rules. She's been crushing on Marcus for years, and she's not giving up now that she has proof he wants her too. She has a plan to show this military man some moves he never learned in basic training. And Marcus is going to learn that some rules-the rules of attraction -- are just too strong to fight.

He's defended his country and upheld the code of the navy SEALs, but Garrett Solomon has never faced a mission quite like this. As teenagers, he and Eve Barnesworth were passionately in love. Eve's unplanned pregnancy only deepened his commitment to her. But Eve's powerful father, fearing a scandal, whisked her away. As far as Garrett and Eve knew, their baby had died—and with it, their love. Years later, the loss and betrayal still pain Garrett deeply. Then comes shocking news: the child is still alive. Determined to find their stolen son, Garrett and Eve join forces. Working together is strictly business…until it isn't. Because it seems their powerful attraction—like the child they once thought was gone forever—is still very much alive.

Loner. Biker. SEAL… Known only as Mack to his SEAL teammates, he’s a stone cold killer when he needs to be, but he’d rather just straddle his Harley and escape from everything and everyone. The only person who calls James MacIntyre by his given name is his dad, the one family member he has left. That is until his widowed father meets a divorcee and decides to remarry. Suddenly, Mack has a new family, all calling him James whether he likes it or not. The problem is he’s starting to crave hearing his name on the lips of curvy co-ed Lydia. Look for the other steamy Navy SEAL romance reads in the high action-adventure contemporary romance USA Today Bestselling Hot SEAL series written by New York Times bestselling author Cat Johnson. If you love books by Suzanne Brockmann, Cristin Harber, Lynn Raye Harris, Susan Stoker, Alison Kent, Lora Leigh and the like, pick up the free Hot SEALs series starter Night with a SEAL and dive into the world of the Hot SEALs! Explore the world of Cat Johnson's Hot SEALs Night with a SEAL Saved by a SEAL SEALed at Midnight Kissed by a SEAL Protected by a SEAL Loved by a SEAL Tempted by a SEAL Wed to a SEAL Romanced by a SEAL Rescued by a Hot SEAL Betting on a Hot SEAL Escape with a Hot SEAL Matched with a Hot SEAL SEAL the DEAL Hot SEAL in Hollywood Desire in D.C.

Tells the story of Corky, a harbor seal found as a pup, raised and trained at the San Diego Zoo. In later life Corky developed cataracts, but with the help of his trainers was still able to perform for his fans.