What do you do with students who cannot or will not read and write? This portrait of Kyle Gonzalez's classroom offers teachers theory-based strategies for helping students become motivated and successful readers and writers. You will see how one middle school teacher sets up her literacy classroom, offers intervention and support for struggling students, and assesses their progress. Rich in description of Kyle's successes, the book also looks honestly at why some practices were ineffective in her setting. With Janet's and Kyle's practical and detailed suggestions for creating a literate environment, you'll learn how to:establish a literacy workshop;choose and use effective resources;implement effective, informative record-keeping;help students establish goals and assess progress;use read-alouds as well as shared, guided, and independent reading and writing;instill reading and writing practices that help students read content-specific texts. There's Room for Me Here includes record-keeping forms, extensive bibliographies of literature and professional materials, resource information, and samples of strategy lessons all embedded in this engaging story of a teacher's first three years building a literacy workshop in her classroom. Kyle's students are middle school learners who struggle with literacy. The strategies, content-area connections, and management ideas, however, are applicable and appropriate for use by any 3-12 teacher.

It's 1968 and aspiring actress Julie Armstrong is at Drama School in London--but she is drawn back to her beloved Northumberland where her glamorous stepmother has another role to play in her destiny. ROOM FOR ME is the intriguing and romantic sequel to Roger Harvey's ROOM FOR LOVE.That rare thing: a gleeful celebration of homely joys, the ideal fireside read. Oozing vintage chic and nostalgia from every page, spiced with passion and drama, this is the story of a young woman finding her true self, told with honesty and humour.

A series of increasingly larger animals manage to squeeze into a lost mitten, until the owner comes back to look for it.

There's Room for Me Here includes record-keeping forms, extensive bibliographies of literature for shared and independent reading, professional materials and resource information, and samples of strategy lessons all embedded in this engaging story of a teacher's first three years building a literacy workshop in her classroom. Kyle's students are middle school learners who struggle with literacy. The strategies, content-area connections, and management ideas, however, are applicable and appropriate for use by any 3-12 teacher. -- from back cover.

Philip K. Dick Award finalist Locus Recommended Reading Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling—frequently managing to be both—these short fictions describe family relationships, bad breakups, and travel to outer space. Vukcevich's loopy, fun-house mirror take on everyday life belongs to the same absurdist school of work as that of George Saunders, David Sedaris, Ken Kalfus, and Victor Pelevin, although there is no one quite like him. Try one of these stories, it won't take you long, but it will turn your head inside out.

This book depicts a true life story. All of the characters are real, but for anonymity purposes, I have changed the names of all the characters. Although this may be the case, I am grateful for the roles that they played in my life, and I acknowledge every contribution that they've made, in whatever capacity. They know who they are.

My book entitled “Space Alien Karzo Saves Planet Earth from a Deadly Chemical Attack” communicates to the reader how a little boy from a small town in Kansas meets an outer space alien name Karzo up the path from his house and become friends. Karzo shares brief visits and vital information with Danny as he visits planet earth from his home planet “Shiz”. As a result of Danny coming in contact with this space alien, he is able to save planet earth from a deadly chemical attack which could have erased planet earth off the face of the universe.