The popular Social Studies Connects series links history, geography, civics and economics to kids’ daily lives. Featuring stories with diverse characters who face situations young readers can relate to, these books support reading and social studies skills including researching, inferring, comparing, and communication. An activity to stimulate curiosity about the world is included in each book! When Daisy Diaz bursts into camp, everything starts to change! But what about the bragging boys at the camp next door? What can Daisy do about them? (Social Studies Topic: Econics/Trade & Interdependance)
Tegan Alice Slone is struggling to survive in the forests of Southern Indiana when Emperial Police capture her and take her to a reeducation center. The year is 2084, and the president is a madman that the people are afraid to stand up to. He has ultimate power over them all and will not surrender it. He created the Proclamation about Others. Others are "anyone who is a nontaxpaying citizen or noncitizen" and are to be put into reeducation centers. It is also a well-known fact that anyone who doesn't agree with him is relocated to a reeducation center. Everyone knows that these are really concentration camps, and despite what the government says, no one's reeducation is ever complete. Tegan decides to use her faith to not only get herself through the struggles at the center where she has been incarcerated but to try to bring others to faith in Christ and His ever-present love. By getting people to cooperate and get along, she paints a target on her back with the higher-ups. Will she survive, or will she die trying to bring others to Christ?
This book is premised upon the assumption that the core purpose of universities is to create, preserve, transmit, validate, and find new applications for knowledge. It is written in the perspective of critical university studies, in which university governance processes should take ideas and discourse about ideas seriously, far more seriously than they are often taken within many of to day's universities, since doing so is the key to achieving this purpose. Specifically, we assert that the best way for universities to take ideas seriously, and so to best achieve their purpose, is to consciously recognize and conserve the entire range of available ideas. Though the current emphasis upon factors such as student headcounts, increased efficiency and job creation are undoubtedly important, far more is at stake in universities than only these factors. From this premise, we deduce insights and arguments about academic freedom, as well as factors such control and monitoring of the market place of ideas, the structure of information flows within universities, the role of language in university governance, and relationships between administrators, faculty members and students. We identify impediments to achieving the core purpose of universities, including the idea vetting systems of authoritarianism, corporatism, illiberalism, supernaturalism and political correctness. We elucidate how these impediments inhibit successful achievement of the core purpose of the university. In response to these impediments we prescribe relatively autonomous universities characterized by openness, transparency, dissent, and the maintenance of balance between conflicting perspectives, values, and interests.
Join Star Powers as she goes to Space Camp. But Space Camp is challenging. Will she be able to pass the physical tests or will she change her mind about becoming an astronaut? Includes bonus information on astronauts.
Ten-year-old Babo has grown up on an abandoned circus camp in a war-torn country, believing her circus-star parents will come back any day now. So she's none too happy when an American couple adopts her, calls her Betti, and takes her away from her fellow parentless friends, to a very confusing America. Betti misses her old home, and she's worried her real parents will never be able to find her. She's determined to run away, but as she gets to know her new parents, little sister, and even a new friend, Betti starts to feel like maybe she could be happy in her new American home.
Summer vacation is here, and Lizzie's less than thrilled. Why? Because her parents were less than thrilled with her report card-so they're sending her to science camp. Ugh! Luckily, her best friend, Gordo, is going to Camp Bunsen Burner, too-but not because his science grades are weak. He's actually excited about going. Gordo even enters the camp's Best Invention competition. And that's the reason he needs Lizzie's sleuthing help . . . . Someone has stolen Gordo's entry-a brilliant formula for glow-in-the dark mosquito repellent. Is it Larry Tudgeman? Or the suspicious (but very cute!) camp counselor? Or could it be the chemistry teacher himself? Lizzie promises to help Gordo find his formula - and, in return, maybe he'll find a way to ger her outie!
GEEKS VS. SNOBS Josh, Eddie, and the gang are back together again. This time the fun-loving, geeky group of friends are bound for Camp Oannagopupu for the summer. All is well until they encounter a group of snobby campers who take a friendly camp competition to the extreme. Furthermore, Josh and Eddie stumble across clues that lead to a buried treasure guarded by a fabled lake monster. Will the geeks win the Camp-Off Competition and find the treasure, or will the snobs take home all the glory? Read only if you can handle urban legends, mystery-filled donuts, bat poop, and buried treasure.
Lizzie is sent to science camp over summer vacation. Luckily, her best friend, Gordo, goes, too. When Gordo enters the camp's Best Invention competition, someone steals his entry--a brilliant formula for glow-in-the dark mosquito repellent. Lizzie promises to help Gordo find his formula.
Want the perfect camping cookbook? Lisa Benjamin has crafted the ideal camping recipe book for your camping needs. Sit down and enjoy all of these robust foil packet recipes from the comfort of your tent. These are the camping recipes you've been dreaming of!
Dylan Smith is very anxious to go to camp this summer. He is positive he saw a ghost the year before. Dylan is determined there is a mystery to solve. There are a lot of strange happeninings going on at camp. Some of the campers supplies are being moved around and doors are being jammed shut. Dylan enlists the help from his cousin, Katie Smith. Together, they team up with siblings Jackson and Brittany Sweet to make The S Squad. Will The S Squad be able to solve the mystery or will the camp be haunted forever?
From the explosive first pages, Lisa Harris weaves a tale of heart-stopping suspense and adventure with her second book in the Mission Hope Series. When fighting erupts between government forces and renegade Ghost Soldiers deep within the Republic of Dhambizao, thousands are forced to leave their homes. Dr. Paige Ryan, who works with Volunteers of Hope International, is sent to lead a team to set up a refugee transit site—where the immediate needs for shelter, water, sanitation, and food are critical. Nick Gilbert, a bush pilot for Compassion Air, joins the team to help fly supplies in and out of the area. With the refugee camp already experiencing overcrowding, raids, and uprisings, a group of American mountain climbers is attacked by the Ghost Soldiers. Paige’s medical team responds immediately, rescuing survivors and taking them into the camp. When it’s discovered that one of the trekkers is carrying an infectious disease, the harrowing conditions of the camp are forgotten. In desperate need of vaccines and the Ghost Soldiers blocking the only road out until their demands for amnesty are met, it won’t be long before the disease is out of control ... and there is nowhere to run.
If you are the parent of a child with autism or Asperger syndrome, you may feel that involvement in the community is not possible for your family. This book sets out to change that, with a rich and varied menu of suggestions for how you can take a full part in community life and support the strengths and interests of your child at the same time. Get Out, Explore, and Have Fun! is your guide to what's out there, how to find it, and how to make it work for your family. It includes hints and tips for involving your family in the right community activities, from sports to science; information on museums, arts organizations and science institutions as venues for enjoyable and enriching days out for the family; and resources and ideas to help your child build on their strengths, interests, and preferred learning styles. Handouts about autism and Asperger syndrome are also included, as well as suggestions about how organizations and institutions can successfully include children on the spectrum in their activities. This book will open the door to community inclusion, creative exploration, and social learning, and is a must-read for any parent of a child on the autism spectrum.
In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more. It starts as a prank—a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors, tensions and hormones are running high. No wonder the others agree when Jo-Beth Chancellor suggests they scare Monica O’Neal a little . . . or a lot. Monica has it coming, and no one will really get hurt. What could go wrong? Everything. Twenty years later, Lucas Dalton, a senior detective with the sheriff’s department, is investigating the discovery of human remains in a cavern at what used to be Camp Horseshoe. Lucas knows the spot well. His father, a preacher, ran the camp, and Lucas worked there that infamous summer when two girls went missing. No one knows what happened to either of them, though with a dangerous convict on the loose, gossip was rife that they may have been kidnapped, or worse. For Lucas, the case is personal—perhaps too much so. But it’s time to uncover the whole truth at last. That’s why seven former female counselors are coming back to the small Oregon town—among them, Bernadette Alsace, the woman Lucas has never forgotten. Each one knows something about that terrible night. Each promised not to tell. And as they reunite, a new horror unfolds. First come texts containing a personal memento and a simple, terrifying message: YOU WILL PAY. Then, the murders begin. It started years ago. But it will end here—as a web of lust, greed, and betrayal is untangled to reveal a killer waiting to enact the perfect revenge. OUTSTANDING PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF LISA JACKSON AFTER SHE’S GONE “Jackson generates near-constant suspense, weaving together disparate plot turns, directing a large cast of characters, and playing up movie-star egos and show-biz gossip to give the novel a vintage Hollywood feel.” --Booklist NEVER DIE ALONE “Jackson definitely knows how to keep readers riveted.” --Mystery Scene CLOSE TO HOME “Jackson definitely knows how to jangle readers’ nerves...Close to Home is perfect for readers of Joy Fielding or fans of Mary Higgins Clark.” --Booklist TELL ME “Absolutely tension filled...Jackson is on top of her game.” --Suspense Magazine YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW “Lisa Jackson shows yet again why she is one of the best at romantic suspense. A pure nail biter.” --Harlan Coben, # 1 New York Times bestselling author “Shiveringly good suspense!” --Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author WITHOUT MERCY “Her latest whodunit hits all the marks, taking readers on a nail-biting roller-coaster ride.” --Library Journal “A juicy creep-a-thon...builds to a surprising cliffhanger ending.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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