Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Ostriches are the largest birds in the world, but they cannot fly. Ostrich chicks hatch from their eggs. Then they grow quickly. Chicks practice running. This makes their legs strong and fast. How do baby ostriches grow and change? Read this book to find out! This title also includes a life cycle diagram, a habitat map, fun facts, a glossary, and more!
Against the Tide is the story of a young girl’s struggle to achieve the goal she had always hoped and prayed for, yet could only imagine . . . a normal life. Mimi faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles; poverty, physical abuse, teen marriage, motherhood, not to mention the opposition of her own family. But she is more than determined that her young son, Adam, will not grow up in a world where these behaviors are not only tolerated, but considered normal. Mimi knows, as a teenaged mother, she doesn’t have all the answers and isn’t even sure what some of the questions should be but she takes comfort in the two words that everyone who knows her has always used to describe her . . . smart and stubborn. Those particular traits may have irritated her grandparents, parents, and teachers, not to mention her husband, but Mimi thought if she could just be smart enough to find the answers she needed and stubborn enough to stick it out when things got tough, she could get herself and Adam out of the neighborhood and the life that went with it. She only hoped that once she did, she could figure out how to build a better life on the other side. Mimi knew what it took to survive the world she was in, had an inkling of what it might take to get out, but had absolutely no idea what came after that. She could only pray she would know what to do when the time came and be able to find the courage to do it. So she closed her eyes, took a deep breath . . . and dove in.
From sports to movies, video games to the news, violence is everywhere in pop culture. Asking Questions about Violence in Pop Culture looks at how we decide what is deemed "too violent" to show the public, how those standards have changed over time, and what our increasing tolerance of violence says about our culture. Case studies prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of specific issues. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.
A time-traveling farm woman from the height of WWII braves the eighteenth century to search for the explorer she loves. But even in the past, the war invades her historic home, where she discovers Nazi soldiers, her frontiersman doesn't know her, and her only friend a mysterious dog who just might be their spy.
There's magic in the air when the warm breezes blow..." In "Tupelo Honey" by Ann Gregory, Raul and Desdemona aren't young, and don't have stars in their eyes. They've loved and lost. Maybe hot tea and warm milk sweetened with tupelo honey can reawaken their hearts. Will riding the Ferris wheel be worse than admitting her fear? Violet must decide when the love of her life invites her along in "The Ferris Wheel" by Stacy McKitrick. Hunger was no game to exhausted off duty marshal Hennesey James. All he wanted was to sink his teeth into something hot, juicy and fried. Instead he got a heaping platter of attitude from a waitress with a piece de resistance all her own in "Swizzle Stick" by Sandy Pennington. In "The Wish" by Stacy McKitrick, all of Paige's fortieth birthday wishes include office hunk Mike. But will she be adventurous enough to see if any of them can come true? In "Titanic Love" by Linda Chalk, Stefan's seemingly endless wait to be reunited with his family is prolonged when news of "Titanic's" sinking reaches America. Is it love or madness that keeps him waiting at the pier? Carmen is fed up with Harry, and decides to kill him, in front of witnesses. And she gets away with it Find out how in "The Death of Harry" by Ann Gregory. A disgruntled cop battles his urge for the cigarettes he quit, and his attraction for the hot new partner he doesn't want, while he investigates a school ice cream theft. Then he finds there's more to the crime than he thought-and more to his partner, too, in "Sam, Kate, and the Lunch Lady's Secret" by Dakota James. In "Time's Tempest: The Storm" by Jennette Marie Powell, a headstrong handyman takes his first trip back in time in search of his own past. Instead, he winds up in the storm of the century, on the run from a madman from the future, with a woman he doesn't remember meeting-or falling in love with.
Young readers meet a young girl and her friend Hap as they attempt to follow a map to the lake, while learning words in the -ap word family. Includes word family word bank.
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