Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Wembley after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright teenager working at the local library for the summer. She discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird; it is a list of novels that she has never heard of, and she impulsively decides...

In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.

Set 5: Short vowels and reading for fluency includes 12 leveled storybooks featuring colorful animal characters, an activity sheet, and a classroom guide with suggestions for use. In Set 5, children will learn to: recognize varied short vowel sounds and word families, blend short vowel word families with initial consonants and digraphs, and read more complex sentences with many sight words and varied short vowel sounds for meaning.

Presents a guide to reading critically, offering tips and activities to improve reading comprehension, covering such topics as point of view, context clues, rhyme schemes, and deciphering fact from fiction.

"Jane's boyfriend is missing, and she thinks she may find him at North Carolina's historic Biltmore Estate. Officially, she's there to learn about luxury hotel management, but she's also prowling around the breathtaking buildings and grounds looking for secret passageways and clues. One of the staff gardeners promises to be helpful . . . that is, until his body turns up in the reading room of his cottage, a book on his lap.When she finally locates...

"In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-or "the misfortune," as his cancer-ridden father's caretaker calls it-Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and infirm. Stripped of his driver's license and feeling impotent as he nears...

Arthur's sister DW tries to use a reading trick to get Arthur to change Baby Kate's diapers.

Set 6: Advancing Reader. Introduction to long vowel sounds. Includes 12 leveled storybooks featuring colorful animal characters, an activity sheet, and a classroom guide with suggestions for use. In Set 6, children will learn repetitive text that provides opportunities for readers to blend beginning sounds with long vowel clusters and identify simple sight words. Repetitive text will reinforce print awareness and allow children to begin to make connections...

"Set 4: Short Vowel Clusters and Sight Words includes 12 leveled storybooks featuring colorful animal characters..."

This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about...