Tag Archives: Reference

Cracking the SAT, 2009 Edition (College Test Prep)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
Cracking the SAT brings you proven techniques from the test prep experts! The 2009 edition includes full-length practices tests and exclusive free access to further review online. In Cracking the SAT, we’ll teach you how to think like the test writers and
· Master [...]

Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: SAT Essay

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer, Randall McCutcheon, James Schaffer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

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This accessible guide gives you the tools you need to score high on the new SAT essay.
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Best 368 Colleges, 2009 Edition (College Admissions Guides)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

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College students (120,000 of them) reveal what life is really like at the nation’s top schools. This must-have guide gives you college rankings like no other and covers all the essentials — from academics to social life to financial aid, and everything in between. [...]

CLEP Official Study Guide 2009 (Clep Official Study Guide)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board

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Every year, students save countless hours and dollars through the College-Level Examination Program (R) (CLEP (R)).  CLEP examinations allow students to demonstrate college-level knowledge, for which they can earn credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities.  The CLEP Official Student Guide 2009, [...]

Cracking the SSAT & ISEE, 2009 Edition (Private Test Prep)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

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The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SSAT and ISEE exams is very different from getting straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about English and math–only what you’ll need to score higher on the exam. [...]

Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the SAT, 2009 Edition (Kaplan 12 Practice Tests for the Sat)

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Product Description
Includes the most SAT practice available with:*12 full-length practice exams*Over 600 math grid-ins and multiple-choice questions*Over 800 sentence completion and reading comprehension questions*Over 500 writing multiple-choice questions*Complete answer explanations*12 essay prompts, model essays, and a guide to self-grading

Crime and Punishment

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Vintage

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With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. “The best (translation) [...]

Where’s My Stuff?: The Ultimate Teen Organizing Guide

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Samantha Moss, Lesley Schwartz
Publisher: Orange Avenue Publishing

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Free time is great. Unless you spend all of it searching for your homework, your mobile phone, or a clean pair of shorts. Then free time is not so great. In fact, it’s non-existent. If chaos and disorganisation are swallowing all [...]

Super Study Skills (Scholastic Guides)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Laurie Rozakis
Publisher: Scholastic Reference

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Super Study Skills shows students how to: Make the most of their time by getting organized Read more effectively Prepare for a test without last-minute panic [...]

The Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guide to Money: Getting Smart About Making It, Saving It, and Spending It! (Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It Guides)

Author: Jessica Blatt
Publisher: Watson-Guptill

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Suze Orman advises women on how to handle their money–and now Jessica Blatt advises the women of tomorrow on how to handle theirs. The newest addition to the Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It series empowers girls by showing them why money matters. From making money, to saving money, to investing money, [...]

Writers Inc.: A Student Handbook for Writing And Learning

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Sebranek, Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer
Publisher: Great Source Education Group

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It’s meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven’t inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand [...]

Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide 2009 (Gruber’s Complete SAT Guide -12th Edition)

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Gary Gruber
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

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More Than 7 Million Gruber Books Sold!
“The best book on the SAT” -CBS Radio “Gary Gruber is the leading expert on the SAT” -Houston Chronicle “Gary Gruber is the most prominent guru of SAT preparation.” -Chicago Tribune “His methods make the questions seem amazingly [...]

The Twilight Companion: The Unauthorized Guide to the Series

Author: Lois H. Gresh
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Product Description
Everyone’s in love with vampires, and if his name happens to be Edward Cullen, then readers of the wildly popular Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer can’t help but be crazy about him. For all those who adore Bella Swan, Edward, and the rest of the Cullen family and [...]

The American Heritage Student Dictionary

Rating: (11 reviews)
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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The perfect dictionary for students in grades 6-9. This edition has been updated to reflect up-to-the-minute developments in all subject areas, from technology to world affairs.

Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Richard M. Hannula
Publisher: Canon Press

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“Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls“(Jer. 6:16). Christianity is a faith in love with history. God [...]

Master the SSAT & ISEE 2009 (Master the Ssat and Isee)

Author: Peterson’s
Publisher: Arco

Product Description
The guide for students AND parents! Master the SSAT & ISEE provides all the prep needed to score higher on the SSAT and ISEE: up-to-date information on the tests, hundreds of practice questions and four full-length practice tests (all with detailed answer explanations), and solid test-taking advice. Also includes [...]

The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (Landmark Books)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Payne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs [...]

Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Loren Pope
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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The celebrated book that revolutionized the way Americans choose colleges—now fully revised and updated An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation’s most respected experts on the college application process. Now fully [...]

The 13 Clocks

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: James Thurber
Publisher: NYR Children’s Collection

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Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was [...]

Cracking the SAT Literature Subject Test, 2007-2008 Edition (College Test Prep)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review

Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Literature Subject Test is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about literature–only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In [...]

National Geographic Student Atlas of the World: Revised Edition

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books

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Combines full-color maps and data sets to introduce students to the importance of the connections between geography and other areas of study. The thematic atlas gives students a clear picture of the recent agricultural, industrial, demographic, environmental, economic and political changes [...]

A Young People’s History of the United States, Vol. 1: Columbus to the Robber Barons

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid [...]

Insider’s Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: 2008/2009 Edition (Insider’s Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology)

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: John C. Norcross, Michael A. Sayette, Tracy J. Mayne
Publisher: The Guilford Press

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With more than 100,000 copies in print, this bestseller is the resource students rely on to find graduate clinical and counseling psychology programs that meet their needs–and gain admission to them. The 2008/2009 edition includes: [...]

The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle (Vampire Diaries)

Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt [...]

How to Spell Like a Champ

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Barrie Trinkle, Carolyn Andrews, Paige Kimble
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Product Description
Be all over “minuscule.” Score big with “curvaceous.” Hit “trireme” out of the park. From the authorities behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee comes a comprehensive illustrated book on the endangered art of spelling.
Written for ages 9 and [...]

The Periodic Table

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Adrian Dingle, Simon Basher
Publisher: Kingfisher

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The Periodic Table introduces budding chemists to the world of the elements as it’s never been seen before. Designed to resemble popular networking Web sites, the pages of this book feature “homepages” for each of the chemical elements — complete with witty and [...]

The Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Books