Tag Archives: School & Sports

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

Product Description
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

Amazon.com Review
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Clique Summer Collection #2: Dylan (Clique Series)

Rating: (12 reviews)
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Publisher: Poppy

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Game, Set, Match… Dylan? Dylan and her TV-host mom are off to Hawaii’s Aloha Tennis Open. While Merri-Lee interviews tennis’s wild child Svetlana “Tennis the Menace” Slootskyia, Dylan lets the tropical sun melt away the memory of getting dumped by two guys at the [...]

The Old Testament: Our Call To Faith and Justice

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher: Ave Maria Press

En Espanol: Level 2 Mas Practica Cuaderno with Lesson Review Bookmarks

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Carlin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

The Church Through History

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Joseph Stoutzenberger, Maurice O’Connell
Publisher: Harcourt Religion Pub

You Can Do It!

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Tony Dungy
Publisher: Little Simon Inspirations

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Tony Dungy’s little brother, Linden, is a third grader who is having a bad day at school. Linden is the youngest of the Dungy family and the least motivated because he hasn’t found “it.” In a family where everyone seems to have found [...]

Vocabulary Workshop: Level G (Vocabulary Workshop)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jerome Shostak
Publisher: William H Sadlier

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Joss Whedon, Andy Owens
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

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Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers - newly legion - have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything’s fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. Meanwhile, [...]

Scribbles: A Really Giant Drawing and Coloring Book

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Taro Gomi
Publisher: Chronicle Books

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This is no ordinary coloring book! With playful drawings, funny scenarios and fun-to-follow instructions, this book is not just for coloring, but for doodling, drawing, imagining and thinking! Here the art on the page is just the start. This book is paperback [...]

Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Bernard Evslin
Publisher: Laurel Leaf

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The earth breeds giants and ogres of indescribable horror — the heavens hold omnipotent gods and goddesses, abounding in courage, strength and wisdom.
Zeus, the almighty king of the gods, who cannot resist feminine beauty — mortal or divine, and his jealous and vengeful wife, [...]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Amulet Books

Product Description
The highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level. Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father. You see, Frank Heffley [...]

Frostbite (Vampire Academy, Book 2)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill

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Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose…
It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with [...]

Summer Bridge Activities: 6th to 7th Grade

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Leland Graham, Frankie Long
Publisher: Rainbow Bridge Publishing (UT)

Book Description
NEW and Improved Summer Bridge Activities for 2006! This year the bestselling summer workbook features new covers, new activities, new reading lists, updated bonus sections, and a whole lot more to give kids a summer learning experience they [...]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc.

Book Description
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Twain’s language, allusions, and deliberate misstatements and malapropisms. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, became [...]

Man vs. Wild: Survival Techniques from the Most Dangerous Places on Earth

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Bear Grylls
Publisher: Hyperion

Book Description
In Man vs. Wild, Bear Grylls demonstrates all manner of survival techniques when faced with nature’s extremes–from crossing piranha-infested rivers to fighting off grizzly bears. He shows us how, armed with the correct know-how and a determination to stay alive, all of us have the [...]