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Viví en el cerro Mariposa (The Butterfly Hill Series)
by Marjorie AgosinNow available in Spanish! An eleven-year-old&’s world is upended by political turmoil in this &“lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification&” (Kirkus Reviews) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile.Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chile—until one day when warships are spotted in the harbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class without a word. Celeste doesn&’t quite know what is happening, but one thing is clear: no one is safe, not anymore. The country has been taken over by a government that declares artists, protestors, and anyone who helps the needy to be considered &“subversive&” and dangerous to Chile&’s future. So Celeste&’s parents—her educated, generous, kind parents—must go into hiding before they, too, &“disappear.&” Before they do, however, they send Celeste to America to protect her. As Celeste adapts to her new life in Maine, she never stops dreaming of Chile. But even after democracy is restored to her home country, questions remain: Will her parents reemerge from hiding? Will she ever be truly safe again? Accented with interior artwork, steeped in the history of Pinochet&’s catastrophic takeover of Chile, and based on many true events, this multicultural ode to the power of revolution, words, and love is both indelibly brave and heart-wrenchingly graceful.
Vivian Divine Is Dead
by Lauren SabelWith the mystery and suspense of the Pretty Little Liars series, the Hollywood drama of Lauren Conrad's L.A. Candy, and the creepiness of Michelle Hodkin's The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Vivian Divine Is Dead will thrill fans of emotionally charged, fast-paced, contemporary fiction.Teen celebrity Vivian Divine has had a rough six months--her movie-star mother was murdered, and her boyfriend cheated on her with her best friend. Through it all, she's had to smile for the camera--this is the stuff the tabloids live for, after all.When a death threat arrives with her fan mail, Vivian decides to run to Mexico, hoping to escape whoever it is who wants her dead. There, she finds an ally in the mysterious and charming Nick, but even he seems like he can't be trusted.As Vivian travels deeper into Mexico, she finds herself asking a horrifying question: If she can't hide from the paparazzi, what makes her think she can elude a madman?Filled with surprising twists, poignant moments, and the snark of a Hollywood starlet suddenly on her own, Vivian Divine Is Dead brings a fresh new voice to contemporary fiction.As New York Times bestselling author of the Beautiful Creatures series Kami Garcia says, Vivian Divine Is Dead is "a heartbreaking and magical story about love, second chances, and finding yourself."
Vixen 03 (Dirk Pitt #4)
by Clive CusslerEn 1954, el vuelo Vixen 03 y su mortífero cargamento, un arma ultrasecreta, no llegan a su misterioso destino. La investigación oficial dictamina que el avión ha caído en el océano. En 1988, Dirk Pitt descubre restos del Vixen 03 en las heladas aguas de un río de Colorado. Parte de su cargamento ha sido sustraído por un grupo terrorista africano con intenciones de provocar una catástrofe en Washington. Pero ni siquiera los terroristas conocen las terribles consecuencias que podrían provocar con su actitud, porque muy pocas personas saben la verdad sobre el cargamento del Vixen 03.
Vmath, I, Module 7: Data, Probability, and Statistics
by Cambium StaffVmath Level I Module 7, Data, Probability, and Statistics, Student Edition
Vocabularians: Integrated Word Study in the Middle Grades
by Brenda L. OverturfBuilding on the ideas developed in Word Nerds: Teaching All Students to Learn and Love Vocabulary , Brenda J. Overturf has updated and energized the recommended practices for middle grades students. Vocabularians is for any educator who wants to help young adolescents increase knowledge and competency with word study while bringing interest, motivation, and even joy to their learning. Brenda takes teachers and administrators inside three middle-level schools where educators are integrating vocabulary instruction across the curriculum. In rural, urban, and suburban settings, she highlights effective ways to develop students' vocabulary skills using art, music, games, technology, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking. Vocabularians shows teachers of all content areas how to build word networks, flood the classroom environment with academic vocabulary, and incorporate the three word-solving strategies that researchers have found to be the most important-;teaching students how to use context; deciphering words by breaking down prefixes, suffixes, and root words; and using reference materials in authentic ways. By blending current research with real classroom experience and application, Brenda builds on her work with Margot Holmes Smith and Leslie Montgomery and offers an easy-to-implement, customized-to-middle-school resource that will improve instruction and assessment. As one featured seventh grader shared: Vocabulary helps you because the more you know words, the more fluent you can be in reading, the better you can read and write, and the better your writing sounds. There's always going to be a time when you have to sound professional, whether you're applying for a job or anything else. You're just going to have to know how to use a good vocabulary.-
Vocabulary and Spelling Book (Grade #8)
by Mcdougal LittellThe Vocabulary and Spelling Book contains lessons designed to help you understand and remember important vocabulary skills and strategies. You will often need to use basic reference sources to master these new techniques and to complete the exercises within the book.
Vocabulary for Literacy: CfE
by Jane Cooper Rachel AlexanderSyllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQALevel: BGE (S1-S3) and Senior Phase (National 4/5)Subject: LiteracyWords are powerful. Enrich your vocabulary and you will be able to speak, listen, read and write more effectively.Explore important aspects of vocabulary - decoding words, easily confused words, groups of words and new words - through simple explanations, strategies, progressive activities and revision tasks.This is the only book available that includes a dedicated chapter on inclusive language, to teach pupils how their words can make people feel accepted and understood.Vocabulary for Literacy equips pupils with the building blocks for success in exams, coursework and adult life, and facilitates literacy development across the curriculum.> Understand the essentials. Key concepts that pupils need to remember are introduced in 'explanation' boxes.> Put theory into practice. 'Building', 'Strengthening' and 'Extending' tasks enable pupils to apply their knowledge and skills, through a mix of solo and group work.> Check and consolidate. 22 photocopiable A-Z activity sheets at the end of the book can be used flexibly for classwork, homework, revision or assessment.> See the big picture. 'Crossover' boxes make links to prior and future learning, knowledge and skills, encouraging pupils to approach vocabulary holistically.> Avoid common errors. 'Mistake' boxes contain examples and tips to ensure that pupils get it right in their own speech and writing."There is a proven link between an improved vocabulary and increased attainment in Scottish schooling."Rachel Alexander
Vocabulary for Success, Common Core Enriched Edition, Grade 8
by Douglas Fisher Nancy Frey Ernest MorrellA publisher-supplied textbook
Vocabulary for Success, Common Core Enriched Edition, Grade 8
by Douglas Fisher Nancy Frey Ernest MorrellA publisher-supplied textbook
Vocabulary from Classical Roots B
by Norma Fifer Nancy FlowersVocabulary from Classical Roots is a thematically organized vocabulary program based on Greek and Latin roots. You will become acquainted with constellations of words descended from Greek and Latin, visible in families that cluster around such subjects as the human being, kinds of mental activity, and aspects of daily life. The book is ideal for students mastering a growing content-area vocabulary in social studies, science, and mathematics multisyllabic Greek- and Latin-based words.
Vocabulary in Action (Level D)
by The Editors at the Loyola PressThe book focuses on student's vocabulary development with the choice of words chosen based on frequency, occurrence, and relevance to the real world.
Vocabulary in Action (Level E)
by Loyola PressVocabulary in Action- Vocabulary Workbooks Welcome to the NEW Vocabulary in Action, the premier vocabulary development program! With this comprehensive program, students study and learn hundreds of words that were researched and selected for frequency, occurrence, and relevance to the real world as well as standardized assessment. Consumable student books pair with online resources and teacher instruction to provide vocabulary instruction that is introduced, reinforced, and applied in engaging, systematic ways. The Vocabulary in Action workbook is designed to improve oral and written vocabulary through interactive vocabulary practice, giving students the gift of a larger and more descriptive vocabulary.
Vocabulary In Action, Level F
by Loyola PressVocabulary in Action- Vocabulary Workbooks Welcome to the NEW Vocabulary in Action, the premier vocabulary development program! With this comprehensive program, students study and learn hundreds of words that were researched and selected for frequency, occurrence, and relevance to the real world as well as standardized assessment. Consumable student books pair with online resources and teacher instruction to provide vocabulary instruction that is introduced, reinforced, and applied in engaging, systematic ways. TheVocabulary in Actionworkbook is designed to improve oral and written vocabulary through interactive vocabulary practice, giving students the gift of a larger and more descriptive vocabulary.
Vocabulary in Action (Level H)
by Loyola PressWelcome to the NEW Vocabulary in Action, the premier vocabulary development program! With this comprehensive program, students study and learn hundreds of words that were researched and selected for frequency, occurrence, and relevance to the real world as well as standardized assessment. Consumable student books pair with online resources and teacher instruction to provide vocabulary instruction that is introduced, reinforced, and applied in engaging, systematic ways. The Vocabulary in Action workbook is designed to improve oral and written vocabulary through interactive vocabulary practice, giving students the gift of a larger and more descriptive vocabulary.
Vocabulary in Context for the Common Core Standards, Grade 8
by Steck-VaughnProvides exercises designed to stimulate vocabulary growth, offers specially designed sections to build skills required for standarized tests, and introduces three hundred new words.
Vocabulary Workshop: Second Course
by Holt Rinehart WinstonThis Vocabulary Workshop: Second Course makes students learn Words in Context, Analogies, Multiple Meanings, Synonyms, Antonyms, Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots, and Word Origins.
Vocabulary Workshop: Level C (New Edition)
by Jerome ShostakPrepare students for the new standardized tests and teach 300 essential vocabulary words per level.
Vocabulary Workshop, Common Core Enriched Edition, Level C
by Jerome Shostak Vicki A. Jacobs Louis P. De AngeloA publisher-supplied textbook
Voice for Freedom: The Story of James Weldon Johnson
by Jodie ShullJames Weldon Johnson advanced further than anyone would have expected him to, and worked for justice, freedom, and equality in everything he said or did. Here's his story.
A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
by Barbara DanaWhen something is most important to me and I do not want to lose it, I gather it into a poem. It is said that women must employ the needle and not the pen. But I will be a Poet! That's who I am!Before she was an iconic American poet, Emily Dickinson was a spirited girl eager to find her place in the world. Expected by family and friends to mold to the prescribed role for women in mid-1800s New England, Emily was challenged to define herself on her own terms.Award-winning author Barbara Dana brilliantly imagines the girlhood of this extraordinary young woman, capturing the cadences of her unique voice and bringing her to radiant life.
Voice of the Heart (Los Jet De Plaza Y J Series)
by Barbara Taylor BradfordA &“richly textured, highly entertaining&” tale of love, loss, and lifelong friendship from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Remember (Booklist). Katharine Tempest and Francesca Cunningham couldn&’t be more different, one a stormy brunette and the other a cool blonde. Yet their friendship is a constant as their lives take shape, Katharine sweeping into Hollywood as one of the era&’s most sought-after actresses, and Francesca penning bestselling historical novels. But Katharine&’s relentless drive to succeed will inevitably change the lives of the people who love her, and she must learn to live with regrets even as she longs for redemption. This &“rare treat&” from Barbara Taylor Bradford offers another powerful story of indomitable women and the choices they make—&“you will laugh and cry with the characters and . . . you won&’t be able to put it down&” (Literary Guild Magazine). &“A rich tapestry of love and romance. The surprise ending is both poignant and fitting.&” —The San Diego Union-Tribune &“A captivating work filled with glamour, intrigue and ironic reversal.&” —Booklist
Voice of the Valley
by Sheena KoopsVoice of the Valley is a poetic, multi-layered, coming-of-age story inspired by the controversial flooding of Saskatchewan's Souris Valley. Onja Claibourn is almost fifteen. Her world is one of sage, buffalo bills, brown-eyed susans, cactus, flax, buckbrush, foxtail and orange moss—the world of the valley just beyond the family farm. Old roads twist like a game of snakes and ladders into the valley. Onja and her horse Ginger spend their summer days in exploration. But things begin to change when Onja discovers first an archeological dig and then the startling fact that there is a plan to dam and flood her valley. She cannot contemplate this change to the landscape she loves so much. And when she also discovers sixteen-year-old Etthen, working with the archaeologists, she begins those first faltering footsteps toward a totally unfamiliar landscape—romantic love. Onja Claibourn is a wonderfully complex and very real character—innocent, wise, shy, stubborn, playful, and caring. The other major character in the novel is the prairie landscape itself—huge sky, harsh sun, rolling hills, sweeping fields of grain.
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
by Russell Freedman"A voice like yours," celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini told contralto Marian Anderson, "is heard once in a hundred years." This insightful account of the great African American vocalist considers her life and musical career in the context of the history of civil rights in this country. Drawing on Anderson's own writings and other contemporary accounts, Russell Freedman shows readers a singer pursuing her art despite the social constraints that limited the careers of black performers in the 1920s and 1930s. Though not a crusader or a spokesperson by nature, Marian Anderson came to stand for all black artists -- and for all Americans of color -- when, with the help of such prominent figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, she gave her landmark 1939 performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, which signaled the end of segregation in the arts.<P><P> Carefully researched, expertly told, and profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, this Newbery Honor and Sibert Medal-winning book is a moving account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history. Through her story, Newbery Medal-winning author Russell Freedman, one of today's leading authors of nonfiction for young readers, illuminates the social and political climate of the day and an important chapter in American history. Notes, bibliography, discography, index.<P> Newbery Honor book and Winner of the Sibert Medal
Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
by David Elliott"Stunning . . . elegant . . . arresting . . . supple and harrowing.” - The Wall Street Journal★“An innovative, entrancing account of a popular figure that will appeal to fans of verse, history, and biography.” - Kirkus, starred reviewIn poems that surprise and move readers, bestselling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death.Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc’s life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood), Voices offers an unforgettable perspective on an extraordinary young woman. Along the way it explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. It is that girl we come to know in Voices.