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Frozen: Anna & Elsa's Winter's End Festival
by Disney PressRead along with Disney! Anna and Elsa plan a Winter's End Festival in honor of their mother, and Olaf, Oaken, and a friendly baby reindeer pitch in to help. Follow along with the word-for-word narration and share in all the fun they have along the way!
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
by Rosalyn SchanzerTackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff's much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features unique scratchboard illustrations, chilling primary source material, and powerful narrative to tell the true tale. In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The doctor tried every remedy, but nothing cured the young Puritans. He grimly announced the dire diagnosis: the girls were bewitched! And then the accusations began. The riveting, true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over a dozen people&’s lives and ruined hundreds more unfolds in chilling, novelistic detail—complete with stylized black-white-and-red scratchboard illustrations of young girls having wild fits in the courtroom, witches flying overhead, and the Devil and his servants terrorizing the Puritans— in this young adult book by award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer. Taught in middle and high schools around the U.S., the 17th-century saga remains hauntingly resonant as people struggle even today with the urgent need to find someone to blame for their misfortunes. Witches! has been honored with many prestigious awards, including:. Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book 2012 Notable Children's Books—ALSC NCSS—Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012 School Library Journal Best Books of 2011 SLJ&’s 100 Magnificent Children&’s Books of 2011 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2011
Mickey and the Roadster Racers: Race for the Rigatoni Ribbon!
by Disney Book GroupRead along with Disney! Mickey and the gang head to Italy to compete in the Race for the Rigatoni Ribbon. Between the stiff competition and a giant runaway meatball, do the Roadster Racers have a chance at winning the race? Follow along with word-for-word narration to find out!
Star Wars: Luke and the Lost Jedi Temple
by Jason FryRead along with Star Wars! When Luke Skywalker has to make an emergency landing on a strange planet, he is destined to discover a faithful friend, a formidable foe, and untold secrets of the Force. Follow along with word-for-word narration as the action unfolds!
World of Reading X-Men: Days of Future Past (World of Reading)
by Thomas MacriRead along with Marvel! In this level 3 reader, Kitty Pryde travels back in time from decades in the future in order to prevent a coming apocalypse. Follow along with the word-for-word narration as the X-Men band together with their future selves in order to save the world!
Mummies (Readers)
by Elizabeth CarneyWhy were mummies mummified? These mysterious corpses provide a fascinating window on the past of cultures worldwide. Mummies has plenty of ghoulish intrigue to keep young readers reading. This irresistible title provides the solid science behind the myths and guarantees a successful and rewarding reading experience for kids at level 2. Mummies is a compelling combination of fun, facts, jokes and captivating photography.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
Snakes (Readers)
by Melissa StewartThey&’re SSSSLITHERY! SLIPPERY! They creep us out! But get to know them and you&’ll find snakes private, quiet types who just want a cool, shady place to call home. From the tip of their forked tongues, to skin that sheds, to the rattles on certain tails, these creatures have secrets all kids will love. Cool photos and fun facts slip us inside their surprising world.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
101 Dalmatians: Thunderbolt Patch
by Disney PressRead along with Disney! When Patch the puppy notices a mouse in the house, he pretends to be his TV hero, Thunderbolt the Dog, and leads the fifteen pups on a wild chase after the "bandit." With word-for-word narration, playful text, and beautiful new artwork painted in the style of the original film, everyone will love this return to the world of 101 Dalmatians.
Nelson Mandela (Readers Bios)
by Barbara KramerNelson Mandela, who courageously dealt with adversity and emerged a world leader, has been an inspirational role model for millions of people around the world, from students to presidents. After being imprisoned for 27 years, in 1994 he became South Africa's first democratically-elected president and shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Mandela died in 2013, but his legacy lives on as a barrier-breaker and humanitarian. Learn all about his life, especially the challenges he faced and how he persevered, in this thoughtful biography.
Anna's Icy Adventure (Disney Frozen)
by Disney PressFearless optimist Anna sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven—to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. Children ages 6-9 will love this chapter book based on Disney Frozen.
Feast
by Disney PressThe story of one man's love life is seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals they share.
Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Force Collector
by Kevin ShinickIn this Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker young adult novel set just before The Force Awakens, a restless teenager sets out to discover what connection his mysterious Force powers have to the fabled Jedi and what the Force has in store for him.
Know the Creeds and Councils (KNOW Series)
by Justin S. HolcombIn every generation, the Christian church must interpret and restate its bedrock beliefs, answering the challenges and concerns of the day. This accessible overview walks readers through centuries of creeds, councils, catechisms, and confessions—not with a dry focus on dates and places, but with an emphasis on the living tradition of Christian belief and why it matters for our lives today.As a part of the KNOW series, Know the Creeds and Councils is designed for personal study or classroom use, but also for small groups and Sunday schools wanting to more deeply understand the foundations of the faith.Each chapter covers a key statement of faith and includes a discussion of its historical context, a simple explanation of the statement’s content and key points, reflections on contemporary and ongoing relevance, and discussion questions.
Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation
by Deborah Welch LarsonThe description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.
Women in the Middle East: Past and Present
by Nikki R. KeddieWritten by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of their past and rapidly changing present. The book also includes a brief autobiography that recounts Keddie's political activism as one of the first women in Middle East Studies. Positioning women within their individual economic situations, identities, families, and geographies, Women in the Middle East examines the experiences of women in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, in Iran, and in all the Arab countries. Keddie discusses the interaction of a changing Islam with political, cultural, and socioeconomic developments. In doing so, she shows that, like other major religions, Islam incorporated ideas and practices of male superiority but also provoked challenges to them. Keddie breaks with notions of Middle Eastern women as faceless victims, and assesses their involvement in the rise of modern nationalist, socialist, and Islamist movements. While acknowledging that conservative trends are strong, she notes that there have been significant improvements in Middle Eastern women's suffrage, education, marital choice, and health.
State of the Union: A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition (Politics and Society in Modern America #91)
by Nelson LichtensteinIn a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century.The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce.Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations.This edition includes a new preface in which Lichtenstein engages with many of those who have offered commentary on State of the Union and evaluates the historical literature that has emerged in the decade since the book's initial publication. He also brings his narrative into the current moment with a final chapter, "Obama's America: Liberalism without Unions.?
The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy
by Lynn Vavreck John Sides Chris TausanovitchWhat an intensely divisive election portends for American politicsThe year 2020 was a tumultuous time in American politics. It brought a global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and a razor-thin presidential election outcome. It culminated in an attack on the U.S. Capitol that attempted to deny Joe Biden’s victory. The Bitter End explores the long-term trends and short-term shocks that shaped this dramatic year and what these changes could mean for the future.John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch, and Lynn Vavreck demonstrate that Trump’s presidency intensified the partisan politics of the previous decades and the identity politics of the 2016 election. Presidential elections have become calcified, with less chance of big swings in either party’s favor. Republicans remained loyal to Trump and kept the election close, despite Trump’s many scandals, a recession, and the pandemic. But in a narrowly divided electorate even small changes can have big consequences. The pandemic was a case in point: when Trump pushed to reopen the country even as infections mounted, support for Biden increased. The authors explain that, paradoxically, even as Biden’s win came at a time of heightened party loyalty, there remained room for shifts that shaped the election’s outcome. Ultimately, the events of 2020 showed that instead of the country coming together to face national challenges—the pandemic, George Floyd’s murder, and the Capitol riot—these challenges only reinforced divisions.Expertly chronicling the tensions of an election that came to an explosive finish, The Bitter End presents a detailed account of a year of crises and the dangerous direction in which the country is headed.
How to Think Like an Anthropologist
by Matthew EngelkeFrom an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how humans organize their lives and articulate their values. In the process, anthropology has done more than any other discipline to reveal what culture means--and why it matters. By weaving together examples and theories from around the world, Matthew Engelke provides a lively, accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to anthropology, covering a wide range of classic and contemporary approaches, subjects, and practitioners. Presenting a set of memorable cases, he encourages readers to think deeply about some of the key concepts with which anthropology tries to make sense of the world—from culture and nature to authority and blood. Along the way, he shows why anthropology matters: not only because it helps us understand other cultures and points of view but also because, in the process, it reveals something about ourselves and our own cultures, too.
Winnie the Pooh: Party in the Wood (Disney Storybook with Audio (eBook) Ser.)
by Disney PressRead along with Disney! Eeyore's tail has gone missing! Follow along with word-for-word narration as Pooh and his friends try and try to find Eeyore a suitable replacement. Will Pooh save the day in time for a party in the Hundred-Acre Wood?
Tiana's Dream (Disney Princess Chapter Book)
by Disney Book GroupWalt Disney Pictures presents The Princess and the Frog. . . .Tiana is a young woman who dreams of opening her very own restaurant in the heart of New Orleans. Her dreams are put on hold, however, when she and the spoiled Prince Naveen are magically transformed into frogs! Lost in the Louisiana bayou, the unlikely pair must learn to overcome their differences and work together. With the help of a Cajun firefly and a trumpet-playing alligator, Tiana and Naveen set out on a quest to regain their human form. Along the way, they experience the romance of the bayou, the magic of Mardi Gras, the rich history of New Orleans, and the wonder of falling in love—all in a memorable fairy tale featuring the first new Disney princess in more than 10 years. Get to know Tiana in this early chapter book told from her point of view.
A Tale of Two Gardens (Disney Gnomeo and Juliet)
by Disney PressThis storybook introduces all the characters from the new animated movie Gnomeo & Juliet and features a full sheet of stickers to add to the fun!
Prilla and the Butterfly Lie (Disney Chapter Book (eBook) Ser.)
by Kitty RichardsPrilla just can't say no. When Nettle asks her to join in on caterpillar sheering for the second day in a row, Prilla tells a little white lie—she prefers butterflies to caterpillars. Then all the butterfly-herding talent fairies come down with a case of fairy pox, and because of her "love of butterflies," Prilla is asked to help out. But butterfly-herding is a lot harder than it sounds. Butterflies are downright mischievous, making Prilla's life perfectly miserable. Is it time for Prilla to 'fess up?"A charming tale about finding faith in oneself." —Discovery Girls
Disney Classic Stories: Monsters University (Monsters University)
by Disney PressRead along with Disney! Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan went to Monsters University to become the best Scarers the world had ever seen! But when they get kicked out of Scaring class, they have to figure out how to work together and win the Scare Games. Follow along with word-for-word narration as these two mismatched monsters became friends!
Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster (Disney Fairies)
by Laura DriscollFAWN LOVES PRACTICAL JOKES. She’s by far the best prankster in all of Pixie Hollow. Then her friend Beck plays a trick of her own that spooks the fairy dust off Fawn. Fawn would never let a good joke go unanswered, and in the blink of a dragonfly’s eye, the two fairies in an all-out practical joke battle! Prank follows prank until one night someone turns all the furniture in Fawn’s room upside down. And Beck swears it wasn’t her! But if Beck didn’t do it . . . and Fawn didn't do it . . . then who did? Is there another trickster in the Home Tree?
Doc McStuffins: The Mermaid Dives In
by Disney PressRead along with Disney! When Doc brings her swimming toy, Melinda the Mermaid, into the pool, she sinks right to the bottom. Doc gives her a check-up and fixes her up...but Melinda still sinks! Follow along with the word-for-word narration as Doc figures out what the mermaid actually needs.