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Ready to begin homeschooling? Let hundreds of experienced homeschoolers help you on your way! This practical guide will: - answer the questions new homeschoolers ask most often - help you navigate through legal issues, academic requirements, record-keeping, and testing - describe...

This practical, easy-to-read book explores the basics of parenting gifted children, truly giving parents the "introductory course" they need to better understand and help their gifted child. Topics include myths about gifted children, characteristics of the gifted, the hows and whys of advocacy,...

If you are parenting a teen: your teenager absolutely needs to read this book. If you are teen yourself: grab this book immediately and allow it to change your life. Here inside this book you will find important lessons that every teen needs to understand about life but that will never...

He’s a nice foster kid. She’s one of the popular girls. Can these two ever really be friends? Ollie Warren is a foster kid with a dream: to play trombone just like his grandfather. As soon as he’s old enough to join the school band, a bully steps in and puts a major wrench into his plans....

With captivating text and illustrations, readers can follow along as a class meets another teacher in its school and learns new information about what teachers do. Comprehension questions, fun facts, and critical thinking questions keep readers engaged and introduce them to thinking about what they're reading.

It's the first day of school! Join the kids as they prepare for kindergarten, packing school supplies, posing for pictures, and the hardest part of all—saying good-bye to Mom and Dad. But maybe it won't be so hard once they discover just how much fun kindergarten really is! Colorful illustrations illuminate this uplifting takeoff on the classic Clement C. Moore Christmas poem.

Bullying is a problem that never goes away and it can happen to anyone, even princesses. Prince William’s wife, Kate suffered bullying at school, and so requested their wedding guests make donations to an anti-bullying charity. This informative and provocative guide gets to the root of...

When two self-professed middle school drama geeks––Isabelle and Annie (a.k.a. Cisco and The Bean)––fail at their attemps in romance, they start Flirt Club, an after school support group for similarly afflicted friends who decide to take decisive and strategic action with hilarious and touching results.

The delightful new series continues—Chloe Zoe is starting kindergarten!   Full days of school for a full week. Chloe Zoe has a new backpack and matching lunch box and is so excited to see her best friends Mary Margaret and George. On the first day of school, Chloe Zoe discovers Mary Margaret is...

Dewey is a Special Education student who doesn't know where he came from. There are thousands of kids like Dewey in the system. Many are in foster care; wards of the state, and countless are abused and angry. Dewey uses his frustration a little bit differently than most. He is diagnosed with Autism,...

"I put on my imaginary thinking cap. Mine is a hot pink, domed helmet with purple lightning bolts on the sides. It pulls down from a long spring coil above my bed... So with my cap in place, I started thinking of possible homework excuses. Maybe I could tell Miss Haven that I'd spent the last two...

A funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking contemporary story about three boys, one teacher, and a day none of them will ever forget. Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The boring ones, the mean ones, the ones who try too hard, the ones who stopped trying long ago. The ones...

The Lie' is a short story by Mary Antin published shortly after 'the Promised Land' in 1912. In this story, an immigrant father Mr. Rudinsky, lies about his son's age in order to keep in the American school system for two more years. Young David is a devoted student and does well in school but the...

If you dream of better days, greater experiences, expanded access to learning, to a more loving relationship with your child, to less struggle, less striving, and more authentic success and contribution; read this book. The world is changing. Human beings are continually evolving. The way we...