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    Putting the Analytic Writing Continuum to Work in Your Classroom

    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Many writing teachers are searching for a better way to turn student writing into teaching and learning opportunities without being crushed under the weight of student papers. This book introduces a rubric designed by the National Writing Project—the Analytic Writing Continuum (AWC)—that is making its way into classrooms across the country at all grade levels. The authors use sample student ... Read more

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  • The Book of Phoebe

    Saucy, brash, irreverent— The Book Of Phoebe is an extraordinary novel about a young woman's six-month sojourn in Paris, where she has a baby, falls madly in love, and discovers a great deal about the capacities of the human heart. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plant a Tree for Me

    Motivational and Inspiring Environmental Action Plan

    Series Book 1 - Plant a Tree
    Discover the answer to a thriving planet. Get inspired and motivated to make a difference for the environment. You are important. You possess the power to change things. Champion a big adventure. Be a mighty tower of rocket power. You have ten good years to get the planet going in the right direction.Start now."Plant a Tree for Me" is motivational and inspiring for the answers to climate change ... Read more

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  • Writing to Make an Impact

    Expanding the Vision of Writing in the Secondary Classroom

    Through ideas and practices straight from the classrooms of outstanding teachers, this lively resource illustrates writing that makes an impact on a reader, a writer, or a cause—writing that everyone wants to read. The book is rich with student work that shows how writing can make things happen in the world. The authors provide ready-to-use lessons that include a full range of writing, including ... Read more

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  • When Challenge Brings Change

    How Teacher Breakthroughs Transform the Classroom

    Edited by Sandra Murphy, Mary Ann Smith ...
    All teachers face challenges—from the daunting and unexpected, like teaching during a pandemic, to nagging doubts about daily interactions and teaching practices. If there were ever a time for sharing teacher personal and professional breakthroughs—the ways teachers have successfully and courageously turned a corner—that time is now. In this collection of compelling narratives, high school and ... Read more

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  • Uncommonly Good Ideas—Teaching Writing in the Common Core Era

    This innovative resource provides teachers with a road map for designing a comprehensive writing curriculum that meets Common Core standards. The authors zero in on several “big ideas” that lead to and support effective practices in writing instruction, such as integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening; teaching writing as a process; extending the range of students’ writing; spiraling ... Read more

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  • Girls of Tender Age

    A Memoir

    In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches that of Angela's Ashes with the tale of a community plagued by a malevolent predator that holds the ... Read more

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    Love Her Madly

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    A tense, death-row drama—meet brash FBI investigator Poppy Rice in Love Her Madly, the first of a winning new series by Mary-Ann Tirone SmithPoppy Rice is home in her D.C. apartment with very little furniture and lots of boxes she still hasn't unpacked after five years. It's three a.m. and she's suffering from her usual insomnia. While polishing her nails, she watches a tape of the *CBS Evening ... Read more

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    American Killing, An

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    As such things are measured in Washington, Denise Burke has everything a woman of wit could want: two hip kids able to look after themselves; a marriage constructed to allow maximum mutual leeway with a husband smack in the center of Clinton's inner circle; and a high-profile lover, the most eligible bachelor on Capitol Hill. Plus, she's a bestselling author of several true crime books.When her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Honoured Guest

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    It is November, 1860. Anne Alger Craven leaves her home at Abingdon Square, Manhattan, prepared to enter the lion’s den that is Charleston, South Carolina; Anne is an abolitionist. In Charleston the penalty for supporting emancipation is execution.But Anne is also a metallurgist, granddaughter of Cyrus Alger, founder of Boston's Alger Iron Works, birthplace of the great cannon, the 50,000 pound ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • MASTERS OF ILLUSION

    A Novel of the Great Circus Fire

    With a reporter’s eye, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, the acclaimed author of ten books, re-creates an unforgettable and horrific tragedy—the Great Circus Fire—that left 169 people dead and more than a thousand injured, almost all women and children.Their husbands and fathers were off fighting with the Allied Armies in Europe, and the Naval forces in the Pacific.Emerging from the tragedy is the story of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Love Her Madly

    Series Book 1 - The Poppy Rice Mysteries
    A tense, death-row drama: Meet brash FBI investigator Poppy Rice in Love Her Madly , the first of a winning new series by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith.Poppy Rice is home in her D.C. apartment with very little furniture and lots of boxes she still hasn't unpacked after five years. It's three a.m. and she's suffering from her usual insomnia. While polishing her nails, she watches a tape of the CBS Evening ... Read more

    $12.99 USD