Higher, Steeper, Faster

Higher, Steeper, Faster

Author: Lawrence Goldstone

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0316350222

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Discover the daring aviation pioneers who made the dream of powered flight a reality, forever changing the course of history. Aviator Lincoln Beachey broke countless records: he looped-the-loop, flew upside down and in corkscrews, and was the first to pull his aircraft out of what was a typically fatal tailspin. As Beachey and other aviators took to the skies in death-defying acts in the early twentieth century, these innovative daredevils not only wowed crowds, but also redefined the frontiers of powered flight. Higher, Steeper, Faster takes readers inside the world of the brave men and women who popularized flying through their deadly stunts and paved the way for modern aviation. With heart-stopping accounts of the action-packed race to conquer the skies, plus photographs and fascinating archival documents, this book will exhilarate readers as they fly through the pages.


More! Phonics Through Poetry

More! Phonics Through Poetry

Author: Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

Publisher: Good Year Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781596470200

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This poetry collection is meant to be read aloud so that children hear a particular language sound again and again in word after word, all within an enticing and meaningful context--P. [4] of cover.


Free-Heel Skiing

Free-Heel Skiing

Author: Paul Parker

Publisher: The Mountaineers Books

Published: 2001-10-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1594853916

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The definitive manual on learning to telemark ski -- free-heeling with confidence and style!


Boost Your STEAM Program with Great Literature and Activities

Boost Your STEAM Program with Great Literature and Activities

Author: Liz Knowles

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-06-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13:

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You've created a STEAM program in your library, but how do you work literacy into the curriculum? With this collection of resource recommendations, direction for program development, and activities, you'll have students reading proficiently in no time. Many schools and libraries are implementing STEAM programs in the school library makerspace to promote problem solving by allowing students to create their own solutions to a problem through trial and error. In order to enhance literacy development in the STEAM program, however, they need resources for integrating literature into the curriculum. In this collection of resources for doing just that, veteran education professionals and practiced coauthors Liz Knowles and Martha Smith bring readers over eight hundred recommended and annotated books and web resources, selected based on research on successfully integrating STEAM and literacy programs and organized by the five STEAM areas. Titles are complemented by discussion questions and problem-solving activities that will aid educators in both adding and using the best literature to their STEAM programs for encouraging learning. In addition to promoting literacy, these resources will help to develop creativity, lateral thinking skills, and confidence in students.


Beaches of the New South Wales Coast

Beaches of the New South Wales Coast

Author: Andrew D. Short

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2007-05-14

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1743329350

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The second edition of this popular book has been completely rewritten and expanded. It covers every one of the 757 open coast beaches as well as 120 beaches in five large bays including Sydney Harbour.


Argonauts of the Scottish Isles

Argonauts of the Scottish Isles

Author: Robin Lloyd-Jones

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1788853105

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Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas, we are transported to Jura, Scarba, the Garvellach Isles, Mull, Staffa, the Treshnish Isles, the Monach Isles, Iona, Lewis and the Uists, Skye, the Orkneys, and the Shetland Isles. Along the way, he explains a great deal about kayaking, about the wildlife and history of the areas he visits. More than that, however, he makes us feel that we are with him in his kayak. Through his vivid and beautifully crafted prose, we experience the terror of a force nine gale, the tranquillity of moonlit trips, and the lure of tiny bays and seal-meadows accessible only to a slim kayak. We encounter dolphins, otters, unidentified monsters and nuclear submarines. This is a book to set the imagination adrift and appeal to the Robinson Crusoe in all of us; a book for those seeking wider horizons, be their vessel an armchair or a kayak.


Reference Skills for the School Librarian

Reference Skills for the School Librarian

Author: Ann Marlow Riedling Ph.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1440867100

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Designed for courses that prepare LIS students for school librarianship, this title teaches basic reference processes, sources, services, and skills and provides authentic school library reference scenarios and exercises. This fourth edition of Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips acknowledges the vital importance of reference skills in school libraries. It focuses on new reference skills for school librarians and includes more online materials such as Webliographies and a glossary. Teaching reference skills and providing reference services to students and staff in schools are extremely important tasks and are required of librarians on a regular basis. Aimed at pre-service and in-service school librarians, this book covers all types of reference materials including almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other standard information sources, giving extra emphasis to the online sources to which students increasingly turn. This edition addresses more online reference resources than previous editions and offers practical suggestions for use in K–12 student instruction.


First in Flight

First in Flight

Author: Michael Burgan

Publisher: Compass Point Books

Published: 2020-08

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0756566215

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"On-point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the story of the historic first flight ever to life. Kids will feel as though they are at Kitty Hawk with Wilbur and Orville Wright as the brothers prepare to test their aircraft. They'll also learn about the history of flight and the skepticism that greeted the Wrights when they, at first, refused to release the photograph of their successful flight"--


Megachurch

Megachurch

Author: Robert A. Allen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-07-09

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1666714860

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Time is running out. A successor must be in place before megachurch pastor Ernst Edwards dies. He must meet the qualifications delineated by the apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 3. He must also gain the approval of Serenity Edwards, who has been tasked with the choice. Serenity's loyalty to her father compels her acceptance of the task. Her fear that he is playing matchmaker complicates matters, since all four candidates are young and single. InSpire Ministries, already the source of a worldwide revival, could march into the future in four different directions. Daniel Ellicott oversees a thriving missionary outreach in Afghanistan. Michal DeLoran and his Prophet videos dominate the contemporary Christian music scene. Sports evangelist Billy Wilson fills athletic venues with the story of his rescue from addiction to drugs. Benjamin Morris embodies the biblical scholarship that has attracted a worldwide audience to InSpire Ministries in the past. Traveling to interview each candidate on his home turf, Serenity must balance her urgent concern for the future of her father's ministry with the passionate yearnings of her own heart.