The Long Ride Home

The Long Ride Home

Author: Marsha Hubler

Publisher: Zonderkidz

Published: 2010-07-06

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0310429331

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In the eighth and final book of the Keystone Stables series, perfect for girls who love horses and horse fiction, foster child Skye must confront her past and decide her future when she has the opportunity to find her birth parents and possibly reunite. On a trip to South Carolina with her foster family, Skye gets the shock of her life when the waitress at a local diner seems to recognize her. The woman proves to be Skye’s long-lost Aunt Millie—the first blood relative Skye has ever met. As Skye and Mom and Dad Chambers attempt to track down Skye’s birth parents with Millie’s help, Skye’s foster sister and best friend, Morgan, struggles with her own family regrets. As the secrets of both Skye’s and Morgan’s lives are revealed, it becomes clear more is at stake than anyone can imagine—and both girls have a big decision to make. The Long Ride Home: is written by an author who has firsthand experience with horses and foster care is a contemporary and realistic plot, with an inspirational Christian message features a character with special needs contains extensive back matter on different horse breeds, how to care for them, and horsemanship, as well as facts, diagrams, and a glossary of horse terms so girls can better know their favorite animal


Life in the Boreal Forest

Life in the Boreal Forest

Author: Brenda Z. Guiberson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2009-09-29

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 0805077189

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The boreal forest is buried in ice and snow during winter. But in summer lakes teem with fish, and bogs swarm with insects. Follow a snowshoe hare, beavers, a lynx, and other animals as they survive a year in this endangered landscape.


Walden on Wheels

Walden on Wheels

Author: Ken Ilgunas

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 054402883X

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Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set out on a Spartan path to pay off $32,000 in undergraduate student loans by scrubbing toilets and making beds in Alaska. Determined to graduate debt-free after enrolling in graduate school, he lived in an Econoline van in a campus parking lot, saving--and learning--much about the cost of education today.


Honoring Our Ancestors

Honoring Our Ancestors

Author: Harriet Rohmer

Publisher: Children's Book Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780892391585

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Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present paintings with descriptions of ancestors or other sources of inspiration that have inspired them.


Raptors

Raptors

Author: Anne Price

Publisher: Roberts Rinehart

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 1461663938

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An expanded and revised version of the best-selling Eagles, Hawks, Falcons, and Owls: A Coloring Album, Raptors contains stunning color images of North America's most majestic birds surrounded by activities and coloring pages. Ann Price provides a brief description of what separates raptors from other birds, their evolution from prehistoric forebears, and offers a map to illustrate distribution throughout the North American continent today. The centerpiece of the book is a gallery of 50 raptors, one per page, with a brief description of each bird's unique characteristics, lifestyle, and habitat. Keyed to color paintings found elsewhere in the book, these pages provide an opportunity for children to create their own renderings of the plumage of these magnificent birds.


Paddling Pennsylvania

Paddling Pennsylvania

Author: Jeff Mitchell

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2009-12-16

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0811741222

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Maps and descriptions for more than 200 Pennsylvania waterways. Information on minimum water levels, potential hazards, and difficulty level of each stream. Includes directions and recommendations for put-in and take-out at each site.


Strategic Co-teaching in Your School

Strategic Co-teaching in Your School

Author: Richael Barger-Anderson

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781598571660

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This text gives readers a detailed, step-by-step guide to the research-based 'Co-Design Model', an innovative, schoolwide approach used in districts nationwide to strengthen collaboration and inclusion.