The Feedback-Friendly Classroom
How to equip students to give, receive, and seek quality feedback that will support their social, academic, and developmental needs.
P.L.A.N. for Better Learning
4 simple steps for designing lessons that boost thinking and maximize learning.
"This Is a Great Book!"
101 events for building enthusiastic readers inside and outside the classroom — from chapter books to young adult novels.
The Blue Dragon
Forensic accountant Peter Strand investigates a suspicious death in San Francisco’s Chinatown in this work of crime fiction.
I.O.U. Dead
In this work of crime fiction, Keno, a bill collector, is unwittingly drawn into a murder investigation when he witnesses a serial killer fleeing the scene of a crime.
The Weight of Freedom
Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland.
Across the Rivers of Memory
The name Transnistria did not exist on a map. Yet that is where ten-year-old Felicia Steigman and her parents arrive in 1941, after a cruel deportation and death march overseen by Romanian Nazi collaborators.
A Name Unbroken
Miklos Friedman grows up learning to take risks and seize opportunities. In 1944, as Germany occupies Hungary, he must draw on his wits to survive
Never Far Apart
Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents.
Hope's Reprise
David Newman’s gifts as a musician and a teacher carry him through years of brutality during the war.
Beethoven's Tenth
In this murder mystery, piano tuner and unlikely sleuth Frank Ryan is forced to solve a mystery in order to save his life.
Disappearing Act
In this murder mystery, rookie private investigator Leena O’Neil must clear her sister’s name.
Exploding the Reading
Building a world of responses from one story: 50 interactive strategies for increasing comprehension.
Stop the Stress in Schools
Mental health strategies teachers can use to build a kinder gentler classroom.
Joy Runs Deeper
“I kept asking myself, Was all my suffering worth it? Was it worth staying alive? Nobody was left—no family, no friends . . . Then I remembered that I had Josio and thanked God for that. We joined hands and started walking, ready to face the future."
As the Lilacs Bloomed
“The pen is shaking in my paralyzed hand as I write: I AM ALIVE! I am alive and it is May again. The lilacs are in bloom and I smell their sweet fragrance again. There was springtime last year as well, but we had no eyes for beauty. Our lips forgot how to smile, our hearts were shattered! And now I’m alive again!”
