James Patterson

Chris Tebbetts

Joshua Boone

Audiobook on 3 CDs and approximately 3 listening hours. Library discard in a hard clamshell case. Plays fine- weren’t any skips when I listened to it. Unabridged.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Public School Superhero

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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Jayne Entwistle

World War ll historical fiction novel. Beautifully written Audiobook on 6 CDs and 7 1/2 hours of listening time. This was a library discard book that I just finished listening to and it had no skips or issues. In a clamshell hard case. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother. Simultaneous.

The War That Saved My Life

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This is an audiobook version on 9 CDs with 11 listening hours. It is a library discard. I just finished listening to it and it played perfectly. 

The Importance of Getting Revenge

Robert Wandberg

John Rohwer

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Guide to Becoming a Successful Teacher

Using a workbook format, Teaching to the Standards of Effective Practice: A Workbook to Prepare and Guide a Successful Teaching Experience is a book designed to assist and guide a successful student teacher experience. This book uses an action and reflection approach. Using the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards as a base, more than 90 chapter activities support the knowledge and skill required for successful and effective teaching. In addition to these activities, self-assessments, a research-based foundation, expert commentaries, vignettes, student-to-student tips, and case studies guide the student teacher to a successful experience. Designed for student teachers and for those in the beginning years of their teaching career.

Teaching to the Standards of Effective Practice

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Courtney W. Moffatt

Thomas L. Moffatt

An Educator's Companion

Handbook for the Beginning Teacher: An Educator's Companion is an invaluable reference of best practices to help the student teacher or the beginning in-service teacher prepare for and develop his or her first classroom.

This text is filled with teaching ideas, tips, and checklists to make the teacher's job easier. It contains useful information on how to assess and grade students, the issue of politics in the school, and working with special populations of students. Handbook for the Beginning Teacher also includes classroom mangement techniques and protective behaviors and procedures used to avoid violence in the school and in the individual classroom.

Moffatt and Moffatt developed this text with the input of teachers and students from all subjects and grade levels to insure that all teachers' needs are met. Many tips and procedures in the text, such as the countdown calendar, make the difficult task of preparing for a new school year easy. Charts, outlines, and teacher materials in the text are readily available for teacher use, as they have been provided in an 8 x 10 format with perforated pages so they can be pulled out and used and reused as needed.

Handbook for the Beginning Teacher

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Betty D. Roe

Elinor P. Ross

A guide for the student teacher or new teacher.

This handbook reviews essential educational theory, fills in some gaps that are often not covered by methods courses, offers practical suggestions for handling a full range of classroom concerns, and provides a setting for critical analysis of teaching activities. The first four chapters help students get ready to teach; the next five address specific teaching challenges; and the final chapter provides information about entering the teaching profession, professional ethics, and legal issues important to all teachers. Three appendices cover assessment instruments, a sample unit and lesson plans, and a sample learning center.

Student Teaching and Field Experiences

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Lucasfilm Lucasfilm Press

Each story can be read aloud in 5 minutes- perfect for a bedtime story for the younger Star Wars fans!

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Join Anakin, Luke, and Yoda for an epic collection of stories adapted from all seven Star Wars films, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens! With 12 Star Wars stories that can each be read in 5 minutes, this padded storybook is the perfect fit for bedtime, storytime, or anytime.

Star Wars: 5-Minute Star Wars Stories

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Linda Billman Venekamp

Teachers’ Resources for Grades 1-6 for every day from August 1 to July 31. A sample page of the Table of Contents is shown in the pictures.

Philosophy

A Teacher's Calendar of Activities, Internet Sites, and Resources for Grades 1-6

This 240-page resource is a substantive lesson-planning book that provides teachers with great lesson planning ideas and tools for organization. This resource text also includes an array of internet sites, as well as creative tools to use in the classroom. Can be valuepacked with any Allyn & Bacon text at a discount.

Celebrate the Day

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Milton Schwebel

C. R. Schwebel

Bernice L. Schwebel

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Student Teacher's Handbook

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Carol M. Charles

Guidebook for preservice teachers, assistants, practicing teachers, and supervisors at all levels. Every adult in a classroom could use fresh strategies or refresh their knowledge on classroom discipline.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Building Classroom Discipline

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Teacher Education resource book. Understanding issues impacting school readiness. Each chapter written by leaders in the field. 

Perspectives on Cultural Diversity 

School Readiness and Social-Emotional Development 

Leigh Chiarelott

Leonard Davidman

Kevin Ryan

Workbook and text to focus student teacher observations, improve teaching methods, and/or to use as a university/college professor of Education resource.

Social Studies

Developing Perspectives on Classroom Life

An introduction to teaching and methods for the student with extensive field exposure, LENSES ON TEACHING, THIRD EDITION, is a combined workbook and text meant to focus student teacher observations in elementary and secondary classrooms. The authors address issues such as, cultural diversity in the classroom, ethics, and school reform and restructuring, with readings and exercises designed to fit cohesively with virtually any core text. Discussions and topics maximize classroom creativity and are easily modified to fit specific field sites and concepts. Designed to successfully function as a field guide or supplement to an introductory or methods text. LENSES ON TEACHING includes readings, observations, and structured interviewing tasks. Core activities, journal entries, and references for each chapter provide support for theory and direction for application.

Lenses on Teaching

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Lessons from around the world. Stories of hope & encouragement and what early childhood practitioners could do in the face of adversity. 

The Power of Early Childhood Initiatives

From Conflict to Peace Building

Antony Dufort

The dust cover has a few tears but the actual book is in like new condition. 

Practice to Performance

Text and illustrations introduce the techniques of ballet from the basic five positions through more complex steps and movements and demonstrate how these are used in various ballets.

Ballet Steps

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George Balanchine

Francis Mason

The book is in good condition especially for its age. Pages are yellowed with age but not bent or written on. There is a personalized inscription inside and the cover shows shelf wear and a bent corner. The interior is in excellent condition. 

The Scene-By-scene Stories of the Most Popular Ballets, Old and New

Authored by one of the ballet's most respected experts, this volume includes scene-by-scene retellings of the most popular classic and contemporary ballets, as performed by the world's leading dance companies. Certain to delight long-time fans as well as those just discovering the beauty and drama of ballet.

101 Stories of the Great Ballets

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Janis Keyser

This book is for guidance in developing communication with families for the early childhood professional. 


Building a Family-Centered Early Childhood Program

Proven tools and strategies for partnering with parents as an essential element in successful ECE programs.

From Parents to Partners

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Mary Renck Jalongo

This is a teacher resource book for developing listening skills in young children.

Building Essential Skills in Young Children

Eyes on China is the ideal textbook for students entering the third year of a four-year course of Chinese language study and those who are ready to move from an intermediate to advanced level. Bridging the gap between informal spoken Chinese and more formal written Chinese, this textbook presents an on-the-ground perspective of what a visitor to China today might see and experience. Unlike other advanced-level textbooks, which typically feature essays, articles, and reviews from Chinese newspapers and magazines, the selections included here have all been written by the authors expressly for this book. They cover a range of timely China-related topics, including the problem of air pollution, corruption, infrastructure development, the development of high-speed rail, the prevalence of knock-off products in the marketplace, new tech trends, the contemporary art scene, and the relationship between mainland China and Taiwan. Each chapter's featured text is accompanied by grammar structure explanations, a vocabulary list, and other useful tools. · An ideal textbook for students progressing to advanced-level Chinese language study · Brand-new materials present a comprehensive understanding of China today · Features original selections enhanced by grammar explanations, vocabulary lists, and other tools

Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn

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Carolyn Webster-Stratton

For teachers of children ages 4-8, this book shows how teachers can work with parents in addressing children’s educational and emotional needs. Includes classroom management strategies. 

This book shows how teachers can collaborate with parents in addressing children's educational and emotional needs, and presents a variety of classroom management strategies.

How to Promote Children′s Social and Emotional Competence

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Karen Menke Paciorek

Great read for pre-service or practicing teachers to develop philosophy of education and critical thinking skills.

Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Early Childhood Education

Taking Sides Early Childhood Education

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#Audiocassette and #paperback with more than 60 #early childhood tunes to play & sing. From 1998. Used once. I don’t own a cassette player to test it, but the book it comes with is worth the purchase if the cassette doesn’t play right anymore. 

Art, music, drama/theater

Wee Sing Games, Games, Games

Christian Rummel

Joseph Wambaugh

This is an unabridged audiobook on 10 CDs with 11 listening hours. Former library edition that looks like I’m the only one who listened to it. Good condition in clamshell case.

A Novel

Hollywood Hills

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Nora Roberts

Bernadette Quigley

This is an audiobook on 13 CDs. Approximately 15 hours of listening time. Former library edition. Good condition in clamshell case.

Three Fates

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Sue Grafton

Judy Kaye

This is an audiobook in the alphabet mystery series by Sue Grafton. This is an abridged version on 5 CDs and has approximately 6 listening hours. It is a former library edition. 

Kinsey Millhone Mystery

Two dead bodies change the course of Kinsey's life. The first is a local PI gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. The other is on the beach six weeks later. No ID, probably homeless. Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey digs deeper, some very strange links between the men emerge.

W Is for Wasted

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Abridged audiobook with 6 hours of listening time on 5 CDs. Former library copy. Good condition. 

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