Rated a very respectable 3.8 out of 5 on Goodreads

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

How to Speak and Write It Right

Sharpen your language skills and navigate your way around grammatical minefields with this entertaining and practical guide. For anyone who has ever been stumped by dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those who have no idea what these things even are, My Grammar and I...Or Should That Be Me? offers practical and humorous guidance on how to avoid falling into language pitfalls. Here are all the right tools to help you gain confidence as a speaker and writer, highlighting the most common language errors, such as wrongly used prepositions, misplaced modifiers, and confusing participles.

This refreshing refresher course covers:
? Spelling and Confusables-There are times when the spelling rule "i before e except after c" does not apply
? Parts of Speech-Is it "its" or "it's"? "Whose" or "who's"?
? Sentence Structure-Let us ponder the subject, or object, of "I" and "me"
? Punctuation-So where does a comma go?
? Elements of Style-There is more to grammar than knowing the difference between a subordinate object and a nonrestrictive apostrophe

And, for those grammar know-it-alls, there are entertaining "Smart Aleck" trivia, anecdotes, witticisms, and more. Clever and informative, this is the ideal gift for all English-language sticklers.

My Grammar and I... or Should That Be Me?

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Mike Knudson

Steve Wilkinson

Gift message on inner cover. Price sticker on dust sleeve.

Texas

Best friends Raymond and Graham have looked forward to being the "oldest, coolest, toughest" boys at East Millcreek Elementary School, but from the start of fourth grade everything goes wrong, from getting the scary teacher to not getting the lead in theschool play.

Raymond and Graham Rule the School

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Marsha Serling Goldberg

Sonia Feldman

True Stories of Great Teachers

Teachers with Class celebrates teachers and the art of good teaching. Almost everyone has had a special teacher at some point-one who saw potential where others did not, one who made ideas come alive, one who taught more than what was in the textbook. In Teachers with Class, 30 famous and not-so-famous people thank their favorite teachers with essays that praise the difference a good teacher makes.James Earl Jones honors the high school English teacher who helped him overcome his stutter and learn to speak comfortably out loud. An architect recalls a teacher's belief in the unlikeliest student. Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, Thomas Friedman, remembers the teacher who inspired his career in journalism by imparting lessons that are relevant today. One man tells of the math teacher whose patience and guidance gave him the confidence to succeed as a physician and researcher. These stories will spark memories about the special teachers in your own life. You can use the dedication page provided at the beginning of the book to inscribe a note to say thank you to a favorite teacher. Or, to really say thank you, use the list of grants and awards for teachers featured in the book to nominate a teacher who made a positive impact on your life. A portion of the proceeds from Teachers with Class will go to the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation.

Teachers with Class

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Colin Sale

Book shows little to no signs of use. There are no markings are writing inside. Book is thin; however, dimensions of the book are about 16” x 14”. ￼p60jnvq

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

Includes more than fifty maps; a fact file on each country and territory; illustrations of places, people, landscapes, and wildlife; an introduction to map making and map reading; projects; activities; and quizzes.

Children's Atlas of the World

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James Rumford

Old library stickers. Some signs of use. Book is clean. C

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.

Rain School

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Denise Brennan-Nelson

In excellent like new condition from a smoke free home.

Ohio

A visual interpretation of familiar proverbs and witticisms.

My Teacher Likes to Say

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Rosemary Wells

#paperback #school #animal #kids #fiction #picturebook #backtoschool

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Timothy learns about being accepted and making friends during the first week of his first year at school.

Timothy Goes to School

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#hardcover #exlibrary #kids #children #childrensbook #picturebook #livingbook #elementary #childrens #school 

Secret in the Matchbox 

I #paperback #rainforest #nature #science #classroom #asia #school #scientific #naturalscience #indonesia

Science

Rain forests play an important role in the oxygen cycle, providing the oxygen that animals and people need. The different trees in rain forests have different uses

Theme Sets: Indonesia's Rain Forests

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Vintage 1962 health & safety chidlren’s textbook

Electives

Seven or So

Doggone…Third Grade 

#hardcover #fiction #mystery #ya #school #secrets #framed

Wisconsin

One viral photo.Four expelled teens.Everyone's a suspect. Theo Foster's Twitter account used to be anonymous--until someone posted a revealing photo that got him expelled. No final grade. No future. No fair. Theo's resigned to a life of misery working at the local mini-mart when a miracle happens: Sasha Ellis speaks to him. Sasha Ellis knows his name. She was also expelled for a crime she didn't commit, and now he has the perfect way to get her attention: find out who set them up. To uncover the truth, Theo has to get close to the suspects: the hacker, the quarterback, the mean girl, the vice principal, and his own best friend. What secrets are they hiding? And how can Theo catch their confessions on camera?

Expelled

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Barbara Park

At first it seems as though Maxie, Rosie, and Earl have nothing in common. Maxie is too smart for his own good, Rosie is a born tattler, and Earl can't stop cracking up when he reads out loud in class. But when all three kids land outside the principal's office in disgrace, they can't help comparing notes. Just when they think there's no chance of a reprieve, the fire alarm goes off. There's only one thing for three doomed nerds to do -- head straight for the exit doors and dive into the Dumpster!

Maxie, Rosie, and Earl - Partners in Grime

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Nancy Krulik

It's the first day of first grade at Appleville Elementary, and the kids who are going to be in Miss Popper's class are really excited.Well, everyone except Carlos, that is! He'd rather stay in kindergarten. Carlos decides he'll go to first grade for one day only, andhe'll never come back. But when Miss Popper reveals that someone new will be arriving on the second day of school, Carlos can't helpbut return. Who will the new arrival be? The simple vocabulary and sentence structure make this new series a perfect fit for readerswho are ready for their first chapter book.

First Day

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Barbara Baker

Liza is convinced third grade is going to be great until she gets to school that first day and everything starts going wrong.

Third Grade Is Trouble

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Donald Crews

Delaware

School Bus

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Ex library book. Book will be in great/good condition unless otherwise stated. Clear film has been removed. Library stamp and small sticker are on inside and/or back of covers.

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North Carolina

When the President finds the many pressures of his job to be overwhelming, he disguises himself and returns to kindergarten, where he is reminded of the important lessons he learned there.

Mr. President Goes to School

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Missouri

The Kids of the Polk Street School 

The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room

#hardcover #hamlet #exlibrarybook #dionne #ya #school

New York

Hamlet Kennedy just wants to be your average, happy, vanilla eighth grader. But with Shakespearean scholar parents who dress in Elizabethan regalia and generally go about in public as if it were the sixteenth century, that's not terribly easy. It gets worse when they decide that Hamlet's genius seven year-old sister will attend middle school with her-- and even worse when the Shakespeare project is announced and her sister is named the new math tutor. By the time an in-class recitation reveals that our heroine is an extraordinary Shakespearean actress, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she--like her family--is anything but average.

In a novel every bit as funny as her debut, Erin Dionne has created another eighth grader whose situation is utterly unique--but whose foibles and farces will resound with every girl currently suffering through middle school.



The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet

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Start the school year laughing. Get back in the swing of things with back-to-school jokes and riddles that will keep you giggling all school year long.

101 Back to School Jokes (rev)

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Scholastic, Inc. Staff

Minnesota

The Answer Book to School Survival

Easy-to-understand information and all the facts you need in a hurry--the order is alphabetical!

Everything You Need to Know

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James W. Fraser

The book looks like it’s hardly been used. There is a note at the front of the book that you can see in the photos, along with the former owner’s name. The rest of the pages are spotless, with no markings at all. If it weren’t for the note at the beginning of the book, I would’ve listed this book as being in excellent condition.￼ vd1fvvq

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

History

A History of the United States

By the People

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Nevada

Middle School. How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli,Snake Hill

Lester L. Laminack

Reba M. Wadsworth

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Reading & Language Arts

Making the Most of Read-Alouds Across the Day

Lester and Reba not only provide us with a bold new framework for weaving read-alouds seamlessly into the fabric of the classroom, they also show us how to do it with grace and art. At the heart of their work are richly annotated lists of read-alouds for a variety of purposes. The authors' intimate knowledge and experience with these books make the annotations sing. - Lucy Calkins Open this book and invite the richness, the excitement of story and poetry into your classroom every single day. Take note, chapter by chapter, of the endless possibilities and ways to steer your students toward the powerful enchantment of books. Laminack and Wadsworth ask you to never forget "the power of literacy in the lives of learners," and this book will serve as a perfect reminder, time and time again. - Rebecca Kai Dotlich, author of Lemonade Sun and Other Poems of Summer The read-aloud of yesteryear was often limited in its ambition and application - a well-intended routine for getting students' attention or settling them down. But today's read-aloud is a vibrant, deliberate part of good teaching, an essential, effective strategy for introducing sophisticated ideas to young learners throughout the school day by immersing them in rich language and literate behaviors. The influence of reading aloud can be profound, and Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature shows you how to plan for and implement the read-aloud for maximum instructional effect. Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature revolutionizes the read-aloud. Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth lay out six types of read-alouds each of which targets key instructional goals, including: addressing standards in the curriculum building community demonstrating the craft of writing enriching vocabulary enticing children to read independently modeling fluent reading. Whether you read aloud once a day, or six times a day, Laminack and Wadsworth give you all the strategies you need to make the read-aloud a successful and effective way to lead your students to new understandings. You'll discover how, why, and when to read aloud, and find both specific suggestions for planning instruction around it and numerous ideas for entry points into it. Best of all, they provide an extensively annotated list of four hundred titles to use with each of the six types of read-aloud, including ample suggestions for how each fits within the reading and writing curriculum.

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