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Allie's back with a brand-new set of rules! When her parents announce they're going out of town, Allie is convinced she's going to have the best weekend ever with Uncle Jay in charge... until Allie's mom announces that Allie has to go to Brittany Hauser's birthday party. But Allie doesn't even like Brittany Hauser, or want to go with all her snobby friends in a stretch limo to her big blowout birthday bash at the Build-a-Bear store, and then spend the night in a deluxe hotel suite in the city. Allie's going to miss all her real friends. Besides, Allie knows Brittany only invited her because Mrs. Hauser made her, since Allie's mom is the star movie reviewer for Good News!, the local cable news show. When her parents announce they're going out of town, Allie is convinced she's going to have the best weekend ever with Uncle Jay in charge... until Allie's mom announces that Allie has to go to Brittany Hauser's birthday party. But Allie doesn't even like Brittany Hauser, or want to go with all her snobby friends in a stretch limo to her big blowout birthday bash at the Build-a-Bear store, and then spend the night in a deluxe hotel suite in the city. Allie's going to miss all her real friends.

Reproducible pages on the back of each chart! Plastic-coated for color-fastness and durability! Write-on, wipe-off surface!

155 cards — 33 initial blend and digraph cards, 40 consonant cards, 21 vowel-pair cards, 12 vowel cards, 42 word-family cards, 7 ending blend and digraph cards Build vocabulary. Plastic-coated and fade-resistant.

These rib-tickling word family plays will delight children and help them become confident, fluent readers. Each play gives children plenty of practice reading a group of words from the same word family — words that share the same sound and spelling pattern. Learning to recognize these families of words helps children decode with ease so they can focus on comprehension. What's more, the funny plots and characters will invite children to read the plays again and again, helping them improve reading rate, automaticity, expression, and other key fluency skills. For use with Grades K-2.

Introduce students to Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and other well-known authors with this collection of plays based on their classic short stories. These engaging plays will expand students' literary knowledge, while rehearsing the parts will encourage the repeated readings they need to build their fluency and comprehension skills. Also includes discussion prompts and easy activities designed to help students identify and understand plot, setting, character, and theme. For use with Grades 4-8.

Help students increase their word power — in just 10 minutes a day! Each of these instant word-a-day activities features a target word, its meaning and part of speech, and a sentence that demonstrates its use. Say, Do, and Write activities let students interact with the word and apply what they learn. Perfect for introducing new words, building on prior knowledge, and increasing word awareness and for reinforcing reading and writing skills. Great for independent or group work, centers, day starters, or homework! For use with Grades 3-4.

A creepy, absolutely addictive love story for teen girls... and grown-up girls... In Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. In Linger, they fought to be together. Now, in Forever, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in.

Every smart girl knows when to ask for advice, and this book is an indispensable companion to growing up. Addressing all those cringey questions about periods, boys and boobs that adults squirm at answering, Anita Ganeri's sensible, light-hearted advice will calm the fears of any worried young woman.

Help children build a robust vocabulary using the 50 playful, thematic poems in this collection! Chosen especially for the rich and descriptive words they contain, each poem includes an easy-to-follow, research-based instructional sequence that actively engages young learners in acquiring and using new words. This structured approach also supports children in developing strategies they can apply to new words they encounter. Suggestions for building background knowledge plus engaging ways to give children multiple exposures to words in different contexts also helps deepen word knowledge For use with Grades PreK-1.

Something on this island is up to no good... When Reese is forced to go on a boating trip with his family, the last thing he expects is to be shipwrecked on an island-especially one teeming with weird plants and animals. But what starts out as simply a bad vacation turns into a terrible one, as the castaways must find a way to escape while dodging the island's dangerous inhabitants. With few resources and a mysterious entity on the hunt, each secret unlocked could save them... or spell their doom. One thing Reese knows for sure: This is one Bad Island.

LITTLE SCHOLASTIC: PLEASE AND THANK YOU presents a lesson in manners with oversized lift-the-flaps throughout and pitch-perfect repetitive text! LITTLE SCHOLASTIC: PLEASE AND THANK YOU is the perfect introduction to these two magic phrases that all little ones should know. Engaging, oversized lift-the-flaps throughout the interiors allow children to listen, explore, and learn the power of «please» and «thank you.»

LITTLE SCHOLASTIC: UH-OH, I'M SORRY presents a lesson in manners with oversized lift-the-flaps throughout and pitch-perfect repetitive text! From time to time, accidents happen and LITTLE SCHOLASTIC: UH-OH, I'M SORRY introduces young readers to a set of important words when they do. With engaging, oversized lift-the-flaps on every spread, children will learn the true meaning of «Uh-Oh» and «I'm Sorry» while also recognizing that simple mistakes can always be fixed.

Look up in the sky! It's a BOLD new graphic novel about SUPERHERO PETS! Captain Amazing, superhero and savior of Metro City, is getting old. He's out all hours battling arch-villains, catching thieves, and helping little old ladies cross the street. He doesn't even have time for his house full of pets. He needs — a SIDEKICK! Captain Amazing's four pets agree. But each one of them thinks HE should get the sidekick spot — and a chance for one-on-one time with the Captain. Get ready for sibling rivalry royale as pets with superpowers duke it out for the one thing they all want — a super family. A BOLD and BRILLIANT graphic novel romp by whiz kid Dan Santat.

Missile Mouse is back in action for an amazing new adventure! The daring agent Missile Mouse must help free a planet forced into slavery by evil King Bognarsh. But things get dicey when Bognarsh hires the Blazing Bat to take Missile Mouse out before he can shut the operation down.

This title presents fifty foul people from history — personally selected by His Dearyness for their beastly behaviour. It is split into ten sections including: Awful Assassins, Rotten Rebels, Wicked Women, Crazy Criminals, Ruthless Rulers, etc. Each section follows a different format — stories, newspaper articles, diary entries, fact files and so on.

Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Twentieth Century, including who shocked the world by showing her knickers, how two monkey's and a dog became astronauts and why a posh London restaurant served stewed cat. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure.

Dr. Terence, a tapir, packs his first aid kit and accompanies his mother, a doctor, to work at the hospital, where he learns all about medical care while entertaining animals in the waiting room, helping deliver meals, and singing lullabies to newborns.

Readers can discover all the foul facts about Rowdy Revolutions, including which Chinese emperor was overthrown by his mum, why one revolution made ugly people very scared indeed and what Count Dracula was really like. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of.

Suitable for young historians, this title helps them in learning about their British Kings and Queens taking them all the way from William the Conker to Lizzie the Last. It tells which king died after falling off a toilet, why people thought King John was a werewolf, and why Queen Anne's feet were covered in garlic.

A history of dark knights and dingy castles. It takes the readers charging back to the days of chivalry, when knights clanked about in shining armour waving weird weapons and peasants cleaned up the mess afterwards.

Everybody knows that Joan of Arc — Saint Joan — led the French army into battle and met a fiery end. This book lets readers find out the facts, including how Joan had to prove that she wasn't a witch and how she loved writing cheeky letters to very important people.

Demons from the Dark Dimension pour through a portal in the wall of Pittingham Manor, the mid-point for an attack on high. They're planning an assault. Into this chaos, stumbles 12-year-old ghostbusting psychic Alannah Malarra and burglar Worley Flint. Up until now they've only ever faced tame treasure-hording ghosts, but this is something else. Their only hope is a plucky angel police patrol on a routine earth-monitoring mission. Enter Inspector Flhi Swift and officers Yell and Gloom.

Everybody knows that Elizabeth I was called the Virgin Queen, that she had lots of admirers and refused to marry and that her army beat the Spanish Armada. But in this book readers can discover all the fascinating facts they didn't know...how Liz liked to lock up her ladies for getting married and how her reputation was nearly ruined when her boyfriend's wife was found dead at the bottom of the stairs. It offers everything you could ever want to know about the woman with the big red wig.

You've probably heard of a few inventors and their bright ideas... Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone. George Stevenson and his Rocket (which was really a train). John Logie Baird and his television. But have you heard that... Bell didn't invent the phone, but he did make a weird machine out of hay and a human ear. Stevenson didn't invent the train, but he did spend a lot of time collecting gas in bladders. Baird's telly was useless, and so were his thermostatic socks? Yes, even though they're dead, inventors are still full of surprises. Everything you ever wanted to know about Inventors and their bright ideas.