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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 parent guide (6 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.)
Description
Leap, Lily, and Tad need to go to their father's Letter Factory where they produce talking letters. While Leap and Lily provide a presentation for a very important customer, Tad is left out due to his lack of reading skills. Taken for a tour through the factory, he visits rooms, each dedicated to a letter of the alphabet. The colorful, animated letters are engaged in activities that embody their sound. The A's scream, "Aaaaaah!" when frightened....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 257 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Denby sat in on a tenth-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year, and visited other schools. He read all the stories, poems, plays, and novels that the kids were reading, and creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic teachers at work, classroom dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves. Lit Up is a dramatic narrative that traces awkward and baffled beginnings...
24) The book eaters
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
395 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step guide that shows parents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It?s a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here?no paste, no scissors, no flash...
Author
Description
A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
Author
Publisher
Tribeca View Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
When neuroscientists cracked the mystery of reading in the 1980s, they pinpointed the simple steps parents can take to help all children become skilled, avid readers. Yet this information still hasn?́?t spread from the research community to the general public, leaving a huge gap between what scientists have learned and parents know about raising readers. Though many parents are concerned about their children?́?s reading abilities, they have no idea...
33) The library
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Formats
Description
Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone, a divions of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 305 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children's book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.
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Description
When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Clarkson discovered reading early on as a daily gift, a way of encountering the world in all its wonder. But what she came to realize as an adult was just how powerfully books had shaped her as a woman to live a story within that world, to be a lifelong learner, to grasp hope in struggle, and to create and act with courage. Here she draws readers into the life-giving journey...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
When Mr. Websley is accidentally silenced by the Silent E Machine, Leap, Lily, and Tad must journey through the Complex Word Complex to build the code words needed to help his friend regain his voice. Guided only by the "Absent Professor Device", the kids learn how to build the complex words needed to solve the code and save the day. Humorous songs add to the fun and helps teach the rules for advanced word building.
39) No two persons
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Description
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into...
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