Providing a wealth of simple, research-based strategies for teaching reading and writing, this book is designed for each chapter to be accessible to teachers, tutors, parents, and paraprofessionals.
Summer is over and that can only mean one thing for eight-year-old Mallory McDonald (like the restaurant, but no relation)-she has to go back to school.
Thirteen-year-old Bella wants to be a lector just like her grandfather, who sits on a special platform in the cigar factory, reading great novels, the newspaper, and union news to workers as they roll the cigars.
Commended for the 2008 Best Books for Kids and Teens, short-listed for the 2008 Snow Willow Award and Ann Connor Brimer Award "e;No one pays much attention to you if you don't have much to say, so there was no way I could have predicted what would happen when I stopped talking altogether.
This book is meant to serve as an educational tool on how to build confidence, go after what you want, not give up, and learn how to interact with others.
If your household puppies and kitties are your babies' best friends and sort of siblings already, then your kids will surely be delighted with this coloring activity book.