"A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She follows Penny, a southern middle school math teacher who...

A "fascinating" look at what students in Russia, France, Iran, and other nations are taught about America (The New York Times Book Review).

This "timely and important" book (History News Network) gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed.

History Lessons includes selections from textbooks and teaching materials used in Russia, France,...

An illustrated notebook of definitions, diagrams, key concepts, and mnemonic devices geared to help middle school students learn science.

Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.

"Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover-making the earliest years a perfect time to begin teaching the foundations of STEM. This book defines what science, technology, engineering, and math education looks like for this age group, and why it is so vital for children to develop STEM knowledge. Expand your understanding of STEM to lay the foundation for children to develop skills in critical thinking, communication,...

Mr. Watts is the last Englishman remaining in a tropical village in Bougainville during its civil war in the 1990s. He begins to teach the local children by reading them Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Matilda, an imaginative young girl, is transported into the story of the novel, believing that Dickens' character Pip is her friend. Matilda's "Pip" world is an extraordinary fusion of Dickens' Victorian London with the environment and people...

A gentle introduction to the French Language. Moustache has exciting adventures with his human and animal friends. What, you don’t speak French? Well, Moustache can certainly help you with this. Moustache wants to race!. Un, Deux, Trois, Partez! That means “One, Two, Three, Go!” Learn to count further in French with your new French friends, taste a little “glace,” and then bid “Adieu” to Mademoiselle Abracadabra.

A gentle introduction to the French Language. Moustache has exciting adventures with his human and animal friends. What, you don’t speak French? Well, Moustache can certainly help you with this.. Let’s visit Chaville, the village where Moustache lives. We’ll meet his friends Arthur and Jolie and have a treat at a wonderful bakery. Soon you will be speaking French along with Moustache and his friends!

A "humane, thoughtful, and intelligent" (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong--and why that matters. You'll find nearly everything the Bible says about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us all....

"In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who...