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The first complete guide-for use by adults and children-to creating fun and educational book clubs for kids. As authors of The Book Club Cookbook, the classic guide to integrating great food and food-related discussion into book club gatherings, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp hear a common...

Everyone knows which books people buy; they can just look at the best-seller lists. But who knows which books people steal? Who, for that matter, knows that authors ruin the book market by writing too much? Or why book critics are not critical? Or why librarians need to throw out more books? Who,...

The order of this book is in a general way from the easy to the more difficult, with an attempt, also, at an agreeable variety. The editor has purposely avoided breaking up the book into lesson portions or giving it the air of a text-book. There is no reason why children should not read books as older...

Jonas lives in a supposedly utopian society, but he discovers that it is really a dystopia and plans to escape when he learns the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world. This instructional guide for literature will encourage early readers to explore the text in this story of...

Introduce students to this classic novel by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons and encourage them to explore social issues within the story as well as make connections to current and historical events. This instructional guide for literature will make analyzing this complex literary...

Aid students as they explore a mythical world, and analyze and comprehend a timeless story. The Odyssey: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities to teach students to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading...

Aid students in analyzing this well-known story about friendship and loss. Encourage them to depict the struggles that Lennie and George face in their relationship by completing rigorous yet fun activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. Readers will enjoy analyzing...

Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and ‘deranged essays’, with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the texts in these pages, responding to encounters...

Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this personal, engaging story with the help of this...

This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Life of Pi by Yann Martel Now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Background Information about the Author: Yann Martel Yann Martel (born on the 25th of June, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain) is a novelist and short...

Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a BookQuickie of 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Summary of ‘The 48 Laws of Power’ Everyone wants to exercise a certain sense of power over others and the absence of this power...

Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss Now! Here's a sample of what you'll see in this book: Background Information About Never Split the Difference Never Split the Difference was published on May 17th, 2016 by Harper...

"Wanna Read But Not Enough Time? Then, grab a SpeedyReads of The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick Now! Here's a sample of what you'll see inside the book: In a postwar world where Germany and Japan won WWII, Baynes, a German spy traveling under an alias, reaches San...