In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

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

Examines what is known about dinosaur bones, behavior, and other characteristics and how different the facts often are from what scientists, from ancient China to the recent past, believed to be true.

When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.

Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher.

Describes the conditions and terrain of Mount Everest, attempts that have been made to scale this peak, and general information about the equipment and techniques of mountain climbing.

Discusses the benefits of using "number talks," in the classroom, which are five- to fifteen-minute conversations that encourage students to mentally solve a computation problem and explains how to plan for and design number talks for kindergarten through fifth-grade classrooms. Includes a DVD with classroom footage and additional resources for teachers.

"The Spalding Method helps train the right and left sides of the brain as children see, hear, read, and write. It is cost-effective and efficient; students use pencils, paper, and their minds. The results are stunning: Children learn to connect speech sounds to print and begin to write and read almost magically. Spalding students perform well in the classroom and on tests--and, most important, they love to read and write."--P. [4] of cover.

Illustrations and poetic text describe the movement and feel of the game of basketball.

Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.