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This title is a terrific introduction to simple prefixes and suffixes for young readers. Easy-to-read sentences about gardens, alongside supporting photographs, show how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of words. Kids will enjoy the fun and simple illustrated rhyming story, Madison Grows a Lovely Garden, which reinforces the word building concept. A multiple-choice quiz is also included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to...

This title is a terrific introduction to simple prefixes and suffixes for young readers. Easy-to-read sentences about parties, alongside supporting photographs, show how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of words. Kids will enjoy the fun and simple illustrated rhyming story, Marty Enjoyed the Party, which reinforces the word building concept. A multiple-choice quiz is also included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state...

"This eBook helps you fine-tune your knowledge of grammar essentials with quick but thorough lessons that take only 20 minutes a day! Use the tests and lessons within to sharpen your grammar skills and quickly improve your writing skills." --

Pamela Andrews is a fifteen-year-old maidservant at an estate in Bedfordshire. When Lady B, her employer, dies, her son Mr. B takes an interest in the innocent young girl, quickly turning from generosity to outright attempts at seducing her. As Pamela rejects his advances, she considers returning home to live in poverty with her parents. When he catches wind of her plan, however, Mr. B accuses Pamela of having an affair, notifying her parents and...

"In just 15 minutes a day, middle school students can excel at understanding and remembering what they read. How? Each lesson in this eBook breaks the reading process down into smaller parts, so each day, students build upon the previous day's knowledge." --

Edward Waverly enjoyed a privileged upbringing, despite his family's drama. Coming of age during a political uprising, Edward's time is split between his father and his uncle, who each have opposing political views, which causes a rift in the family. His uncle is a traditional British subject that wishes to overthrow the government so that Charles Edward Stuart is restored to power, commonly known as a Jacobite. However, Edward's father is a Hanoverian,...

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We wonder that so great a man as Abraham Lincoln should spring from humble people - but who knows what his more distant ancestry might have been? In a series of dramatic chapters, Mr. Buchan tells what he imagines to have been the ancestry of Lincoln. The worthy son of a northern chieftain who had come down with his people into Normandy; a Norman knight who fought under Duke William and settled in England; a French knight, emissary of Saint Louis...