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Imagine you live in Pompeii in the year 79. There are rumblings, followed by a terrible explosion that darkens the city of Pompeii for 18 hours. Experience the terror of that momentous volcanic eruption from the point of view of a barber who lived and worked in Pompeii. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The intriguing sidebars,...
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On a summer day in September 1666, the Great Fire of London began at Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane. This nonfiction text gives students a sense of what life was like on that fateful day, and details the aftermath of the disastrous fire that changed London forever. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The intriguing sidebars,...
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Learn what life was like in Ancient Greece as you are whisked away to the past! This book breathes life into history and examines the mythology, art, architecture, politics, and other aspects of Greek culture. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and Lori Oczkus, and featuring TIME content, this book builds reading skills and includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The detailed sidebars, fascinating images,...
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Examine the lives of commoners and kings from the Middle Kingdom with You Are There! Ancient China 305 BC. Take a tour of the different dynasties and important aspects of Ancient Chinese culture, such as calligraphy, language, philosophers, Confucius' sayings, and more. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and Lori Oczkus, and featuring TIME content, this book builds reading skills and includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and...
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Explore what life was life in ancient Egypt under the reign of Tutankhamun! Students will be whisked away to the past with this informational text that breathes life into history and examines the hieroglyphics, religion, politics, style, and lives of ancient Egyptians. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and Lori Oczkus, and featuring TIME content, this book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The detailed...
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On the morning of April 18, 1906, a massive earthquake struck San Francisco. This book gives students a sense of what life was like on that fateful day, and details the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake and fires that changed San Francisco forever. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this text builds literacy skills as students are engaged in reading content. The intriguing sidebars, fascinating images, and detailed Reader's...
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This intriguing nonfiction book builds literacy skills while immersing students in subject area content. You Are There! March on Washington, August 28, 1963 brings this historic day to life, and highlights the critical details of the march and explores its aftermath and effects. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this high-interest book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents....
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Eleven-year-old Tina grew up to a simple life. She has a loving mother who works so hard to provide for her. Unfortunately, her mother got sick, and Tina prayed harder and harder every day. She prayed wholeheartedly and earnestly to God and to the Holy Spirit. And then, in the most unexpected time, Tina just got the surprise of her life. Read on and be enlightened of how the simplest prayer can turn your life around.
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Build literacy skills while immersing students in subject area content! Written from the perspectives of different individuals, this nonfiction reader examines the events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg, highlights the critical components of the battle, and details the aftermath and its effects. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this high-interest book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary,...
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This intriguing nonfiction book builds literacy skills while immersing students in subject area content. You Are There! Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 examines the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, highlights the critical components, and details the aftermath and its effects. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this high-interest book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table...
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On the morning of April 18, 1906, a massive earthquake struck San Francisco. This book gives students a sense of what life was like on that fateful day, and details the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake and fires that changed San Francisco forever. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this text builds literacy skills as students are engaged in reading content. The intriguing sidebars, fascinating images, and detailed Reader's...
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Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for a married couple-two disorganized, rather poor scientists so distracted by their work that...
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This intriguing nonfiction book builds literacy skills while immersing students in subject area content. You Are There! Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 examines the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, highlights the critical components, and details the aftermath and its effects. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this high-interest book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table...
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You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care. It is a pastoral voice shepherding Christian people in Christian churches towards discipleship that is all the way down to the dirt. In it you will find a pastor with time to talk with you and walk with you so that the fruit of the redemption earned by Jesus' life, death, and resurrection will make a real and substantial difference in your very own...
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It is comforting to know that our Lord and Savior will never leave us nor forsake us. Unlike many people who claim to be our friends, Jesus will be "closer than a brother." While many of our friends may come and go, we can rest assured that Jesus will always be with us. This book is both my testimony of how I came to know without a doubt that God IS my close Friend, and a biblical teaching of how He will always be our constant companion if we will...