Second Grade Spelling Games & Activities (Sylvan Workbooks)
Written by Sylvan Learning
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $12.99
Includes a bonus $10 discount coupon off your child’s Skills Assessment at a Sylvan Learning Center!
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Second Grade Spelling Games & Activities includes entertaining, grade-appropriate exercises that will help your child improve his or her spelling skills. Rather than using rote memorization as a way to teach spelling, the games and...
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Fifth Grade Reading Comprehension Success (Sylvan Workbooks)
Written by Sylvan Learning
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $12.99
Good reading skills are essential not only for fifth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it!
WHAT'S THE WORDIntroducing challenging words in...
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Several Short Sentences About Writing
Written by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $11.99
Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It’s the harmful debris of your education—a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach to writing that...
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right
Written by Bill Bryson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.00
One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’...
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Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $15.95
A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist.
Jake Adelstein is the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, where for twelve years he covered the dark side of Japan: extortion, murder, human trafficking, fiscal...
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Fifth Grade Vocabulary Success (Sylvan Workbooks)
Written by Sylvan Learning
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2009
Price: $12.99
Solid vocabulary knowledge not only prepares fifth-graders for academic success–it makes them stronger readers. The teacher-reviewed, curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it!
TIC-TAC-TOEHelps kids distinguish between synonyms and antonyms. Find...
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My Reading Life
Written by Pat Conroy
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2010
Price: $14.99
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life. Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious reader. Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed into a life-long companion, reading has been Conroy’s portal to the world...
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