Flushed with the success of his trailblazing bike ride around the farm, Duck decides he's ready to drive the tractor. As in the bestselling Duck on a Bike, all the barnyard animals share their humorous comments as they watch Duck do the unthinkable. Then, one by one, they join him on the tractor for a ride!

The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.

While playing hide-and-seek with Buzz, Fly Guy is taken away by a garbage man.

Junie B., a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartener, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival, but a fruit cake was not exactly what she had in mind.

Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.

From the Publisher: Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline-poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. In this provocative new book, Kelly Gallagher suggests, however, that it is time to recognize...

Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.

Now that virtually anyone can become a journalist, from bloggers to citizens recording an event with a smartphone, the teaching of journalism ethics is more important than ever. This book covers the essentials for students growing up in the digital age. Addressed is the importance of the news and news watchdogs in the virtual wild west of news reporting. Also covered is censorship and the importance of transparency in journalism. Finally, readers...

ABR : you can read is a basic essentials literacy curriculum and tutoring tool for use with adults at beginning reading levels. It covers sight and sound recognition of the letters of the alphabet, and it builds basic sight word banks. Also included are tutoring session guidelines and lesson planning suggestions.

In this age of fast-paced social media, news and views are shared throughout the world in seconds. This timely title critically examines the elements of journalism, truth and perspective, sources of news, as well as bias and objectivity to help readers make informed choices about the accuracy of news and information. Readers will gain an understanding of what journalism is and how the medium can shape the message being presented.