Learn about the creative ways Americans help their communities. This Spanish nonfiction book includes a short fiction piece related to the topic, fun activity, glossary, and other helpful tools. With this fun and informative book, students will see all the wonderful things that can happen when communities create together! This 32-page full-color Spanish book describes the importance of community involvement while giving examples of creative leaders...

In eighteen poems follow a lonely soul into the ocean to find love.

Learn about the real, everyday heroes in your community with this nonfiction book. Perfect for young readers, the book includes a short fiction piece related to the topic, a bonus project, and other exciting features. This 20-page full-color book explores the responsibilities of local heroes, from food workers to trash collectors. It also covers key civics concepts like leadership and helping others, and includes an extension activity for kindergarten....

"Beautiful and necessary." -DAN BEACHY-QUICK Shimmering and formally precise, the poems of this debut collection "fuse absence and presence in lines full of a feeling that has no opposite" (Brian Teare). These are poems written from the periphery of an open field, poems rooted in the flatlands and lowlands: the Midwestern lawns, lakes, and creeks of Leila Wilson's childhood, and the farms, canals, and seascapes near her family home's in Holland....

Explore the vast and varied continent of Asia! This social studies book describes the diverse governments, landscapes, and cultures of the world's largest continent. Asia is home to billions of people and a kaleidoscope of cultures. This teacher-approved book provides students with the chance to understand life in Asia, including the history of indigenous peoples across the continent. The book covers the geography, history, economics, and civics of...

Where is Ireland located? What is the Irish Claddagh? What do they celebrate there? What is school like for children there? Join two children as they tell you about the amazing country of Ireland. This book is full of colorful illustrations that are sure to entertain children as they learn facts about Ireland.

Writer and journalist Greg Shaw brings us his first collection of poems just in time for his 60th birthday. Shaw's poetry is built on the memory of sadness and humor, despair and hope. Places-an airplane seat, an interstate highway, a cold urban street, an enveloping forest, a warm bed-stir the poetic senses. The trajectory of these places may begin with grief or awe, but the narrative progresses upward, toward humor and hope. Nature and technology...

The embrace of a blizzard. The hope that is found in a seed. The healing of rain after times of drought. What can we learn about life and love from these images of rural life? Make a cup of tea. Take a trip into the country...who knows, perhaps you will find your way home.

The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the unlikely connections we make to the people and places we encounter. Despite the infinite variations of our lives, every urban dweller has sparred with a neighbour they disliked, seen beautiful strangers on public transit, told secrets to their hairdresser. We interact with these supporting characters on a daily basis-and often we are them for others. Shafi celebrates the Antiheroes...

Northwest Passage offers a selection of poems that traces the poet's own development and the development of his poetry in both style and substance. The poems in this collection presents the significance and meaning of various events during several decades, many of those events taking place within the rich setting of the Pacific Northwest.From the disturbing imagery of "Nuremberg Revisited" to the hope of a new year in "Reconnaissance...