Make words the core of classroom instruction and engagement; day by day, word by word. This practical resource is designed to help students discover why word choice and language matter as they build vocabulary across subject areas, gain confidence in word usage, and increase their understanding of word patterns. This practical book shows you how to motivate students to become passionate about words and develop strategies to help them grow in language and learning skills. Ideal for new and experienced teachers, Word by Word is committed to helping students develop innovative ways to explore and make meaning with words.

CIA security systems specialist Jaiden Fleming led a peaceful, grounded life until his best friend Hector was murdered. When he is sent to investigate, Jaiden discovers a global conspiracy to exterminate billions of people and subjugate the few who remain to a life of slavery, starvation and death. And he finds an even greater secret so deeply disturbing that the World can never learn of it. Through no choice of his own, Jaiden is thrust into an epic conflict between good and evil in which not only the fate of the world, but his mother's immortal soul hangs in the balance.

For Stanley Cohen, baseball is the prism through which he views the events of the last seventy years. In The Man in the Crowd, Cohen chronicles America’s changing mood and lifestyle from the years of World War II through the silent generation of the fifties, the revolutionary turmoil of the sixties through the social decay of the seventies, the excess of the eighties through the technological transformation of the nineties, up through the sobering uncertainty of the post- 9/11 present day. His narrative spans four generations as he recounts in sparkling prose how, for his immigrant father, sports was a means of assimilation into life in the New World; the warmth of watching his son and, later, his grandson both fall heir to his devotion; and how the game of baseball has provided his life with its truest sense of continuity.

Deep within the silence and darkness of a distant star system, lies the dying planet of Tipton. Struck by a meteor and knocked out of it's natural rotation, it's inhabitants face certain extinction unless desperate measures are taken to ensure the survival of the race but is the extinction of the race the only foe to be faced? Avon Tybriss, an extraordinary man of dedicated courage, principles and strength, from an alien planet and a race with no future a man with a painful past who has been assigned an impossible task. Cambridge and Camarie Thomas, identical twins who, upon the surface and for all their differences, look to be the picture perfect image of typical adolescents but in truth, do their best to hide their unique and sometimes troublesome abilities from the world. Federal Agent, Matthew Turner, a man with a secret and entirely too much charm. These four, unusual individuals, find themselves thrown together, against impossible odds, to defeat a formidable and unidentifiable foe. Will they be able to trust each other beneath the banner of a precarious truce, built upon the very basic, fundamental instincts of survival? In the end, should they fail, it might very well mean the destruction of the civilization on both planets.