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Math rocks! At least it does in the gifted hands of Sean Connolly, who blends middle school math with fantasy to create an exciting adventure in problem-solving. These word problems are perilous, do-or-die scenarios of blood-sucking vampires (How many months would it take a single vampire to completely take over a town of 500,000 people?), or a rowboat of 5 shipwrecked sailors with a single barrel of freshwater (How much can they drink, and for how...
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For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
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In this book the author reverses three decades of thinking about what creates successful children, solving the mysteries of why some succeed and others fail, and of how to move individual children toward their full potential for success. The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in this book the author argues that the...
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Mister Max volume 2
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Self-reliant Max Starling, a twelve-year-old detective and problem solver, struggles to keep his identity a secret as he investigates a case of arson, while cryptic messages from his still missing parents indicate that they need rescuing.
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Boxcar children volume 160
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When Henry's magic teacher, The Amazing Arthur, goes missing right before the Greenfield Magic Shop's annual magic show, Henry and his sibilings look into Arthur's disappearance.
68) Trust me
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Kim, 15, wants to go away with two girlfriends for the weekend. It transpires that boys will be present and no adults. Do Kim's parents forbid her to go and make her feel that they don't trust her? An audience also watches the drama and discusses the family's quandary with psychologist Peter Quarry. An outstanding award winning DVD that stimulates great discussion.--Kanopy.
70) Out the window
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"Ingenuity saves the day in this cleverly constructed board book! Bestselling author/illustrator Cybèle Young is back with a board book for the very young. The main character of this charming, nearly wordless story is a small unidentified mammal who accidentally loses his ball one day. Too small to look out the window, the little creature is frustrated at first in his attempts to see where his precious ball has gone. But undeterred, he perseveres...
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Problim children volume 1
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Seven siblings are forced by the destruction of their swamp home to move into their grandpa's mansion, but greedy neighbors plot to steal their secrets and place them in homes far away from each other.
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Bad problem solving costs individuals and society incalculable amounts of time, money, and sanity. In this book Nat Greene--who's been solving hard problems professionally for over twenty years--shares nine behaviors anyone can adopt to find solutions to even the most seemingly intractable problems. The problem with most problem solving, Greene says, is that it's not problem solving at all: it's guessing. We have an idea of what might work and we...
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This "tree-mendous" new Peg + Cat DVD features four fun-filled mathematical adventures. In The Tree Problem and Another Tree Problem Cat is stuck in a tree and Peg needs to figure out how to get him down. In Yet Another Tree Problem, the tables are turned, and Peg is stuck in a tree and Cat must figure out how to get her down. Lastly, in The Baby Problem, Peg and Cat rescue the precocious baby Fox from the top of his elaborate block tower.
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This completely updated and redesigned personal workbook companion to the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens provides engaging activities, interactives and self-evaluations to help teens understand and apply the power of the 7 Habits. Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has sold more than 2 million copies and helped countless teens make better decisions and improve their sense of self-worth. Pairing new interactives...
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The subject of "design thinking" is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press--due in large part to work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business.
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