Max's Daddy Goes to the Hospital


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When Max's daddy is hospitalized, his mother comforts him and helps him see that Daddy will soon be well again.




Life Sciences


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Everything you need to create exciting thematic science units can be found in these handy guides. Developed for educators who want to take an integrated approach, these teaching kits contain resource lists, reading selections, and activities that can be easily pulled together for units on virtually any science topic. Arranged by subject, each book lists key scientific concepts for primary, intermediate, and upper level learners and links them to specific chapters where resources for teaching those concepts appear. Chapters identify and describe comprehensive teaching resources (nonfiction) and related fiction reading selections, then detail hands-on science and extension activities that help students learn the scientific method and build learning across the curriculum. A final section helps you locate helpful experiment books and appropriate journals, Web sites, agencies, and related organizations.




Max and the Babysitter


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Max's parents help him overcome his fear of the baby-sitter.




Martha's New Daddy


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Through the portrait of a caring family, young readers are reassured that continuity and love need not end when a parent remarries.




Biker Daddy Bodyguards


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Biker Daddy Bodyguards…experienced bodyguards with a particular skillset. To protect high-status, high-maintenance men who need a Daddy. It’s a high-stakes role but the rewards are worth it, for the Daddy and his boy. Hold Firm - Is Quinn employed as Cade's bodyguard, his fake boyfriend, or his Daddy? The minute Quinn lays eyes on the bratty boy hunched in the chair, spitting fire and ice at him, he knows why he’s been chosen for this assignment. He doesn’t want to take the job but the boy’s life is in danger. Could Quinn turn him away? Hold Close - Louis knows only one bodyguard he can trust to take care of him after a vicious assault. He's prepared to go to his knees and beg his former Daddy to help him. But will Craig listen? Hold Safe - Mo is content with the quiet life. Once upon a time he had his happy ever after, but that ended with his heart broken. Now he’s being asked to guard an ego-driven businessman with no idea how much danger he’s in. He should say no. Hold Tight - Griff spends his evenings unofficially protecting the successful club owner, Jem Peacock, for the Biker Daddy Bodyguards. But Jem needs a Daddy and Griff is desperate to take that job. He will wait patiently for Jem to trust him with the secret of his heart.




An Open Book: What and How Young Children Learn From Picture and Story Books


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Looking at and listening to picture and story books is a ubiquitous activity, frequently enjoyed by many young children and their parents. Well before children can read for themselves they are able to learn from books. Looking at and listening to books increases children’s general knowledge, understanding about the world and promotes language acquisition. This collection of papers demonstrates the breadth of information pre-reading children learn from books and increases our understanding of the social and cognitive mechanisms that support this learning. Our hope is that this Research Topic/eBook will be useful for researchers as well as educational practitioners and parents who are interested in optimizing children’s learning.




The Accidental Daddy


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"You're having my baby!" When Dr. Max Winthrop is told he's going to be a father, he never thinks he'll have to share this news with the mother! But after a mix-up at the IVF clinic it's up to Max to tell unsuspecting pediatrician Joey McMillan that she's carrying his child! Max hadn't expected to be a daddy right now—especially by accident—but getting to know beautiful Joey opens his eyes to the possibilities of being more than just a parent…maybe even a husband!




Contemporary Popular Writers


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"Included are authors, both living and dead, who were active in the early 1960s or later and remain popular in the mid-1990s ... representing several fiction and nonfiction categories, including poets, short-story writers, biographers, and other niche authors."--Page xi




The Whole Story


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This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.




School Library Journal


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