The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother--her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother--tastes of despair and desperation.
Talk about Books!: A Guide for Book Clubs, Literature Circles, and Discussion Groups, Grades 4-8
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Talk about Books!: A Guide for Book Clubs, Literature Circles, and Discussion Groups, Grades 4-8
Book clubs, literature circles, and reading groups are great ways to promote literacy and books to young readers. This new guide provides everything you need to run a dynamic, no-fuss book discussion group with elementary and middle school students. Featuring 15 titles of diverse genres, it offers discussion topics and activity ideas for some of the best new reads for kids.
This book is intended for (a) graduate courses on measurement and testing, (b) applied psychologists and educators who work with tests clinical, industrial, counseling, school, educational, (c) researchers in psychology and related areas. The book is also intended for the next generation of measurement and testing textbook authors. It is hoped that the topics covered here become routinely included in such future textbooks.
Reader Rabbit's Toddler provides playful experiences with early logic and language concepts. The program is extremely responsive and easy to use and offers many nice features. For example, parents can type in their toddler's name so that it shows up in the coloring activities.
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (book and audiobook)
What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.
