Winners is an emotional novel about two families dealing with tragedy. The first character is an Olympic hopeful whose coach dies in an accident on the slopes. She is severely injured in the same accident and may never walk again. Just after the accident, while a neurosurgeon operates on her, that same doctor's family is in an accident that leaves one person dead. The novel follows both families through the next year of their lives. Get out the box of tissues for this story of loss, expectations and family dynamics.
Families Today provides students with the information and skills they need to function well within their current family structure, while preparing them to develop their own strong families. This revised text emphasizes acting responsibly, using values when setting goals and making decisions, building character and lifelong learning of relationship skills. Families Today helps teachers support the goals of NCLB and Perkins legislation by providing point-of-use academic integration applications and real-world relevance to improve students' overall academic performance.
The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the half-German Schlegel siblings (Margaret, Tibby, and Helen), who represent the intellectual bourgeoisie and have a lot in common with the real-life Bloomsbury Group; and the Basts, a couple who are struggling members of the lower-middle class.
