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|  | Summer Bridge Activities: 3rd Grade to 4th Grade by Brenda Hendricks, Carla Dawn Fisher, J. Wood, Julia A. Hobbs, Michele D. Van Leeuwen
An innovative series to help children improve reading, writing, arithmetic, and spelling while they are not in school. Approximately 80 percent of what children are taught in school is lost within a month, unless that knowledge is reinforced quickly and continuously. Summer Bridge Activities is a series of seven workbooks designed to keep preschoolers through sixth graders learning between grades to enhance retention and improve basic academic skills. The activities in these workbooks have been correlated with state department of education curriculum guide lines and endorsed by principals, PTA presidents, curriculum directors, teachers, and thousands of kids who have tested them. Parents are discovering a dual purpose in the workbooks, as they use them as both an educational aid in the summer and an academic supplement during the school year. Each day's activity includes an exercise in reading, writing, arithmetic, and language arts. Great for trips as well as summer vacations. A fun, effective way to give children a head start on upcoming curriculum. AUTHOR: Brenda Hendricks, Carla Dawn Fisher, J. Wood, Julia A. Hobbs, Michele D. Van Leeuwen
PUBLISHER: Rainbow Bridge Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Treatise on Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass
This book-length poem by Nobel Prize recipient Milosz addresses Eastern European poetry in the 20th century. A native of Poland, Milosz offers insight on Poland before the war, through the turbulence of Nazism, into the poet's emigration to France, and on into his experiences in the United States. In this meditation on history and the individual voice, Milosz discusses the poets who came before him and his own responsibilities as a poet of witness. Hass, longtime translator of Milosz's work, presents an informative translator's note. Milosz's own notes on the text further illuminate his project. AUTHOR: Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Latina Adolescent Childbearing in East Los Angeles by Pamela I. Erickson
Preventing teen pregnancy has become a national goal, but a one-size-fits-all strategy for achieving it may never be found. Because varying social and cultural factors lead to pregnancy among different ethnic/class groups, understanding these factors is essential in designing pregnancy prevention programs that work. This book explores the factors that lead to childbearing among Latina adolescents. AUTHOR: Pamela I. Erickson
PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Mazda Miata Performance Handbook by Norman Garrett
The Mazda Miata MX-5 is to the 1990s what the British sports car was to the 1950s and '60s. Like its legendary predecessors from the U.K., the Miata is thoroughly fun to drive, and it enjoys support from an incredible number of fans, clubs, and aftermarket suppliers around the world. Beginning with a brief history of the Mazda Miata MX-5, this Performance Handbook takes the reader through the car, component by component, offering advice on increased performance and reliability for street use as well as racing. Both manufacturer and aftermarket parts are covered, including engine swaps like the MX-3 six-cylinder and the Ford 5.0-liter V-8. AUTHOR: Norman Garrett
PUBLISHER: MBI Publishing Company LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | A Shining Thread of Hope by Hine Thompson, Kathleen Thompsom
Description not available.Laced with compelling biographical details, a wide-ranging, accessible, and illustrated history traces the achievements and challenges endured by black women in America over the past four hundred years, from colonial times to the civil rights movement. Reprint. $20,000 ad/promo. AUTHOR: Hine Thompson, Kathleen Thompsom
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Careers in Foreign Languages by Blythe Camenson
Description not available.Provides information about careers requiring foreign language skills, including job duties, salary, location, and education requirements. AUTHOR: Blythe Camenson
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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