Sleepover Sleuths

Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439103356
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
Eight-year-old Nancy Drew has her first case to crack! Can you help? Nancy and her two best friends, George and Bess, are so excited! They have been invited to Deirdre's sleepover party! There will be pizza, cake, and even a pajama fashion show. But the most exciting thing is that the party has a City Girls doll theme. All of the guests are bringing their dolls with them! But then Deirdre's City Girls doll -- Hollywood Heather -- goes missing. Is her sleepover ruined? Or is there a detective in the room who can make sense of this mystery?

Book Clubbing!

Author: Carol Littlejohn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1586834150
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Book Description
Learn how to sponsor a successful, student-led book club for grades K through 12 that is fun, easy-to-implement, and encourages reading. Book Clubbing!: Successful Book Clubs for Young People offers practical tips on creating book clubs that involve students of all ages and reading levels—including special education students, second language learners, and reluctant readers—making it easy to have fun, productive, and educational book clubs and other reading events. The book begins with a discussion of the current research on reading and practical tips from experienced sponsors and participants, followed by suggestions on customizing book clubs to fit the students' needs and how to add "sparkle" to the club with field trips, readers theatre, guest speakers, and mystery games. The book offers a wide variety of reading activities, ensuring a dynamic, lively reading group. Numerous forms, booklists, booktalks, reading lists, and resource websites offer additional help for educators and library staff. Especially unique and valuable is the reading activities chapter that includes reproducible reading games, a readers theatre script, a folktale "rap," and various booktalks and contests.

Cooking Camp Disaster

Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416994661
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Nancy, George, and Bess are spending the first part of their summer at a cooking camp called Kid Kuisine, where their excitement turns to bafflement when their test recipes turn out to be disasters.

Ship of Secrets

Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442490462
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Frank and Joe solve a mystery on the high seas in this Hardy Brothers Secret Files adventure. It’s finally summer vacation, and the Hardy family is headed on a cruise to the Caribbean. As they board the ship with their parents, Frank and Joe can’t believe all the fun that’s in store for them. There are three-story slides, playgrounds, ball pits, four pools, and an arcade. There are concerts and magic shows at night, while jugglers and clowns wander the deck during the day. In addition to all of the fun, the Hardys discover that former pop idol and lead singer of the Lightening Bolts, Izzy, is now performing on the ship. That night, as the family eats dinner, they hear a commotion at the other end of the massive dining room. Someone has stolen a very valuable and sentimental pocket watch from Izzy. Can Joe and Frank solve the case before the ship docks in the first harbor? Or will time run out on this case?

Personalized Reading

Author: Nancy Hobbs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598845233
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
This guidebook provides teachers and librarians with methods for collaboratively teaching elementary students to select books they will enjoy and which will further their personal growth and information literacy. Motivating young students to read is instrumental for the development of strong information literacy and communication skills, as well as for building a lifelong habit of seeking information and enjoyment through written materials. The authors of Personalized Reading: It's a Piece of PIE are three highly experienced teachers, one of whom is a school librarian. This text describes the steps of the PIE program in detail, including chapters on selecting a book, reading it, writing about it, and extending beyond that title. Utilizing the PIE program will teach students to make selections at an appropriate reading level, expand from choosing titles in the same genre or from the same author, and recognize and abandon a book of low interest to them. Within each chapter are explanations of the theories behind each step and practical ideas that teachers and librarians can implement collaboratively in the classroom and library.

Buggy Breakout

Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416998993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
In Buggy Breakout, spring has sprung, bringing...bugs? The Clue Crew must use their best detective skills to recover the Bug Club’s prize insect.

The Make-a-Pet Mystery

Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144244620X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew are out to solve the case of a stolen stuffed animal. River Heights has gone gaga over Make-a-Pets! Nancy and her friends are excited to make their own cuddly stuffed animals—and play the online game Petopia that goes along with Make-a-Pet animals. But when Nancy’s friend, Violet, discovers that Hoppity, her Make-a-Pet, is missing, the Clue Crew is called on to help find the missing bunny. It seems there are a few possible suspects—including Violet’s best friend, Sonia, who claims Violet stole the idea about Hoppity from her. Could Violet’s best friend be the culprit? Or is the real thief even more of a surprise?

Doing Language Arts in Morning Meeting

Author: Jodie Luongo
Publisher: Center for Responsive Schools, Inc..
ISBN: 1892989808
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Boost students' language arts skills and meet standards—without adding to your schedule! Do you start the day with Morning Meeting? If so, you can use some of that time to reinforce students' language arts learning. These fun, lively activities enable you to seamlessly integrate language arts into a daily Morning Meeting. You'll find language arts activities for each component of Morning Meeting—greeting, sharing, group activity, and morning message. From reading poetry with sound effects to pantomiming idioms to guessing which character someone's describing, these activities are varied, challenging, and confidence-building. Features that make them easy to use: Clear, step-by-step directionsCan be used with any curriculumFew or no materials requiredVariations and extensions for language arts lessonsActivities sorted by grade, but can be adapted for any grade This book helps you inspire students' interest in language arts and give them practice in key skills—all while enriching and enlivening your Morning Meetings.

Lights, Camera . . . Cats!

Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416939571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.

Dance Off

Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416994599
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Nancy and her friends investigate when it appears the auditions for the new reality television program "Kids Can Dance" are being sabotaged.