The highly anticipated follow-up to Unpacking the Pyramid Model, this one-of-a-kind book is the first to provide a comprehensive, step-by-step overview of the widely used Pyramid Model Practices for infants and toddlers from birth to three. With this accessible training guide, teachers and providers will use research-based practices to meet the unique needs of infants and toddlers—and boost their social-emotional development in the critical first years of life.Created by t...

This guidebook is a must-have resource for anyone teaching a television production class or running a morning news show at the elementary, middle, or high school level.Teaching a television production class is a real challenge, especially when working with the typical budget and time limitations of most elementary, middle, or high school curricula. Beyond the technical aspects of teaching this subject, what is the best way to keep students engaged and challenged wh...

"Flirting is fun. And fun is essential." Single mom Mardie is doing it tough so I gave her the loveliest guy I could possibly imagine. Take that, sour reality!Single mom Mardie Griffin has a run-down old house in need of fixing and a memory of Jett Casey as her savior in a time of great need. So when her friends acquire Jett’s services at a bachelor auction and send him to fix up her house, she sets aside her mistrust of men and lets him in.Elite athlete Jett Casey has the ...

She wants to create the perfect family Christmas…Heiress Madeline Love has one last chance to impress her father and organize the perfect Christmas—their last one as a family before her father weds a younger woman and forgets about his only daughter. Madeline wants to create some much-needed family memories in their historic Montana ranch that she’s always loved. All she needs is the help of one man, Seth Casey, ranch builder to the rich and famous, to give the neglected ranch a qu...

VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE.Teenager Heather Young disappears from the small town of Himmel, Wisconsin. Everyone believes her boyfriend killed her, but no one can prove it.Twenty years later, Leah Nash is pulled into the cold case by an old friend.She finds the answer—and the shocking truth shatters her world.Dangerous Places is the third standalone book in the Leah Nash series of complex, fast-paced murder mys...

A deadly secret. A relentless reporter. A truth that might be better left buried.In the small town of Himmel, Wisconsin, reporter Leah Nash is scraping by, working again at the local paper that she left a decade ago. But when a torrential storm reveals a gruesome secret - a dead nun from the local school for troubled kids - Leah's quiet life is shattered.Sister Mattea was no ordinary nun. She had deep secrets that no one knew. Secrets that might connect the...

ONLINE DATING CAN BE MURDER …A website that matches sugar daddies with college-age sugar babies is a major moneymaker for the woman who created it. Until a blackmail scandal erupts and the owner winds up murdered—in the home of Himmel Times reporter Miguel Santos. Miguel has no connection to the victim—but it turns out a close family member does. When his uncle is arrested for murder, Miguel turns to crime writer Leah Nash for help. She soon learns that th...

What happens when the sunshiny pop princess and the grumpy football player discover there's more to this fake romance than inspiration for a new love song?Kelsey Best is America's pop sweetheart, and anyone who says they don't like her music is a liar and needs to be punched in the nads. And I'll do it, too, because I'm the guy the NFL dubbed the meanest player in the league. It's great for my career on the field, but not so much for my reputation off it. So I'm sho...

Her dad's job is with the dead . . . and he's bringing his work home with him.Once again, seventeen-year-old Riley Smith is the new kid in school and her dad's career has her back to being dubbed a freak. Truth is, she's a much bigger freak than her classmates think. The only company she keeps these days is the dead who follow Dad home from work. She can see them. She can speak to them. And Fate seems to think she can help them solve their last problems so that the...

He’s an athlete all about focus, discipline, and achieving goals.She’s the free-spirited girl next door who won’t be tied down to anything but her emotional support Kindle.But when the cat distribution system brings these two together, opposites attract.Life has always been family, football, and school.Focusing on my goals didn’t leave much room for girls. But I’m not in school anymore. I’m the hottest rookie ...

When your love life stinks and you're clearly the worst at choosing someone who won't break your heart, why not ask your best friend to find you a date? Unless of course . . . you're in love with her.I've been friends with Artemis since high school, when we bonded over crushing on the same guy. Six years later, we’re roommates in our shiny new post–college lives—she's training for the Olympics while I start my pro football career. We’ve both recently had bad break–...

Riley has accepted that her special gift is to help dead people with their unfinished business. But she never thought she'd be tasked with helping the spirit of a convicted criminal who died in prison. He may lead her on the scariest mission yet but helping him could mean saving the life of a child. The convict's daughter needs a liver transplant and the one person who could still be a match is his brother . . . who also happens to be a gang leader.Hayden's not happy that Riley's d...