Bring out daring readers with dynamic small groups!Like many educators in intermediate classrooms across the country, you may be using guided reading principles to teach reading. Whether you’re following targeted reading levels or sticking with your school’s established routines, chances are that guided reading has become synonymous with small group reading for you and your students. But . . . are your students getting the most out of small groups...

Journal entry: Heading to school. I know what everyone will say. There goes the girl who tried to kill herself.Addison is no stranger to feeling stressed, insecure, and sad. Her therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand those feelings better, which she really needs today. It’s her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. She knows there are rumors about why she did it: A lousy home life? Bullying? Heartbreak? Non...

A young widow. A gentle stable master. A secret that could change everything. Will Nora dare risk her heart?The London Countryside, 1820Eleanora Coventry comes from a life of title and privilege, but even that isn’t enough to prevent her from being wed at sixteen to a controlling and dismissive husband. So when she finds herself a widow at only twenty-six, the idea of choosing her own path forward both thrills and terrifies her. She knows how to be a daught...

Caroline Gray would rather be daring and intelligent than demure and insipid, which is why she is still unmatched after her third season in London. Her family’s threadbare finances leave Caroline with only one choice to secure her future: sail with the Fishing Fleet to India, where the son of a family friend is willing to consider an engagement to her.Captain Thomas Scott loves the open sea as much as he despises the three-month, twice-yearly trip his ship makes as he ferries young...

Can the fairy tale bring Charlotte the happiness she’s looking for, or was he always there to begin with?A modern, reimagined Cinderella story.Charlotte Kingsley loves to write and dreams of having her reimagined fairy tales published, but she keeps getting rejected over and over. And to top it all off, her best friend, Anders, gets engaged, making her realize she s going to lose the Prince Charming who lives next door. After another rejection letter from a New York publish...

Journal entry: Heading to school. I know what everyone will say. There goes the girl who tried to kill herself.Addison is no stranger to feeling stressed, insecure, and sad. Her therapist recommended she keep a journal to help her understand those feelings better, which she really needs today. It’s her first day back to school, several weeks after she survived her suicide attempt. She knows there are rumors about why she did it: A lousy home life? Bullying...

Journal of recovery from Post Natal Depression.This book started life as two journals that were part of the process of my recovery from Post Natal Depression. I hope that the book will help you in your recovery journey.Julie Wright

Short texts are everywhere and so are the readers who love them!Today's teachers are continually looking for resources to help support their literacy instruction in an engaging and effective way while also saving precious instructional hours and planning time. In Shining a Light on Short Texts, authors Julie Wright and Elizabeth Keim invite readers into the world of short texts and all they have to offer.Part background information and part direct implementation, t...

“Red Riding Hood” meets “Goldilocks” in this sweeping fairy-tale retelling where love, jealousy, and magic collide.Red Grimshaw has sworn to protect her younger sister, Kristell, not only from the poverty that plagues their family but also from their mother’s cold ambition, which treats the sisters as nothing more than marriage bargaining chips.But when Kristell flees her unwanted betrothal...

Falling in love is complicated when you’re both keeping secrets.On the surface, everything seems perfect for high school senior Ireland Raine. She’s intelligent and artistically talented, and her natural beauty and quiet charm are enviable. However, Ireland harbors a secret she’ll guard at any cost—she’s homeless.When her crush, Kal Ellis, invites her on a date, she seizes the opportunity. Ireland has never had a boyfriend before, and Kal is not just a guit...

"My soul did not break. It cracked wide open."At 3:33 on a Thursday afternoon, Julie's husband, Jim, took his last breath. As their sons each held one of his hands and Julie's hands rested on his knees, they let him go.The shattering she experienced was raw. Real. And dismantling. It was a doorway to Live and Die Awake, the story of a great love, a sacred dying, and the unraveling and rebuilding that followed.Read it with a pen in one han...

A powerful new parenting book that gives parents the exact words to solve any sticky parenting situation!A toddler meltdown over the wrong pair of pants, siblings fighting in the back of the car, kids crying when you try to leave the house...Parents have the best intentions to be patient and loving, but in the heat of the moment, they too often find themselves feeling helpless, desperate, and so frustrated that they resort to yelling, threatening, bribing, o...