This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize student success, leadership, partnerships, curriculum design, collaborative planning and teaching, literacy, 21st century skills, emerging technologies, and so much more, this compendium br...

Finally being able to get out from under her parents house, Abby finds herself in the one place she's always thought of as her second home. A final summer with her best friend, Makenna down on the Jersey Shore is supposed to be her last hurrah before college. Her new job on the boardwalk, and their summer rental is the most exciting thing that's ever happened in her follow the rules boring life.A fairytale believer of true love, and not the one night stand, Abby vows to keep her vi...

All Beatriz “Bia” Fernandes wants is to prove herself—to her family and friends—though it’s hard to prove anything with an overbearing father and three famous polo-playing older brothers. After her acceptance into college results in a heated family argument, the Brazilian girl leaves everything behind to find her own American dream.College life away from home is perfect until the people she believes to be her friends turn on her. With lies and rumors threatening to suffocate her, B...

The day Ethan Chapman found out that his father had been killed, his life quickly spiraled out of control. After his mother forced him to move from Australia back to London to be closer to family, his life still hadn't changed.The only difference was that this time he had a partner, his cousin, Peter Watson. Night after night of hitting pubs, Peter finally convinced him to go on their yearly vacation to the Caribbean. He almost didn't go, but the desire to see Sophie Gerrard, his f...

He swore he'd never forgive her. But now someone wants her dead.Dr. Ian MacGregor knows better than to get involved with Natasha White. The tempting heartbreaker has a way of getting under his skin, but he couldn't live with himself if anything happened to her.Sweeping her away to his Highland castle, Ian becomes her fiercest protector as he vows to safeguard her against the mob who will stop at nothing to eliminate her. He'll guard her till the end, even if that m...

Sixteen-year old, Sophie Gerrard has been in love with her close friend, Peter Watson since childhood. She planned to tell him how she felt during their families' yearly vacation to the Caribbean. But when Peter arrives from London with a girlfriend and his cousin Ethan, her plans change.Disgusted by how the vacation has turned out, she agrees to go island hopping with Ethan, to avoid Peter. But even that didn't work out as planned. When their dinghy capsizes, Sophie and Ethan are ...

Florist Claire Holbrook has always played by the rules…until she spends one night with sexy lone wolf Jake Manning, who she's adored since she was a teenager. But six weeks later, things are getting complicated. Because that one unforgettable night just created a bond they’ll share for a lifetime.Jake never plays by the rules. But while getting Minister Holbrook's daughter pregnant wasn't part of his life plan, he won't run from his responsibilities. He'll step up...

When Becky Hamilton is orphaned at the tender age of fourteen, she comes to live with her aunt in Waco and begins work cooking and cleaning for the town's brooding young sheriff. Mesmerized immediately with his raw masculinity and sinewy strength, her fascination turns to love as the years pass and his honest integrity is revealed.Jake Cooper manages to ignore his pretty, little orphaned housekeeper for three long years. But when she begins a subtle metamorphosis from girl to woman...

Three Hiatt Regency Classics in one value-priced collection!Brenda Hiatt’s first three traditional Regency romance novels for your reading pleasure. This collection contains:Gabriella ~ A lost wager obliges the Duke of Ravenham to bring a pretty little nobody from the country into fashion for the London Season. That irksome duty turns into something quite different as he falls under the spell of his protege’s innocent charm....

Anne has worked for her sexy, ex-surfer, businessman boss for seven years, and she's been in love with him for two. Jake doesn't think about her as anything but his ever-efficient assistant, though. She's been trying to get over her feelings by dating other men and interviewing for other jobs—which doesn't make Jake very happy. But Anne is determined not to put her life on hold for him.When she gets a new job offer, Jake will do anything he can to keep her, but he still only seems ...

You will not break me for I am unbreakable.He’s the all-American boy with insanely good looks.She’s the sassy bombshell with an untamable wild streak.When Cooper McKay moved in next door, all bronzed skin and lean muscle, with a panty dropping smile that could bring any girl to her knees, Kayla Keller knew she had met her match.Then he became an officer of the law and the man of her dreams. He set her body and teenage hormones on fi...

She saw in him what no one else could see.He found in her what he would never find with anyone else.At the tender age of fourteen, Anna Roberts experienced unimaginable trauma. She didn’t think she would overcome what happened to her, but she did and she came out stronger.She also fell in love.Logan Knight was misunderstood and perceived as dangerous, but Anna saw something in him no one else did, and they ...