Jeff Anderson
1) Just my luck
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After Zack accidentally knocks down Abhi, the new girl at school he is crushing on, during dodgeball, he works to make amends and eventually finds out the true reason for her reticence during the Fall Fiesta-val.
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"Editing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process - usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer's workshop. Too many times, daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum with no relationship to what students are writing." "In Everyday Editing, Jeff Anderson asks readers to reflect on what sort of message this approach sends to students. Does it tell them that editing and revision are meaningful...
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Middle-school teacher, Jeff Anderson has discovered that nearly all teachers struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids and that many students are not grasping the basics that allow them to reach their potential as writers. Mechanically Inclined is the culmination of years of experimentation that merges the best of writer's workshop elements with relevant theory about how and why skills should be taught. It shifts...
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Twelve-year-old Zack Delacruz has remained happily unnoticed at his middle school... until now. When he sees his classmate being teased by the school bully, Zack surprises everyone--including himself--by breaking out of his shell and standing up to the tormentor. Somehow this act of bravery gets Zack put in charge of the sixth-grade dance fund raiser with none other than the bully himself! Zack's situation goes from bad to worse when he learns that...
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From the Publisher: Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick...
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Aeden is young man with no memory, adrift in a world of riddles. His only friend - a man hated for his race and creed, their only hope - a nun on the run for opposing the Holy Wars. Meanwhile a veteran of the Third Crusade is hunting Aeden, believing him to be the clue to discovering the greatest secret in alchemy, the identity of the First Matter. Originally penned in the wake of 9/11, Riddler's Fayre is a series that has as much to say about our...
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In his quest to discover his own identity, Aeden, travels with the Fayre to London. In the deep winter of 1199 AD he finds others who are seeking the First Matter – the secret substance which will create the Philosopher's Stone. But Aeden also hears unwelcome news of his association with treachery. In this, the second of the Riddler's Fayre series, we are taken to a dark London we wish history would forget.
9) Clerks
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The story of one really bad day in the life of convenience store employee Dante Hicks.
10) Clerks II
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A calamity at Dante and Randal's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.