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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter, with the language targeted at learners of English.

This book chronicles the second, third and fourth years of these adventures, including the day-to-day life of a teacher at The American School of Kinshasa from 2007-2009 who deals with a marginal infrastructure while facing the everyday challenges of living in a war-torn third-world country, and has some great adventures in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Zanzibar.

Can you say the alphabet? A family book to support your young ones to learning the alphabet with Dot and his friends.

In this edition: Present and past tenses; Singular and plural tenses; Singular and plural nouns; Singular and plural pronouns; Modal verbs and their usages; and Perfect tenses are carefully explained with example sentences in sentence constructions.

Young children live with awe and wonder as their daily companions. But as they grow, worries often crowd out wonder. Knowing this, how can parents strengthen their kids' love for the world so it sticks around for the long haul? Thankfully, parents have at their fingertips a miracle vaccine - one that can boost their kids' immunity to the world's distractions: stories. Well-chosen stories connect us with others, even those on the other side of the globe.

I type "International Teaching Jobs" on the Google search line and find several sites, but I decide on one particularly useful site for which I pay a slight fee, and I find myself looking at a long list of teaching jobs all over the world. "Anything in Latin America," my wife asks, coming in to the room. "No, but here's one in the Congo." "Africa!?" "Yea, really. They want a calculus teacher! I can do that!" "Okay," Chantal says tentatively. "If you want." I hit the submit button and my resume is off across the world.

The author of Homeschooling Is the New Millennium presents a brand new idea that should have taken off years ago to help you do just that, all while adding peace of mind and family time to your daily routine. Homeschooling is the safest and most stress-free way to approach everyday educational needs. Imagine perfect grades enabling you to be an honor roll college bound student from the comfort of your own home!

Having faith can move mountains, but in Muddy's case, it can transform into something great.

Now that I've retired my Scoutmaster badge I'm able to write what I would have appreciated reading when I first took on the job 30 years ago. Since I started writing a blog at ScoutmasterCG.com 11 years ago, I've learned something of the power of storytelling. This narrative loosely follows my own experiences, but the new Scoutmaster in the story begins knowing things that took me many years to understand.

If you're looking for your socks, think of where they may be.

Bad things can sometimes happen to children, and that is why it is very important for them to listen and "understand" the reasons for parents' instructions. This is a children's book to assist children in learning the "why". Children relate very well to small animals, and hopefully this story will help in keeping them safe and innocent, and how enticement of any sort could mean trouble from the unfortunate evil that lurks in the real world.

This quiz is 100 questions. It is to test kids on their ability to apply what they have learned in English Grammar for Kids. It is a true-or-false answer format. It is assumed that the kids have a good knowledge of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.

Viele Eltern sind heute beruflich stark engagiert und eingebunden. Trotz dieser Belastungen bemühen sie sich, ihr Kind zu einem leistungsstarken und glücklichen Menschen zu erziehen. Jens Corssen und Thomas Fuchs warnen jedoch vor diesen zukunftsfokussierten Anstrengungen. Wichtiger als dieses "Später-im-Leben" ist den beiden erfahrenen Psychologen das Gelingen der gegenwärtigen Eltern- Kind-Beziehung.

Learn the ABC's with Princess Mia and her friends.

It happens to every parent. One day, you have a sweet son or daughter who loves to snuggle on the couch and who puts a smile on your face just by walking into the room. The next day, it's as if someone left the door open and let in an alien with a smart mouth and an attitude that, frankly, you could do without. Entering middle school is like stepping onto a different planet - for parent and child alike. It's a planet where peer pressure, social media, and hormones can wreak havoc in your child's life.

In The Perfect Nanny, you'll learn what traits to look for in nanny candidates, the warning signals you should look out for, and tasks your nanny can be expected to do at home.

By Heart shares the surprising story of one family's journey from compliant public schooling to radical home-based learning. This literary homeschool memoir takes readers from the tundra of Bethel, Alaska, to the placid farm country of Wisconsin, all the while exploring the homeschool lifestyle. Daring and compassionate, it portrays homeschooling as a progressive choice and thoughtfully examines classic homeschool tensions – homeschool decision, schedules and curricula, socialization, and the economics of co-parenting.

Princess Mia loves animals. She has a zoo inside her castle, and one of the animals escaped. You need to help her figure out which one it is....

The Parent's Guide includes clear and concise steps for you to follow. You'll discover ideas on how to deal with your child's math anxiety, understand how your child learns, and use incentives to encourage your child to sharpen their pencil and give their best effort on their math homework.

In his first nine years as a teacher, Brendan Halpin goes from wide-eyed idealist to cynical, heartbroken idealist. Unique among teaching memoirs, Losing My Faculties is not the story of a heroic teacher who transforms the lives of his hardbitten students; rather, it's the inspirational and often unpretty truth about people who choose to get up ridiculously early day after day and year after year to go stand in front of teenagers.