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New Arrivals $32.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature Julia A. (edt) Mickenberg $54.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Instruction and Assessment for Struggling Writers: Evidence-Based Practices (Challenges in Language and Literacy) Gary A. Troia $5.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Will Shortz Presents I Can Kenken! Volume 2: 75 Puzzles for Having Fun with Math Nextoy $40.50 Trade Paper add to wishlist Get Fit - Stay Fit William E. Prentice $15.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Manga Guide to Statistics Shin Takahashi $17.50 Hardcover add to wishlist The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time Stephen R Covey $5.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Will Shortz Presents I Can Kenken! Volume 3: 75 Puzzles for Having Fun with Math Nextoy $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning Robert J Blake $125.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist Trait Crate: Grade 1: Picture Books, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing with the 6 Traits Ruth Culham $19.99 Trade Paper add to wishlist Daily Word Ladders: Grades 1-2: 150+ Reproducible Word Study Lessons That Help Kids Boost Reading, Vocabulary, Spelling and Phonics Skills! Timothy Rasinski $16.50 Hardcover add to wishlist Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling David Wolman $83.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Teaching Race in the Twenty-First Century: College Teachers Talk about Their Fears, Risks, and Rewards Lisa (edt) Guerrero General Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Powells.com Staff Pick Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." Mortenson and Relin's Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time is a powerful contribution to that arsenal. If there... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Sale Books The Essential 55 Workbook by Ron Clark Publisher Comments With the help of the workbook, readers can apply Clark's rules to a more "parent-directed" approach to improving study and work habits. Included are activities to help fire up a child's enthusiasm for the classroom, fun role-playing exercises, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed by Mel Levine Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-342) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Education to your inbox Teaching Social Studies Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Learning Disabilities Short Bus : a Journey Beyond Normal (07 Edition) by Jonathan Mooney Publisher Comments “What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney’s transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful.”—Los Angeles Times Labeled “... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Phonics Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling by David Wolman Publisher Comments Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent 'h'? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? Seeking to untangle the twisted story... (read more) Your Price $16.50 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Teaching Math and Science Math Doesn't Suck: How To Survive Middle-school Math Without Losing Your Mind Or Breaking a Nail (07 Edition) by Mckellar Publisher Comments The runaway national bestseller, now in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Special Education The Black Book of Colors by Menena Cottin and Rosana Faría Publisher Comments It is very hard for a sighted person to imagine what it is like to be blind. This groundbreaking, award-winning book endeavors to convey the experience of a person who can only see through his or her sense of touch, taste, smell or hearing. Raised... (read more) Your Price $17.95 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies Workbooks Baby Einstein: Language Discovery Cards: Images and Words to Teach and Delight... by Julie Aigner Clark Synopsis Each beautifully illustrated card features real-life images and words that will expand children's vocabulary, as well as enhance their concept development and word recognition skills. Language Discovery Cards include words in seven different languages... (read more) Your Price $4.98 Sale - Boxed Non-book check for used copies Books on Books Book Crush: For Kids and Teens-Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Interest by Nancy Pearl Publisher Comments Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the seemingly endless choices for reading material for young people. What’s good, what’s trash, what’s going to hold their interest? Nancy Pearl, America’s favorite librarian,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Classroom Resources Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom by Jim Fay Publisher Comments Discover why love and logic works in the classroom and understand the psychological reasons for its effectiveness.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your Price $12.50 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Teaching Reading and Writing Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation with Sticker by Lynne Truss Publisher Comments We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species... (read more) Your Price $5.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies

Bestsellers Monday December 1, 2008 Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W Loewen Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann Classroom Instruction That Works by Robert J. Marzano The Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney Enter to Win! Sign up for email updates from Powell's, and you could win $250 in books! You may unsubscribe at any time. email address Special offers Kids' books Local readings and events Technica Review-a-Day Powells.com is proud to be the official bookseller of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center. Read about our privacy policy here.

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