Barbara Mariconda

"After Lucy P. Simmons's parents drown, Lucy must find a way to keep her greedy aunt and uncle from taking her family's house. A mysterious woman who seems to come from the sea, as well as the house itself, come to Lucy's aid"--

The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons

Newbery Medal–winning author Katherine Applegate says this magnificent second book in the Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons series is "a grand and adventurous tale." Ever since Lucy's parents drowned at sea, she's been protected by special magic. This magic saved Lucy from her greedy uncle by transforming her house into a ship. Now her home is the ocean, and her family is a ragtag crew. Together, they set sail for Australia to find Lucy's last living relative, Aunt Pru. But a mysterious family curse still haunts Lucy. If she doesn't unlock her family's secrets before her enemies do, the sea might draw her into its stormy depths. Readers who love middle-grade novels like Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle or the American Girl books will be swept away by Lucy at Sea.

The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons: Lucy at Sea

"Set during the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, sixteen-year-old Drina yearns to dance flamenco. When she dances, she forgets who she is. She forgets what seems to be her legacy: I am nothing. I belong nowhere. Why does her mother forbid her to dance, the very thing that makes her feel alive? She wonders about the secrets her mother holds, about the rumored life she had before Drina was born--a story that somehow still holds them both prisoner. From the wandering Gypsy campagna to the vineyard estate of a paternal grandmother she has never known and the dance halls of Seville where flamenco reigns, Drina fights to discover who she is and where she belongs. Not quite Gypsy, not quite Spanish, she must carve out an identity all her own and discover what it means to be a bird with the heart of a mountain"--Amazon.com, viewed March 7, 2014.

Bird with the heart of a mountain

Mary Alice Monroe

Suzanne Slade

Kevin Kurtz

Set Includes all 55 hardcover Sylvan Dell titles in print: Carolina's Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!, Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean, Pieces of Another World, Christmas Eve Blizzard, How The Moon Regained Her Shape, Loon Chase, If A Dolphin Were A Fish, Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud, Tudley Didn't Know, Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights, The, Happy Birthday To Whooo?, If You Were A Parrot, One Odd Day, Turtles In My Sandbox, In Arctic Waters, ABC Safari, Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter, Rainforest Grew All Around, The, Ocean Seasons, In My Backyard, Burro's Tortillas, Day in the Salt Marsh, A, Little Skink's Tail, Julie the Rockhound, My Even Day, Kersplatypus, 'Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, Best Nest, The, Animals are Sleeping, Blackberry Banquet Sort it Out! My Half Day, River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers, Whistling Wings, Saturn for My Birthday, Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet, Where Should Turtle Be?, Henry the Impatient Heron, Ocean Hide and Seek, One Wolf Howls, What's New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure, Count Down to Fall, Moose and Magpie, Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls, Baby Owl's Rescue, Newton and Me, Felina's New Home: A Florida Panther Story, Little Red Bat, What's the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story, Pandas' Earthquake Escape, Ready, Set, Wait!, Day on the Mountain, A , Fur and Feathers, Astro: The Steller Sea Lion, Champ's Story: Dogs Get Cancer Too!; Sylvan Dell Publishing will award any institution that purchases this set a 1-year eBook Site License, representing all titles. Proof of purchase necessary. The set comprises: A Day in the Salt Marsh; ABC Safari; Animals are Sleeping; Baby Owl's Rescue; Blackberry Banquet; Burro's Tortillas; Carolina's Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!; Christmas Eve Blizzard; Count Down to Fall; Happy Birthday To Whooo?; Henry the Impatient Heron; How The Moon Regained Her Shape; If A Dolphin Were A Fish; If You Were A Parrot; In Arctic Waters; In My Backyard; Julie the Rockhound; Kersplatypus; Little Skink's Tail; Loon Chase; Moose and Magpie; Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; My Even Day; My Half Day; Ocean Seasons; Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud; One Odd Day; One Wolf Howls; Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet; Pieces of Another World; River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers; Saturn for My Birthday; Sort it Out!; The Best Nest; The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights; The Rainforest Grew All Around; Tudley Didn't Know; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter; Turtles In My Sandbox; Twas the Day Before Zoo Day; Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean; What's New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure; Where Should Turtle Be?; Whistling Wings. All books feature a 3-5 page For Creative Minds educational section and additional Free Online Educator Resources: cross-curricular Teaching Activities, Interactive Reading Comprehension & Math Quizzes, Audio Books, and Related Websites.

Science and Math Through Literature

All Titles Set

Inventive activities give teachers details they need to present engaging lesson on writing an entertaining beginning, building suspense, adding detail, developing story endings and using dialogue effectively. Wake kids up to good writing skills. Illustrations throughout.

Everything You Need to Teach the Essential Elements - And the Magic - Of Good Writing

The Most Wonderful Writing Lessons Ever

Readers who love seafaring adventures like Avi’s The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle or the American Girl books will love Barbara Mariconda’s The Emerald Shore. This book is the marvelous conclusion to the Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons trilogy, a series that Newbery Award–winning author Katherine Applegate calls “a grand and adventurous tale.” Lucy is trapped between two powerful magics. The glittering magic that’s protected her ever since her parents died, and the dark magic of the Simmons family curse. Lucy’s fight to survive the curse has led her to sail on an epic journey across the globe. Now finding Mary Maude Lee’s stolen pirate treasure on the rocky shores of Ireland is the only way for Lucy to break the curse and protect herself and everyone she loves. But time is running out. Danger looms closer than ever before, and Lucy will need courage stronger than magic to save herself from the fate that awaits her.

The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons: The Emerald Shore

Packy the Packrat collects and then groups things in different ways such as sorting by color or shape and when things go missing he immediately detects their absence. Includes sorting activities.

Sort it Out!

Contains lessons and teaching strategies that help students bring organization, facts, and flair to their informational writing.

Step-By-Step Strategies for Teaching Expository Writing

In rhyming text, Pack the Packrat sorts his collection of trinkets in a variety of ways.

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