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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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If it’s on the ACT, it’s in this book. Cracking the ACT, 2010 Edition includes:
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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Vocabulary practice is critical for success on the SAT, and these vocabulary flashcards provide you with an easy, efficient and portable way to prepare for the verbal section of the exam. This box of SAT flashcards includes 500 vocabulary words, with definitions and examples of each word [...]
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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This guide to the AP English Language & Composition Exam includes proven test-taking techniques from the AP experts at the Princeton Review. Cracking the AP English Language & Composition Exam, 2010 Edition also brings you:
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Author: The College Board
Publisher: College Board
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The Official SAT Study Guide™ —with more than two million sold—just got better! Now offering 10 practice tests, The Official SAT Study Guide: Second Edition™ is the only book that features official SAT® practice tests created by the test maker. With over 1,000 pages and more [...]
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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The best way to prepare for standardized tests is to practice, and this resource offers you plenty of opportunities to do just that. 1,296 ACT Practice Questions includes:
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Author: George Ehrenhaft Ed.D.
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
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This updated manual presents five full-length practice AP exams with all questions answered and clearly explained. To help students prepare for multiple-choice questions, the book offers many sample questions on poetry and prose fiction, along with commonsense tactics for choosing correct answers. Separate chapters review [...]
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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The SAT is a critical exam for college applicants, and more than 2 million students take the test each year. In Cracking the SAT the experts at The Princeton Review provide the information and strategies you need to succeed on the math, verbal and essay sections of [...]
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Author: Dorothy Richmond
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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This convenient worktext gives students a unique approach to learning, remembering, and reviewing how to use Spanish verbs correctly. The book provides a systematic presentation and review of Spanish verb forms and explains when and why a certain verb tense should be used. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb [...]
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Author: Nancy Scoggin
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
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This brand-new addition to Barron’s series of Advanced Placement test prep manuals presents a comprehensive review of music theory, followed by two full-length practice tests with all questions answered and explained. These practice tests include both aural and non-aural sections. The four audio CDs enclosed with [...]
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Author: Yale Daily News Staff
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
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The Straight-Talking Student’s Guide to the Best Colleges
For more than thirty-five years, The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges has been the favorite resource of high school students across the country because it is the only comprehensive college reference written and researched by students for [...]
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Math Subject Tests is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about math—only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In Cracking the SAT [...]
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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Are you getting ready to take the AP Chemistry exam? The Princeton Review experts provide the help you need in Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, 2010 Edition. It includes:
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•Proven techniques to help get high scores
•All AP Chemistry review topics from [...]
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Author: Association of American Medical Colleges
Publisher: Assn of Amer Medical Colleges
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This must-have book — often called the “bible of medical school guides” –is the #1 source for medical school applicants. The 2010-2011 edition features more information than ever before.
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Author: David Orsay
Publisher: Osote Publishing
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The passages in this book have been designed to closely resemble official MCAT Verbal passages. From the type font to the subject matter to the number of words in each passage, question, and answer choice, these exas have the real MCAT feel. The questions in this book [...]
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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More than 2 million students take the SAT each year. In Cracking the SAT with DVD, the experts at The Princeton Review provide the information and strategies you need to score high on every section of the test: math, verbal, and essay. This new 2010 edition of [...]
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Author: Larry Berger
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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It’s the SAT guide that kids will actually enjoy using. And it’s the one that works: The students who developed Up Your Score all aced the SAT and went to the colleges of their choice. Irreverent, credible, delivered with attitude, Up Your Score combines the best [...]
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Author: Valerie Pierce
Publisher: Front Porch Press (MI)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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Scoring high on the AP Chemistry Exam is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about chemistry—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your highest score. In Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam, we’ll teach you how [...]
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Author: Edward B Fiske
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
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For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 300 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, honest and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges delivers an insider’s look at the academic climates and [...]
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Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Literature Subject Test is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about literature–only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In Cracking the SAT [...]
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Author: Xinran
Publisher: Barefoot Books
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This beautiful poem celebrates the bond between parent and child in a special way. Through the exchanges between a little Chinese girl and her mother, Motherbridge of Love offers a poignant and inspiring message to parents and children all over the world.
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Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
Book Description
This accessible, lighthearted look at language introduces homonyms and homophones. Playful rhymes and comical cartoons make both concepts memorable. Each corresponding pair of homonyms and homophones is printed in color for easy identification. At the end, readers are challenged to apply what they’ve learned – [...]
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Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Voyager Books
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A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. “There is a good balance between the simple text . . . and the expressive pictures . . . an attractive little [...]
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Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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`A favorite author uses an actual incident from 1609 to base a story of three impoverished children left alone in London who make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. . . . Fine engrossing historical fiction.’ —TE.
Notable 1981 Children’s Trade Books in [...]
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Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Merlin the Magician will not eat or sleep or speak to anyone in Camelot. What can be done? The enchantress Morgan knows who to ask
for help: young Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania! The brother-and-sister team quickly head off in the [...]
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Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
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Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7-year-old Ojibwa [...]
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Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Characters based on James Patterson’s international bestsellers When the Wind Blows and The Lake House are re-invented in Maximum Ride and are launched on the ultimate action-packed adventure full of humor and suspense.
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it’s like to soar [...]
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Author: Julia Cook
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
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All of Louis thoughts are very important to him. In fact, his thoughts are so important to him that when he has something to say, his words begin to wiggle, and then they do the jiggle, then his tongue pushes all of his important [...]
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Author: Danica McKellar
Publisher: Plume
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The runaway national bestseller, now in paperback
Author: Postlethwait and Hopson
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston
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Author: George R. R. Martin, Ben Avery, Mike S. Miller
Publisher: Marvel Comics
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Adapting New York Times best-selling author George R. R. Martin’s The Sworn Sword The long-awaited sequel to The Hedge Knight tells the story of the adventures of Ser Duncan and his squire one year after their initial meeting at the [...]
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Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
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Schuyler Van Alen wants an explanation for the mysterious deaths of young vampires. With her best friend, Oliver, Schuyler travels to Italy in the hope of finding the one man who can help–her grandfather. Meanwhile, back in New York, preparations are feverishly underway for [...]
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Author: Barbara V. Swovelin
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Product Description
Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP English Language and Composition exam
Why CliffsAP Guides?
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About the contents:
Part I: Introduction
* Review of the format and scoring of the recent exam
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Author: Joseph Slate
Publisher: Puffin
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On the first day of kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten must prepare her classroom for her beloved students. This noble, whimsical teacher greets her dark, summertime-empty classroom with an explosion of color–a bouquet of fall leaves, a goldfish, rolled-up posters, and shoeboxes full of no-doubt-delightful surprises. Meanwhile, her young students get [...]
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Author: Phillip E., Ph.D. Pack
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
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Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP Biology exam
About the contents:
Introduction
* A review of the AP exam format and scoring
*
Proven strategies for answering multiple-choice questions
*
Hints for tackling the essay questions
*
A list of 14 specific must-know principles
Part I: Subject Area Reviews
* Covers 14 [...]
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Author: Joseph Stoutzenberger, Maurice O’Connell
Publisher: Harcourt Religion Pub
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Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Aladdin
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Luke has never been to school. He’s never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend’s house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.
Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He’s lived his entire [...]
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Author: Joss Whedon, Andy Owens
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
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Since the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers – newly legion – have gotten organized and are kicking some serious undead butt. But not everything’s fun and firearms, as an old enemy reappears and Dawn experiences some serious growing pains. Meanwhile, one of the [...]
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Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and [...]
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Author: Joss Whedon
Publisher: Marvel Comics
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Strap yourselves in, folks! It’s Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s final arc on Astonishing X-Men! After the shocking and brain-smashing events of recent issues, the X-Men are off to protect the Earth from its destruction at the hands of the Breakworld. And when it’s all over, nothing [...]
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Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Aladdin
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Do not panic.
Lord Thistlebottom’s Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie’s ever lost in the desert, or buried in an avalanche, or caught in a dust storm, she knows just what to do. [...]
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Author: Avi
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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A vicious captain, a mutinous crew –
and a young girl caught in the middle
Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, [...]
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Author: Peter Howe
Publisher: HarperCollins
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He is nameless.
He is homeless.
He is friendless.
He is lost.
Until he is found . . . by a team of mutts who shelter him and teach him how to survive the wilds of the city park.
And so he becomes Waggit, the best hunter and tracker in the pack, and [...]
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Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
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Jeremy Fink has been obsessed with the meaning of life ever since a box from his father arrived at his house five years after his father was killed in a car accident. Jeremy is determined to find the missing keys that will open the box [...]
Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Greg Tang
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps–in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang shows readers creative ways to use [...]
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Author: Joseph Bharat Cornell
Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA)
Book Description
As Joseph Cornell’s classic book reached its 20th anniversary, Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience in nature education to significantly revise and expand his book. New nature games—favorites from the field – and Cornell’s typically insightful commentary makes the second edition of this special [...]
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Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press
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The Story of the World CD audiobook is a collaboration between Jim Weiss, whose voice is “liquid gold” (CNN TV), and Susan Wise Bauer, whose writing has been described as “timeless and intelligent” (Publishers Weekly). These spirited readings of the first volume in Bauer’s history [...]
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Author: Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin
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Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the familys escape from Cuba, Michaels only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears [...]
