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Boston private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda McCready, abducted from her bed on a warm, summer night. They meet her stoned-out, strangely apathetic mother, her loving aunt and uncle, the mother's dangerous, drug-addled friends, and two cops who've found so many abused or dead children they may be too far over the edge to come back

This practical book is part of a series that introduces and teaches grammar in context of real text types. It provides 35 weekly units of work. The focus of this book is on exploring the grammar used in particular text types, and how it relates to the specific purpose and audience the text has been written for. It uses real texts, real contexts, and real grammar, written for the needs of young students!

After returning from Wonderland, Alice's adventures continue when she steps through a looking glass and into the topsy-turvy world beyond.

It was the best of times ."These lines were spoken just before the bloody revolution in France. Watch the drama unfold through the eyes of the characters in this book.

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors.

Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice.

Romeo and Juliet For students struggling with the Bard, a book by any other name wouldn't help as much! Complete with all kinds of study aids in addition to the side-by-side translation and reflective questions, this Shakespearean resource helps students understand and appreciate Romeo and Juliet. Full description

Hiccup Haddock Horrendous III was a truly extraordinary Viking hero. The warrior chieftain and awesome sword fighter was known as 'the Dragon Whisperer', on account of his power over these terrifying beasts. But it wasn't always like that, and this is the story of his rise to fame, in his own words.

THE STORY CONTINUES in the second volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs ...Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived

A Viking lesson in pirating takes a strange turn when Hiccup and his best friend, Fishlegs, accidentally raid the wrong ship while trying to escape Sharkworms. The two lads rescue a tiny yet arrogant nanodragon named Ziggerastica, but then they are kidnapped as part of a vicious plot to steal every dragon on the Isle of Berk! Hiccup must rely on his tiny new friend, and his ability to speak Dragonese, to save the day ... again!