Alamosa Public Library

"'A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children' is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, 'Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children'. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, 'A Broken Flute' contains, from a Native perspective, 'living stories', essays, poetry, and hundreds of reviews of 'children's books about Indians'. It's an indispensable volume for anyone...

Introduce your child to early writing skills in this innovative trace-and-flip book. Using their finger, children can trace each grooved trail to explore its shape and pattern. Colorful lift-the-flaps add to the fun!

Join in the fun with Marko, and learn how to brainstorm ideas for an assignment; find a hook to interest readers; organize sentences and ideas effectively; avoid unclear pronouns; use transitional phrases; involve readers with effective dialogue; enrich your work with similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification. Stories, essays, term papers, or standardized tests - whatever you write, Marko gives you proven strategies for getting remarkable...

"This book covers laws affecting cohabiting unmarried couples in a wide variety of areas— family law, debt and credit, real estate, taxes, medical care, insurance, estate planning, etc., and contains sample forms and contracts. Topics include: buying or renting a house; sharing checking accounts, credit cards, and property (or keeping everything separate); having and raising children; writing wills and estate plans; getting authorization to make...

"Taking an exciting, new approach to working with our youngest students, Already Ready shows you how, by respecting children as writers engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover guide you through fundamental concepts of early writing. Providing numerous, helpful examples of early writing - complete with transcriptions-they demonstrate how to: make sense of children's writing...

When substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Massachusetts, they witness the Battle of Lexington and learn about the Declaration of Independence.