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    Harvey Smokey Daniels and Sara Ahmed How can we meet today's elevated academic goals and engage middle school kids-but not simply replicate our competitive, winner-take-all society? How can our students achieve an even higher standard-demonstrating the capacity and the commitment to bend the world toward justice?In a word, inquiry.Welcome to the classroom of Sara Ahmed. With Smokey Daniels as your guide you'll see exactly how Sara uses inquiry to turn required curricular topics into questions so fascinating that young adolescents can't resist investigating them. Units so engaging that they provide all the complexity the standards could ever expect, while helping students grow from bystanders to Upstanders.Smokey and Sara describe precisely how to create, manage, and sustain a classroom built around choice, small-group collaboration, and critical thinking. You'll be inspired by what Sara's students accomplish, but you'll also come away from Upstanders with a can-do plan for teaching your own classes thanks to:a developmental look at what makes middle school kids special, challenging, and fun specific lessons that develop collaboration, self-awareness, and compassion a toolbox filled with teaching strategies, structures, tools, and handouts Point-Outs from Smokey that highlight key teaching moves Game-Time Decisions from Sara that reveal in-the-moment instructional choices narratives that document the incredible work that inquiry allows kids to do ambitious, engaging, and important units on commonly taught middle school themes. What kind of classroom do we want for our middle schoolers? How about one that develops the skills the standards demand and prepares kids to take action in the world right now? We can do it-if we help kids become Upstanders.

    A rogue state. A weapon the likes of which the world has never seen. Jackson Block finds himself stranded at 15,000 feet above Boston inside a plane with a dead pilot and no easy way down. When he reaches the ground he discovers that the city - and the country - has torn itself apart. With his fiancée stuck in a small town hours away, he must draw upon every resource he can muster to make it to her before those who would seek to profit from this unprecedented disaster come forth from the shadows... Zero Hour is a 6-part novel-length post-apocalyptic survival thriller series that asks one simple question: do you have what it takes to survive? The story follows the unleashing of a bio-weapon on an unsuspecting American populace, killing hundreds of millions in the blink of an eye. This post-apocalyptic thriller is written as a collaboration between Justin Bell and #1 bestselling post-apocalyptic author Mike Kraus. Zero Hour is a gripping post-apoc thrill ride that takes a unique look at the post-apocalyptic genre and will leave you breathless with every turn of the page. Filled with intense, heart-pumping action, this series will be released at a rate of approximately one book per month.

     Sweet Blood of Mine: Justin Slade and women don't mix, but when he discovers he has the ability to seduce any woman he wants, high school suddenly gets a lot more interesting. The more he opens his eyes to the supernatural world, the more dangerous he realizes it is. Dark Light of Mine: Justin discovers there's a lot more to the supernatural life than he could have imagine. Obsidian arches that allow instantaneous travel, pocket dimensions with complete towns, and, unfortunately, a succubus who's hunting down his father. To make matters worse, Underborn, the most notorious assassin in the Overworld, also has his sights set on Justin's father.Book 1: Sweet Blood of MineBook 2: Dark Light of MineBook 3: Fallen Angel of MineBook 4: Dread Nemesis of MineBook 5: Twisted Sister of MineBook 6: Dearest Mother of MineBook 7: Infernal Father of MineBook 8: Sinister Seraphim of MineBook 9: Wicked War of MineBook 10:Dire Destiny of Ours

    This two-book boxed set contains paperback editions of both Carve the Mark and The Fates Divide.Cyra and Akos grew up in enemy countries on a vibrant yet divided planet. Their world is on the brink of political chaos, and the two must decide if they will fight for what’s right, even if it means betrayal of their families and countries. When the time comes, will they choose loyalty or love?

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