Mary Jo: 202 books

Although jaguars are native to Arizona, little is known about the population segment that resides in Mexico and uses southern Arizona and New Mexico as the northern extent of its range. It was thought the species had been extirpated from the state until 1996 when the first jaguar documented since...

Mom’s Story; A Child Learns About MS tells the story of a young girl who sees her mother with some frightening health problems and learns she has MS but she will not die from it. This book is a compassionate, accessible and easy to understand account of symptoms, search for help, diagnosis and adaptation...

Find out how some fires in the forest can help trees. Given additional light, new trees can sprout from seeds and grow to be saplings. Believe it or not, some cones need fire to open and spill their seeds. Conifers are different from other trees, though. Would you like to work in the forest, among the trees? This book will tell you how you could be a forester.

Take killer vacation in the deadliest little resort in paradise, Aloha Lagoon! This boxed set contains the first 5 full-length cozy mystery novels in the Aloha Lagoon Mysteries series by USA Today bestselling & award winning authors, including: Ukulele Murder (book #1) Nani Johnson thought...

A young Italian American woman struggles to find her way between two cultures in this novel of “familial dignity . . . credibility and intelligence” (Kirkus Reviews).   On a stroll in his Queens neighborhood, Sicilian-born Nino Giardello glimpses his daughter, ambitious nineteen-year-old Gina,...

This book uncovers the mystery of silk, and demonstrates techniques for bringing out its cooperative nature, and offers inspirational poetry, prose and spiritual expressions. As silk rapidly gains ground as a creative fabric choice. Simply Silk provides a unique approach to transforming this delicate...

This must-have resource provides 21 original poems that focus on consonant sounds to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK2. Eachgrade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular connections and include phonemic matching, isolation,...

This must-have resource provides 16 original poems that focus on consonant blends and digraphs to support phonemic and phonological awareness in grades PreK2. Eachgrade-level appropriate poem features a corresponding lesson that includes two cross-curricular connections and include phonemic matching,...

This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote...

This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize...

The theo-political idea of covenant—a sacred binding agreement—formalizes relationships and inaugurates politics in the Hebrew Bible, and it was the most significant revolutionary idea to come out of the Protestant Reformation. Central to sixteenth-century theology, covenant became the cornerstone...

This book presents the life story of Woody in a fresh and creative way, reflecting the spirit of him. It displays the actual documents quoted in many of the books and articles as well as artwork drawn or painted by Woody that he sent to family members.

The city of Pleasanton, located in the beautiful Amador-Livermore valley, was formed in 1867 when immigrants John Kottinger and Joshua Neal used land from their Californio wives� dowries and laid out a town. Kottinger named the city after Civil War general Alfred Pleasonton, but a postal clerical error...

This book examines two sides of civil–military relations in developing countries. One is the place of civil-military relations within a state’s political and economic systems; the other is the role of the military on a state’s maintenance of peace and stability. The book thus proposes that the...