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Street Sweepers (Mighty Machines)
DeGezelle, Terri
Capstone Press, 2006
Text and photographs present street sweepers, their parts, and their jobs.
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Guatemala: A Question and Answer Book (Fact Finders)
Englar, Mary
Capstone Press, 2005
Excellent book to use with small children from 3 up
We bought this book to have for our 3yo who we recently adopted from Guatemala. What we found was that it was also a great book for our 8yo. She was able to learn so much about the country where her sister was coming from! It tells all types of things Guatemalan - ...
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Garbage Trucks (Pebble Plus: Mighty Machines)
DeGezelle, Terri
Capstone Press, 2006
Garbage Trucks
A great book for young first time readers with lots of fun but good informnation very well explained with pictures
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A Day in the Life of a Veterinarian (First Facts: Community Helpers at Work)
Heather Adamson
Capstone Press, 2000
Children will explore a typical day of a community worker, following a firefighter as he puts out a fire, a construction worker on a buidling site, and more! Bright, bold photographs show these helpers serve their communities.
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Winter at Valley Forge (Graphic History)
Doeden, Matt
Capstone Press, 2006
A Graphic History for Children
This is a great book to use with ESOL students or other students who need help understanding the American Revolution. I find them interesting myself and learn from them too. The books are straightforward and interesting. The graphic form is in color and easy to ...
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The Puzzle Addict's Book of Codes: 250 Totally Addictive Cryptograms for You to Crack (Puzzle Addicts)
Philip Carter
Capstone, 2006
Letters too small and cramped
I was very disappointed in the layout of this book. Instead of having the puzzle spread out and you write the letter above each one, the puzzle is very small and scrunched together. There is a alpahbet chart below each puzzle where you write what letter substitues ...
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Hibernation (Patterns in Nature series) (Patterns in Nature)
Margaret Hall
Capstone Press, 2008
Simple text and photographs introduce hibernation and how some animals prepare for and experience hibernation each year.
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The World's Wildest Roller Coasters (Built for Speed)
Michael Burgan
Capstone Press, 2000
A Good Book for its Target Audience
Perhaps the price should have warned me. This is a good introduction to roller coasters but it is written for children. Having read it I will donate it to a school library. So to any coaster enthusiasts - is there a school near you that would benefit from your ...
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Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
Ken Robinson
Capstone, 2001
Shifting Minds
Sir Ken's insights are slowly leaking into schools. We are finally understanding the extent of the damage brought about by competitive, risk adverse school environments. At the centre of his approach is a belief in really valuing human capacity in its fullest sense, ...
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21 Dirty Tricks at Work: How to Win at Office Politics
Mike Phipps, Colin Gautrey
Capstone, 2005
The book I was looking for all along
I must've read a stack of "office politics" books before I got to this one.
All the bits and pieces of useful information I managed to collect from the total of them were covered in the first chapter of this book.
This gets straight down to business. The dirty ...
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The Battle of the Alamo (Graphic Library: Graphic History)
Matt Doeden
Capstone Press, 2005
The Alamo, Graphically
This is a graphic history version of the Alamo. I use this series with my ESOL students. It helps them learn English while learning American History at the same time. The Alamo is an interesting part of American History and one they will have to study in their ...
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Knowledge Management
Carl Frappaolo
Capstone, 2006
Outstanding overview and reference
This book is an excellent primer for those who don't know anything about Knowledge Management and those who need a reference on the subject. It is insightful, well written and a very quick read. It is one of those little books of gold you trip over every once in a ...
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A Day in the Life of a Garbage Collector (Community Helpers at Work)
Nate Leboutillier
Capstone Press, 2000
Children will explore a typical day of a community worker, following a firefighter as he puts out a fire, a construction worker on a buidling site, and more! Bright, bold photographs show these helpers serve their communities.
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The Boston Tea Party (Graphic History)
Matt Doeden
Capstone Press, 2005
Boston Tea Party Told Graphically
The Boston Tea Party is a very important point in American History. These Graphic Histories are very good at helping me teach English to my ESOL students and help them learn history.
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The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure (You Choose Books) (You Choose Books)
Elizabeth Raum
Capstone Press, 2008
the whole series is great
I read these books with my 8-year-old daughter for fun. We play a game where one of us reads aloud and the other gets to make the choices of which path to take. In this volume, the main character is a young White man, and I guess that is a drawback since we don't get ...
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