Creative Writing Summer Program
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Summer Bridge Activities: 5th to 6th Grade $3.88 Summary:Help children maintain skills while away from school with this award-winning series and original summer learning program! Daily activities in reading, writing, mathematics, and language arts with bonus activities in science and geography. Also included are full-color flash cards, incentive contract calendars, a certificate of completion, and the Summer Bridge Kids who guide children though… |
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Summer Bridge Activities: 3rd to 4th Grade $5.47 Summary:Help children maintain skills while away from school with this award-winning series and original summer learning program! Daily activities in reading, writing, mathematics, and language arts with bonus activities in science and geography. Also included are full-color flash cards, incentive contract calendars, a certificate of completion, and the Summer Bridge Kids who guide children though… |
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The Original Summer Bridge Activities: 2nd to 3rd Grade $7.47 Bridge the gap between spring and fall! Developed to help children maintain and enhance scholastic skills while away from school, this award-winning series is the original summer learning program. Summer Bridge consists of daily activities in reading, writing, mathematics, and language arts with bonus activities in science and geography. Bright covers and full-color activities make summer learning… |
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Time Soldiers Complete Program $199.99 Six young friends leave behind the present-day world when they venture into a secret portal that leads them back in time. Each book features full-color digitally enhanced photographs and an action-packed story. These books appeal to all adventure-loving students, but especially to boys who may be reluctant readers. The comprehensive teacher guide provides activities that cover vocabulary, genre, plot, character, setting, point of view, sequence, cause and effect, author’s purpose, inference, fact and fiction, expository writing, and creative writing. It also includes culminating activities and games. The program includes 6 copies of 6 different books, plus a Teacher Guide. AR Levels: from 2.7 to 3.4 Interest Level Grade 3-6 |
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Creative Covers Tom Headcover $29.99 Creative Covers Tom Headcover Miss the rough by a whisker with Tom on your driver. The Creative Covers Tom Headcover is an official Warner Brothers licensed product designed to fit up to a 460cc driver. The knit sock extends down to protect your golf clubs shaft and is completely washable. |
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Creative Covers Snoopy Headcover $29.99 Creative Covers Snoopy Headcover Washable and designed to fit up to a 460cc driver, the Creative Covers Snoopy Headcover is as functional as much as it is eye-catching. This officially licensed headcover is made of super-soft plush fabric that protects the club head while a knit sock extends down to help keep the shaft safe from nicks and scratches. |
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Creative Covers Wilma Headcover $29.99 Creative Covers Wilma Headcover Washable and designed to fit up to a 460cc driver, the Creative Covers Wilma Headcover is as functional as much as it is eye-catching. This officially licensed headcover is made of super-soft plush fabric that protects the club head while a knit sock extends down to help keep the shaft safe from nicks and scratches. |
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Creative Covers Fireman Headcover $24.99 Creative Covers Fireman Headcover Washable and designed to fit up to a 460cc driver, the Creative Covers Fireman Headcover is as functional as much as it is eye-catching. This headcover is made of super-soft plush fabric that protects the club head while a knit sock extends down to help keep the shaft safe from nicks and scratches. The removable jacket can be personalized. |
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Creative Covers Doctor Headcover $24.99 Creative Covers Doctor Headcover Washable and designed to fit up to a 460cc driver, the Creative Covers Doctor Headcover is as functional as much as it is eye-catching. This headcover is made of super-soft plush fabric that protects the club head while a knit sock extends down to help keep the shaft safe from nicks and scratches. The removable scrubs can be personalized. |
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Ambassador of the Dead $8.99 A passionate story of friendship, family, and the other side of the American dream.One Sunday morning, Nick Blud, a successful Boston physician, is home in bed when he receives a phone call from Adriana Kruk, the mother of a boyhood friend. The beautiful Adriana, who once vacationed at her family’s luxurious summer home on the Black Sea, now lives in a run-down apartment in New Jersey. Abandoned by her husband and estranged from her sons, she summons Nick back to his old neighborhood, where something unspeakable has happened—exactly what, no one is willing to say. Ambassador of the Dead is a harrowing tale of ambitions gone awry, and an unflinching meditation on exile and assimilation and the cost of love. Author Biography: Askold Melnyczuk’s widely praised first novel, What Is Told, was a New York Times Notable Book. The recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award and a 2002 NEA fellowship, he teaches at the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Medford, Massachusetts. |
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Late in the Standoff: Stories and a Novella $22.5 In this, his third collection, Tracy Daugherty focuses on social and cultural forces shaping people’s intimate behavior. Set in Texas and Oklahoma, the stories and novella suggest that even politics is a kind of family squabble whose elusive solutions often come fromunexpected quarters. In “Power Lines,” a young man’s sexual awakening in Midland, Texas, coincides with lessons about heroism and loyalty one hot summer that is suddenly seared with violence. In “The Standoff,” a retired politician and his asthmatic grandson rediscover their bond on a trip to a small Oklahoma town where the old man has been asked to settle an “Indian dispute.” In “Cotton Flat Road,” a brother and sister lift the lid on their differences as he discovers her secret life across the tracks in the Texas oil town they grew up in. Author Biography: TRACY DAUGHERTY is the author of four novels, two other story collections, and a volume of personal essays. His work has appeared in many venues, including The New Yorker, the Georgia Review, and the Southwest Review. He’s been awarded Bread Loaf and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and has been a Fulbright participant. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Oregon State University and is on the MFA faculty at Warren Wilson College. |
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Mud Girl $7.95 Aba Zytka Jones (Abi) doesn’t expect to get anything from anybody. Her dad’s stuck in his chair and her moms taken off, but she is going to work out what to do on her own. At least that is what she thinks. Sixteen, almost seventeen, Abi Jones hasn’t got cool clothes, friends, or, since last year, a mother. What she has is a lot of questions. And a need to make a life of her own. Abi lives with her dad in an odd little house by the Fraser River. Over it, actually. It’s this location that gives her the nickname “Mud Girl.” Sometimes the water flowing under part of the house makes her think they’ll both be swept away some day.The summer before her last year of high school, Abi’s solitary life begins to change. A woman she calls Ernestine – because she’s so earnest – becomes her Big Sister. The cute guy from the paint shop, Jude, starts to take an interest. And a girl called Amanda offers Abi a summer job cleaning houses, work Abi enjoys more than she could have imagined. Jude and his two-year-old son, Dyl, present some urgent new questions and Abi has to find the answers fast – what Jude wants from her; how she feels about it; and what Dyl might need from her too. The life of Abi Jones, the Mud Girl, might be the last thing any teenager would choose. But it’s her life, and Abi has to find out whether she’s got the courage and intelligence to live it well. Alison Acheson’s teen novel Mud Girl was a finalist for CLA’s Book of the Year. She has also publish two juvenile novels and a picture book. Alison Acheson has taught in the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia, and continues to teach and write in the town of Ladner, BC, where she lives with her spouse and three sons. |
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Mud Girl $0.99 Aba Zytka Jones (Abi) doesn’t expect to get anything from anybody. Her dad’s stuck in his chair and her moms taken off, but she is going to work out what to do on her own. At least that is what she thinks. Sixteen, almost seventeen, Abi Jones hasn’t got cool clothes, friends, or, since last year, a mother. What she has is a lot of questions. And a need to make a life of her own. Abi lives with her dad in an odd little house by the Fraser River. Over it, actually. It’s this location that gives her the nickname “Mud Girl.” Sometimes the water flowing under part of the house makes her think they’ll both be swept away some day.The summer before her last year of high school, Abi’s solitary life begins to change. A woman she calls Ernestine – because she’s so earnest – becomes her Big Sister. The cute guy from the paint shop, Jude, starts to take an interest. And a girl called Amanda offers Abi a summer job cleaning houses, work Abi enjoys more than she could have imagined. Jude and his two-year-old son, Dyl, present some urgent new questions and Abi has to find the answers fast – what Jude wants from her; how she feels about it; and what Dyl might need from her too. The life of Abi Jones, the Mud Girl, might be the last thing any teenager would choose. But it’s her life, and Abi has to find out whether she’s got the courage and intelligence to live it well. Alison Acheson’s teen novel Mud Girl was a finalist for CLA’s Book of the Year. She has also publish two juvenile novels and a picture book. Alison Acheson has taught in the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia, and continues to teach and write in the town of Ladner, BC, where she lives with her spouse and three sons. |
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Second Helpings (Jessica Darling Series #2) $9.99 “Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide spirit this year. . . . The only difference between Christmas 2001 and Christmas 2000 is that I don’t have a visit from Hope to look forward to. And Bethany has already packed on some major fetal flab. Oh, and now Gladdie doesn’t need to ask a bizillion questions about my boyfriend, because she’s already gotten the dirt from you know who.”Jessica Darling is up in arms again in this much-anticipated, hilarious sequel to Sloppy Firsts. This time, the hyperobservant, angst-ridden teenager is going through the social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High. Not only does the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continue to distract Jessica, but her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and she can’t seem to escape the clutches of the Clueless Crew, her annoying so-called friends. To top it off, Jessica’s parents won’t get off her butt about choosing a college, and her sister Bethany’s pregnancy is causing a big stir in the Darling household. With keen intelligence, sardonic wit, and ingenious comedic timing, Megan McCafferty again re-creates the tumultuous world of today’s fast-moving and sophisticated teens. Fans of Sloppy Firsts will be reunited with their favorite characters and also introduced to the fresh new faces that have entered Jess’s life, including the hot creative writing teacher at her summer college prep program and her feisty, tell-it-like-it-is grandmother Gladdie. Butmost of all, readers will finally have the answers to all of their burgeoning questions, and then some: Will Jessica crack under the pressure of senioritis? Will her unresolved feelings for Marcus wreak havoc on her love life? Will Hope ever come back to Pineville? Fall in love with |
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Second Helpings (Jessica Darling Series #2) $0.99 “Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide spirit this year. . . . The only difference between Christmas 2001 and Christmas 2000 is that I don’t have a visit from Hope to look forward to. And Bethany has already packed on some major fetal flab. Oh, and now Gladdie doesn’t need to ask a bizillion questions about my boyfriend, because she’s already gotten the dirt from you know who.”Jessica Darling is up in arms again in this much-anticipated, hilarious sequel to Sloppy Firsts. This time, the hyperobservant, angst-ridden teenager is going through the social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High. Not only does the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continue to distract Jessica, but her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and she can’t seem to escape the clutches of the Clueless Crew, her annoying so-called friends. To top it off, Jessica’s parents won’t get off her butt about choosing a college, and her sister Bethany’s pregnancy is causing a big stir in the Darling household. With keen intelligence, sardonic wit, and ingenious comedic timing, Megan McCafferty again re-creates the tumultuous world of today’s fast-moving and sophisticated teens. Fans of Sloppy Firsts will be reunited with their favorite characters and also introduced to the fresh new faces that have entered Jess’s life, including the hot creative writing teacher at her summer college prep program and her feisty, tell-it-like-it-is grandmother Gladdie. Butmost of all, readers will finally have the answers to all of their burgeoning questions, and then some: Will Jessica crack under the pressure of senioritis? Will her unresolved feelings for Marcus wreak havoc on her love life? Will Hope ever come back to Pineville? Fall in love with |
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Spring In Brooklyn $12.5 The author of WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, LINCOLN’S DOCTOR’S DOG, I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC and other short story collections has kept a daily diary for forty years, since he was 18 in the summer of 1969. Here are entries from his diary for the spring of 1975, when he was a 23-year-old student in the creative writing MFA program at Brooklyn College. |
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The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards $24.99 Robert Boswell's extraordinary range grips us at full tilt in this crackling new collection. Set mainly in small, gritty American cities, each of these stories is a world unto itself. When two marriages end, one by death, the other divorce, the two wives, lifelong friends, become strangers to one another. A young man's obsession with visiting a fortune-teller leaves him nearly homeless. And in the unforgettable title story, a man recounts the summer he spent on a mountain with a loose band of slackers, living in a borrowed house, abstaining from all drugs (other than mushrooms and beer) – and ultimately asking just what kind of harm we can do to one another. Boswell's unexpectedly affecting characters and exuberant prose make The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards a book to celebrate…..ROBERT BOSWELL is the author of five novels, most recently Century's Son; two previous short-story collections; and a collection of essays, The Half-Known World: On Writing Fiction. He teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program. |