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21) Problem solver!
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[2017]
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"Kids will push thinking to new levels and solve real word problems with challenges that encourage them to combine art with science, technology, engineering and math skills! Play and build your way through puzzles and games; learn about the importance of water preservation; explore force, acceleration, buoyancy, heat, elasticity; practice fractions, spelling, graphs, division, geometry, grammar and more"--
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[2018]
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"Kids will explore our planet and far away galaxies with these interactive stories, games, and challenges filled with wonder and exploration. This SuperPack contains 2X as many apps as the standard Launchpad; Interact with maps; Master math skills; Learn fun facts about different places."--
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[2017]
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"Kids will learn new concepts and how to think in unconventional ways with these challenges and stories centered around science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Read informational books; Practice measurement down to the decimal; Solve complex challenges; Learn about recycling"--
24) Pilot pack
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[2023]
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"Level 1: Pre-Emerging: This 5-level guided reading system helps kids master verbal, reading, and writing skills - starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Pre-Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: - Forms 3 to 4 word sentences - Can talk and carry on conversations - Continues...
25) Polar pack
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[2022]
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"This 5-level guided reading system helps kids to master verbal, reading, and writing skills - starting at any level. Every app, storybook, and video has been hand-selected to help kids gain the knowledge they need to transition from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn. Emerging packs are ideal for readers who have reached the following milestones: - Asks questions to confirm understanding - Knows letter sounds - Recognizes basic sight words - Identifies...
27) The Launch
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A spaceship is taking off today! Practice reading words with "au" as you join Autumn and August on their trip to the launchpad. This book uses the Dyslexie font to make reading easier for people with dyslexia. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
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Fred Schebesta, phenomenally successful entrepreneur and founder of Finder, shares the stories, mistakes and insights from his incredible business journey to inspire you to kickstart your business idea and reach unimaginable success.
From building websites in his university dorm room in 1999, to successfully pivoting half a billion dollar global business, Finder, into a fintech app during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fred shares the highs and lows of starting...
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Catch Darkwing Duck, Launchpad McQuack, Gosalyn, and others in this fan-favorite revival of the smash-hit Disney Afternoon animated series. More slapstick crime-fighting adventures await-starting at the origin of the dastardly Fluffy and culminating with a botanical battle royale against an army of vicious potatoes led by, well, not quite who you might be thinking!
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Catch Darkwing Duck, Launchpad McQuack, Gosalyn, and more in this collection of issues 1-4 of the Disney Darkwing Duck comic series from Joe Books. The Terror that Flaps in the Night clashes with a villain who may be unstoppable, and faces off with his arch nemeses Megavolt and Negaduck as they wreak havoc on the city. Don t miss the slapstick, crime-fighting adventures of the feathered protectors of St. Canard in this four-issue comics collection....
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The citizens of St. Canard can rest easy because everyone's favorite masked mallard is back! Join Darkwing Duck and Launchpad McQuack on their zany, crime-fighting adventures to protect St. Canard from despicable villains and their dastardly plots. Relive the magic of the Disney Afternoon smash-hit cartoon in this full-color, graphic-novel-style retelling of the first installment of the original animated series. Disney Darkwing Duck Cinestory Comic...
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On the frigid morning of January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger rumbled off the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Brilliant orange flames and clouds of smoke billowed out of the external fuel tank, lifting Challenger high into the crystal-blue sky. The mission had attracted worldwide attention. NASA was sending the first teacher, Christa McAuliffe, into space. Crowds gathered to watch the launch, and millions tuned in on television, but...
34) Space Disasters
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Imagine watching a space shuttle on the launchpad, ready to blast off into orbit. Astronauts have embarked on some of the most amazing adventures and made incredible discoveries. Yet sadly some the most well-planned launches have ended in tragedy. In fifty years of space travel, space disasters have claimed the lives of more than twenty astronauts and one hundred space workers. In two of the worst disasters, space shuttles exploded, killing all the...
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From Disney Adventures and its Gen-X sister magazines come pulse-pounding sagas! In "The Count Roquefort Case," the villainous Fat Cat wants to plunder the medieval legacy of Monterey Jack's European forebears! Then "The Curse of Flabbergé" sends Scrooge McDuck and Launchpad McQuack to the cranky country of Brutopia, where heroic freedom fighters help in the hunt for a priceless treasure! And in "The Kitty Kat Kaper" and "Cat in a Hot Tin Suit,"...
36) Poking the Bear
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Challenging the status quo. Innovating educational and institutional practices. Confronting your own thinking. Affecting authentic, systemic change. None of these things can happen without having critical and meaningful conversations with your colleagues. But where to start? In “Poking the Bear”, Dave and Katelynn take on some of the most controversial or taboo questions posed in education. But the aim is not to provide a step-by-step, one size...
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If you want to tackle an environmental problem in your neighborhood but do not know where to start, “An Environmental Leader's Tool Kit” can help. In this handbook, Jeffrey W. Hughes shares the proven strategies you need to step up and get meaningful action done.
From designing a pilot study to managing contentious public meetings and more, Hughes walks you through the essentials of effective place-based environmental efforts. Among the tools...
38) Ignitiion
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An injured astronaut must save NASA from terrorists in this high-tech adventure by the bestselling authors of Lifeline and Ill Wind.
Terrorists seize control of the Kennedy Space Center and hold the shuttle Atlantis and its crew hostage on the launchpad. But astronaut "Iceberg" Friese, grounded from the mission because of a broken foot, is determined to slip through the swamps and rocket facilities around Cape Canaveral and pull the plug on the...
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n 1947, Carl Barks's comics story "Christmas on Bear Mountain" didn't just introduce the Scrooge McDuck character — it took Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie to Scrooge's Bear Mountain cabin, where beastly bruins made for holiday havoc! In keeping with that memorable debut, Bear Mountain has been the site of countless Duckburg sagas ever since. This special single volume edition collects Daniel Branca's "Return to Bear Mountain," in which Scrooge engages...
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Risk-taking can be, well, risky. You never know what will happen, whether your risk will send you into orbit or if it will blow up on the launchpad. And you may not know immediately, it may take a while for you to realize the results of risk. So many times, we stand on the edge contemplating the next move, pondering the potential result.
Follow Kyle through his trials and tribulations in risk-taking. Throughout To The Edge, Kyle shares his story...