Best Selling Books by Betsy Franco

It''s easy to count three of something-- just add them up. But how do you count zero, a number that is best defined by what it''s not? Can you see it? Can you hear it? Can you feel it? This important math concept is beautifully explored in a way that will inspire children to find zero everywhere--from the branches of a tree by day to the vast, starry sky by night.

Clackity-clack, clackity-clack. A skateboard flies over sidewalk squares. Whoosh pumf, whoosh pumf. Water balloons tossed through the air. Bizzle-bzzz, bizzle-bzzz. A bumblebee comes zipping by. Tzooooooooooo bang. Tzooooooooooo bang. Fireworks start for the Fourth of July! The sounds of summer sizzle and pop in this bouncing, swinging tribute to the best beats of every child''s favorite season.

20 titles at the late kindergarten level.

This book explores the concept of estimating when it comes to measurement, temperature, time, and amounts.

When Jesse Lucas, a troubled, magnetic acting major, touches the sculpture Meditation in Stanford''s Rodin Sculpture Garden, he burns his finger on the bronze. By the time he returns to the garden that night, an eighteen-year-old girl has emerged from the statue, naked and disoriented. It is 2008, yet her mind is swimming with vivid, fractured memories of her volatile past in nineteenth-century Paris--of serving as Rodin''s muse, of her passionate affair with the acclaimed artist, and of her own creations. So begins Betsy Franco''s extraordinary and imaginative novel, Naked. Stranded in the sculpture garden, Camille--or Cat, as she insists on being called--forms a deep bond with Jesse, who is soon leaving for college and is as lonely and disturbed as she. As Jesse encourages Cat to confront the sinister memories that afflict her, she helps him overcome the fury he has toward his abusive father and find peace within himself. Rich, inventive, and told with a compelling mix of grace and wry humor, Naked is a bold debut that explores love, loss, and the power of art, and brings to mind the magical realism found in The Time Traveler''s Wife and Midnight in Paris.

High school artist Ovid''s journal recasts his classmates'' lives and loves as modern-day Roman mythology, while slowly revealing his own struggles with parents who need him to be the perfect son in the wake of his meth-addicted sister''s disappearance.

From the award-winning team behind A Curious Collection of Cats comes a new collection of visual poems celebrating all things canine—from obedience school, to backyard break outs, to flatulent Fidos. Whether your best friend is a plucky Jack Russell, an indecisive basset hound, or a poodle with an indiscriminate appetite, you''re sure to find this dazzling display doggone delightful.

Simple text and photographs introduce the concept of zero, including what results when zero is added to or subtracted from a number.

So much can happen in three years in a teen''s life. Help them record it all with this daily journal. The perfect gift for a teen, Q&A a Day for Me is a one-sentence diary that prompts any teen to record best friends, worst haircuts, favorite outfits, and embarrassing moments. Filled with 365 questions, one on each page for every day of the year, a teen has the space to write down a short response every year for three years. It’s easy to get started—just turn to today’s date and take a minute to answer the question at the top of the page. As the years pass, he or she will have a keepsake time capsule that shows how much his or her answers change (and which ones remain the same)!

This stunningly redesigned edition of the bestselling Q&A a Day for Kids is the perfect family keepsake: a place for parents and children ages 4 to 10 to share their thoughts, feelings, and dreams over the years. Children’s author Betsy Franco poses a question each day with only a few lines provided for a response, making this journal the ultimate no-fuss record keeper. Simply turn to today’s date and record your child’s answer. When you finish the year, move on to the next section. The diary can be started on any day of the year and makes a terrific gift for parents and a perfect time capsule of a child’s whimsical thoughts and serious ideas about the world. As the years go by you’ll notice how your child’s answers evolve—sometimes silly, sometimes precocious, but always interesting.

All Rookie Readers actively engage young readers, encouraging language development, building fluency, and promoting independent reading. By targeting a skill, like learning about rhymes, young readers are building fundamental reading skills with the help of fun, lively, colorfully illustrated stories.

Award-winning author Betsy Franco is back with another performance that explores a range of math topics--from fractions and time measurements to geometry and graphs--in a way that relates math to the daily lives of children.

The poems in this personal poetry collection, written by the author of the popular Poem of the Week series, have taken into account themes and topics for second graders: poems about "me" and life at school; social studies poems about families, maps, and famous Americans; math poems about sharks teeth and fractions of a pie; science poems about food chains, clouds, and liquids; silly poems; special poems written in particular genres, and much more. They''re full of unusual words and fun new vocabulary. Each poem has a student poem page with an engaging illustration. This enables children to create their own personal poetry collections. For group and center work, we''ve provided strips that fit into a Desktop Pocket Chart.

"A fable explaining how a staring contest left frogs with large eyes."--Source inconnue.

Presents nineteen poems about daily life in school, including the school library, recess, and boring homework, with each poem designed to be read by two distinct voices.

"Presents ideas for teaching forms, elements, and writing of poetry kindergarten to high school and describes and provides teachers with samples and bibliographies for sixteen poetic forms"--Provided by publisher.

Three children remake their grandpa''s quilt so it will fit him better.

What might you see if you swam in the sea? Dive on in to encounter everything from dolphins and octopuses to sea turtles and squirrel fish. This clever book features concrete poems about a spectacular selection of sea critters. The award-winning duo behind A Curious Collection of Cats and A Dazzling Display of Dogs created this collection of twenty-nine visual poems celebrating creatures of the sea. Ocean observers and animal aficionados are sure to find these selections sensational!

Young readers can celebrate the birds in their own neighborhoods with this lyrical picture book that helps them learn to count backwards from ten to one. Full color.

Simple text and photographs show the different ways of counting to 100.

Including reproducible patterns for 12 interactive books that build early math and reading skills, these charming storybooks invite students to fill-in numbers, words, and pictures for personalized math tales. Math and reading skills come together in each make-and-take book that children can take home to share with their parents. Grades: K-2.

Illustrations and simple text show how to use subtraction to get the answers to everyday questions.

A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes.

Examines math in a fun way including poetry.

50 super-fun math reproducibles that help kids build essential math skills and meet the NCTM standards.

Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Brrriiiing! Recess time! Little chimps Jill and Jake find more than just their favorite games in the schoolyard today. They also discover the important mathematical concept of doubling, or adding a number to itself. Easy to learn and fun to memorize, doubling is a valuable problem-solving tool that helps kids prepare for multiplication. A must-have addition to any math-themed picture book library, Double Play makes this arithmetic lesson as welcome as recess.

Inspire kids to write and build literacy and with easy-to-make, keepsake mini-books they’ll love! Engaging page-by-page prompts invite kids to write and illustrate their own books across a variety of genres – autobiography, fairy tales, tall tales, letters, and more. Ideas for introducing and sharing each mini-book are included. For use with Grades 1-3.

When Sherlock and Amyus Crowe, his American tutor, visit Sherlock’s brother Mycroft in London, what they find shocks both of them to the core: a locked room, a dead body, and Mycroft holding a knife. The police are convinced Mycroft is a vicious murderer, but Sherlock is just as convinced he is innocent. Threatened with the gallows, Mycroft needs Sherlock to save him. The search for the truth necessitates an incredible journey, from a railway station for the dead in London all the way to the frozen city of Moscow—where Sherlock is entangled in a world of secrets and danger. InBlack Ice, the unstoppable teenage sleuth undertakes his third fantastic adventure, as one deadly puzzle leads only to another. Sherlock Holmes: Think you know him? Think again.

Escaping from the attentions of the Bondsmagi Locke Lamora, the estwhile Thorn of Camorr and Jean Tannen have fled their home city. Taking ship they arrive in the city state of Tal Varrar where they are soon planning their most spectacular heist yet; they will take the luxurious gaming house, The Sinspire, for all of its countless riches. No-one has ever taken even a single coin from the Sinspire that wasn''t won on the tables or in the other games of chance on offer there. But, as ever, the path of true crime rarely runs smooth and Locke and Jean soon find themselves co-opted into an attempt to bring the pirate fleet of the notorious Zamira Drakasha to justice. Fine work for thieves who don''t know one end of galley from another. And all the while the Bondsmagi are plotting their very necessary revenge against the one man who believes e has humiliated them and lived; Locke Lamora.

While traveling to visit Grandma on her farm, a family from the city uses various modes of transportation.

A little boy finds different ways to make his baby sister smile.

Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock''s flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake''s skin is patterned with diamonds. Study a beehive and you will see the mathematical genius of the bee. Poet Betsy Franco and Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins bring geometry to life in this lively, lyrical look at the shapes and patterns that can be found in the most unexpected places.

Tisa hates Mondays because that''s when she gets her long, thick, wild hair combed and braided, so she hides. But once Tisa''s hair is done, she loves it so much that her mother can hardly tear her away from the mirror! Full color. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

How do you eat a fraction? How many ways can you make 100? Young readers learn math and reading skills with these beginning books.