Most Popular Books by Donna Latham

These titles utilize a high-interest, magazine-like design and approach to teach science in a way that appeals to teens. Digestible chunks of information, along with clear introductions and summaries of important content in each chapter, encourage reluctant and struggling readers to approach, read, and learn important, tested science content. Each title take son a key area of content found in U.S. national science content curriculum standards and delivers that information using colorful illustrations, photos, quizzes, charts, and graphs.

Sitting in his cramped space capsule, astronaut John Glenn waited anxiously to blast off. Within minutes John Glenn made history. He was the first man to orbit the Earth. Since then, rocket design has soared to new heights. Superfast Rockets is the story of speed and adventure beyond the Earth''s atmosphere. Readers will learn the history of rockets, discover the mechanics of high-powered rocket design, and meet the men and women who are setting new records as they speed into space. Full-color photographs, a labeled diagram, and compelling, real-life stories of astronauts in action are guaranteed to capture students'' attention.

Describes how dogs can help catch criminals when working with an arson investigation K-9 unit.

Tells in rhyme ways in which people all around the world move from place to place including airplanes, sailboats, camels, rafts, cars, trucks, trains, kayaks, dog sleds, llamas, bicycle, air boat, submarine, and double-decker buses.

In Superfast Trucks, racing fans will jump into this thrilling, high-action narrative of racing trucks breaking new speed records. Children will meet Mark Martin, who accelerated into the lead of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series in February 2006. Though a last-minute entry, Martin proved a skilled racer in full command of his revved-up truck.

Our story takes place long ago, when Brother Sun and Sister Moon still lived on land. They love each other dearly, but the siblings just can''t live together. They are as different as, well, as day and night. Gadabout Sun shines a dazzling personality over endless friends. Contemplative Moon, an artist, finds inspiration within. The two struggle to live with their differences, until Sun''s love for his watery new friend Marina changes everything. Inspired by traditional tales of Nigeria and Senegal, including "How the Sun and Moon Came to Be" and "How the Sun and the Moon Came to Live in the Sky."

"These are accounts of folks on, under, and along I-90 east of the Mississippi River who just won''t seem to go away ... even after they''ve gone away".--Cover.

Meeting California Standards for Reading/Language Arts, set helps teachers build readers through motivating and engaging literature, scientifically research-based instruction, and a wealth of reliable teaching tools. The program takes the guesswork out of differentiating instruction with a strong emphasis on ongoing progress-monitoring and an explicit plan to help with managing small groups of students. Items for middle school help students grasp the power and beauty that lies within the written word, while the program''s research-based reading approach ensures that no child is left behind. Starts with concepts such as realism and fantasy, main idea and details, sequence, classify and categorize, draw conclusions, and literary elements and progresses through generalize, graphic sources, compare and contrast, author''s viewpoint/bias to forms of literature, such as fiction and non-fiction, poetry and drama and themes in types of literatures.

Retells the story of the celebrated frontiersman who, as a young boy, learned the skills which would make him the leader in opening up the Wilderness Road to Kentucky.

Independent, tart-tongued, and unorthodox, herbalist-healer Grace sticks out like a witch''s teat in a God-fearing community and stands accused of conjuring a late-term miscarriage, bewitching crops, and shapeshifting. When the court orders a trail by water, Grace is stripped and cross-bound in a burlap sack and ducked into the waters of Lynnhaven River. Will she sink or swim?

With its high-interest, magazine-like design and approach, Sci-Hi teaches science in a way that appeals to teens. Digestible chunks of information, along with clear introductions and summaries of important content in each chapter, encourage reluctant and struggling readers to approach, read, and learn important, tested science content. Each title takes on a key area of content found in U.S. national science content curriculum standards and delivers that information using colorful illustrations, photos, quizzes, charts, graphs, and summaries, allowing for a greater sense of interactivity and easier readability.

"Lots of radios and computers run on batteries. But did you know that some cars can run on batteries, too? In this book, learn about different energy sources that can power cars." --

Lib and Lin are sad it''s raining.

Lizzy, the pet lizard disappears.

30 titles designed to help children practice reading skills and strategies.

"A dog becomes mother to an orphaned squirrel. A leopard saves a baby baboon instead of killing it. What''s going on? Find out what makes some animals become mothers of others." --Cover page [4].

Bully Bree waits for her meet-up, poetic Locust. Bree''s snarky comments outrage hippie chick Jessica, who Bree once stabbed in the back. Bree claims the girls'' patched-up friendship picked up right where it left off. Is that a good thing for Jessica--and does karma really reign?

When Mason''s new flytrap turns out to hate the idea of eating bugs but a taste for pizza.

Brody was trying very hard to lose weight so he could compete in a wrestling meet.

Let YouthPLAYS lead you on a quest for comedy with fifteen short plays all in one comic collection, ideal for short play festivals, classroom scene study and competition. From dirty toilet seat-induced "pregnancies" to the agonizing search for just the right outfit to turning nuclear weapons into dating accessories, teen performers will find a wide variety of comic subjects and styles to stretch their acting chops and tickle their funny bones.

Freaked out Serafina hasn''t been on a date in ages. Just minutes before the doorbell rings, Coco rustles up a head-to-toe makeover.