Ten-year-old Olivia prefers being a low achiever to trying to live up to the academic performances of her brother and sister, until she sets out to solve a series of local burglaries.

Ten-year-old Olivia prefers being a low achiever to trying to live up to the academic performances of her brother and sister, until she sets out to solve a series of local burglaries.

Suggests exhibits, displays, bulletin board games, reference skill games, and other library activities designed to get children interested in reading

Author James T. Charnock shares the best from his thirty-plus years' experience teaching language arts in The Creative Teacher, a teachers' guide filled with student activities in writing, public speaking, researching, dramatizing, and more. This is the second edition of the 2005 publication, A Non-Workbook, Non-Textbook Approach to Teaching Language Arts. Charnock's clarity, energetic style, and practical approach make this book a worthy addition to your teaching library. You will be impressed with how simple and fun teaching language arts can be when compared with the onerous and complicated methods propagated in the past. About the Author James T. Charnock, MEd, is a veteran teacher of more than thirty years at the elementary and junior high levels. For most of those years he was a certified reading-language arts specialist. In addi-tion to creating educationally oriented market products, Charnock has been a feature writer/children's book reviewer for The Reading Teacher, a national reading journal, and has served on the editorial board of Language Arts, a national English journal. Former top students have honored Charnock four times in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. He has also been listed in Who's Who in the East. The Creative Teacher is Charnock's second edition to his 2005 publication, A Non-Workbook, Non-Textbook Approach to Teaching Language Arts. In addition, Charnock has published Mt. Horeb: The Lit-tle White Schoolhouse on Little Deer Creek, about the history and memories of one of Maryland's last one-room schoolhouses, where he started his education. Charnock lives in a suburb of Philadelphia, where he con-tinues as a freelance writer, often serving as a seminar speaker on the teaching of writing and classroom art.

The already topsy-turvy life of a seventh-grader is further complicated when her mother, a well-known author of children's books, writes a spicy adult novel.

Contains entries for approximately 2000 books aimed at young readers. About half the titles were published between 1989 and 1994 and the remaining half are older titles which have stood the test of time.