Have you ever wanted to ask someone to be your friend but not known what to say? Or known they were your friend without having to say a word? This is a collection of poems about friendship by poets such as Elizabeth Jennings, Judith Viorst and Colin McNaughton.

A collection of poems celebrating the good and bad things about friendship, giving, loneliness, and love, by such authors as Myra Cohn Livingston, John Ciardi, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Best friends Poppy and Clementine learn to share their feelings with one another after a new friend enters Clementine's life.

The time was the month of April, 1785, and the place Paris, where the spring that year was a genuine spring. The garden was in holiday attire, the greensward was studded with marguerites, the birds were singing, and the lilacs grew so straight and so close to Julien's window, that their fragrant clusters actually entered his room and strewed the white tiled floor of his studio with their little violet crosses. Julien Thierry was a painter of flowers, like his father André Thierry, renowned under Louis XV. in the art of decorating spaces over doors, dining-room panels and boudoir ceilings. Those dainty ornaments became, under his skilful hands, objects of genuine, serious art, so that the artisan had became an artist, highly esteemed by people of taste, handsomely paid, and a person of much consideration in society. Julien, his pupil, had confined himself to painting on canvas. The fashion of his time frowned upon the fanciful and charming decorations of the Pompadour style. The Louis XVI. style was more severe; flowers were no longer strewn upon walls and ceilings, but were framed. Julien, then, painted flower and fruit pieces of the Mignon variety, mother-of-pearl shells, multi-colored butterflies, green lizards and drops of dew. He had much talent, he was handsome, he was twenty-four years old, and his father had left him nothing but debts.

The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household.

From Character Sketcher to Plot Person, ready-to-use reproducible role sheets to make your literature circle discussions exciting, informative and fun! Also promotes writing, listening and cooperative learning skills, fosters individual assessment and facilitates reading success. Preselected lists of student books, guidelines for getting started, observation charts and more.

Explains how teachers and librarians can steer students to the literature they love by focusing on three key areas: knowing the readers, knowing the books, and knowing the strategies to motivate students to read.