From the New York Times bestselling author of Enders Game comes a brand-new series following a teen who wakes up on an abandoned Earth to discover that he’s a clone. Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. All his life, there was no mistake that a little side-stepping couldn’t fix. Until Laz wakes up one day in a cloning facility on a seemingly abandoned Earth. Laz finds himself surrounded by hundreds of other clones, all dead, and quickly realizes that he too must be a clone of his original self. Laz has no idea what happened to the world he remembers as vibrant and bustling only yesterday, and he struggles to survive in the barren wasteland he’s now trapped in. But the question that haunts him isn’t why was he created, but instead, who woke him up…and why? There’s only a single bright spot in Laz’s new life: one other clone appears to still be alive, although she remains asleep. Deep down, Laz believes that this girl holds the key to the mysteries plaguing him, but if he wakes her up, she’ll be trapped in this hellscape with him. This is one problem that Laz can’t just side-step his way out of.

There is power that resides in outstanding culturally diverse literature'sa power that has the potential to engage students in reading and teach them about the art and craft of writing. In Dream Wakers: Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Culture, Ruth Culham focuses her love of children's literature'sand her decades of work developing the traits of writing'son books that celebrate Latino life and culture. She provides a wide variety of ideas to teach writing using some of the richest and most beautiful children's books available. Dream Wakers gives you: An annotated list of more than 120 books with do-it-today lesson ideas for teaching the traits of writing'sIdeas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. More than half of the books listed are bilingual or offer English and/or Spanish editions. Eleven original, insightful essays by renowned children's authors of some of the featured books A handy reference chart that helps teachers locate books quickly by trait, genre, language, and author/publisher information. Ruth encourages all of us to make sure students of all backgrounds have access to high-quality, culturally diverse texts and recognize the difference those texts will make in their reading lives, as well as in their perception of themselves as a thinkers, learners, and citizens.

13-year-old Sam hopes the weirdo shopping-centre sleep specialist her mum brings her to will help solve the sleep-walking problem that's currently ruining her life - but gets way more than she expected when she wakes up outside her body that night. But once she gets over the shock of it, she learns of a whole world of detached souls out there called SleepWakers - and she's just become one of them. Now Sam is faced with uniting the various tribes of SleepWakers to fight back against a common enemy in the most epic battle the night has ever seen.

The apocalypse has passed, and it wasn't so bad. Energy has manifested to physicality, the mind has taken second to the workings of the heart, and the world is genuinely happy. But when death itself becomes inconsequential humanity turns to bloodshed, delving into the aesthetics and glory of battle. Amongst the ranks come the Wakers, the prophets of the end times who prevented self-destruction in unity of all people, through art, music, and the subcultures. Rend, the white swordsman with a five-foot blade and lavender eyes searches for meaning in a world without consequence, recalling how the days came to pass with those who cross his path. And on this path he will find a place called "The Valley" to protect...single handedly from ten thousand soldiers, a pinball playing lawyer turned general, and the unluckiest boy to ever live. And amidst the constant battle, somewhere music plays...

In the morning, dragons wake up, tumble out of bed, and get ready to fly into the sky.

Ask great writers what the key to writing well is and they will tell you revision. Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision. Divided into two parts, Culham's book provides ways to teach that are both accessible to the teacher and student. You will find techniques to assess writing that are practical, and results driven. Inside you'll discover: Culham's "traits of writing" and how to use them to read and assess student work Ways to guide revision decisions using these traits as common language How to address challenges students may face within the different modes of writing (narrative, expository, and persuasive) Strategic lessons to teach the writer that scaffold students towards making their own craft decisions A chapter on mentor texts which can be used to model traits and key qualities for your students Teach Writing Well pulls best practices together and shows writing with fresh eyes.

This book is designed to convince students that an encounter with some ambitious thinking problems can be a lot of fun. In so doing, we hope it will support your efforts to help your students become more flexible, logical and adventuresome in their thinking. The activities provide the real motivation. The blackline masterpage is accompanied by a facing page providing suggested answers plus some comments about the activities. Great for years 2-6.