Andi wants to surprise her mother with the perfect birthday gift. But working in town after school puts Andi in the wrong place at the wrong time. She witnesses a back-alley crime that places a beloved citizen at the scene. Will the price of telling the truth about what she saw be too high if it means losing Taffy forever? From A Journey Through Learning you will get the lapbook that goes along with this chapter book. It is 3 folders big and includes extra study pages such as the The History of the Gold Coin, The Mercantile, Bullies, Brahms’s Lullaby, Turning to God, An 1880s Inquest, The American Justice System, Rules of a Gentleman in 1880, The History of the Biscuit, The History of Jam, Kerosene Lamp, Is It Ever OK to ... more
Andi nearly tramples her new teacher in a reckless, impromptu horse race down the main street of Fresno, California--not a good way to begin the fall 1880 school term. Her troubles multiply when she must decide if she should deliberately walk into a dangerous situation to rescue the teacher's mean-spirited, trouble-making daughter.
Moonfinder is the story of a little boy who learns about the phases of the moon with his dad.<|><|>Each page includes a full-color illustration depicting the location and appearance in the sky of the moon at each phase, along with 'celestial' views showing the corresponding position of the moon in it's orbit around the earth.<|><|>With Moonfinder, every member of the family can learn how to follow the monthly cycle of the moon's phases!
Twelve-year-old Andrea Carter can't seem to stay out of trouble. Now her beloved horse, Taffy, is missing and it's Andi's fault. The daring young girl will do anything to find the thief and recover Taffy. But her choices plunge her into danger, and Andi discovers that life on her own in the Old West can be downright terrifying!<|><|>The lapbook goes along with this book. This is a 3 folders big lapbook with extra study pages such as, clothing in the 1800's, tack for horses, branding horses, measuring a horse with hands, the vaqueros, Spanish vocabulary words, Samuel Morse, Morse Code, respect for others and much more!
Andi's newest adventure is set in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. After innocent horseplay lands Andi and her friends in jail, they figure a trip into the mountains to pan for gold will leave their troubles behind. Instead, they run into a heap of trouble. Stranded in the middle of nowhere with a seriously injured brother, Andi must count on her friends to help save his life.
When a flood damages the schoolhouse, Andi is ecstatic—until her family sends her to a stuffy San Francisco school for young ladies. The plight of a small, Chinese slave girl captures her heart, sending Andi and her new friends into the dark alleys of Chinatown, where danger greater than she’s ever known waits to swallow them up.<|><|>The lapbook that goes along with this chapter book. It is 3 folders big and includes extra study pages such as the Fresno Flood, Chinatown, the Transcontinental Railroad, Streetcars and Cable Cars, the Chinese Slave Trade, Chinese Writing, Golden Gate Park, Life at Young Ladies' Academy, and more
Strange things are happening on the Circle C. Who is the lifeless man Andi and her friends find lying in the creek? Who is the travel-weary young woman with three unruly children who suddenly shows up at the ranch? Why has Andi never been told the secret her family has carefully kept hidden? Angry and hurt at being left out, Andi saddles Taffy and sets out to find some answers--answers that turn her world upside down.(book sold separately at Circle C Adventures). The lapbook that goes along with this chapter book. It is 3 folders big and includes extra study pages such as the coloring of horses, the railroad, Johnny Appleseed, the history of the circus, stagecoach robbing, a rattlesnake's rattle, discipline in an 1800's ... more
A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom's Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king's people, must escape slavery by the powerful Lord
Nobody could capture the Phantom. She was the wildest mare on Assateague Island. They said she was like the wind, that the white "map" on her shoulders was her mark of freedom. Paul and Maureen Beebe had their hearts set on owning her. They were itching to buy and tame her, and worked hard to earn the money that she would cost. But the roundup men had tried to capture her and for two years she had escaped them....Pony Penning Day holds a surprise for everyone, for Paul not only brings in the Phantom, but her newborn colt as well. Can Paul and Maureen possibly earn enough to buy them both?
Selling more than 30,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incediary novel quickly draws the reader into the world of slaves and their masters. Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted Eliza and her husband, George, who elude slave catchers adn eventually flee a county that condones slavery Simon Legree, a brutal plantation owner Little Eva, who suffers emotionally and physically from the suffering of slaves and fun-loving Topsy, Eva's slave playmate.
