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The Robe of Skulls: The First Tale from the Five Kingdoms
The Robe of Skulls: The First Tale from the Five Kingdoms
By Author: Vivian French
Illustrator: Ross Collins
Fire up your cauldron for an exuberant, fast-moving, wildly entertaining tale with a cast of characters who are good, bad, and very, very ugly.

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Geography Activities for Middle School

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Geography Activities for Middle School

Help students explore the world and develop their geography knowledge with this packet of geography activities for middl...

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Test Prep Strategies and Practice for Students

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Test Prep Strategies, Tools, and Practice Questions

Help set your students up for academic success with this packet of test-taking tips, test preparation strategies, and pr...

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

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Exit Tickets for Middle School Classrooms

Exit tickets are a form of assessment that are often used informally to assess how well students grasped a lesson, what ...

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Q&A with David Ellwand on Fairie-ality Style

Learn how nature inspires David Ellwand's fairy fashions and designs by reading this Q&A with the author.

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Harry Potter Book Covers: Dutch, French, German and Italian

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Q&A with Kate DiCamillo and Yoko Tanaka on The Magician's Elephant

Learn more about the process of writing and illustrating The Magician's Elephant with this Q&A with author Kate DiCamill...

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Author Amy Hest on New York, Writing, and Love

Author Amy Hest shares her childhood love of books, how she became a writer, and her writing process for Remembering Mrs...

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Q&A about The Dragon of Trelian with Michelle Knudsen

Share this author interview with your so they can learn what motivates and inspires Michelle Knudsen to write fantasy b...

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Q&A with David Elliot on Evangeline Mudd Stories

Introduce children to David Elliot, author of the Evangeline Mudd series, through this interview.

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