Summer Skills Daily Activity Workbooks feature 90 alternating math and reading activities — one for every day of the vacation. Skill labels on every page make it simple to track what a child is learning.

Summer Skills Daily Activity Workbooks feature 90 alternating math and reading activities — one for every day of the vacation. Skill labels on every page make it simple to track what a child is learning.

At the beach or on the road, learning can happen wherever you are this summer. Every card in this full-color deck includes a reading and a math problem that reviews a skill learned in first grade or introduces a concept that will be taught in second grade. With Summer Skills Flash Cards, your child will be ready to go back to school with confidence!

At the beach or on the road, learning can happen wherever you are this summer. Every card in this full-color deck includes a reading and a math problem that reviews a skill learned in second grade or introduces a concept that will be taught in third grade. With Summer Skills Flash Cards, your child will be ready to go back to school with confidence!

At the beach or on the road, learning can happen wherever you are this summer. Every card in this full-color deck includes a reading and a math problem that reviews a skill learned in third grade or introduces a concept that will be taught in fourth grade. With Summer Skills Flash Cards, your child will be ready to go back to school with confidence!

At the beach or on the road, learning can happen wherever you are this summer. Every card in this full-color deck includes a reading and a math problem that reviews a skill learned in fourth grade or introduces a concept that will be taught in fifth grade. With Summer Skills Flash Cards, your child will be ready to go back to school with confidence!

At the beach or on the road, learning can happen wherever you are this summer. Every card in this full-color deck includes a reading and a math problem that reviews a skill learned in fifth grade or introduces a concept that will be taught in sixth grade. With Summer Skills Flash Cards, your child will be ready to go back to school with confidence!

At the beach or on the road, learning can happen wherever you are this summer. Every card in this full-color deck includes a reading and a math problem that reviews a skill learned in kindergarten or introduces a concept that will be taught in first grade. With Summer Skills Flash Cards, your child will be ready to go back to school with confidence!

The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate. All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences — biographical, historical, and literary — to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected — and surprisingly modern — flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous selection of Poe's short stories. It includes his famed masterpieces, such as The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter, featuring Poe's great detective, Dupin; his insightful studies of madness The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold-Bug, his delightful exercise in code-breaking; and important but lesser-known tales, such as Bon-Bon, The Assignation, and King Pest. Also included are some of Poe's most beloved poems, haunting lyrics of love and loss, such as Annabel Lee, nightmare phantasmagories such as The Raven, and his grand experiment in translating sound into words, The Bells. Benjamin F. Fisher, Professor of English, University of Mississippi, is a longtime enthusiast of the works of Poe. He has published books, articles, and notes about Poe, and in American, Victorian, and Gothic studies, and serves on editorial boards for several professional journals. He has also been acclaimed for outstanding teaching.

Hans Christian Andersen is one of the world's most popular storytellers and his fairy tales are among the best-loved works of literature. Readers the world over know his poignant tale of The Little Mermaid, who sacrifices everything for love, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier, whose affection for a paper ballerina is symbolised by his transformation into a small tin heart. Several of Andersen's stories are so well-known — among them The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling — that their titles alone have become meaningful figures of speech. Hans Christian Andersen: Best-Loved Fairy Tales collects one hundred of Andersen's incomparable fairy tales and stories, among them Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, The Red Shoes, The Wild Swans, and his fantasy masterpiece The Snow-Queen. This volume is beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred drawings by Dugald Stewart Walker and Hans Tegner, two of Andersen's best-known illustrators.

An extension of the existing GIFTED series, Vocabulary for the Gifted Student introduces advanced learners to skills and concepts that will benefit them in the years to come. These engaging workbooks teach challenging words in context through reading passages, as well as through critical thinking, writing, and drawing activities. All the exercises are formulated to be one-to one-and-a-half levels above the child's current grade.

Each page of these useful workbooks contains fun activities to strengthen grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and research skills. Each book also contains a section to improve writing and prepare readers to excel on standardized tests. Harcourt Family Learning Workbooks are a comprehensive line of workbook developed through a partnership with Harcourt, a leading educational publisher. Based on national teaching standards, these workbooks provide complete practice in math, reading, and other key subject areas.

Flash Kids Flash Cards offer essential practice in key concepts such multiplication, division, the alphabet, sights words, and state capitals. Containing 86 cards in each package, these cards are sturdier than others on the market.

Practice makes perfect, and with these cards, youngsters will enjoy forming both uppercase and lowercase letters, along with simple three-letter words. As they write, they'll feel pride in seeing their skills improve — and begin distinguishing first-letter phonics, too.

Count on learning with flash cards that offer kids a variety of entertaining number-based activities, including coloring and dot-to-dots. Preschoolers will master counting from 1 to 20 as well as writing numerals and number words — so they'll be ready for their first lessons in math.

Starting preschool is a big step for youngsters — and these cards will set the stage for future success. Children will enjoy going over some basic concepts that are an integral part of the preschool world, such as opposites, same and different, and rhyming words.

Learning shapes is an important — and fun — part of preschool education. These cards will help children become familiar with a range of shapes from the simple (circle, square) to the more complex (trapezoid, hexagon). And kids will have a great time drawing the shapes and identifying them in everyday objects.

O. Henry — master of the one-line quip and surprise ending, and reinventor of the short story — today enjoys greater popularity than ever. His descriptions of New York City and the American West have become ingrained into the fabric of modern American psychology. His character sketches — always humorous, always sympathetic, and always a little melancholy — remind us that life must be lived evenly, with pluck and perseverance. This special edition features commentaries, legacies, and discussion questions. Victoria Blake has worked at The Paris Review and contributed to The Boulder Daily Camera, a number of small literary presses in the United States, and several English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand.

There's never been a handwriting book quite like this! With stylish art, Cursive Writing introduces the basics of script AND sends students on an exciting journey around the world. As children learn their cursive As, Bs, and Cs, they'll write the names of famous cities and sites from all around the world and find out fun facts about each place. So they're gaining two skills at once! With four pages devoted to each letter, there's plenty of space for kids to practice, which encourages repetition and mastery.

Psychologically the latter part of Great Expectations is about the best thing Dickens ever did. George Orwell Philip Pirrip — known more commonly as Pip — is an orphan. His visits to the mysterious Miss Havisham are his only escape from his childhood of poverty. But then an anonymous bequest changes his life for ever — until secrets from Pip's past emerge, threatening to destroy the genteel new life he has built for himself, and Pip soon discovers the merciless cruelty of love, and the harsh reality of his great expectations.