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Teach students to use AI tools in a thoughtful, critical, and ethical way during reading and writing instruction.

The relationship between AI and literacy education isn't simple. Every tool that makes work more efficient also requires careful consideration. In this measured look at the powerful capabilities of artificial intelligence, literacy experts Mary Ehrenworth and Philip Seyfried take K-12 teachers on a tour of what's possible when AI tools are seamlessly integrated into literacy teaching and learning.

Each chapter examines AI's potential to expand literacy instruction, deepen student understanding, and make the teacher's role more interesting and satisfying. You'll find both theoretical approaches and practical examples to help you - Understand and feel at ease with current AI tools. - Create AI-enhanced spaces in your classroom. - Harness AI as a writing coach. - Develop students' reading comprehension with digital texts and tools. - Extend multilingual competencies using AI-powered translation tools. - Build and use engaging text sets. - Teach students to think critically about and with AI.

Using AI tools to improve reading and writing instruction can feel overwhelming, but it is a critical skill for today's literacy teachers. AI-Enhanced Literacy illuminates a strategic and successful path toward wise and seamless AI use--your own and your students'.

When one FPS gamer clumsily falls off the map of his MMORPG, he finds himself transported to a totally different world! Can he use his shooter skills in a world of magic and fantasy? Light novels also from Seven Seas!

Schwarz, a die-hard FPS gamer, was in the middle of a Virtual Reality Multiple Battlefield match when one wrong step sent him tumbling off the map. He expected "Game Over" -- instead, he woke up in a world of swords and sorcery. With no way home and no magic to his name, Schwarz is quickly branded a "dud" by the locals... until his modern rifle proves more than a match for spellcraft. But in a land where magic reigns supreme, what happens when the man with the gun runs out of ammo?

Identify West Virginia birds with this easy-to-use field guide, organized by color and featuring full-color photographs and helpful information.

Make birdwatching in West Virginia even more enjoyable. With Stan Tekiela's famous bird guides, field identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. The Birds of West Virginia Field Guide features 124 species of West Virginia birds organized by color for ease of use. Full-page photographs present the species as you'll see them in nature, and a "compare" feature helps you to decide between look-alikes.

This second edition includes 8 new species, updated photographs and range maps, expanded information, and even more of Stan's expert insights. So grab the Birds of West Virginia Field Guide for your next birding adventure--to help ensure that you positively identify the birds that you see.

Inside you'll find:

• 124 species: Only West Virginia birds!


• Simple color guide: See a yellow bird? Go to the yellow section


• Stan's Notes: Naturalist tidbits and facts


• Professional photos: Crisp, stunning images

Set out on an adventure as you color in Grogu, the Mandalorian, and other Star Wars characters in this coloring and activity book with 4 twistable crayons!

In a galaxy far, far, away, there is one character who loves to snack: Grogu! Join Grogu and the Mandalorian on their many exciting adventures as they snack their way through this action-packed activity book! With coloring pages, puzzles, mazes, and galactic snacks, young fans will have a blast exploring the galaxy alongside their favorite little Force-sensitive character.

An evocative work of historical fiction, Vivian's Decision is an all too relevant story of repeated history, female friendship, and the strength that it takes to make choices of one's own.

Vivian Jacobson is distraught to be pregnant again. Already drowning in the demands of her four young children, she can't imagine adding a fifth to her brood. Her husband, Mel, is a devoted partner, but he works long days in his family's Maxwell Street tavern--leaving Vivian isolated and overwhelmed in their suburban Chicago home.

When Vivian pleads with Mel to let her ask her trusted obstetrician for an abortion, Mel reluctantly agrees. Her doctor won't risk his license, but refers her to someone who will. Once she finds herself in the sleazy abortionist's disgusting makeshift flat, she can't go through with the procedure. As she flees, the man warns her that the clock is ticking: If she wants this abortion, she must return within one week.

As Vivian struggles with what to do, she is buffeted by a series of revelations, including her Jewish immigrant mother's parallel secret. Ultimately, she must find the courage to make the decision that is best for her family--and her own fulfillment.

SOMETIMES YOU BREAK THE INTERNET--AND SOMETIMES THE INTERNET BREAKS YOU! AT LAST--THE TRUE STORY OF THE VIRAL HOAX SO INSANE IT COULD ONLY BE TOLD AS A COMIC BOOK!

From the honestly pretty impressive mind of multi-hyphenate writer-comedian-actor-musician Dave Hill (Tasteful Nudes) and breakout artist Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) comes the SHOCKINGLY TRUE, TERRIFYINGLY HILARIOUS, AND ONLY MODESTLY EXAGGERATED tale of how one stand-up comedian forged a secret online identity as America's first true black metal icon . . . and accidentally started an international incident that almost wiped Gary, Indiana, off the map!

Two decades ago, Dave Hill and his first band set out to rock their high school auditorium in a fury of heavy metal hellfire. They failed miserably. Years later, Dave has made a new life for himself as a rising star in the New York comedy scene--a career where getting laughed at on stage is the entire point and not just a tragic consequence. But when Dave's metal ambitions are reawakened by the über self-serious "satanic" genre of Norwegian black metal, Dave creates a ridiculously hyperbolic alter ego and a band to match that, together, reignite the spark of his forgotten rock 'n' roll fantasy. But when Dave's internet-fueled rumors of Witch Taint--a metal band "so extreme that you must remove all sharp objects from the immediate area" when their music is played--spreads all the way to Europe, his story will spiral dangerously out of control as Norway's most extreme black metal butchers come to reap their revenge . . . and put everything and everyone Dave holds dear in the crosshairs (of their axes, which, truth be told, don't actually have crosshairs, but hey, it's a metaphor).

Collects Dark Regards #1-4.

Emotional Support Animals is a collection of comics and worksheets featuring adorable and irresistible emotional support animals offering words of compassion and wisdom, delivering smiles along with experience, strength, and hope.

What if your therapist was a cardigan-wearing walrus sipping a cup of coffee? Emotional Support Animals answers this question in a series of sweet comics and engaging worksheets. Nicole Georges presents small doses of therapy in the form of humorous illustrations about serious subjects. Picture a pug assuring you that it's not cruel to say no or hold a boundary, or a crocodile reminding you that when you take care of yourself, you have more capacity to give. Inspired by Nicole's experiences with grief and healing, her Anonymous Fuzzball comics touch on themes of self-worth, boundaries, and balance. Using quirky animals as her subjects, she proves that hard truths are easier to digest in an adorable package.

Affirmations include:

• "Just because someone's having a big reaction doesn't mean I did anything wrong."
• "You're not going to mess up something that's meant for you."
• "As I love myself more, I demand less of others."
• "What people say is just information. You don't have to take it personally."
• "I don't need to achieve anything to be lovable."

An empowering, guided journey to discover and charge up your most precious inner resource, your energy, by introducing the new concept of Light Work--from Keila Shaheen, the international bestselling author who helped introduce shadow work to a new generation.

Your energy is your power source. This book will show you how to claim it, protect it, and radiate it.

Preparing for an interview that could change everything? Light work helps your confidence feel natural, not forced.

Craving a relationship that honors your needs? Light work helps you stay grounded in your worth and unshakable in love.

Ready to make an impact in a world that needs it? Light work helps you radiate the clarity and optimism that inspires others to act.

Light Work begins with a choice: to live a lighter, more radiant life and, in doing so, become a more magnetic human. With insight and clarity, this journal invites you to meet yourself fully and, from that place, live more honestly and consciously. Rooted in Depth Psychology, profound spirituality, and Carl Jung's concept of individuation, this journal offers tools to help you recognize when you're acting from your conditioned self--whether that's your ego, your persona, or your shadow--and begin making daily choices that reflect and inspire your True Self.

Rather than waiting to feel good, this journal invites you to step into your power now. The result is a life lit from within--one where you feel emotionally grounded, spiritually empowered, and fully alive.

For these two typecast actors, love can't always be black or white.

Shin is an actor whose awkward personality has gotten him typecast as the villain, whereas his secret lover Shige garners all the prime princely roles. As their careers advance, can these two endure all eyes being on them not just in public but in private too?

After discovering the secret his live-in boyfriend Shige has been keeping from him, Shin decides he needs some space so he can think things through on his own. But space alone doesn't help to clear his mind, so he talks things over with Hanasaki, who convinces him to let go of his doubts and return home. Shin apologizes to Shige for leaving and tells him that no matter what it may cost him, he'll never let Shige go. Realizing they can't deal with the gravity of their situation on their own anymore, the two head off to Shin's agency for support!

One hot guy, one funny-looking guy, one hilarious couple!

Awkward Yoshida's life got flipped upside down when the hottest guy in school started going out with him. Things should be easier for Yoshida now that his whole class knows about his relationship, but it's never that simple with Sato as a boyfriend.

It seems like high school life is finally going well for our wacky couple, until one day Sato suddenly vanishes. A confused Yoshida decides to go on a search but quickly gets more than he bargained for...

For fans of Catherine Ryan Hyde and Laurie Frankel, a novel of one young woman's post-college foray into the adult realities of landlords, economics, and urban politics, set against the Bicentennial summer of 1976.

It's 1976, the Bicentennial year and a watershed moment in America. The draft, the Vietnam war, Woodstock, and the Summer of Love are long gone. Tie-dye is out, and everyone has cut their hair. The Civil Rights Act has passed, the Equal Rights Amendment is just a few states from ratification, Roe v. Wade is firmly enshrined, and closet doors are creaking open. The sixties have changed the world.

Only they haven't, as Novelle is about to find out.

At this moment, she arrives in St. Louis to start graduate school in economics, a clear-cut field of mathematic problem sets with answers. Except, it's not. Almost immediately, she discovers that Delmar Boulevard is a Great Wall of China separating St. Louis into Black North and white South, and that economics is the mortar between the bricks. She gets caught up in unraveling a plan to "take back" a Black neighborhood that has leaked over the divide. By the time she finishes her degree, she is getting hate mail and death threats. But she's also come into her own as a force for change. A satirical, witty look at a slice of history that still resonates today.

Maybe a Note Would Help is a heartfelt exploration of how handwritten notes can deepen connections, combat loneliness, and foster personal growth--an essential guide for readers seeking to nurture authentic relationships in today's digital age.

In 2021, Kristen Tremonti Reiter finds herself on the edge of depression and despair--uprooted, ungrounded, and disconnected. She writes a simple note of gratitude, but has no idea it will lead to a calling, a challenge, and a new place to call home.

The response to her note is so profound, she embarks upon a quest to handwrite a note every day for a year--a year that includes living out of her suitcase in one city after another. She discovers that her notes to others provide the foundation for her mental, spiritual, and physical health while everything else in her life changes.

Maybe a Note Would Help documents Kristen's remarkable note-writing journey of personal transformation and encourages readers to enjoy a similar experience. Ultimately, we discover that a joyful way to interact more intentionally, connect more completely, uplift others, and feel better in your own skin is only a note away.

Perfect for fans of Nevermoor and Greenwild, all four books in the New York Times bestselling middle grade fantasy adventure series about the quirky inhabitants of a magical house are now available together in one paperback boxed set!

Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures where she's one of many thieves only valued for what they can steal. When she lifts a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggledy building.

Inside, Nine meets the eccentric people who call the magical house their home: Dr. Spoon the alchemist, Flabberghast the young wizard and competitive hopscotch-er, and Eric the troll housekeeper with a strong emotional attachment to his feather duster. For years, they have been desperate to end the curse on the house that prevents them from leaving. After years of having only herself to count on, prickly Nine doesn't have an altruistic bone in her body and should be the very last choice for anyone looking for a hero, but she's the only one around.

From curses to witches to other magical buildings, Nine uses her street smarts to uncover more about the perils and pitfalls of magic, the bizarre but perhaps loveable makeshift family living in the house...and herself.

This fantastical paperback boxed includes:
The House at the Edge of Magic
The Tower at the End of Time
The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond
The Lighthouse at the World's End

The ultimate illustrated field guide for watching whales, dolphins, and porpoises in North America--practical, portable, comprehensive, and up to date

This outstanding field guide covers all 54 species and every subspecies of whale, dolphin, and porpoise that occur off the coasts of North America. It is packed with more than 450 illustrations featuring detailed annotations pointing out important field marks. It also features up-to-date distribution maps and concise text that includes helpful identification tips and information about everything from dive sequences to population sizes. Beautifully designed to ensure quick access to essential identification information, this is a must-have guide for every whale watcher in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

• Covers all 54 species and every subspecies of whale, dolphin, and porpoise
• Features more than 450 illustrations with detailed annotations pointing out important field marks
• Includes concise text, distribution maps, and other information to aid quick, reliable identification

Based on the bestselling bold-cute coloring trend, this adorable coloring book is part of Union Square Gift's Cozy Coloring series, filled with charming scenes inspired by fairy tales and everyday cozy adventures in a woodland world.

Step into a world where everyday moments meet magical charm! In Cozy Fairy Tales, adorable animal friends bring beloved storybook scenes to life. From enchanted forests and charming cottages to whimsical adventures, each page invites you to discover hidden stories and delightful details. Get comfy, gather your colors, and bring these heartwarming fairy tale scenes to life!

This Cozy Fairy Tales coloring book includes:

• 40 unique and adorable illustrations, each waiting for your personal touch.
• Delightfully charming pages for stress relief and mindful creativity.
• Single-sided pages to help prevent bleed-through (please place a protective sheet behind the page you're coloring if you're using markers!).
• A handy size of 7 4/5 x 7 4/5 inches perfect for coloring anywhere.
• Hi-resolution prints to ensure every detail pops with clarity.