In every online class, some students are wildly successful, some earn average or slightly below-average grades, some barely pass, some fail, and some drop out. Whatever a student's age, situation, or lifestyle, everything needed for successfully completing an online class is right here in this book. Each chapter covers a specific element of online learning and provides the new online student with practical strategies and how-to information so that any student can go into an online classroom prepared to succeed. This book has strategies and tips that every online professor wants students to know before they sign up for an online class. Bowman has provided a reference tool for students to develop self-directed learning skills that will help them become secure and knowledgeable about technology, studying, communicating online, and getting work done on time.

After helping Monsieur Bartholdi build the Statue of Liberty, a Parisian orphan stows away on the ship carrying the statue to America.

After helping Monsieur Bartholdi build the Statue of Liberty, a Parisian orphan stows away on the ship carrying the statue to America.

In 1840, Libby, living with her family on the Michigan frontier, finds herself inadvertently caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands. Simultaneous.

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A collection of poems focusing on such ordinary things as cotton candy and Grandpa's shoes

The poet-illustrator team of Balloons once again takes the commonplace--from Grandpa's shoes to cotton candy--and transforms it into the extraordinary through sensuous verse and soft-pencil drawings.

Jamie's lonely life with his aunt changes when Grandpa comes to visit and teaches him to make shadow pictures

Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind. Reissue.

Reminiscences of a boy about his brief relationship with a crow that lived for a while in the well house

When nine-year-old Alex Burman has to get glasses, he becomes convinced that both his soccer career and his relationships will suffer, but he quickly learns a valuable lesson about the meaning of friendship