Author: Aimee Buckner
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Keywords: notebook, reader, connections, strategies
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2009-03-28
List price: $17.50
ISBN-10: 1571107827
ISBN-13: 9781571107824

The question I grappled with was how to move students from “couch-potato” readers who can answer basic questions with one word–to readers who think while reading–to readers who think beyond their reading. –Aimee Buckner   In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner demonstrated the power of notebooks to spark and capture students’ ideas in the writing workshop. In Notebook Connections, she turns her focus to the reading workshop, showing how to transform those “couch-potato” readers into deep thinkers.   Buckner’s fourth-grade students use reader’s notebooks as a place to docume

Authors:Aimee Buckner, Ralph Fletcher,
Publisher: Stenhouse Publisher
Keywords: notebook, writer, strategies
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1571104135
ISBN-13: 9781571104137

A writer’s notebook is an essential springboard for the pieces that will later be crafted in writers’ workshop. It is here that students brainstorm topics, play with leads and endings, tweak a new revision strategy, or test out a genre for the first time. In Notebook Know-How, Aimee Buckner provides the tools teachers need to make writers’ notebooks an integral part of their writing programs. She also addresses many of the questions teachers ask when they start using notebooks with their students, including: How do I launch the notebook? What mini-lessons can be used througho

Author: M.M. Buckner
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: watermind
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765359901
ISBN-13: 9780765359902

From storm drains, illegal dumps, and flooded landfills, all of North America’s most advanced technology flows down the Mississippi River—microchips, nano-devices, pharmaceuticals, genetically modified seed—and lodges in the Louisiana delta. Out of this mire emerges a self-organized neural net, drifting in the water: the Watermind. It can freeze, boil, condense, and move—seemingly at will. CJ Reilly is a brilliant, sexy, self-destructive dropout working on a crew cleaning up a pollution spill in Devil’s Swamp near Baton Rouge, when she and her new lover, Max, discover the mysterious

Author: M. M. Buckner
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: surf, war
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0759292493
ISBN-13: 9780759292499

What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal—and nearly bored to death? You’d invent a thrill sport… It’s the 23rd century and Nasir Deepra is 248 years old, wealthy, kept young by all-pervasive nanotechnology, a corporate executive and bored with life. To spice things up he has become an Agonist, dipping into war zones--many of them in satellites orbiting the Earth--and filming his daredevil antics. Agonists have a large fan-base who watch them on the Net and they revel in the attention. A war surf goes badly and the Agonists lose their top ran

Author: M. M. Buckner
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: giver, coin
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0759292434
ISBN-13: 9780759292437

In the 23rd century, the Earth’s surface is devastated by global warming, and corporations exploit billions of poverty-stricken employees whose lifetime contracts they own… Richter Jedes, the rich powerful CEO of ZahlenBank, wants to live forever – so he makes two copies of himself. One is an evolved Artificial Intelligence imprinted with his personality. The other is a perfect clone named Dominic, whom he raises as his son. When Richter suddenly dies, his son Dominic is left to deal with a terrible crisis which threatens ZahlenBank. And though Dominic loathes the egotistical A.I.

Author: Buckner F. Melton Jr.
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: treason, conspiracy, burr, aaron
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10-26
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 047139209X
ISBN-13: 9780471392095

Aaron Burr remains one of the most darkly compelling figures in early United States history. Best known as the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, Burr served as a U.S. senator and as Thomas Jefferson’s vice president from 1800 to 1804. Before that, he gained a national reputation as a brilliant attorney. In the first popular book to focus on one of the most intriguing chapters in Burr’s long life, historian Buckner F. Melton Jr. explores Aaron Burr’s part in one of the most sensational criminal conspiracies in American history. Known as the "Burr C

Author: Buckner F. Melton Jr.
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: justice, criminal, law
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2010-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1604136340
ISBN-13: 9781604136340