This volume offers the latest in neuroscientific research about the teenage brain and explores what it means for the socio-emotional and intellectual development of teenagers. The book is designed to help teachers create and utilize more effective learning experiences for their adolescent students. Using ten powerful ideas that will help teachers ...
As he rode into Dunphyville, Dan Harrigan noted the broken windows, smashed doors, collapsing verandas. The blacksmith's shop had been set on fire, the saloon wrecked, and the general stare shot up. He nodded knowingly. There were only a dozen buildings in this small town, but they all bore the mark of Angus "Black" MacTee. Dan Harrigan and Angus ...
Three men came over the horizon. Rance Tucker, a rancher, guided his buckboard through the pass, a double-barrelled shotgun by his side. Up the valley rode Tom London, a high-stakes gambler who always seemed to lose more than he won. The third, Barry Home, walked in over the flats from the railroad. Barry had once been an ordinary cowpuncher and a ...
The Jericho Mountain Race: five hundred miles of spongy desert sand and impossible rocks and mountain cliffs. It takes a special breed of man, riding a very special horse, to win that grueling contest. Colonel Robert Dinsmore knows he has the horse that can do it: Crusader, a magnificent black stallion. But he knows, too, that there's only one man ...
Chip is a ranch hand, just sixteen, but wise and cunning beyond his years. One day he shows his friend Joe a portrait carved on a small square of ivory. It is, Chip says, the face of Doloritas Ruan -- a woman in deadly peril. The stunning, haunting beauty of that face irresistibly draws Joe on a journey to Mexico with Chip, to rescue her from ...
Tenderfoot Randal Dale arrives in the Mexican border town of Greensville, packing a big wad of cold cash, and determined to make his fortune in the cattle business. But when he asks for "the best man in town" to help him, he doesn't realize that "the best man in that lawless place means the best bandit, rustler and killer around -- one Jeems ...
For ten brutally hard years, Christopher Ballantine had selflessly struggled to scrape enough money out of his small ranch to put his younger brother and sister through college. But his siblings met his efforts with greed and contempt, and the town ridiculed him as a failure. It was time for a change. Christopher would no longer be the meek, hard ...
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