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Reading Isn't Optional : Fulfilling the Promise of Literacy for Secondary Students.

Schopf, Jeanne A.


In Reading Isn't Optional, editor and contributor Jeanne A. Schopf brings together leading literacy experts to address one of secondary education's most pressing skill gaps. Grounded in literacy research and implementation science, this book will help educators ensure that students' ability to read is a gateway rather than an obstacle to their futures.
Date Published:2026

Sag̱aytg̱awdi : grounding assessment in Indigenous knowledges for equity and well-being /

Chrona, Jo,


"Sag̱̲aytg̱̲awdi (a Sm'algyax word meaning "gathering together") helps educators support equity and well-being in their classroom through practical strategies that ground assessment practices in Indigenous knowledges. Accomplished authors and educators Jo Chrona (Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies) and Brooke Moore (Sorting it Out) provide educators with a conceptual framework to evolve their assessment practices and make more informed, student-responsive decisions. Sag̱aytg̱awdi is designed to be a practical, engaging resource for teachers of all grade levels. It includes: opportunities for reflection; personal and professional narratives; guiding principles; actionable strategies; teacher examples; and recommendations for additional resources. With this resource, educators will be inspired to use assessment to create more inclusive, supportive environments where all students can achieve and thrive, respecting and celebrating their unique identities and cultures."--
Date Published:2026

"Sag̱̲aytg̱̲awdi (a Sm'algyax word meaning "gathering together") helps educators support equity and well-being in their classroom through practical strategies that ground assessment practices in Indigenous knowledges. Accomplished authors and educators Jo Chrona (Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies) and Brooke Moore (Sorting it Out) provide educators with a conceptual framework to evolve their assessment practices and make more informed, student-responsive decisions. Sag̱aytg̱awdi is designed to be a practical, engaging resource for teachers of all grade levels. It includes: opportunities for reflection; personal and professional narratives; guiding principles; actionable strategies; teacher examples; and recommendations for additional resources. With this resource, educators will be inspired to use assessment to create more inclusive, supportive environments where all students can achieve and thrive, respecting and celebrating their unique identities and cultures."--

Date Published:2026

Drumbeat Decodable Book Collection

Samatte, Sandra


Welcome to Drumbeat Decodable Book Collection. K-2 Short Vowels a,e,i,o, and u. Teach children short vowels in the context of cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words in the high-frequency and fun Indigenous Decodable Books. This set of 5 Decodable Books provides the systematic practice children need to become phonics-wise readers. These stories bring an Indigenous content that is much needed in any phonics program. Each book contains a word list, high-frequency words, story words, short vowel words, and two fun activities for extended learning. Read along with Jan and learn the Short 'a' Vowel. Written by Sandra Samatte, Ojibwe - Saulteaux - from Skownan First Nation Treaty 2 Territory. 5 sets of 6 books, titles include; Jan at Camp (a), Rhett and Jet (e), Tim and Robin (i), Grandfather Rock (o), and Duck and Cub (u). . K-2 Short Vowels - A, E, I, O, U This set contains 5 sets of 6 decodable books providing the systematic practice needed to become phonics-wise readers. Build comprehension, fluency, and decoding skills through our decodable books that bring an Indigenous content that is much needed in any phonics program. Teach short vowels in the context of CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words in these high-frequency and fun decodable books. Each book contains: word list high-frequency words story words short vowel words extended learning activities.
Date Published:2024

Welcome to Drumbeat Decodable Book Collection. K-2 Short Vowels a,e,i,o, and u. Teach children short vowels in the context of cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words in the high-frequency and fun Indigenous Decodable Books. This set of 5 Decodable Books provides the systematic practice children need to become phonics-wise readers. These stories bring an Indigenous content that is much needed in any phonics program. Each book contains a word list, high-frequency words, story words, short vowel words, and two fun activities for extended learning. Read along with Jan and learn the Short 'a' Vowel. Written by Sandra Samatte, Ojibwe - Saulteaux - from Skownan First Nation Treaty 2 Territory. 5 sets of 6 books, titles include; Jan at Camp (a), Rhett and Jet (e), Tim and Robin (i), Grandfather Rock (o), and Duck and Cub (u). . K-2 Short Vowels - A, E, I, O, U This set contains 5 sets of 6 decodable books providing the systematic practice needed to become phonics-wise readers. Build comprehension, fluency, and decoding skills through our decodable books that bring an Indigenous content that is much needed in any phonics program. Teach short vowels in the context of CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words in these high-frequency and fun decodable books. Each book contains: word list high-frequency words story words short vowel words extended learning activities.

Date Published:2024

Skinny : Novel Set (6 Copies).

Cooner, Donna D. (Donna Danell)


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Threats to Health(SSKT-0309) . Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies’s head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her. Ever knows she weighs over three hundred pounds, knows she’ll probably never be loved, and Skinny makes sure she never forgets it.
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This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Threats to Health(SSKT-0309) . Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies’s head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her. Ever knows she weighs over three hundred pounds, knows she’ll probably never be loved, and Skinny makes sure she never forgets it.

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Me and Earl and the dying girl : Novel Set (6 Copies) /

Andrews, Jesse.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Threats to Health(SSKT-0309) . Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Date Published:2012

Ashes, Ashes : Novel Set (6 Copies).

Treggiari, Jo


This novel set links to Issues 21 - Biodiversity (SSKT-0287) & Threats to Health (SSKT-0309). Smallpox epidemics, floods, droughts -- for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, stealing with it everyone she ever loved. As the weather rages out of control, she survives alone in the wilds of New York City, hunting and foraging for food, which avoiding roving scavengers and thieves. But when an unrelenting pack of vicious hounds begins to hunt her, Lucy is not sure she can continue on her own. Them suddenly, she is swept to safety by a mysterious boy name Aidan, who helps her escape the hounds and urges her to join a band of survivors. Reluctantly, she finds him after her home is destroyed; however, new dangers await her.
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This novel set links to Issues 21 - Biodiversity (SSKT-0287) & Threats to Health (SSKT-0309). Smallpox epidemics, floods, droughts -- for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, stealing with it everyone she ever loved. As the weather rages out of control, she survives alone in the wilds of New York City, hunting and foraging for food, which avoiding roving scavengers and thieves. But when an unrelenting pack of vicious hounds begins to hunt her, Lucy is not sure she can continue on her own. Them suddenly, she is swept to safety by a mysterious boy name Aidan, who helps her escape the hounds and urges her to join a band of survivors. Reluctantly, she finds him after her home is destroyed; however, new dangers await her.

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Empty : Novel Set (6 Copies)

Walton, K. M. (Kathleen M.)


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Threats to Health(SSKT-0309) . Dell is used to disappointment. Ever since her dad left, it’s been one let down after another. But no one—not even her best friend—gets all the pain she’s going through. So Dell hides behind self-deprecating jokes and forced smiles.
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Get well soon : Novel Set (6 Copies) /

Halpern, Julie, 1975-,


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Threats to Health(SSKT-0309) . When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.
Date Published:2009

The adoration of Jenna Fox : Novel set (6 Copies) /

Pearson, Mary E.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Threats to Health (SSKT-0309) . In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
Date Published:2008

If the Witness Lied : Novel Set (6 Copies).

Cooney, Caroline B.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Power of the Media (SSKT-0308) . Jack Fountain knows that what’s happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it’s all true. It happened—to his parents; to his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to his baby brother, Tris. What made it worse was that the media wanted to know every detail.
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Need : Novel Set (6 Copies) /

Charbonneau, Joelle,


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Power of the Media (SSKT-0308) . "In this exploration of the dark side of social media, and government control and manipulation, the teenagers in a small town are drawn deeper and deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need--regardless of the consequences"--
Date Published:2015

Vanishing Act : Novel Set (6 Copies)

Feinstein, John.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Power of the Media (SSKT-0308) . When teen sportswriters Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson score press passes to the U.S. Open they expect drama. They expect blistering serves, smashed returns and fierce competition. What they don't expect is kidnapping.
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Fahrenheit 451 : Novel Set (12 Copies) /

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Power of the Media (SSKT-0308) . Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns...
Date Published:1979

War games : Novel Set (6 Copies) /

Guest, Jacqueline.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Violence in Media (SSKT-0310) . Ryan Taber's father is on his first tour of duty with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, an Ryan is thrilled. He will finally get a break from his overbearing father, and will be able to spend more time off the Edmonton military base at the CyberKnights gaming cafe, playing Desert Death. But after meeting the Desert Death ultimate champion, Ryan soon becomes entangled in a world of deceit, and is forced to come to terms with the extreme risks his father is facing overseas. War Games is a riveting story about confronting the effects of violence, both virtual and real.
Date Published:2008

This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Violence in Media (SSKT-0310) . Ryan Taber's father is on his first tour of duty with the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, an Ryan is thrilled. He will finally get a break from his overbearing father, and will be able to spend more time off the Edmonton military base at the CyberKnights gaming cafe, playing Desert Death. But after meeting the Desert Death ultimate champion, Ryan soon becomes entangled in a world of deceit, and is forced to come to terms with the extreme risks his father is facing overseas. War Games is a riveting story about confronting the effects of violence, both virtual and real.

Date Published:2008

Erebos : Novel Set (6 Copies) /

Poznanski, Ursula, 1968-


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Violence in Media (SSKT-0310) . When sixteen-year-old Nick Dunmore receives a package with a mysterious computer game called Erebos, he hopes it will explain his classmates' strange behavior. He is quickly drawn into the cryptic world of the game, where players must obey a strict code. Erebos watches its players and begins to manipulate their lives in frightening ways. It soon becomes clear the game has a deadly agenda. When Nick sets out on a dangerous mission, reality and the virtual world begin to blur.
Date Published:2012

This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Violence in Media (SSKT-0310) . When sixteen-year-old Nick Dunmore receives a package with a mysterious computer game called Erebos, he hopes it will explain his classmates' strange behavior. He is quickly drawn into the cryptic world of the game, where players must obey a strict code. Erebos watches its players and begins to manipulate their lives in frightening ways. It soon becomes clear the game has a deadly agenda. When Nick sets out on a dangerous mission, reality and the virtual world begin to blur.

Date Published:2012

The Hunger Games Trilogy : Novel Sets /

Collins, Suzanne,


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Violence in Media (SSKT-0310) Hunger Games (7 Copies) Catching Fire (5 Copies) Mockingjay (6 Copies) . Tributes -- Games -- Victor. Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death -- televised for all of Panem to see. Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love. - Publisher.
Date Published:2008

This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Violence in Media (SSKT-0310) Hunger Games (7 Copies) Catching Fire (5 Copies) Mockingjay (6 Copies) . Tributes -- Games -- Victor. Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone fighting against you? Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives. In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death -- televised for all of Panem to see. Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love. - Publisher.

Date Published:2008

Make lemonade : Novel Set (6 Copies) /

Wolff, Virginia Euwer.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Poverty (SSKT-0307) . In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.
Date Published:1993

How to steal a dog : Novel Set (6 Copies) /

O'Connor, Barbara.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Poverty (SSKT-0307) . Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Date Published:2009

This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Poverty (SSKT-0307) . Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.

Date Published:2009

No Place : Novel Set (6 Copies).

Strasser, Todd.


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Poverty (SSKT-0307) . When Dan and his family go from middle class to homeless, issues of injustice rise to the forefront in this relatable, timely novel from Todd Strasser that VOYA calls “poignant,” “darkly humorous,” and “exceptionally thought-provoking.”.
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Ship breaker : Novel Set (6 Copies /

Bacigalupi, Paolo,


This novel set is linked to Issues 21 - Poverty (SSKT-0307) . In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Date Published:2010