Lee Martin
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jean De Belle, the new high school librarian in Lawrenceville, Illinois, is eager to begin the next phase of her young life after breaking off her engagement to Charlie Camplain. When Charlie arrives at the school, intent on convincing her to take back his ring, what happens will reverberate through the lives of everyone who crossed paths with Charlie and Jean.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a deeply affecting novel about the choices people make that change their lives forever. Fact, speculation, and contradiction play off one another as the details about Katie's disappearance--and about the townspeople--unfold,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A prolific and award-winning writer, Lee Martin has put pen to paper to offer his wisdom, honed during thirty years of teaching the oh-so-elusive art of writing. Telling Stories is intended for anyone interested in thinking more about the elements of storytelling in short stories, novels, and memoirs. Martin clearly delineates helpful and practical techniques for demystifying the writing process and provides tools for perfecting the art of the scene,...
4) Quakertown
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An evocative novel set against the backdrop of 1920s Texas captures the lives of members of a flourishing African-American community segregated from its white neighbors as two families--one white and one black--become caught up in a shameful, real-life episode from north Texas's history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Get students on task at the beginning of the day--or anytime--with these fun and engaging reproducible activity pages that provide practice with a purpose. Each two-page collection of activities helps students build skills in place value, computational fluency with addition and subtraction, logic and critical thinking, solving word problems, measurement, working with time and money, interpreting data, geometry, following directions, and more. A great...