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30 new classics: top titles for back-to-school—all perfect stories to set the stage for a reading-filled year
My Kindergarten By Rosemary Wells. Hyperion, 2004; 96 pages; $16.99; PreK-1. Take a glorious tour through the kindergarten year with Miss Cribbage ......(Continue Reading) Top 10 Reasons To Visit Lubbock
You'll be surprised by the many treasures that await in this West Texas town. Many folks haven't been to Lubbock. In fact, I'd never thought about going, ......(Continue Reading)Life study: how nature nurtures students at an inner-city high school
AT 16-TOO YOUNG TO BE SO MEAN--ASHLEY Frequently let her claws fly in class. Scowls appeared at random, over slights no one could recall delivering....(Continue Reading)Official! It really is a mad, mad, mad, mad world: dark thoughts about humanity's future don't usually get to the top of the Christmas singles charts.
The Christmas number one can signify not only the taste but also the mood of the nation. Record companies know this, too, and market their product with ......(Continue Reading)Old romantics: William Cook recalls the era of miners' strikes, hair mousse and great pop music
Gatecrash any office party this Christmas and the chances are that much of the music will be at least a generation out of date. Nothing evokes lost youth so vividly as the music of our teenage year...(Continue Reading)
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