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The infamous summer slide is upon us—and to help beat it, Scholastic is launching the Scholastic Summer Challenge, a four-month global literacy campaign designed to motivate kids ages eight and up to read four or more books during the months that they’re not in school.The Web-based campaign, which kicks off April 30, helps kids maintain and improve their academic skills by offering interesting books to read. And it champions the important role educators, librarians, and parents play in stemming the summer slide.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Some failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them.
Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town's first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Coauthor Relin recounts Mortenson's efforts in fascinating detail, presenting compelling portraits of the village elders, con artists, philanthropists, mujahideen, Taliban officials, ambitious school girls and upright Muslims Mortenson met along the way.
As the book moves into the post-9/11 world, Mortenson and Relin argue that the United States must fight Islamic extremism in the region through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls.
Captivating and suspenseful, with engrossing accounts of both hostilities and unlikely friendships, this book will win many readers' hearts.
Available from Amazon
The closer science looks, the more links it finds between lifestyle and long-term ailments, Julie Robotham writes in part two of a Herald series.
"Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit." - As A Man Thinketh
Be More Funny, Make More Money®
with David Glickman
All things being equal, the funnier speaker gets hired. Period. In today’s competitive speaking market, you cannot afford to be mildly amusing. You must be funny. Really, really funny. When people talk about you (behind your back — which is a good thing) you want them to say, “What an incredible speaker! Great content — and hilarious!” Meeting planners are looking to get the biggest bang for their buck — they need their speaker to be both informative and entertaining. Let’s say the meeting planner has narrowed down their choice to five speakers — all of whom share the same expertise on the topic and all of whom have approximately the same fee. They will always choose the funniest one. Period. It’s very simple — be more funny, make more money.
In this teleseminar you will learn:
- How to add humor to even the most serious subjects
- How to customize material for your specific audience (Because the more specific the humor, the more terrific the humor!)
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If you want more information on adding humor to your presentations, we suggest the recordings of two earlier programs to complement David’s program:
- “How to Generate Big Laughs by Interacting with Audience Members Without Embarrassing Them — or You” with Brad Montgomery, CSP
- “To Prop or Not to Prop: If, When and How to Use Props in Your Presentations” with Tim Gard, CSP, CPAE
With your order of David’s teleseminar, CD or MP3, at checkout you will be offered these recordings.
Common, the rapper known for his socially conscious themes and intricate lyrics, is a Grammy Award winner as well as the author of three books for children. A longtime advocate for urban youth, Common recently launched the Corner Book Club, an interactive book club for teens, on the Web site of his charity, the Common Ground Foundation.
Why start a book club?
I want to encourage youth to read. Reading is how you get information. Enlightenment. I remember reading as a child, and I’m still reading now to keep my mind fresh. To keep it functioning and healthy. more » » »
KL Going's King of the Screwups is getting rave reviews, and now KL is holding a huge contest that asks you to confess your biggest screwup in a paragraph or more! If she laughs hysterically, or cries in sympathy, you just might be a winner!
[From Readergirlz - read more there and get the link to some free chapters of the book]
Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted in April during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year during Teen Read Week. Readers aged twelve to eighteen can vote right here, online, anytime that week.
New book ... author Dan Brown, left, with US actor Tom Hanks.Photo: AP
A mammoth 6.5 million copies of Dan Brown's new book will be printed in its first run.
Six years after the release of his mega-selling The Da Vinci Code, Brown's publisher said The Lost Symbol, a thriller set during a 12-hour period and featuring Da Vinci Code symbolist Robert Langdon, will come out in September. >>>
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