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Need a one-stop resource for jumpstarting sleepy library visitors? Ready to add punch to classroom discussions? In this companion to his best-selling book Reid's Read-Alouds, children's lit guru Reid dips back into the classics to highlight outstanding titles published between 1950 and 1999 that continue to connect with kids today. From humor and drama to science fiction and history, Reid makes it easy to find just the right place to begin, with unique 10-minute read-aloud suggestions drawn from 200 carefully selected titles. Along with his kid-tested great reads, he includes - Brief plot summaries and appropriate grade levels for each title - Program planning suggestions - Indexes by subject, author, title, and grade-level An excellent time-saver for the busy librarian or teacher, Reid's guide will enliven audiences and make reading fun.

Best-selling children's author Reid knows a thing or two about getting kids' attention and holding it. His advice? Cut out the blah-blah-blah and make 'em laugh! In his new book, aimed squarely at the preschool/elementary school crowd, he highlights dozens of programming and title suggestions that are surefire ways to banish young ones' yawns permanently, including Humorous lesson plans, organized by age group, with storytelling tips for maximum yuks Several book lists of the funniest titles published since 2000, encompassing picture books, books for beginning readers, graphic novels and Manga, juvenile fiction, poetry, and other literature More than a dozen original fingerplays, songs, activities and stories, along with a new "Rappin' Rob Rap" With the hilarious ideas and ready-to-use programs in this book, your storytimes will be the laugh factory of the library!

Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since "Year Zero" (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang and bankrupting the whole universe. Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly. Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero "does" know a thing or two about copyright law. Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity--while hoping to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.

Featuring our four-legged, no-legged, winged, scaled, and feathered friends, this new series of story program lesson plans from bestselling author Reid will help librarians and teachers unleash kids' curiosity and learning. Using a combination of high-quality picture books, fingerplays, movement activities, songs, and games, these ready-to-use, mix-and-match lesson plans focus on universal themes such as family, friendship, and school but with animal protagonists. Useful for both school and public libraries, for teaching as well as collection development, Reid's bookIncludes two dozen complete 30-minute story programs for preschoolers that can also be adapted for K 2 childrenOffers 70 new ""in-between"" activities such as fingerplays and movement activities, songs and musical activities, chants, creative dramatics, imagination exercises, and moreProvides alternate book lists at the end of each story plan so readers can further customize their own storytimesGives tips on how to energize presentations and encourage audience participationUsing Reid's sure-fire story programs, kids and grownups alike will have a howling, barking, clucking, roaring good time.

From master storyteller and storytimes creator Reid comes this delightful assortment of activities ready for use by children’s librarians, elementary-level media specialists, and early childhood instructors. Reid’s bountiful compendium of his “greatest hits” includes original and adapted fingerplays, poems, activities involving movement and music, participation stories, felt stories, imagination exercises, spoonerism stories, and library raps. With ideas that are perfect for mixing and matching according to audience, setting, and program length, this bookoffers activities suitable for a variety of ages, from children as young as preschool age through middle school students;begins with “Hello Activities” and ends with “Goodbye Activities”;includes categories such as “The Animal World,” “My World,” “More Fun,” and “The Literary World”; andrecommends picture books published between 2012 and 2017 to share with children immediately before or after presenting the activity.Drawn from thousands of hours of programming, these time-tested activities will engage young ones as well as their parents and caregivers.

A man's struggle: Detective Swin's past demons is what has made him into the cynical and cold person he has become. The only thing he cares about is his job and enforcing the law. His world is flipped upside down when he comes face-to-face with pure evil. A Woman's Desire: The one man she always wanted was the one man that never noticed her no matter how hard she tried. That is when she started to see his tough exterior weaken. She knew she had caught his interest and she would do anything to keep it. But it all was complicated by the events unfolding around them. Someone's Quest: Missing for two decades she comes back under the strangest of circumstances and she has not aged a day. She was back for one reason. She wants to take out everyone, especially the police officers that initially found her, despite her infatuation with one of them. Deadly Enforcement takes you through all of this in a fast and ruthless adventure

Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each profiled title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage elementary and middle-school-age reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get the reader’s attention. That is followed by a short reading passage to “set the hook” and encourage the young person to read the rest of the book on their own. Further, the book contains several hundred additional recommended titles. The books selected for this collection were chosen following the criteria of reluctant reader books created by the Quick Picks committee sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. While these guidelines were designed for young adult books, they also work well for middle-grade books. The criteria include: ·clear writing (no convoluted long sentences with sophisticated vocabulary), ·high interest “hook” in the first few pages, ·well-defined characters, ·interesting plot, and ·familiar themes.

Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each profiled title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage elementary and middle-school-age reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get the reader’s attention. That is followed by a short reading passage to “set the hook” and encourage the young person to read the rest of the book on their own. Further, the book contains several hundred additional recommended titles. The books selected for this collection were chosen following the criteria of reluctant reader books created by the Quick Picks committee sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. While these guidelines were designed for young adult books, they also work well for middle-grade books. The criteria include: ·clear writing (no convoluted long sentences with sophisticated vocabulary), ·high interest “hook” in the first few pages, ·well-defined characters, ·interesting plot, and ·familiar themes.

Get a practical introduction to CockroachDB. This book starts with installation and foundational concepts and takes you through to creating clusters that are ready for production environments. You will learn how to create, optimize, and operate CockroarchDB clusters in single and multi-region environments. You will encounter anti-patterns to avoid, as well as testing techniques for integration and load testing. The book explains why CockroachDB exists, goes over its major benefits, and quickly transitions into installing and configuring CockroachDB. Just as quickly, you’ll be creating databases, getting data into those databases, and querying that data from your applications. You’ll progress to data privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA, and learn how CockroachDB’s global distribution features can help you comply with ever-shifting data sovereignty regulations. From there, you’ll move into deployment topologies, guidance on integration testing and load testing, best practices, and a readiness checklist for production deployments. What You Will LearnDeploy and interact with CockroachDBDesign and optimize databases and tablesChoose the correct data types for modeling your dataProtect data with database and table encryptionAchieve compliance with international data privacy regulationsScale your databases in a way that enhances their performanceMonitor changes to the data and health of your databasesWho This Book Is ForDevelopers and database administrators who want to provide a secure, reliable, and effortlessly distributed home for their data; those who wish to use a modern tool to tackle the kinds of scaling challenges that have previously required dedicated teams of people to solve; anyone who wants to leverage their database to solve non-trivial, real-world challenges while protecting their data and users

The definitive novel of today's Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times bestselling author Rob Reid. Meet Phluttr--a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers--and they don't even know the tenth of it. But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA? A bid to create a trillion-dollar market by becoming "The UberX of Sex"? Or a reckless experiment that could spawn the digital equivalent of a middle-school mean girl with enough charisma, dirt, and cunning to bend the entire planet to her will? Phluttr has it in her to become the greatest gossip, flirt, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer, bring back Seinfeld, then start a nuclear war. Whatever she does, it's not up to us. But a motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her. After On achieves the literary singularity--fusing speculative satire and astonishing reality into a sharp-witted, ferociously believable, IMAX-wide view of our digital age. Praise for After On " Reid] writes in a humorous and sarcastic style while unveiling a terrifying and frightening scenario that seems all too real."--The Associated Press " After On is] like an extended philosophy seminar run by a dozen insane Cold War heads-of-station, three millennial COOs and that guy you went to college with who always had the best weed but never did his laundry."-- NPR "An epic cyberthriller peppered with pop-culture references, metadata, and Silicon Valley in-jokes."--Kirkus Reviews "It's rare to find a book that combines laugh-out-loud humor and cutting-edge science with profound philosophical speculation. This is that book."--Analog