Stacey Berg

Do you want to raise children who love to learn? Maybe you are simply looking for a way to unplug your child from the TV or video games? Just by reading this book, you will be taking a proactive step in providing your child with meaningful experiences that will result in growth and plenty of family fun! The “project approach” has long been a tremendous tool for educators working with young children. In this book, three experienced teachers show parents, grandparents, and other caregivers how to do meaningful and exciting projects in their home and community. Featuring many photos of children doing project work, this volume: Thoroughly explains the benefits to both you and your child of doing projects together. Helps you transform your home into a place to learn, including guidance for collecting and storing materials, making time for projects, and documenting your child’s work. Presents the stories of seven projects that were done by children with the support of a parent or grandparent: Maude the Dog Project, Slime Project, Caterpillar Project, Race Car Project, Mexican Bakery Project, Horse Project, and Bus Project. Shows appropriate expectations and how to coach and build your child’s skills in reading and writing, mathematical development, scientific thinking, and more. Provides ideas for adapting the project approach for use in family daycare centers, home schooling, and gifted education.

The world is ready to be reborn...Protected by the Church for four hundred years, the people of the City are the last of humanity--or so they thought. Echo Hunter 367, made to be faithful to the Church and its Saint at all costs, embarks on what she's sure is a suicide mission into the harsh desert beyond the City. Then, at the end of all hope, she stumbles on a miracle: another enclave of survivors, a lush, peaceful sanctuary completely opposite of anything Echo has ever known.But the Preserve has dark secrets of its own, and uncovering them may cost Echo more than just her life. She fears her discoveries will trigger a final, disastrous war. But if Echo can stop the Church and Preservers from destroying each other, she might have a chance to achieve her most impossible dream--saving the woman she loves. "Echo Hunter 367 may be a clone and callous killer, but she's one with true heart and soul. Regeneration is a thrilling conclusion to Berg's dystopia duology." -- Beth Cato, author of The Clockwork Dagger series"Regeneration by Stacey Berg is a paean to resistance, hope, and love, a Canticle for Leibowitz that passes the Bechdel Test and then some. This post-apocalyptic clash of values and technology demonstrates beautifully that physical bravery can only take you so far; real change only happens when we have the courage to listen." -- Nicola Griffith, author of Hild

For four hundred years, the Church has led the remnants of humanity as they struggle for survival in the last inhabited city. Echo Hunter 367 is exactly what the Church created her to be: loyal, obedient, lethal. A clone who shouldn't care about anything but her duty. Who shouldn't be able to.When rebellious citizens challenge the Church's authority, it is Echo's duty to hunt them down before civil war can tumble the city back into the dark. But Echo hides a deadly secret: doubt. And when Echo's mission leads her to Lia, a rebel leader who has a secret of her own, Echo is forced to face that doubt. For Lia holds the key to the city's survival, and Echo must choose between the woman she loves and the purpose she was born to fulfill.