Most Popular Books by Eric Braun

Make learning to read meaningful for children with this decodable fiction book about a boy named Chad who is feeling mad! This book provides a built-in phonics review for early readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book addresses emotional skills and engages young readers while they gain practice with two high-frequency words: thing and where.Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 5 covers digraphs such as ch and th. Build foundational reading skills with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!

In a battle of wits, who will win? Little Red or the Wolf? The epic struggle between the two takes some unexpected twists in this fractured retelling of the beloved fairy tale. Who do you trust? What do you do? When You Choose the path through three new versions of this fairy tale, the consequences can be chilling, surprising, or disastrous.

When extreme skateboarder Tony Hawk completed the 900, spinning two and a half times in the air before landing, he made sports history. A professional skateboarder from the age of fourteen, Hawk has won competition after competition, has started his own company, and has become a hero to millions of young skateboarding fans around the world.

"Can you hone your virtual gaming skills enough to make you a star in the world of pro gaming? First, find your game and pick your platform. Then, set out to see if you've got what it takes. Make real-life choices that can lead to disappointment, a future in the gaming industry, or realizing your dream of becoming king or queen of the console"--

Stephen Curry is considered to be the greatest shooter in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. He's set the record for the most three-pointers made in a regular season. He's also been named league MVP for multiple seasons. Stephen Curry is an impressive athlete, but his life off the court is just as fascinating. Learn about his rise to stardom, his intense training drills, how he works hard to be a mentor to kids, and much more.

This survival guide introduces the basics of financial literacy and money management for kids—from earning and saving money to spending and donating it—and gives readers essential skills for financial know-how. The book also explores how choices about money and finances connect to character development and social-emotional well-being. Readers will find ideas for setting money goals, delaying gratification, being thrifty, building self-esteem, giving to charity, and making socially responsible spending and donating decisions. The book includes special features such as: Fictional vignettes in a choose-your-own-adventure style, putting readers in hypothetical situations where they need to make decisions about how to manage money True success stories about real kids who made smart financial decisions Vocabulary boxes that highlight important terms “Financial tactics” boxes with helpful tools, tips, and strategies Survival Guides for Kids Helping Kids Help Themselves® Straightforward, friendly, and loaded with practical advice, the Free Spirit Survival Guides for Kids give kids the tools they need to not only survive, but thrive. With plenty of realistic examples and bright illustrations, they are accessible, encouraging, kid-friendly, and even life-changing.

More than 130 people a day in the U.S. die from opioid overdoses. Addiction to legal and illegal opioids has been declared a national crisis. The U.S. spends about $78.5 billion a year on treatment, criminal prosecution, and health care related to the crisis. What caused this massive problem? Can the crisis be slowed or reversed? Students will get practical tips on how to help someone suffering from an addiction or experiencing an overdose, and learn about how the nation is trying to deal with the crisis.

Learn about all the duties that are part of the life of a cowboy.

Did you know that there is a kind of jellyfish that can live forever? Or that pigs can learn to play video games? Test your trivia knowledge and learn loads of incredible facts in this mind-blowing book of amazing animal trivia! Then impress your friends with your new trivia skills. Find out which mammal has the most teeth, whether the flying lemur really flies, and why some lizards do pushups. The answers may surprise you!

In this You Choose adventure, the miller's daughter has to turn seaweed into oxygen in a bubble city on a polluted Earth, a middle school student has to complete binders of math problems, and a lonely magical hermit's offers of assistance stem from his desire for friendship--the reader chooses which plot to pursue.

You are either a captive trying to escape Stalag Luft I or member of the Allied forces trying to evacuate the camp's prisoners during Operation Revival. Can you navigate the perils of this German prison camp during World War II? Readers make choices that determine their fates.

You are immigrating to America through Ellis Island. Will you be allowed into the country? Where will you go if you gain entry? Readers make the choices that determine their fates.

Where did humans come from and how do we teach our children about it? The battle over this element of classroom curricula has been a particularly contentious debate. Today, a faction of creationism known as Intelligent Design has raised the stakes even further, claiming to have scientific proof that life was created by an intelligent designer. Creationism versus Evolution examines the debate as it has unfolded in recent years.

"An interactive World War I adventure where the reader determines their fate during a daring escape from a prisoner-of-war camp"--

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You are living long ago during the height of the Indus Civilization. What was life like as a teen entering a career or a traveling trader? Can you navigate the perils of being a builder in growing city? Readers make the choices that determine their fates.

A historical and current look at Canada, discussing the land, the government, the culture, the people, and the economy.

A biography telling the life story of Booker T. Washington, along with his accomplishments toward promoting the education of African Americans. Written in graphic-novel format.