New Releases by Helen Foster

Meet seahorses on an ocean adventure beneath the waves! Readers will learn about physical characteristics, diet, and habitat. Simple callouts ask students to think in new ways, supporting inquiry-based reading. Titles in the 21st Century Beginning Library introduce students to vocabulary and content they will use for a lifetime as they are prompted to Look, Think, and Connect. Let your young readers discover the joy of reading for information as they grow into lifelong, fluent readers.

Go wild as you dive into a world beneath the waves! The Go Wild! Ocean Explorer series lets readers get up close and personal with fascinating ocean creatures right from the comfort of their reading chair. Part of the 21st Century Beginning Library, this series combines familiar and fun topics with thoughtful and intentional literacy skills, building background knowledge and strengthening vocabulary as readers are prompted to Look, Think, and Connect.

Say goodbye to calorie counting with this revolutionary weight-loss method. Macronutrients or 'macros' are the three main nutrient groups your body can't live without: carbohydrates, fats and protein. So many diets focus on calorie counting, but not all calories are created equal: your body doesn't process 20 calories of kale and 20 calories of chocolate in the same way because of their different macro breakdowns. Macro counting is all about balance. By eating the right ratio of carbohydrates, fats and protein, you can lose weight and build muscle in a healthy, sustainable way without avoiding the foods you love. This flexible approach to dieting encourages you to make smart food choices that guarantee results. The Macro Method will tell you everything you need to know about counting macros, including the latest research about how the diet works and its nutritional benefits. The 21-day plan will help you ditch the calorie counting for good, with more than 40 simple recipes to tempt you.

When lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer finds the dead body of her friend and client Ellie Windom at the foot of a staircase, a terrorized horse dancing nearby, she knows trouble's coming. Serving as executor for her friend's will means grappling with Ellie's explosive secrets: a long-lost daughter unknown to her feuding sons and a long-ago lover with enemies of his own. Alice quickly discovers her friend had a treasure trove of hidden art with questionable history, and the vultures begin to circle. Intruders, carjackers, and greedy heirs all want a seat at the feast. Join Alice as she tries to dodge danger and uncover the murderous truth in a race across Texas and New Mexico (with occasional stops for barbecue).

Illustrations and easy-to-read text welcome a new baby and celebrate the wonders shared during his or her first year, including warm sunshine, splashing in the bath, and snuggling for story time.

This touching tribute to an Auntie's love celebrates the sweet bond between an aunt and her little bunny. From tender snuggles to play and giggles, author Helen Foster James and illustrator Petra Brown capture the unique relationship in loving color.

Books in the Outdoor Explorers series introduce children to the specific US regional plants, animals, landscape, weather, and geography through a fun nature hike. This book studies the West (California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). Bright, colorful pictures will keep children engaged as they learn about the great outdoors in the United States. Glossary, index, and bibliography are included.

Books in the Outdoor Explorers series introduce children to the specific US regional plants, animals, landscape, weather, and geography through a fun nature hike. This book studies the Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin). Bright, colorful pictures will keep children engaged as they learn about the great outdoors in the United States. Glossary, index, and bibliography are included.

Five widows and the storm of the century… Just in time to wreak havoc for Thanksgiving, a monster storm from the Arctic blasts south freezing much of the United States. In East Texas, dire weather warnings brings together a unique group of women, all struggling with new and older grief, as well as a host of life issues. Retta—determinedly fighting to keep her ancestral farm going, while nature, her children, and time were showing her that a need for change was inevitable. Maggie—Retta’s lifelong friend, whose multiple marriages and lust for life constantly leaves her the talk of the community. Sybil—after single-handedly dragging her family out of poverty to become one of her church’s most respected women, she finds herself facing the biggest challenge of her life. Dana—a promising musical career took an unexpected turn when she fell for a tough soldier. But one too many deployments took its toll on their happiness and, now, her future. Carly—a girl from the wrong side of town, she married a man old enough to be her father, which turned her into the richest woman around. But is she the gold-digger many believe her to be? In the end, only part of the drama is outdoors. Hour by hour emotional and psychological upheaval grows, as secrets are revealed, until all are forced to understand that sometimes friendship and love needs to be risked in order to reach life’s richest plateaus.

Winner of 2019 National Parenting Product Award There is nothing like a grandmother's love. This sweet story celebrates the special bond between grandma and grandchild at Christmas time. With a bedtime-friendly singsong rhythm and adorable holiday illustrations, this books is sure to charm children and grandmothers alike!

This Level 3 guided reader introduces basic facts about penguins, including their physical characteristics, diet, and habitat. Simple callouts ask the student to think in new ways, supporting inquiry-based reading. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

This Level 3 guided reader introduces basic facts about sea horses, including their physical characteristics, diet, and habitat. Simple callouts ask the student to think in new ways, supporting inquiry-based reading. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

This Level 3 guided reader introduces basic facts about sea stars, including their physical characteristics, diet, and habitat. Simple callouts ask the student to think in new ways, supporting inquiry-based reading. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

This Level 3 guided reader introduces basic facts about octopuses, including their physical characteristics, diet, and habitat. Simple callouts ask the student to think in new ways, supporting inquiry-based reading. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

Mincir en mangeant gras, c'est possible ! Grâce à cette méthode inédite en France, perdez 5 kilos en 2 semaines. Le principe de ce régime révolutionnaire ? Réhabiliter le gras, modérer sa consommation de protéines, et réduire celle de sucres et de féculents. Pendant la phase d'attaque, vous pourrez même manger de la crème fraîche, du beurre et des avocats ! Mais aussi des biftecks, des côtelettes d'agneau ou du bacon, sans oublier les poissons dits gras comme le saumon ou le maquereau. Finies, les privations ! Des consignes claires, des menus généreux et un peu d'exercice physique : ce régime est un vrai plaisir. Mincissez enfin sans effort et pour longtemps !

Detox will help you to combat the many 'toxic' elements of modern life through diet, alternative therapies, massage and exercise. The book includes tips and advice to ensure that tiredness, sluggishness and the guilt about not exercising become a thing of the past. Fourteen effective detox plans target specific issues from stopping smoking to energizing and stress-busting. With simple recipes, step-by-step exercises and lifestyle tips to make detoxing easy and enjoyable, Detox is the perfect way to start to detoxing your life.

A group of children take a long train ride to Santa's Workshop; meet Santa, Mrs. Claus and some elves; receive presents; and have their pictures taken before returning home.

In 1926, 12-year-old Fu Lee lives with his grandparents in a small village in China. He lives with his grandparents because his parents are dead. It is a difficult life but made easier by the love Lee shares with his grandparents. But now Lee must leave all that he knows. Before his parents died, they spent all of their money buying a "paper son slot" for Lee to go to America. Being a "paper son" means pretending to be the son of a family already in America. If he goes, he will have the chance for a better life. But first he must pass the test at Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco. Only then will he be allowed to live with his new family. If Lee makes even a single mistake, he could be sent back to China. Lee knows his grandparents want a better life for him. He can't let them down.

Next to baseball and fireworks on the Fourth of July, nothing else seems as American as the family camping trip. From what to pack, where to go, and what to do when you get there, S is for S'mores: A Camping Alphabet takes readers on an A-Z trail exploring this outdoor pastime. Veteran camper Helen Foster James tackles topics such as unique camping environments, equipment necessities, famous conservationists, and national parks and other attractions. Whether your idea of "roughing it" is a blanket in your own backyard or the subarctic ecosystem of Alaska's Denali National Park, S is for S'mores is a fun and informative guide that is sure to help campers of all ages make the most of their wilderness adventures.Helen Foster James started researching this book when she was four years old - that's when she went on her first camping trip. An educator for over 20 years, Helen is a lecturer for San Diego State University. Her first book, E is for Enchantment: A New Mexico Alphabet, was a WILLA Literary Award Finalist. Helen lives in San Diego, California. Lita Judge lives in New Hampshire with her husband. She studied geology and dug for dinosaurs before she turned to writing and illustrating children's books. Her love of nature, animals, science, and history inspires her art.

New Mexico rightly earns its nickname "Land of Enchantment" with natural treasures such as the White Sands National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns, and the Gila National Forest. But more than a beautiful landscape, New Mexico is steeped in the mystique, history, and tradition of multiple cultures, including the ancient Aztec and early Spanish explorers. From pueblo villages and stately missions to the nuclear energy research at Los Alamos, E is for Enchantment showcases the past, present, and future of New Mexico. Helen Foster James has been an educator for more than twenty years, and is now a lecturer at San Diego State University. She received her doctorate from Northern Arizona University. One of her goals is to travel to all fifty states, and she's already visited more than half. She lives in San Diego, California, with big stacks of children's books and her husband Bob. Neecy Twinem is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator of more than seventeen published books. She earned a fine arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has exhibited her artwork in the United States and Europe. After a family trip to northern New Mexico, Neecy fell in love with the Southwest and now makes her home in the natural surroundings of the Sandia Mountains area.

Quel fléau, cette cellulite ! Si nous pouvions tous nous en débarrasser... ce livre nous donne une combinaison de 7 solutions simples et efficaces à pratiquer pendant 6 semaines. Le top des 20 aliments pour minimiser les effets de la cellulite. Des exercices simples à pratiquer chaque jour. Les meilleurs produits naturels pour avoir une belle peau.

Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won't make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will: Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle's basic interface and learn to start a course. Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades. Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool. Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle's built-in survey functions for assessing your class. Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you're on your own, there's a lot of power behind the curtain. Using Moodle is both a guide and a reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading.

Helen Foster problematizes one of the dominant metaphors in rhetoric and composition, the notion of “writing process,” and, in turn, offers an important and engaging new approach for the future of the discipline, one that directly addresses the complexities, challenges, and opportunities for writing research in a postmodern world.

Presents a diet plan that allows followers to eat mostly as they please on the weekends, within certain common-sense guidelines, allowing them to more easily follow the stricter guidelines set for weekdays.

If your diets invariably only last until Friday night then this is the plan for you. Diet from Monday to Friday and then take the weekend off and still lose weight. With no banned foods, hunger pangs or tricky foods to cook or buy, it's an easy plan to follow.

Sometimes, no matter what you do, you just can't get the body you want. That's because those excess inches aren't necessarily excess fat: sometimes bloat is to blame, due to bad digestion, dairy intolerance, fluid retention, or stress. Fortunately, this practical, information-packed book by bestselling author Helen Foster shows how to get the slim, sleek look you've been trying to achieve. It explains clearly what bloating is and what causes it, and offers a questionnaire to help you pinpoint the source of your own bloating. Select one of the four great 14-day diet and lifestyle plans to follow, along with a huge range of recipes, lifestyle tips, and expert advice. It won't be long before you lose weight, feel great, and never get bloated again!

Think all carbohydrates are alike? Think again! Clinical evidence reveals a critical distinction in the ways different foods release carbohydrates into the bloodstream. The Glycemic Index (GI), was created to define this rate of release, which has significant health implications. Foods with a low GI rating enable us feel full longer, aiding weight loss and increasing energy. High GI-rated foods force the body to dump large amounts of insulin into the blood, resulting in fatigue, sugar cravings, and mood swings, with links to diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers. The complete story of the Glycemic Index is here, along with ratings for more than 300 common foods, self-tests, enjoyable nutritional plans, and ways to use the GI to feel better and live longer.

Based on the glycemic index (GI)-the nutrition breakthrough that ranks carbs by their effect on blood sugar levels-the 14-day eating plan in this fully illustrated new guide lets dieters lose as much as seven pounds in just two weeks! Here are the facts about how the GI diet works; how its Feel-Full Factor reduces hunger pains and sugar cravings and makes it easy to stick to; and why it's a #1 strategy for lowering blood pressure and controlling diabetes. The plan includes delicious, good-for-you low-GI recipes and 15-minute body-toning workouts, plus a GI counter to keep weight off and charts of calories for 1,500 foods and for calories burned by 100 fun activities, from flying a kite to flamenco.