Most Popular Books by Jennifer Fox

The PALs are part of a school fundraiser! But when Lucky partners with Maricela for the fundraiser instead of Pru and Abigail, their competitive streaks come out and test their friendship.

Disney Fairies finds talented animal fairy Fawn befriending a huge, mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast, and while Tink and her friends aren''t so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow, the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture the m

A leveled reader based on the new feature film. The Boxtrolls have raised an orphaned human boy, Eggs, since infancy as one of their dumpster-diving and mechanical junk-collecting own. When the Boxtrolls are targeted by villainous pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher, who is bent on eradicating them as his ticket to Cheesebridge society, the kindhearted band of tinkerers must turn to their adopted charge and adventurous rich girl Winnie to bridge two worlds amidst the winds of change - and cheese. © 2014 Universal

Barry is about to start his new job.

Each of the books in the new Little Foam Friends series will delight babies and parents alike! Ladybug and Duck--the first two books in this series--feature charming illustrations and simple text. When closed, the books can stand up on their own, so kids can play with them like toys! The chunky foam pages are perfect for little hands to grab and play with. Ladybug presents a day in the life of a little ladybug. Duck introduces a little duck at play in the pond. The books are so small and light, you''ll want to take them everywhere. Grab a Little Foam Friend and feel the difference foam makes!

With the Rescue Bots partnering up with the Burns family to protect and serve the good people of Griffin Rock, the Transformers get to see first hand what being a hero is all about. Meet the humans behind the Autobots as they fight fires, crime, and other dangers.

School has never smelled so funny! Is that pizza on the menu for lunch, or smelly gym socks? With various scents to scratch and sniff and a variety of scenes to mix and match, you can create dozens of hilarious stories. Just flip the pages and sniff away!

A new and exiting 8x8 DVD tie-in to the sixth Tinker Bell film, The Legend of the NeverBeast! Plus add-on! Disneytoon Studios director Steve Loter revealed plans for "The Legend of the NeverBeast," which takes the Disney Fairies on an epic action adventure that''s full of heart and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Fun and talented animal fairy Fawn believes you can''t judge a book by its cover-or an animal by its fangs-so she befriends a huge and mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast. While Tink and her friends aren''t so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow, the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture the monster before he destroys their home. Fawn must trust her heart and take a leap of faith if she hopes to rally the girls to save the NeverBeast. Directed by Steve Loter, "The Legend of the NeverBeast" roars to life in Spring 2015. Copyright © 2014 Disney Enterprises, Inc.

"A funny, quirky picture book based on a little-known historical event -- and an introduction to one of history''s most notable figures, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte''s most crushing defeat is widely thought to have been at the Battle of Waterloo -- but have you heard about that time he was defeated by a horde of cute, fluffy bunnies? We call it Bunnyloo. It was the summer of 1807, after Napoleon and Tsar Alexander of Russia signed a treaty to end war between their two empires. Napoleon decided to celebrate with a rabbit hunt. His chief-of-staff, Louis-Alexandre, gathered as many rabbits as he could -- but got one crucial detail wrong. The rabbits he gathered were domesticated rabbits, so accustomed to human contact that they didn''t scatter as expected -- they hopped towards Napoleon and his cohorts. The men shooed, swung and swatted, but it was no use. They were surrounded. When the rabbits started climbing up his legs and onto his hunting jacket, Napoleon became quite shaken, jumped back into his carriage and fled. Napoleon was a tough customer. He had ridden straight into cannon fire without a second thought. But everyone is scared of something -- even the bravest of the brave -- and it seems that for His Imperial and Royal Majesty, that "something" was the bunnies. The last page of the book will be a note with more information about Napoleon, and what we know about the ill-fated rabbit hunt. Research tells us that this event really did happen, and that Napoleon -- though amused at first -- really did abandon the hunt when he realized the rabbits were not going to retreat."--

Fun and talented animal fairy Fawn believes you can''t judge a book by its cover-or an animal by its fangs-so she befriends a huge and mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast. While Tink and her friends aren''t so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow, the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture the monster before he destroys their home. Fawn must trust her heart and take a leap of faith if she hopes to rally the girls to save the NeverBeast.

"Based on the motion picture screenplay by Mark Rosenthal & Lawrence Konner. Based on the novel ''My friend Flicka'' by Mary O''Hara."

Students from non-English-speaking countries who immigrate to the United States during the adolescent years are tasked with both learning a second language and meeting graduation requirements in courses taught in that second language. Forty years of research on second language acquisition documents that primary literacy (L1) impacts second language acquisition (L2). Yet, newcomer adolescents have been left out of this conversation. This study explores the question: What degree of relationship exists between adolescent newcomers'' primary literacy (X) and their rate of English language acquisition (Y)? This study follows a quantitative correlational research design, relying on two measures of primary literacy: the IDEA Proficiency Test and the Standards-based Tests in Spanish, and the longitudinal results on the California English Language Development Test (CELDT). The participant population consisted of all (n = 34) native Spanish-speaking English learners who received instruction in the U.S. for five years or fewer. A very minimal positive correlation was found between primary literacy levels and the initial assessment of CELDT, and a moderate positive correlation between primary literacy levels and the first and fourth annual assessment of CELDT. This suggests that primary literacy levels do not predict the English proficiency levels at initial assessment. The moderate correlations at the first and fourth annual assessments suggest that those with higher levels of primary literacy acquire English at a faster rate. The moderate correlation will allow educators to predict those at-risk newcomer adolescents. Educators can then target intervention or provide differentiated instruction in order to support the students'' literacy development.

Princess Twilight Sparkle is opening a School of Friendship! Will her students get along? Meet the class and find out!

Kong, the eighth wonder of the world, lives on top of a mountain on Skull Island.

"Welcome aboard the royal vessel of King Caspian! Meet our captain, Lord Drinian; Sir Repicheep, the bravest of all mice; Edmund and Lucy Pevensie; and others as they search for the seven lost lords of Narnia"--Page 4 of cover.

Meet Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity! These ponies are the best of friends and love spending time with one another. Join them as they tour Ponyville, play with pets, celebrate special days, and explore a brand-new castle.

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have become hugely successful in recent years - we have become accustomed to speech interfaces across all kinds of devices. However, despite the huge impact ASR has had on the way we interact with technology, it is out of reach for a significant portion of the world''s population. This is because these systems rely on a variety of manually-generated resources - like transcripts and pronunciation dictionaries - that can be both expensive and difficult to acquire. In this thesis, we explore techniques for learning about speech directly from speech, with no manually generated transcriptions. Such techniques have the potential to revolutionize speech technologies for the vast majority of the world''s population. The cognitive science and computer science communities have both been investing increasing time and resources into exploring this problem. However, a full unsupervised speech recognition system is a hugely complicated undertaking and is still a long ways away. As in previous work, we focus on the lower-level tasks which will underlie an eventual unsupervised speech recognizer. We specifically focus on two tasks: developing linguistically meaningful representations of speech and segmenting speech into phonetic units. This thesis approaches these tasks from a new direction: deep learning. While modern deep learning methods have their roots in ideas from the 1960s and even earlier, deep learning techniques have recently seen a resurgence, thanks to huge increases in computational power and new efficient learning algorithms. Deep learning algorithms have been instrumental in the recent progress of traditional supervised speech recognition; here, we extend that work to unsupervised learning from speech.

When Barry, a bee, doesn''t want to make honey and leaves his hive, he discovers that humans have been stealing honey from bees for years, so he decides to sue the honey industry and seek justice for bees everywhere.

What makes the Teen Titans so funny and awesome? Pizza!

The Transformer medic Ratchet tries to help his fellow Autobots battle the evil Decepticon.

Best friends Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack love to have fun! Celebrate holidays, play with their pets, and explore Ponyville with your favorite ponies!

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia.

Meet Fawn in this fun and exciting reader tie-in to the movie The Legend of the NeverBeast!

Ponies know how to have fun! A game of hide-and-seek is the perfect pastime on a beautiful afternoon.

The companion volume to a landmark, ten-hour PBS documentary: the story of Bill Sims, Karen Wilson, and their two children, a loving American family building a life at the intersection of two legacies of race and identity, one black, the other white.