Best Selling Books by Julie Campbell

A fun and funny story about how Jules can be a wonderful little grey wolf, even though she''s an elephant. She learns that what is most important is that she tries hard to be her best and that her family ""pack"" is full of love. This book teaches the importance of being yourself, not letting labels define you, and unconditional love within a family. The story is told in a cute, fun, and heartwarming way.

Young people worldwide are participating in ever-increasing numbers in online fan communities. Far from mere shallow repositories of pop culture, these sites are accumulating significant evidence that sophisticated informal learning is taking place online in novel and unexpected ways. In order to understand and analyze in more detail how learning might be occurring, we conducted an in-depth nine-month ethnographic investigation of online fanfiction communities, including participant observation and fanfiction author interviews. Our observations led to the development of a theory we term distributed mentoring, which we present in detail in this paper. Distributed mentoring exemplifies one instance of how networked technology affords new extensions of behaviors that were previously bounded by time and space. Distributed mentoring holds potential for application beyond the spontaneous mentoring observed in this investigation and may help students receive diverse, thoughtful feedback in formal learning environments as well.

Pesticide and fertilizer usage throughout the United States is coming under increased scrutiny from both the public and scientific communities due to potential negative environmental impacts and perceived health concerns. The three studies presented here focus on evaluating different management plans for home lawns and athletic fields, while also providing improved dissemination of information to athletic field managers. Results of the athletic field and home lawn management plan study indicate that pesticide treatments outperformed non-pesticide treatments across most measures. However, if a non-pesticide plan is desired then the high input organic or high input pesticide-free plan would be preferred over the low input organic or low input pesticide-free plan. Results for the fertility study indicate that a fertilization rate of as low as 5 g N m-2 provided statistically equivalent results across some color/quality measures, though exact rate would be highly dependent on the turfgrass manager’s goal and what time of year a high quality, dark green turfgrass was desired. Finally, the information dissemination study indicated that the large group setting performed better than the small group setting, most likely due to the structure of the small group meeting. Small group attendees had more flexibility to discuss issues that affected them directly. There was less flexibility for large group attendees to deviate outside the main subject matter being presented. However, the value of the small group meeting should not be discounted when specific information is needed. Large group meeting would be preferred when more general information is need by managers.

"Fourteen-year-old Dowty Ritter, an orphan, escapes the confines of the Sioux City, Iowa, orphanage he has lived in since his father''s death three years earlier. Heading for Des Moines, with hopes of joining the army, Dowty is stopped by the law, his plans are thwarted, and he, instead, ends up in the boys'' correctional facility in Eldora, Iowa. At Eldora, Dowty makes friends and enemies, and finds out that the pseudo-military school is far more penal than its name, the Iowa Industrial School, implies. From the beginning of his stay at Eldora, Dowty experiences problems with the headmaster of Cottage Four, a cantankerous bully that abuses the power he holds over the boys in his care. Dowty works in sweat-shop type conditions, and faces daily beatings after he and his friends are turned in for a possible escape plan. The camaraderie of friendship makes life at Eldora bearable, especially because Dowty and his closest friends, Carl Hoffman (a long-time resident) and Skinny Petersen (a twenty-two-year-old at Eldora in order to avoid jail time) share a supreme desire to escape the abuse at the school. One boy dies, others suffer extreme harm; a derailed escape ends in a riot that results in the overthrow of the existing administration, and through everything, Dowty tries to remember and remain true to his father''s teachings."--Abstract of thesis.

When the roof of their newly finished clubhouse is ruined by a storm, the Bob-Whites decide to try for the job of game-keeper on the Wheeler estste so as to earn money to replace the roof. The job leads Trixie and Honey into the woods, where they think they discover evidence of a poacher.

Written for students, teachers, caregivers and parents, this illustrated book provides a theoretical examination of critical issues related to the acquisition of one or more languages in early childhood education. Explains how early language and literacy develops and provides guidelines to develop children''s skills in all their languages. Each chapter includes an overview, summary and reader activities. Also examines Australian government policy statements on language and literacy. Includes a bibliography, glossary and index. The authors are university lecturers in early childhood education.