Best Selling Books by Lyn Wilkinson

This book is a candid, straightforward account of one person's Peace Corps experience. The book covers a timespan of two years and gives vivid, first-person detail of everyday life in a Liberian village.

Wilkinson (criminal justice, Temple U.) presents and analyzes the findings of a study of 125 violent adolescent males in two New York City neighborhoods and 306 violent or near violent events they experienced. She seeks to understand youth gun violence by examining the dynamic contextualism of urban neighborhoods; the influence of these social processes on socialization, social control, and behavior; and the role of guns in shaping norms and behaviors. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Magic Beans series offers an extensive collection of fiction and non-fiction texts, all available in large and small format, which have been selected as models for reading and writing.

The Magic Beans series offers an extensive collection of fiction and non-fiction texts, all available in large and small format, which have been selected as models for reading and writing. They aim to develop children's non-fiction study skills, aid in the teaching of grammar, punctuation, and knowledge about language, and enrich classroom reading materials with stories, poems, fables, biographies, folk tales, guidebooks, plays and other non-fiction texts.

This project was designed to support high school teachers in participating schools to work with students whose literacy proficiency in key elements of the literacy component of the Year 9 LaN tests were in the low bands. -- p. 5.