For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded.

Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life.

Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - MItch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world (less)

It is the story of Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood Plantation in Virginia. Duncan falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who bears him a son, Jacob.

Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off by his irate father to the Virginia Military Institute. As a cadet, Duncan guards the gallows of John Brown; as a man he will fight for Robert E.

Lee and the South. Another Gatewood slave, Jesse -- whose love for Maggie is unrequited -escapes to freedom and enlists in Mr.

Lincoln's army; in time he will confront his former masters (less)

Andrews, McMeel & Parker (less)

(Plays/Drama) Folger Shakespeare Library (less)

The kids at camp think it is a great joke; it's an old tradition. No harm is intended, but the "goats" don't see it that way.

They want to disappear. To disappear completely.

And they do, much to everyone's surprise. On the fifteenth anniversary of the publication of The Goats, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is proud to reissue a new paperback edition featuring Brock Cole's original hardcover jacket art as well as the black-and-white pen-and-ink chapter openings (less)

For use with Grades 2-3. The sure-fire and easy way to build the reading comprehension skills kids need to succeed! Forty short passages are paired with graphic organizers to help all kids easily learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more.

Watch test scores soar. For use with Grades 2-3.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to The sure-fire and easy way to build the reading comprehension skills kids need to succeed! Forty short passages are paired with graphic organizers to help all kids easily learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more. Watch test scores soar.

For use with Grades 2-3. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to The sure-fire and easy way to build the reading comprehension skills kids need to succeed! Forty short passages are paired with graphic organizers to help all kids easily learn how to find the main idea, understand cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence events, and more.

Watch test scores soar. For use with Grades 2-3.

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Rosemary Wells has contributed to Ready to Read as an author. Rosemary Wells, creator of dozens of award-winning childrenas books, lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Getting ready to read is fun with Timothy, Yoko and friends in this interactive picture activity book. Illustrations.

Rosemary Wells has contributed to Ready to Read as an author. Rosemary Wells, creator of dozens of award-winning childrenas books, lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Getting ready to read is fun with Timothy, Yoko and friends in this interactive picture activity book. Illustrations.

Rosemary Wells has contributed to Ready to Read as an author. Rosemary Wells, creator of dozens of award-winning childrenas books, lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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