Betsy Franco

Steve Jenkins

bees, snails, & peacock tails 

So much can happen in three years in a teen's life. Help them record it all with this daily journal. The perfect gift for a teen, Q&A a Day for Me is a one-sentence diary that prompts any teen to record best friends, worst haircuts, favorite outfits, and embarrassing moments. Filled with 365 questions, one on each page for every day of the year, a teen has the space to write down a short response every year for three years. It’s easy to get started—just turn to today’s date and take a minute to answer the question at the top of the page. As the years pass, he or she will have a keepsake time capsule that shows how much his or her answers change (and which ones remain the same)!

A 3-Year Journal for Teens

Q&A a Day for Me

Nina Nickles

An anthology of stories, poems, and essays by adolescent boys on issues that concern them, including identity, girls, death, anger, appearance, and family.

Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys

You Hear Me?

Describes the many things one can do with fallen leaves.

Fresh Fall Leaves

Listening to the sounds of summer, such as the sizzle of a barbecue and the popping of fireworks, is a great delight to Emily and Joe as they stroll about their neighborhood on a hot summer day.

Summer Beat

When Jesse Lucas, a troubled, magnetic acting major, touches the sculpture Meditation in Stanford's Rodin Sculpture Garden, he burns his finger on the bronze. By the time he returns to the garden that night, an eighteen-year-old girl has emerged from the statue, naked and disoriented. It is 2008, yet her mind is swimming with vivid, fractured memories of her volatile past in nineteenth-century Paris--of serving as Rodin's muse, of her passionate affair with the acclaimed artist, and of her own creations. So begins Betsy Franco's extraordinary and imaginative novel, Naked. Stranded in the sculpture garden, Camille--or Cat, as she insists on being called--forms a deep bond with Jesse, who is soon leaving for college and is as lonely and disturbed as she. As Jesse encourages Cat to confront the sinister memories that afflict her, she helps him overcome the fury he has toward his abusive father and find peace within himself. Rich, inventive, and told with a compelling mix of grace and wry humor, Naked is a bold debut that explores love, loss, and the power of art, and brings to mind the magical realism found in The Time Traveler's Wife and Midnight in Paris.

Naked

Throughout the day and into the night various birds sing their songs, beginning with the woodpecker who taps a pole ten times and counting down to the hummingbird who calls once.

Birdsongs

Presents a diverse collection of poems on love from straight, gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual teens, ranging in age from thirteen to eighteen.

100 Love Poems by Teenagers

Falling Hard

A poem a week to raise the awareness of phonograms and advanced phonics rules, including curriculum-related poems for creative writing, math and science. 40 poems are included to share the rhythm and cadence of poetry and to share the joy of poetic language with your students. These poems focus on phonograms with long vowel sounds, the sounds of u, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and other vowel variants; also presented are consonant digraphs, blends, and more! The suggestions that accompany each poem ensure that you can enjoy the poetry with your students, while at the same time introducing, teaching, or reviewing relevant phonic elements. The suggestions will also help you to integrate the poems into the curriculum. Along with the poems and suggestions, we've provided strips for each poem that fit into the Desktop Pocket Chart. A collection of 20 Mini-Books is available in a reproducible take-home, mini-book format, also accompanied by teaching suggestions.

Poem of the Week

A fable explaining how a staring contest left frogs with large eyes.

Why the Frog Has Big Eyes

Michael Verne

Joel Stewart's watercolors and etchings depict the ageless beauty of a traditional Japan that is slowly disappearing, while one of Carol Jessen's prints depicts a modern scene in the style of a Hiroshige print.

Japan Through the Eyes of Nine American Artists

Quiet Elegance

Brrriiiing! Recess time! Little chimps Jill and Jake find more than just their favorite games in the schoolyard today. They also discover the important mathematical concept of doubling, or adding a number to itself. Easy to learn and fun to memorize, doubling is a valuable problem-solving tool that helps kids prepare for multiplication. A must-have addition to any math-themed picture book library, Double Play makes this arithmetic lesson as welcome as recess.

Monkeying Around with Addition

Double Play

Poems, stories and essays by teenage boys from around the country on a variety of subjects. Contains mature material.

You Hear Me?: Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys

Classic American tall tales introduce word problems designed to promote different mathematical concepts and skills, from Paul Bunyan and place value through Pecos Bill and measurement to Slue-Foot Sue and graphs.

12 Favorite Tall Tales with Companion Problems That Build Key Math Skills and Concepts

Tall Tale Math

High school artist Ovid's journal recasts his classmates' lives and loves as modern-day Roman mythology, while slowly revealing his own struggles with parents who need him to be the perfect son in the wake of his meth-addicted sister's disappearance.

Junior Year

Metamorphosis

A collection of poems, stories, and essays written by girls twelve to eighteen years of age and revealing the secrets which enabled them to overcome the challenges they faced.

Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls

Things I Have to Tell You

The voices of fifty-seven young American Indians emerge in a powerful collection of poetry, prose, and memoirs. 10,000 first printing.

Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults

Night is Gone, Day is Still Coming

Poems for beginning readers celebrate reaching the milestone of the one-hundredth day of school.

Counting Our Way to the 100th Day!

Offers kindergarten and first- and second-grade teachers projects that teach math skills along with reading

Betsy Franco

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