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Succeeding in Life and career: Foundations of Human Studies
by Frances Baynor ParnellSucceeding in Life and Career is an advanced comprehensive text designed to help teens adjust to change, especially as they become young adults. A lifespan development chapter provides understanding of how people change over time, from newborn to older adult. Career readiness is stressed, and each of the 16 career clusters is explored along with related jobs and their requirements for success. Skills development, financial literacy, healthy lifestyles, housing, and transportation topics are also included. Students gain hands-on experience building a portfolio by completing chapter projects, preparing them to create employment portfolios in the future. Critical thinking features found throughout the book develop student college and career readiness skills. Classroom learning and FCCLA participation are encouraged through chapter ending activities.
Succeeding in World History, Companion Work Text for Mastering Florida Assessments
by McGraw-Hill EducationNIMAC-sourced textbook
Succeeding in the World of Work
by Ben S. Vineyard Gady KimbrellVocational Guidance textbook for high school students
Succeeding in the World of Work
by Grady KimbrellThe text that explores career options and life choices. . . and how to succeed! Succeeding in the World of Work prepares your students for the complex issues they'll face in the rapidly changing workplace. This updated and comprehensive program now includes 16 Career Pathways outlined by the U. S. Department of Education.
Succeeding in the World of Work (4th Edition)
by Ben S. Vineyard Gady KimbrellVocational Guidance textbook for high school students
Succeeding in the World of Work (7th edition)
by Grady Kimbrell Ben S. VineyardThis updated and comprehensive program prepares students for the complex issues they'll face in the rapidly changing workplace.
Succeeding in the World of Work: Student Activity Workbook
by Glencoe McGraw-Hill StaffIncludes: note-taking activities based on the Cornell note-taking model, real-world applications, personal academic and career portfolio activities, 21st century skills, foundation skills, and workplace competencies correlations, academic applications, study skills activities, test-prep and test-taking practice.
Success Skills for High School, College, and Career
by Cary J. GreenWhat Every Parent (and Teen) Should Know About Study Skills For High School Students And College Success Skills <p><p> It's a lot of work to empower your teens to succeed in high school and prepare for college, let alone successfully raise your teens to be successful adults. You may even feel overwhelmed by the daunting task of giving your teens the advice and guidance they need. <p><p> Success Skills for High School, College, and Career (Revised Edition) is an empowering resource you can use to equip your teens with the leadership, soft skills, and academic success skills they need to succeed in the classroom and on the job, even if you are not an academic success expert or career coach. <p><p> Skills in time management, communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem solving are commonly referred to as soft skills. These skills work together with leadership and academic success skills to help your teen succeed in the classroom. And these skills are also highly valued by employers. <p><p> Think of it like this: equipping your teens with leadership, soft skills, and academic success skills while they are in high school will empower their success right now and will also prepare them for college and career success in the future.
Successful Sewing
by Mary G. WestfallTextbook designed for use by beginning and experienced sewing students.
Such Charming Liars
by Karen M. McManusNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist turns deadly—and dangerously personal—in this twisty thriller from the #1 bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying!For all of Kat&’s life, it&’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven&’t spoken since.Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland&’s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn&’t know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father—a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland&’s youngest daughter.Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might actually be in the killer&’s crosshairs themselves. Somehow Kat and Liam are the new targets, and they can&’t trust anyone—except each other.Or can they? Because if there&’s one thing both Kat and Liam know, it&’s how to lie. They learned from the best.
Such a Good Girl
by Amanda K. MorganPretty Little Liars meets Luckiest Girl Alive in this riveting novel about a practically perfect girl who is willing to do anything to make sure it stays that way. Absolutely anything.Things to know about Riley Stone: Riley Stone is just about perfect. (Ask anyone.) She has a crush on her French teacher, Alex Belrose. (And she suspects he likes her, too.) Riley has her entire life planned out. (The plan is nonnegotiable.) She’s never had a secret she couldn’t keep. (Not ever.) Riley is sure that her life is on the right track. (And nothing will change that.) She’s nothing like a regular teenager. (But she doesn’t have any problem admitting that.) Riley doesn’t usually play games. (But when she does, she always wins.) She thinks a game is about to start… But Riley always has a plan… And she always wins.
Such a Good Liar
by Sue WallmanShe's faking her way into the most exclusive social circles for revenge. But how long can her lies hold up?Seventeen-year-old Lydia Cornwallis has arrived on an exclusive Caribbean island populated only by the ultra-rich and their staff. The Harrington sisters rule the island, throwing lavish parties and treating everyone around them like toys for their amusement, and Lydia simply can't wait to meet them. Because she's not Lydia Cornwallis.And the Harringtons have hell to pay for what they've done.When a storm hits the island and all routes to the mainland are cut off, Lydia is given the perfect opportunity to exact her murderous revenge. With time running out and her identity about to be exposed, Lydia will need to draw on epic nerve, quicksilver adaptability, and sly cunning to carry out her deadly plans.
Suck It In and Smile
by Laurence Beaudoin-MasseA funny, touching look at the life of a social media influencer who starts to question the #goals life she has created for herself. Every day, Ellie motivates her hundreds of thousands of followers to become the best versions of themselves by posting videos of exercise routines and high-protein breakfast recipes. Far from the shy teenager that she was, she is now in a very public relationship with singer Samuel Vanasse, and together they have become one of the most popular influencer couples in the country. She has succeeded. She shines. And yet, Ellie worries that her life is not as flawless as she makes it seem on YouTube and Instagram. Between her obsession with the “ideal weight,” her growing attraction to another man, her family’s disdain for her career as a content creator and a collaboration with another influencer who Ellie can’t stand, a thought haunts her. What if, by trying to become everything she wanted to be, she’s lost herself along the way? Suck it In and Smile is an intimate exploration of our obsession with appearances and the hypocrisies that appear when you must craft the perfect online life. Key Text Features chapters vignettes dialogue
Sudden Twists: 18 Tales That Take a Surprising Turn
by Burton GoodmanThis book contains 18 high interest stories of recognized literary merit. As the title suggests, each selection in this volume ends with a sudden twist. The stories will provide you with hours of reading pleasure--and the exercises which follow offer a variety of ways to help you improve your reading and literature skills.
Sue Barton, Superintendent of Nurses (Sue Barton #5)
by Helen Dore BoylstonRedheaded Sue Barton became a rural nurse in a little New Hampshire town just to be near, and to help, her fiancé, Dr. Bill Barry. Their efforts in solving the mystery of the typhoid carrier and their work in the hurricane finally brought the town's wealthiest citizen to present the community with a small hospital. Now Sue and Bill get married, and together try to run the little hospital in the New England hills. Sue is Superintendent of Nurses, and her old friend Kit is helping her. After all their exciting nursing adventures, one might think they would find their new work rather tame. It was anything but tame for Sue, however, with that irrepressible street urchin, Marianna, as a student nurse; with Jean Ditmarr, sophisticated New Yorker, thinking she could put something over on the young Superintendent; with Dr. Bill so busy being a good doctor that Sue feared for a while he might not prove such a good husband; above all, with the mysterious disappearance of the hospital sheets! This is Sue Barton at her best with an authentic background of rural hospital life and all the excitement and fun we have come to associate with that lively redhead.
Suffer Love
by Ashley Herring BlakeSam Bennett falls for Hadley St. Clair before he knows her last name. When Sam finds out she is that St. Clair, daughter of the man who destroyed Sam&’s family, he has a choice: follow his heart or tell the truth about the scandal that links their families. Funny and passionate, Suffer Love is a story about first love, family dysfunction, and the fickle hand of fate.
Sugar Gliders (Cute And Unusual Pets Ser.)
by Paula M. WilsonLooking for a pet that's small and cute? The sugar glider might be the right pet for you. Readers will learn all about sugar gliders so they can make an informed decision before choosing one as a pet. The ins and outs of the responsibilities involved and the care required for sugar gliders is discussed.
Sugar Isn't Everything: A Support Book, in Fiction Form, for the Young Diabetic
by Willo Davis RobertsFictionalized account of a child's diagnosis of diabetes and her learning to cope with the condition. Includes a glossary of terms related to the treatment and care of someone with diabetes
Sugaring Off
by Gillian FrenchA dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss—with a dash of thrilling mystery—for fans of Mindy McGinnis and Courtney Summers. Owl has always been her freest self in the mountains, tracking, hiking, and exploring the steep forested acres of her aunt and uncle&’s maple sugar farm. They never speak of the childhood tragedy that left her partially deaf and sent her father to jail. All Owl wants is to stay safe at the farm, her favorite place in the world, her refuge from those who would treat her differently. Owl&’s sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody—the magnetic, dangerous young man hired to help with the season&’s sugaring off. Cody seems to see the real her, to look past her hearing loss in a way no one else does. Together, they find comfort in their similarities and exhilaration in their differences, and risk a romance their families are desperate to stop. But then Owl hears her father will be released from prison, and a seemingly motiveless murder shakes the foundations of her small town. When the crime draws all eyes to Cody, Owl realized he is in far more serious trouble than anyone knows—and it&’s followed him to her mountain. *ITW Thriller Award Finalist*
Suggested Reading: A Novel
by Dave ConnisIn this hilarious and thought-provoking contemporary teen standalone that’s perfect for fans of Moxie, a bookworm finds a way to fight back when her school bans dozens of classic and meaningful books.Clara Evans is horrified when she discovers her principal’s “prohibited media” hit list. The iconic books on the list have been pulled from the library and aren’t allowed anywhere on the school’s premises. Students caught with the contraband will be sternly punished.Many of these stories have changed Clara’s life, so she’s not going to sit back and watch while her draconian principal abuses his power. She’s going to strike back.So Clara starts an underground library in her locker, doing a shady trade in titles like Speak and The Chocolate War. But when one of the books she loves most is connected to a tragedy she never saw coming, Clara’s forced to face her role in it. Will she be able to make peace with her conflicting feelings, or is fighting for this noble cause too tough for her to bear?“Suggested Reading is a beautiful reminder that there is nothing simple about loving a book.” —David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland
Suicide Notes
by Michael Thomas FordI'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does think it's a big deal because here I am. I bet it was my mother. She always overreacts.Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With the nutjobs. Clearly, this is all a huge mistake. Forget about the bandages on his wrists and the notes on his chart. Forget about his problems with his best friend, Allie, and her boyfriend, Burke. Jeff's perfectly fine, perfectly normal, not like the other kids in the hospital with him. Now they've got problems. But a funny thing happens as his forty-five-day sentence drags on--the crazies start to seem less crazy.Compelling, witty, and refreshingly real, Suicide Notes is a darkly humorous novel from award-winning author Michael Thomas Ford that examines that fuzzy line between "normal" and the rest of us.
Suicide Risk Vol. 1 (Suicide Risk #1)
by Mike Carey Elena CasagrandeEisner Award-nominated writer Mike Carey (UNWRITTEN, X-MEN: LEGACY) brings his first original ongoing series to BOOM! Studios! Heroes are dying, and cops are dying twofold. Humanity is underpowered in the face of their onslaught, and people are suffering untold casualties trying to stem the flow. After barely surviving a super-powered bank heist gone horribly wrong, beat cop Leo Winters vowed to try and find a way to stop them. Following a lead, he discovered two lowlifes who seemed to be able to grant a person powers...for the right price. Thing is: you don't get to choose which power. It's seemingly random, a crap-shoot, a risk. Will Leo decide to take that risk? And why is it that even the heroes in this world eventually break...bad? Eisner Award nominated writer and novelist Mike Carey (UNWRITTEN, X-MEN: LEGACY) and rising star Elena Casagrande (HULK, HACK/SLASH) deliver a smart, mind-bending deconstruction of the superhero genre that will have you questioning your definition of a hero. This volume, featuring a cover by Tommy Lee Edwards (TURF, MARVEL 1985), collects the first four issues of the critically-acclaimed series.
Suicide Risk Vol. 2 (Suicide Risk #2)
by Mike Carey Elena CasagrandeWith the Nightmare Crew's true plan revealed, Leo Winters must test the limits of his burgeoning power to stop them-but will this play right into their hands? Or, will it cause an even bigger tragedy than the one Leo's putting everything at risk trying to stop? Mike Carey (LUCIFER, THE UNWRITTEN) and fan-favorite artist Elena Casagrande (HULK, HACK/SLASH) raise the bar in this pulse-pounding second arc of SUICIDE RISK, which also includes the critically acclaimed standalone story illustrated by spotlight artist Joëlle Jones (ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, HELHEIM).
Suitehearts #2: Drama and Destiny (Suitehearts #2)
by Claire KannIn the second book of the Suitehearts series, magical Matchmakers and cousins Cora and Rose attend an elite summer training camp where rivals, romances, and troublesome Kindlings await. Perfect for fans of Whatever After by Sarah Mlynowski.You’re invited to Camp Hotel Coeur!It’s Hotel Coeur’s turn to host the annual training camp for Matchmakers-in-training, and they’re going all out: charm classes, enchantment exercises, matchmaking competitions, even a magically designed buddy system.After conquering their first matchmaking tests, Rose and Cora feel ready to face anything. After all, what could be harder than headstrong Kindlings, broken hearts, and brand-new magic?But this magical camp doesn’t play by the rules.Cora, who just wants to lie low, is suddenly thrust into the spotlight for her unique magical abilities and paired with newbie Matchmaker Hunter—who’s cool, charismatic…and her total opposite.Rose is paired with her nemesis, Julien Swift—her biggest competition for years. Rose is determined to outshine him, but lately, nothing seems to be going right for her…not even her magic.To succeed, Rose and Cora will have to take on new friends, magical mishaps, a dash of romance, and fiercer challenges than ever on their journey to become Hotel Coeur’s finest Matchmakers.Perfect for fans of Witchlings and the Friendship List series, this spectacular sequel will see readers charmed by the same thrills and magic that started Cora and Rose’s journey as these two Matchmakers soar to even greater heights.
Suitors and Sabotage
by Cindy AnsteyTwo young people must hide their true feelings for each other while figuring out who means them harm in this cheeky Regency romance from the author of Love, Lies and Spies and Duels & Deception. Shy aspiring artist Imogene Chively has just had a successful Season in London, complete with a suitor of her father's approval. Imogene is ambivalent about the young gentleman until he comes to visit her at the Chively estate with his younger brother in tow. When her interest is piqued, however, it is for the wrong brother. Charming Ben Steeple has a secret: despite being an architectural apprentice, he has no drawing aptitude. When Imogene offers to teach him, Ben is soon smitten by the young lady he considers his brother's intended. But hiding their true feelings becomes the least of their problems when, after a series of "accidents," it becomes apparent that someone means Ben harm. And as their affection for each other grows—despite their efforts to remain just friends—so does the danger. . .In Suitors and Sabotage, author Cindy Anstey delivers another witty young adult historical fiction novel that is the perfect mix of sweetly romantic and action-packed. Praise for Suitors and Sabotage:A Junior Library Guild Selection"Anstey’s tale embraces a self-reliant main character, a loyal friend, innocent romance, witty conversation, and English country settings, each more splendid than the last. This is a delightful salute to Jane Austen and will be a treat for her fans." —VOYA"Mystery and romance are delightfully intertwined . . . Taking inspiration from Jane Austen novels, Anstey's latest is a lighthearted and romantic read." —Booklist