Books with author Jennifer Prior

The exciting second half of the Mortal Realm Witch Series begins with DWW's mischievous daughter, Asantra. Join Asantra as she begins discovering her path as she becomes a superhero, a peacemaker, and accidentally sets off a chain of events that threaten DWW's plans to unite the Realms. When this happens Asantra's opinion of mortals will be negatively influenced by what she experiences. DWW's challenge of uniting the Realms is made even harder by the discovery that Asantra just might play the key role in uniting the Realms or keeping them apart forever. Will Asantra's dislike and distrust of mortals change? Will she help DWW bring peace? Will she learn to use her powers responsibly?

Explore all five senses and learn how all of these senses work together to help humans perceive their environment. Detailed diagrams and photos taken with a magnifying camera show how the body works to help students see, smell, touch, taste and hear! Readers will make science and language arts connections with vocabulary related to the function of the five senses.

Act out the story of a blind boy who listens as his grandfather retells the stories of the boy's life of overcoming struggles. The roles in this leveled script are written at varying reading levels, allowing teachers to use differentiation strategies to assign specific roles to students who are at different individual reading levels. This feature allows all students to engage in the activity; participating, performing, and feeling successful while building fluency! By performing this charming story with their peers, students will also practice important skills like reading aloud, interacting cooperatively, and using expressive voices and gestures. An accompanying poem and song are also included in the script, providing students with additional fluency practice. All of the features in this colorful, leveled script make it the perfect tool to get all students to enjoy participating and practicing fluency.About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

In this second book in the Mortal Realm Witch series, you will once again enter the world of magic. Come enjoy more adventures with DWW as her new life in the Other Realm begins, bringing with it more and often bigger challenges.Other characters from Book One return including Sampson whose story will continue, and new characters' stories will begin. You will meet Turtle, a young witch living in the Mortal Realm, whose adventures will help continue the main story. DWW will be there to help Turtle learn about her powers and teach you even more about magic. And a big threat to all witches will be discovered!All the stories you will read lead up to one big event--possibly the biggest event in all witch/mortal history! To find out what will happen, open this book, start reading, and enjoy the magic and adventure!

For a long time DWW has had a dream to bring peace between witches and mortals by uniting the Other Realm and the Mortal Realm. After many years DWW is finally ready to attempt this. To accomplish her goals DWW will need some help from characters from Books One and Two including: Alaska and her warlock, Ally and Air Raid, Taron, Turtle, Sam, Star, and Max, who will also get assigned unique missions to carry out. A black panther familiar, Brad, also helps out. His mission will take him to the home of young animal psychics Nick and Alex. Will everyone's mission be successful? Also during this adventure, DWW will discover new and surprising facts about the events leading up to her becoming the Head of the Witches Council as well as form a new friendship with an old enemy. Everything in this book will lead up to one big event...the unification of the Realms, but are witches and mortals as ready for this as DWW believes them to be? This Third Book in the Mortal Realm Witch Series features one full length adventure that will set into place events that will lead up to the final three and most action packed books in the main Series!

This is Book One in the uniquely written Mortal Realm Witch series for anyone 8 and up who loves to read stories about animals and magic, Mortal Realm Witch: Learning About Magic. It contains six separate, but connecting, stories, each of which focuses on a young witch learning to use her magic responsibly. In Learning About Magic the first character you meet is DWW who is just learning she is a witch and that her dog, Trillman, can talk and he is going to teach her how to use magic but it won't be easy as DWW struggles to learn responsibility and Trillman struggles to teach it to her.Throughout Book One, not only will you learn about DWW, who will tell you her origin story about becoming a witch and learning about her new powers and responsibilities, and more, but you will get to read stories about DWW from the point of view of her familiar, Trillman, and the Head of the Witches Council who also plays a role in helping teach DWW, Trom. In this book DWW also becomes the magic teacher of two magical wolf pups where she comes to learn much about herself in this turning point story, then return home a new witch who will try to stop a warlock from taking over the Realms as her newfound responsibility gets tested. You will also meet Air Raid, a dragon, and his new friend and witch, Ally. Ally wants Air Raid to be her familiar, but Trom says dragons don't make good familiars. Together Ally and Air Raid will try to prove him wrong.

Animals often make good teachers. No one knows this better than witches and warlocks. Familiars are talking animals that teach witches and warlocks about magic and how to use their magical powers, as well as the occasional life lesson. Often they themselves were once witches and warlocks. In this first Series companion book you will read ten different stories, each of which is told by a familiar and will help you understand the important role these special animals play in teaching witches and warlocks. You will also join some familiars in their attempts to prove to DWW that they are ready to once again become witches and warlocks--but will all of them pass her unique and creative tests and regain their powers?

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