Books with author Leighton Taylor

The lives and achievements of notable African Americans spring to life in this carefully researched and finely rendered coloring book. Spanning over 150 years of American history, the volume pays tribute to figures in civil rights, music, sports, politics, literature, government, and other areas.Forty-five ready-to-color illustrations depict a group of remarkable people — Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom in 1838; Sojourner Truth, a crusader for women's rights and racial equality; author Toni Morrison; Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and other notables, including Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Rosa Parks, Duke Ellington, Muhammad Ali, Marcus Garvey, Jesse Jackson, Eubie Blake, Mother Hale, Thurgood Marshall, Katherine Dunham, Marian Anderson, and many others.Captions for each illustration document individual accomplishments, making this not only an entertaining coloring book, but also an informative review of the many and varied achievements of African Americans.

Carefully researched, finely rendered collection of ready-to-color illustrations pays tribute to 45 remarkable African Americans — among them Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Marian Anderson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Hale, Althea Gibson, Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Dunham, and many others. Captions describe accomplishments. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 3–5. Boost: Seriously Fun Learning!Keeping children entertained and engaged is the key to learning, and the Boost series offers a wide range of fun-filled coloring and activity books that help teach a variety of basic skills. Each title is targeted to a specific grade range and carefully aligned with the Common Core State Standards, which are listed at the bottom of each page.

At Least One in Every Three U.S. Workers Is An UnderearnerUnderearning crosses all salary levels: whether you are making minimum wage or pulling down six figures annually, you may be an underearner—someone who earns far below what your abilities, skill set, potential, or job and title should command. The majority of underearners do not bring home enough to meet their monthly obligations, let alone build a future. Many have debt and most have no savings, investments or retirement plan.Underearners often:Overwork to the point of exhaustion.Volunteer their time when they can barely pay their bills.Are lousy negotiators.Have a high tolerance for low wages.Daydream about a better future, but do little to create one.Delusions of Mediocrity pulls back the curtain on underearning. Taylor uses her own life as an example, showing how the issue goes far deeper than income alone. In one easy-to-read volume, she demonstrates how family of origin, codependent behaviors, poor choices, low self-esteem and resultant pathetic negotiating skills drag underearners down. Taylor then explains how addressing those issues is critical to stopping the cycle of underearning madness.Taylor offers up seventeen clear, practical things you can start doing immediately, and loads of resources to begin the process of shedding self-defeating behaviors, planning a better future and beginning your journey to earning what you deserve.Don’t look back twelve months from now and realize you are in the same place you were a year ago. Download this book and begin your underearning recovery today!

Featuring the photographs of Norbert Wu Award-winning photographer Norbert Wu and renowned science writer Leighton Taylor take us on an underwater adventure as we explore the earth's deepest and most mysterious places. Stunning images accompany texts that incorporate life science topics of life cycles, organisms and environments, food webs, adaptation, survival, and diversity. Each title also strengthens map-reading skills, geographical literacy, and basic concepts about the earth's structure and systems. Included in each volume are: Glossary Further Reading Index

Smitty Hop is not your average sixth grader. He's cocky, arrogant and really good at basketball. But when he accepts a challenge to play against the eighth graders for control of the court, he's going to have to learn to be a team player. Can Smitty learn to be selfless and involve his team or will he be stuck watching after his team loses to their eighth grade foes?