Books with author Linda Howe

Instantly Kathleen drew herself up. There was nothing to gain by letting herself panic. She had toclear her mind and concentrate on nothing but driving, because her baby's life depended on it. Thebaby was all she had left. Everything else was gone: her parents; her marriage; her self-confidence;her faith and trust in people. Only the baby was left, and herself. She still had herself. The two ofthem had each other, and they didn't need anyone else. She would do anything to protect her baby.Breathing deeply, she forced herself to be calm. With deliberate movements, she inserted the keyin the ignition and turned it. The starter turned slowly, and a new fear intruded. Was the batterytoo cold to generate enough power to start the old motor? But then the motor roared into life, andthe truck vibrated beneath her. She sighed in relief and turned on the wipers to clear the snowfrom the windshield. They beat back and forth, laboring under the icy weight of the packed snow.It was so cold! Her breath fogged the air, and she was shivering despite the layers of clothingshe wore. Her face felt numb. She reached up to touch it and found that she was still coveredwith snow. Slowly she wiped her face and dusted the flakes from her hair.The increasing pressure in her lower body made it difficult for her to hold in the clutch, but shewrestled the stubborn gearshift into the proper position and ground her teeth against the pressureas she let out the clutch. The truck moved forward.Visibility was even worse than she had expected. She could barely make out the fence that ranalongside the road. How easy it would be to run off the road, or to become completely lost in thewhite nightmare! Creeping along at a snail's pace, Kathleen concentrated on the fence line andtried not to think about the things that could happen.She was barely a quarter of a mile down the road when another contraction laced her stomach iniron bands. She gasped, jerking in spite of herself, and the sudden wrench of the steering wheelsent the old truck into a skid. "No!" she groaned, bracing herself as the truck began goingsideways toward the shallow ditch alongside the road. The two right wheels landed in the ditchwith an impact that rattled her teeth and loosened her grip from the steering wheel. She cried outagain as she was flung to the right, her body slamming into the door on the passenger side.The contraction eased a moment later. Panting, Kathleen crawled up the slanting seat and wedgedherself behind the steering wheel. The motor had died, and anxiously she put in the clutch and slidthe shift into neutral, praying she could get the engine started again. She turned the key, and onceagain the truck coughed into life.But the wheels spun uselessly in the icy ditch, unable to find traction. She tried rocking the truckback and forth, putting it first in reverse, then in low gear, but it didn't work. She was stuck.Tiredly, she leaned her head on the steering wheel. She was only a quarter of a mile from the house,but it might as well have been twenty miles in this weather. The wind was stronger, visibility almostzero. Her situation had gone from bad to worse. She should have stayed at the house. In trying to saveher baby, she had almost certainly taken away its only chance for survival.

A fabulous lost Amazon city once inhabited by women warriors and containing a rare red diamond: it sounded like myth, but archeologist Jillian Sherwood believed it was real, and she was willing to put up with anything to find it -- even Ben Lewis. Ruffian, knock-about, and number one river guide in Brazil, Ben was all man -- over six feet of rock-hard muscles that rippled under his khakis, with lazy blue eyes that taunted her from his tanned face. Jillian watched him come to a fast boil when she refused to reveal their exact destination upriver in the uncharted rain forests -- and resolved to stand her ground. Neither of them could foresee what the days ahead promised: an odyssey into the fiery heart of passion and betrayal, and a danger that would force them to cast their fates together, immersed in the eternal, unsolved mysteries of love....

Read-aloud time is much treasured in most elementary classrooms as teachers share children's classics with their young readers. Linda Hoyt's Interactive Read-Alouds will help you make the most of read-aloud time by showing you creative ways to use popular children's literature to teach standards, fluency, and comprehension. Combining award-winning text and engaging conversations with reflective thinking, Linda's lessons will add drama to your literacy block and will teach your young readers strategies they will use across the curriculum. Interactive Read-Alouds includes the following components: Interactive Read-Alouds (book of lessons) contains standards-based lessons designed around children's classics with Share the Reading strategies and Readers Theater Scripts. The Teacher's Guide outlines the thinking behind Interactive Read-Alouds and describes how to apply the strategies in your classroom. The Interactive Read-Alouds online resources provide all of the shared text and Readers Theater Scripts in an easily accessible PDF format. Key Features Each lesson's concise Lesson Plan models an interactive read-aloud followed by an end of story reflection and strategies for sharing, extending, and assessing the learning. Plus, a test-style assessment option familiarizes students with the type of literature analysis required on standardized tests. A regular Share the Reading feature provides a shared text to reinforce the lesson's teaching in a type treatment that is easy to read and in a reproducible format that is easy to photocopy. Every lesson includes a Readers Theater Script that introduces drama into a reading curriculum in a way that allows students of varying reading abilities to interact with different types of text and each other.

A young mother finds herself in labor during a terrible blizzard and is rescued by an intelligent, handsome, and charismatic doctor who happens to specialize in babies in trouble. He rescues the mother, delivers her premature baby under stormy conditions and marries the deserted and destitute mother to provide the baby with all the advantages a doctor can give it. But his heart is captured by the young mother and he waits for her to find her way to him. A charming and heartwarming story of family love and support, and of a man's dedication and honor.

Read-aloud time is much treasured in most elementary classrooms as teachers share children's classics with their young readers. Linda Hoyt's Interactive Read-Alouds will help you make the most of read-aloud time by showing you creative ways to use popular children's literature to teach standards, fluency, and comprehension. Combining award-winning text and engaging conversations with reflective thinking, Linda's lessons will add drama to your literacy block and will teach your young readers strategies they will use across the curriculum. Interactive Read-Alouds includes the following components: Interactive Read-Alouds (book of lessons) contains standards-based lessons designed around children's classics with Share the Reading strategies and Readers Theater Scripts. The Teacher's Guide outlines the thinking behind Interactive Read-Alouds and describes how to apply the strategies in your classroom. The Interactive Read-Alouds online resources provide all of the shared text and Readers Theater Scripts in an easily accessible PDF format. Key Features Each lesson's concise Lesson Plan models an interactive read-aloud followed by an end of story reflection and strategies for sharing, extending, and assessing the learning. Plus, a test-style assessment option familiarizes students with the type of literature analysis required on standardized tests. A regular Share the Reading feature provides a shared text to reinforce the lesson's teaching in a type treatment that is easy to read and in a reproducible format that is easy to photocopy. Every lesson includes a Readers Theater Script that introduces drama into a reading curriculum in a way that allows students of varying reading abilities to interact with different types of text and each other.

Dinosaurs provides children ages 7-12 with comprehensive information about Prehistoric animals. Topics covered in the book include the anatomy of dinosaurs, their eating and communication habits, dinosaur babies, fossils, extinction, and facts about specific types.This book features:- Illustrations on every page- Large font for easy viewing- Simple but effective grammar- Definitions for every chapter - An easy-to-navigate table of contents system- A resource guide for more information* This is a Revised & Updated Edition of a previously published book

<p>Read-aloud time is much treasured in most elementary classrooms as teachers share children's classics with their young readers. Linda Hoyt's <i>Interactive Read-Alouds</i> will help you make the most of read-aloud time by showing you creative ways to use popular children's literature to teach standards, fluency, and comprehension. Combining award-winning text and engaging conversations with reflective thinking, Linda's lessons will add drama to your literacy block and will teach your young readers strategies they will use across the curriculum.</p><p><i>Interactive Read-Alouds</i> includes the following components: <ul><li><i>Interactive Read-Alouds</i> (book of lessons) contains standards-based lessons designed around children's classics with Share the Reading strategies and Readers Theater Scripts.</li><li>The <i>Teacher's Guide</i> outlines the thinking behind <i>Interactive Read-Alouds</i> and describes how to apply the strategies in your classroom.</li><li>An <i>Interactive Read-Alouds CD-ROM</i> provides all of the shared text and Readers Theater Scripts in an easily accessible PDF format.</li></ul>Key Features<ul><li>Each lesson's concise Lesson Plan models an interactive read-aloud followed by an end of storyreflection and strategies for sharing, extending, and assessing the learning. Plus, a test-style assessment option familiarizes students with the type of literature analysis required on standardized tests.</li><li>A regular Share the Reading feature provides a shared text to reinforce the lesson's teaching in a type treatment that is easy to read and in a reproducible format that is easy to photocopy.</li><li>Every lesson includes a Readers Theater Script that introduces drama into a reading curriculum in a way that allows students of varying reading abilities to interact with different types of text and each other.</li></ul>

After a painful divorce, Blair Mallory follows a dream and opens a health club. But Nicole Goodwin, a troubled member of the club, develops a strange fixation on Blair, imitating her style and dress, even the car she drives. Then Nicole is gunned down in the club's parking lot. And Blair is the only witness to the murder. At first the police investigation concentrates on Nicole and her acquaintances, but then someone tampers with Blair's car, and sabotages her home and business. The police - including Blair's old flame Lieutenant Wyatt Bloodsworth - are baffled because these attempts, while serious, are very different in tone from Nicole's murder. Is Nicole's killer seeking to remove a troublesome witness? Or was Blair the intended victim after all?