Books with author Mary Corcoran

Interactive Notebooks: Science for grade 4 is a fun way to teach and reinforce effective note taking for students. Students become a part of the learning process with activities about traits, food chains and webs, types of energy, electricity and magnetism, rocks, fossils, the sun, Earth, and more!This book is an essential resource that will guide you through setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for skill retention in the classroom. High-interest and hands-on, interactive notebooks effectively engage students in learning new concepts. Students are encouraged to personalize interactive notebooks to fit their specific learning needs by creating fun, colorful pages for each topic. With this note-taking process, students will learn organization, color coding, summarizing, and other important skills while creating personalized portfolios of their individual learning that they can reference throughout the year.Spanning grades kindergarten to grade 8, the Interactive Notebooks series focuses on grade-specific math, language arts, or science skills. Aligned to meet current state standards, every 96-page book in this series offers lesson plans to keep the process focused. Reproducibles are included to create notebook pages on a variety of topics, making this series a fun, one-of-a-kind learning experience.

Applying the Standards: STEM for fifth grade offers 64 pages of highly engaging STEM tasks. It includes a problem-solving rubric and guided pages that walk students through completing each step of the STEM process. Fifth graders will complete tasks in areas such as the human body, furniture design, pendulum physics, environmental building, and friction. The Applying the Standards: STEM series emphasizes creativity and innovation in science, technology, engineering, and math. This is a series of six 64-page books for students in kindergarten through grade 5. A variety of topics are covered with 30 engaging tasks, and a culminating reflection question for each task encourages students to think about and apply their newfound learning and knowledge.

A playful picture book that introduces STEAM readers to the science of the human digestive system. Humorous text and colorful illustrations follow an apple's journey at each stage of digestion through the human body. Discover why mucus is so important to your body and how food particles are absorbed by the small intestine and turned into energy. Readers will also learn why we burp, vomit, and pass gas. Backmatter includes a full glossary of definitions and pronunciation of the various terms used that will help broaden vocabulary and general understanding. Curious readers will delight in identifying terms and learning basic concepts in this fun and funny introduction to nutritional science.

None of them will ever be the same again.Ninian is the heir to Arcady, but her happy childhood is brought abruptly to an end when, in a rite of passage, she and three of her friends venture into the Barren Lands.There they hear voices that tell them secrets that shouldn't be shared and give gifts that shatter souls. None of them will ever be the same again.Priests struggle with their faith as a deadly plague spreads through the land and evil forces take hold of its people. There is only one woman destined to save them, brought up to carry the secret of generations which she fiercely guards. The knowledge she possesses offers the only possible form of salvation, a secret which is buried deep within the Avardale lake. Together with her cousin they must call upon the ancient mysteries of the magical Tearstone and the siren call of a sleeping leviathan.With the number of deaths increasing and surrounding villages being wiped out, one family must fight to put aside their spiritual differences and risk their lives to save all those who depend on them. The battle which follows is beyond religious explanation as legend becomes reality and hope is all that is left.DARKFELL is the story of a people under threat of persecution, of a waterborne plague bringing sickness to the healthy. It is the stunning return to the world of IMPERIAL LIGHT. Mary Corran was born the younger daughter of an art historian and an Aegean Archeologist, which may explain the influence of Greek culture and history on her fantasy novels. Instead of pursuing an academic career, she decided to be a child of the seventies and travel overland to India and back. The need to develop a career sent her back to university to read History at Oxford, and marry a fellow student. After working in the City as an oil analyst for ten years, Mary went on to write the fantasy trilogy Imperial Light, Darkfell and Fate, which Venture Press will be publishing. Also available, a memoir chronicling her years of illness, Wasteland. She currently lives in Eastbourne, United Kingdom, where she is writing a new novel.

"The Lords of Light are pleased to receive your offerings; be sure you have found favour in their sight..."Does she have what it takes to save her people?Following the tragic death of her mother and disownment by her father, Kyria finds herself an orphan and an outcast in the fishing village she once considered her home. With dark skin she inherited from her mother, Kyria is different. And difference will not help her in the events that lie ahead. When Kyria is selected for a ‘special worship’, she realises who her enemies truly are and the power to which her village people are subjected. Selected for this worship, Kyria is abandoned to die an a low-lying sea cave. Through the power of belief and her own iron will – and with the help of the mysterious lightstones – Kyria manages to escape. Aware of a reality unknown to the villagers, Kyria attempts to share this knowledge following her escape.However, she is recaptured and exiled to a harsh prison Island.Meanwhile, The Imperial Heir, Hilarion, grandson of the elderly Emperor, undergoes several tests to ensure he is capable of ruling upon the Emperor’s death. Shadowing his grandfather, Hilarion soon becomes aware of the evil lies of the Lords of Light. With the recent drought brought upon them, the harvest of grains is poor. In turn, the villagers, unknowingly, settle for higher priced portions of grain. The Lord of Light’s plan rapidly becomes apparent to Hilarion, and amidst spies and enemies, he seeks the Lightbearer … the one prophesied to save the land…Hilarion awaits the Lightbearer. Kyria awaits Fate.For fans of epic fantasy adventure by the likes of Robin Hobb and Ursula K. Le Guin, Imperial Light is a race against time across sweltering deserts, from magical, god-touched temples to wondrous corrupt cities.About Mary CorranMary Corran was born the younger daughter of an art historian and an Aegean Archeologist, which may explain the influence of Greek culture and history on her fantasy novels. Instead of pursuing an academic career, she decided to be a child of the seventies and travel overland to India and back. The need to develop a career sent her back to university to read History at Oxford, and marry a fellow student. After working in the City as an oil analyst for ten years, Mary went on to write the fantasy trilogy Imperial Light, Darkfell and Fate, which Venture Press will be publishing. Also available, a memoir chronicling her years of illness, Wasteland. She currently lives in Eastbourne, United Kingdom, where she is writing a new novel.