Books published by publisher Five Star Publications, Inc.

This book is one of a series in which students will travel around the world without leaving the room via the innovative Social Studies Skills Series. Experience the thrills of a tour through the Australian outback. Beware of the dangers that accompany an African safari adventure. The World Geography selection will be a sure hit with the students. In World History, students will enjoy activities such as “The Attack of the Barbarians,” “Was the Feudal System Futile?” and “Imperial Trivia.” U.S. History will direct young minds to a greater appreciation of their past and their culture by creatively revealing the key aspects of U.S. history. Recognize and understand key ideas of the Declaration of Independence, learn how laws are made, and understand the concepts of checks and balances with U.S. Government, Economics, and Citizenship. The BASIC/Not Boring Social Studies Series offers fundamentals in a uniquely challenging way.

Students in social science courses communicate, socialize, shop, learn, and work online. When they are asked to collect data for course projects they are often drawn to social media platforms and other online sources of textual data. There are many software packages and programming languages available to help students collect data online, and there are many texts designed to help with different forms of online research, from surveys to ethnographic interviews. But there is no textbook available that teaches students how to construct a viable research project based on online sources of textual data such as newspaper archives, site user comment archives, digitized historical documents, or social media user comment archives. Gabe Ignatow and Rada F. Mihalcea′s new text An Introduction to Text Mining will be a starting point for undergraduates and first-year graduate students interested in collecting and analyzing textual data from online sources, and will cover the most critical issues that students must take into consideration at all stages of their research projects, including: ethical and philosophical issues; issues related to research design; web scraping and crawling; strategic data selection; data sampling; use of specific text analysis methods; and report writing.

Loukoumi is a children's book about a Little lamb named Loukoumi who was supposed to go to America with her family, but she got on the wrong plane and then the wrong train and then the wrong boat. In this international journey through Greece, France, Italy and Morocco, Loukoumi meets Fistiki the cat, Dean the dog and Marika the monkey, each helping Loukoumi find her way home. Come meet Loukoumi and friends as they embark on their very special adventure. For a celebrity narration of the book including the voices of Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis, Grammy winner Gloria Gaynor, American Idol's Constantine Maroulis, Guiding Light star Frank Dicopoulos and CBS News Anchor Alexis Christoforous check out the new book "Growing Up With Loukoumi," which includes narrations of both books.

At last, a comprehensive return to the basics in a fresh and imaginative format. Each of the 16 books in this series presents a carefully researched skills sequence as well as exercises based on age-appropriate, high-interest themes. A coordinated effort by a team of experienced educators, BASIC/Not Boring will make basic, fundamental skills exciting and achievable. 64 pages each

This set of standards-based reproducible activity pages is basic, not boring. In Grammar and Usage, students visit the beach to discover commas that are lost in the wild surf, meet subjects and verbs that are more disagreeable than crabs, and find clauses that are caught in lobster claws. It’s a great way to practice the grammar skills they need to know. An assessment and glossary of terms is provided.

This book is one of a series in which students will travel around the world without leaving the room via the innovative Social Studies Skills Series. Experience the thrills of a tour through the Australian outback. Beware of the dangers that accompany an African safari adventure. The World Geography selection will be a sure hit with the students. In World History, students will enjoy activities such as “The Attack of the Barbarians,” “Was the Feudal System Futile?” and “Imperial Trivia.” U.S. History will direct young minds to a greater appreciation of their past and their culture by creatively revealing the key aspects of U.S. history. Recognize and understand key ideas of the Declaration of Independence, learn how laws are made, and understand the concepts of checks and balances with U.S. Government, Economics, and Citizenship. The BASIC/Not Boring Social Studies Series offers fundamentals in a uniquely challenging way.

Your class will not be able to resist these 30 high-interest writing challenges on such diverse topics as idiom stories, character studies, myths, tall tales, jokes, poetry, spooky stories, and more. The easy-to-use format means you can start teaching right away, with complete teacher-directed lessons from start to finish. This book includes a summary of the writing process and a writing skills checklist.

My Big Tow - The Adventures of Captain Recovery -is about a towing super hero who focuses on challenging recovery jobs in the towing industry. This fictional story is seen through the eyes of a young, boy Darren. One sunny day Darren is playing in his sandbox with his toy tow truck Big Blue. As Darren plays in the sand, he lets his imagination take over and Captain Recovery takes over. Captain Recovery and his trusty blue tow truck go through an adventurous recovery rescue to save the day! The book is an inspiration to children by capturing the depths of the industry and what towing is about.