Books with title Avalanches

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A high-stakes adventure series perfect for fans of the I Survived series and Hatchet.Twelve-year-old twins Ashley and Ryan have their grittested to the extreme when faced with a powerful avalanche in this edge-of-your-seat survival story. You could have a better chance of surviving a real-life avalanche after reading this book!

If you like your mysteries served up with a tall order of intrigue, romance, fascinating characters, and engrossing local color, try The Avalanche from author Gertrude Atherton. Set among the affluent upper classes in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, the novel delves into the relationship between a beautiful young woman from France and her ambitious American suitor. It's a satisfying, fully fleshed-out read in which the mystery is just one part of a well-wrought tale.

Grade Level: 6-8Interest Level: 5-12Reading Level: 3.0Written by teens...for teens, this timely and relevant story is sure to engage struggling readers with high-interest topics about friendship, school, and natural disasters.STORYBOOKThis 16-page story was written by a high school student as part of a class writing project. The stories were then adapted to fit a low reading level. Several factors were taken into account when the story was written: relaxed readability, simple sentence structure, selective vocabulary, and interesting plots. Simply print the storybook, double-sided on eight pieces of paper, fold, and you're ready to read!Improved reading ability and comprehension can lead to increased self-esteem. We hope that this story will help students not only strengthen their reading skills but boost their self-confidence as well, both in and out of the classroom.ACTIVITY PAGESThe included activity pages are designed to build skills in grammar and comprehension. Students are asked to identify parts of speech, find the main idea, uncover facts, and draw conclusions. Small group discussion and independent writing activities have also been added as extensions of the reading process.Great for small groups, literacy centers, or individual students!Contents Include:- 16-Page Storybook- 8 Follow-Up Activities- Answer Key- To the Teacher- Printing InstructionsSkills Include:- Draw inferences- Determine theme- Find the main idea- Compare and contrast point of view, characters, setting, or events- Describe point of view- Use details from text to support answers- Determine the meaning of words in text- Write opinion pieces- Support opinions with facts and details- Use reference materials (dictionary, glossary, thesaurus)- And more!

If you like your mysteries served up with a tall order of intrigue, romance, fascinating characters, and engrossing local color, try The Avalanche from author Gertrude Atherton. Set among the affluent upper classes in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, the novel delves into the relationship between a beautiful young woman from France and her ambitious American suitor. It's a satisfying, fully fleshed-out read in which the mystery is just one part of a well-wrought tale.

The Avalanche CHAPTER I I Price Ruyler knew that many secrets had been inhumed by the earthquake and fire of San Francisco and wondered if his wife's had been one of them. After all, she had been born in this city of odd and whispered pasts, and there were moments when his silent mother-in-law suggested a past of her own. That there was a secret of some sort he had been progressively convinced for quite six months. Moreover, he felt equally sure that this impalpable gray cloud had not drifted even transiently between himself and his wife during the first year and a half of their marriage. They had been uncommonly happy; they were happy yet ... the difference lay not in the quality of Hélène's devotion, enhanced always by an outspoken admiration for himself and his achievements, but in subtle changes of temperament and spirits. She had been a gay and irresponsible young creature when he married her, so much so that he had found it expedient to put her on an allowance and ask her not to ran up staggering bills in the fashionable shops; which she visited daily, as much for the pleasure of the informal encounter with other lively and irresponsible young luminaries of San Francisco society as for the excitement of buying what she did not want. He had broached the subject with some trepidation, for they had never had a quarrel; but she had shown no resentment whatever, merely an eager desire to please him. She even went directly down to the Palace Hotel and reproached her august parent for failing to warn her that a dollar was not capable of infinite expansion.