Delight students and library patrons, encourage learning, and build library research skills with these 280 handsome, reproducible bookmarks. They cover topics from art (e.g., finger puppet patterns) and music (e.g., biographies of composers) to math (e.g., metric chart), science (e.g., insect identification), social studies (e.g., members of the U.S. Supreme Court), and on and on. Each bookmark includes a question or instructions to motivate students to read more or to search for further information. Suggestions or clues direct students in library research. Use the backs for bibliographies, assignments, thank-you notes, parent messages, and more. No educator should be without this book

Delight students and library patrons, encourage learning, and build library research skills with these 280 handsome, reproducible bookmarks. They cover topics from art (e.g., finger puppet patterns) and music (e.g., biographies of composers) to math (e.g., metric chart), science (e.g., insect identification), social studies (e.g., members of the U.S. Supreme Court), and on and on. Each bookmark includes a question or instructions to motivate students to read more or to search for further information. Suggestions or clues direct students in library research. Use the backs for bibliographies, assignments, thank-you notes, parent messages, and more. No educator should be without this book

As the North celebrated the end of the Civil War, the people of the South, particularly of recently fallen Richmond, mourned. The South was about to enter a period of extreme turmoil reconstruction. The Union, though preserved, would not easily be healed. Starting with Lincoln's assassination and continuing up through the harsh realities of occupation through the summer of 1866, authors Thomas and Debra Goodrich trace the history of reconstruction in the south-the death, destruction, crime, starvation, exile, and anarchy that pervaded those grim years.