As both a global learning company and award-winning publishing house, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sought to weave together its educational and literary expertise to inspire young writers across the United States and celebrate their work. HMH launched the first-ever Spark a Story writing competition for high school students, and received submissions from teens across the country. In the spirit of HMH's Best American series, the Spark a Story collection includes twenty short stories from this competition, as selected by HMH editors. The anthology offers a diverse set of pieces from some of today's promising teen writers, many of whom aspire to continue exploring the role writing will play in their lives.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

In this Christmastime mystery, we follow the trail of Santa's missing cookie. Where did it go? Did someone take it? In the end, readers will find out what happened to Santa's cookie. Hint: it just might involve the family dog . . . and cat.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

This collection of ten stories features caring, adventurous, and silly boys whose stories can each be read aloud in five minutes flat. Fearless, fun, determined, daring, kind, and independent . . . these boys rock! Whether you're looking for a compassionate role model, a quick pick-me-up, a jolt of inspiration, or just a giggle, this treasury has all that and more! Be inspired to be yourself with these ten titles: Brothers by David McPhail; Happy Belly, Happy Smile by Rachel Isadora; Quiet Wyatt by Tammi Sauer, illustrated by Arthur Howard; Kid Amazing vs. the Blob by Josh Schneider; Space Boy by Leo Landry; Real Cowboys by Kate Hoefler, illustrated by Jonathan Bean; Guyku by Bob Raczka, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds; Mustache Baby by Bridget Heos, illustrated by Joy Ang; A Couple of Boys Have the Best Day Ever by Marla Frazee; and Curious George and the Firefighters by H.A. Rey.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.

Thes workbooks offer activities for enhancing the vocabulary development of students for grades 2-9. They provide contextualized vocabulary practice and help students understand concepts aligning with Common Core Language Standards for Vocabulary Acquistion and Use.