Quick and concise reading comprehension practice, with a pretest, lessons & exercises, a posttest, and access to a free, online, practice center.

Increase your reading power in just 4 weeks! Includes new "before and after" score-yourself tests.

Enhance your critical reading skills in just 20 short lessons. Learn to dissect a story, find the main idea, and draw conclusions through study of practical exercises. With passages from literature, essays, technical writing, and articles, this handy guide includes lessons with hundreds of exercises in test format to help you acquire or refresh essential reading comprehension skills.

Resumes are crucial to getting a foot in the door, not to mention actually being hired. This useful guide delivers the most current information, from advice on analyzing personal strengths and "selling oneself" most effectively, to choosing and using the best format to showcase experience-traditional, printed, digital, or scannable. Additional sections on e-mail etiquette and the Web, and insider information on how to turn employers' use of online resources to one's own advantage make it easy to create a winning resume.

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Featured in its own episode in the Netflix original show Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices! National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone. There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you. There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it. Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes-and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway. (This book is also available in Spanish, as El Día En Que Descubres Quién Eres!)

Refresh reading comprehension skills to excel on standardized tests--in just 20 minutes a day!