Give students the targeted, skill-building practice they need with these standards-based books! Each workbook includes more than 40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages. Easy-to-follow directions and fun exercises motivate students to work on their own. Every activity in each book is correlated to state standards. For use with Grade 6.

“He was unbearable, vain, proud, brutal, inconsistent, human.Without him, I would have rotted to death. . . . He was my guardiandevil.” As the descendant of two prominent French families and directorof one of the world's most celebrated champagne houses, PhilippePozzo di Borgo was not someone in the habit of asking for help.Then, in 1993, right on the heels of his wife being diagnosed witha terminal illness, a paragliding accident left him aquadriplegic. Passing his days hidden behind the high walls of his Paristownhouse, Philippe found himself the modern equivalent of an“untouchable”—unable to reach out to others, as others were afraidto reach out to him. The only person who seemed unaffected byPhilippe's condition was someone who had been marginalized hisentire life—Abdel, the unemployed, uninhibited Algerian immigrantwho would become his unlikely caretaker. In between dramas andjokes, he sustained Philippe's life for the next ten years. A Second Wind, the basis for the