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Nancy the elephant remembers all kinds of things in all kinds of ways, but now she knows she has forgotten something. But what could it be?

Howard Gardner argues that a principle goal of developing the human mind must be "disciplinary with memorization. At the same time, he illustrates how intuitive theories of the "unschooled mind" make disciplinary understanding both counter-intuitive and difficult to develop-from the sciences and math, to the arts and humanities. Moving toward the goal of key understandings across the academic, artistic, and even moral domains, Gardner demonstrates...

Little Crittter runs through all the things he forgets to do, but there's one thing he always remembers.

Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....

Father is a prophet. Infallible. The Chosen One. Seventeen-year-old Piper will do anything for Father ... until the day the government raids the compound and separates her from her siblings, from all of Father's followers -- even Caspian, the boy she loves. Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from the cult, Piper wants to rejoin her family. She's living with a woman They claim is her real mother -- and Piper plans to escape. -- adapted...

Now firmly on the side of the Coracks, sixteen-year-old Kestra Dallisor plans to use the magic Olden Blade to kill the evil Lord Endrick, but when she fails, Endrick turns her into one of his Ironheart soldiers, without any memory of her rebellion, and bound to obey him, his spy within the Coracks; the rebel Simon is desperate to return her to the Kestra he loves, but he is reluctant to use the magic that might heal (or destroy) her--and neither Simon...

When Cam, her friend Eric, and her father stop for pizza, Cam must rely on her photographic memory to locate her missing jacket.

Jericho is a man haunted by a past he can't remember. His nearly lifeless body is discovered by Joshua, a former slave and cowboy-preacher who nurses him back to health. They join a cattle drive, prospect for gold, and eventually homestead a ranch, but they seem to be stalked by violence and death. Eventually, Jericho is drawn back to the wild mountain town which holds the secret to his past.

A deeply personal how-to book for aspiring writers, encouraging them to look inward and excavate their own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page.