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In the fall of 1995 Missy Vicelli begins 8th grade at a new school in the same south Florida town where her grandfather (Pop Pop) grew up. Much as she likes moving next door to Pop Pop and Nana, she doesn't make friends easily and feels alone at her new school. But that soon changes when Missy comes to know the quiet, spiritual and talented artist, Caleb Jones. And Missy soon discovers similarities between PopPop and Caleb, because they both share mystical experiences involving owls.

Because of Caleb, Missy now has friends at school, but she also has enemies, and she witnesses a...

As it rose into the sky, there came a shrieking from high above. The osprey dropped the fish, and a magnificent eagle swept down, retrieved it and carried it into the tall pines.

The old man remembers the drama of the osprey and the eagle played out many times, long before luxury mansions began to grace the river banks. When there was only one school in the town, when pine forests and...

"Literacy Development in the Storytelling Classroom" shows just how powerful a tool storytelling can be for building vital language skills not just reading and writing, but speaking, listening, visual literacy, and information literacy as well. It is an exceptionally rich and rewarding resource that helps teachers and tellers work together to focus story time on language development.

Moving grade-by-grade from pre-K to middle school, "Literacy Development in the Storytelling Classroom" offers both research-based ideas and specific lesson plans for using storytelling to promote literacy...