NFL Capsules: Texans waived LB Clark NAB Nixon, Wall tie HOUSTON (AP) – The Houston Texans released linebacker Danny Clark and linebacker David Nixon demanded and cornerback Jamar Wall waivers.
Music is Cool at Washington Middle School — Seattle, WA

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet $7.25 In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his child…

Writing in Science: How to Scaffold Instruction to Support Learning $23.70 The author and the Seattle Science Notebook Program have outlined the strategies of using science notebooks with a diverse population of students and documented their effectiveness. The thoughtful approach, well explained in the book, keeps the goals of inquiry-based science and writing clearly focused and mutually supportive. – Harold Pratt Former President, National Science Teachers Association…

Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York $5.30 Following the best-selling Paris to the Moon, the continuation of the Gopniks’ adventures against the panorama of a different though no less storied city as they attempt to make a new home for themselves.Autumn 2000: After five years in Paris, Adam Gopnik moves his family back to a New York that seems, at first, safer and shinier than ever. Here in the wondrously strange “neighborhoodâ…