Textbooks that work?

[Glenski]

For high school and junior high school teachers only:

If you have a textbook that you feel really works well to help teach students the grammar and other skills necessary to tackle the college entrance exams, I'd like to know its title. My school is having a rough time with this topic.

Also, if you have any tips on how you conduct the class with such a book, that info would be welcome.

I am mainly interested in anything for first and second year HS classes.

[John R.S.]

I have found that most textbooks do not work because they were usually written by someone who was lacking in classroom experience. This is why it is almost impossible for anyone to learn math by themselves by just reading the textbook.
The internet is slowly changing that however.
I mainly use resources from the internet, and as a math teacher, my best site is at www.TheMathWebSite.com
This provides sheets for class lessons, practice, homework and even evaluation. I am not sure if other such sites exist for English or Geography or whatever, but search around maybe there are others.