Genre
Grade
Action
6
Action
6
Action
6
Action
6
Action
6
GLCE
Snow Bound
Harry Mazer
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Snow Dog
Jim Kjelgaard
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London
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Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
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Adventure
4, 6
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NR
1120
Y
1020
R
760
NR
Jean Craighead George
Williwaw
U
Tom Boddett
The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle
Avi
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Rudyard Kipling
740
V
V
810
A Deadly Obsession
Anne Schraff
4, 6
640
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920
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NR
William Steig
4, 6
4, 6
T
910
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690
Will Hobbs
6
Action
Adventure
My Side of the Mountain
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
810
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River Thunder
6
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Author
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Book Title
T
Marion Dane Bauer
820
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Two teenagers are stranded in a snowstorm when their car skids off the
highway.
A dog born in the wilderness, left to fend for himself after a black wolf
kills his mother and brothers, is finally won over by the trapper his
mother had deserted.
A young dog, abused by men and his hungry rivals on a Klondike dog
team, escapes to join a wolf pack.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the
wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet
given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents'
divorce.
Despite some reservations, sixteen-year-old Jessie joins her
companions from the previous year's adventure on the Colorado River
for a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon.
In this Newbery Honor Book, Sam Gribley surprises everyone when he
decides to live on his own in the Catskill Mountains. Sam learns a lot
about the land of his great-grandfather and about himself as he finds
ways to survive in the wilderness.
Twelve-year-old Ivan and thirteen-year-old September are used to
taking care of themselves at their secluded Alaskan cabin while their
father is away. This time, though, they find trouble. Will they be able to
hide their problems from their father? Will they survive the fierce
williwaw as they try to make their way across the bay toward their
home?
Accused and convicted of murder, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle
decides to reveal what really happened aboard the "Seahawk," a ship
piloted by a tyrannical captain and crewed by mutinous seamen during
the summer of 1832.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a curious little mongoose who winds up with a family
living in India after being washed away from his parents' home.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
A young man, Rashad Gaines, was hired to clean up an old theater that
was said to be haunted. Expecting to find a little mess and litter,
Rashad finds danger and excitement instead when he encounters an
aging actor with an evil scheme to stay young.
X
A wild August torrent sweeps Abel Mouse away from home, family, and
familiar world to an uninhabited island where, between efforts to return
home, he makes new discoveries about himself and the world.
X
After a brown bear is discovered loose near the zoo, Jonathan tries to
follow him. When the bear kills his favorite goose, Jonathan wants the
bear to die. After he realizes the bear didn't mean to kill the goose,
Jonathan puts his life in danger to make sure the bear is captured
unharmed.
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Dark Hills Divide
Dark is Rising, The
Discovery, The
940
Y
Susan Cooper
760
Gregor the Overlander
X
Gordan Korman
R
Shusterman
4, 6
4, 6
NR
Patrick Carmen
4, 6
Full Tilt
V
760
920
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T
Lee Roddy
4, 6
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Danger on Thunder Mountain
4, 6
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680
Theodore Taylor
4, 6
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Q
860
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Cay, The
820
Walter Farley
4, 6
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Black Stallion
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4, 6
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Beetles, Lightly Toasted
Author
4, 6
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Book Title
700
W
630
T
Suzanne Collins
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Andy's entering the fifth-grade essay contest stirs his imagination to
creative heights as he competes with his know-it-all cousin by making
recipes with some unusual food sources and testing them on unaware
friends and family.
While he is returning home after visiting his uncle in India, Alec Ramsay
nearly loses his life when his ship sinks during a storm. Follow the
adventures of Alec and the stallion that saves his life as they prepare to
enter a horse race to determine the fastest horse in the world.
When he and his mother sail on a ship heading to America, Phillip
suddenly finds himself stranded on a raft with a black man named
Timothy. After he loses his eyesight, Phillip must learn to trust Timothy
if he is to have any chance of surviving and being rescued from the
small island where they have landed.
What does the rich cattleman know about Hildy's uncle? In Book 3 of An
American Adventure, adults try to eke out a living during the
Depression, while teenagers face peril hunting for Ruby's father in
California.
Every summer twelve-year-old Alexa Daley travels to the town of
Bridewell with her father, the mayor of Lathbury. She longs to find out
what lies beyond the walls that surround the cities in her land. After
realizing she was chosen to shape the future of her land, she embarks
on a series of dangerous, magical adventures to discover the truth
about the walls and the history of her people.
On the eve of his eleventh birthday, strange things begin happening to
Will. He discovers that he has been born with a special gift that he must
use to complete a quest for six magical Signs that the Old Ones will use
to keep the Dark from dominating the world.
Four inexperienced teens have been chosen as interns to explore the
depths of the Caribbean. Although the people in charge of the program
are hiding something big and mysterious, the kids lay it all on the line
to make the biggest and most dangerous discovery of their lives.
When his younger brother falls into a coma, sixteen-year-old Blake finds
himself at a by-invitation-only carnival where he must survive seven
rides to save himself and his brother. If he fails, they will be trapped in
this world forever.
Life hasn't been the same for 11-year-old Gregor since his father
disappeared without a trace. But when Gregor follows his younger sister
into the air duct of the laundry room in their apartment building, his life
changes more than he could ever imagine. He finds himself in the
Underland, where a battle is brewing between strange looking humans,
rats, spiders, and cockroaches.
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4, 6
Adventure
4, 6
Adventure
4, 6
4, 6
Adventure
4, 6
Scott O'Dell
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Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
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Adventure
4, 6
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My Side of the Mountain
Old Yeller
Perilous Gard, The
4, 6
860
U
1060
NR
940
V
810
U
910
V
Fred Gipson
Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard J.
Cuffari
Poppy and Rye
Redwall; Lord Brocktree
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S
Brian Jacques
820
River, The
NR
Avi
620
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V
Jean Craighead George
4, 6
4, 6
1000
Robert C. O'Brien
4, 6
Adventure
X
1020
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
930
James Hilton
4, 6
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Lost Horizon
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Susan Cooper
Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Grey King, The
Author
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Book Title
Y
Gary Paulsen
960
R
670
X
Nancy Farmer
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When Will Stanton travels to Wales, he meets a strange boy named
Bran and his unusual dog, Cafall, in this Newbery Medal-winning book.
The three companions find themselves searching for the golden harp,
which will allow Will to awaken the Sleepers, to defend against the Dark
elements that threaten the world.
A young Indian girl learns the art of survival when she is stranded on an
isolated Pacific island.
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteenyear-old Inuit girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is
befriended by a wolf pack.
A group of four travelers crash high in the Tibetan mountains and are
taken to a lamasery. For some of them it is a paradise on earth, and for
others it is madness. The question is why were they chosen, and once
they leave, can they ever return?
Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits
the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise
and civilized.
In this Newbery Honor Book, Sam Gribley surprises everyone when he
decides to live on his own in the Catskill Mountains. Sam learns a lot
about the land of his great-grandfather and about himself as he finds
ways to survive in the wilderness.
This Newbery Honor-winning book relates the exciting and touching
story about a dog who helps a boy and his family on the Texas frontier.
In 1558, while imprisoned at Elwenwood Hall, a remote castle in
northern England, teenage Kate Sutton finds herself involved in a series
of mysterious events that eventually bring her to an underground
labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.
Poppy, a deer mouse, sets out to find her fiancé's family to report his
death to them. She meets Rye, a golden mouse who feels he has never
quite measured up to the qualities of his older brother. The adventures
these two share include kidnapping, a brave rescue, and love.
When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the
arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young
mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior,
which will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy.
Because fifteen-year-old Brian Robeson survived alone in the wilderness
for fifty-four days, he is asked to undergo a similar experience to help
government survival trainers learn more about the psychology of
survival.
Kidnapped from their Saxon village by Vikings, Jack and Lucy face
trolls, giant creatures, and enslavement before making their way home.
a tale filled with both suspense and humor.
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4, 6
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Snow Treasure
Stone Fox
Swiftly Tilting Planet
Thief Lord, The
Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea
P
Madeline L’Engle
850
V
640
V
Cornelia Funke
Frank Peretti
840
NR
1100
Z
Robert Louis Stevenson
4, 6
Wanderer, The
R
John Reynolds Gardiner
4, 6
Treasure Island
Y
Marie McSwigan
4, 6
4, 6
U
Paula Fox
4, 6
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770
550
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Q
Elizabeth George Speare
4, 6
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610
690
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Slave Dancer
Gordon Korman
4, 6
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Sign of the Beaver
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
970
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Shipwreck
Author
4, 6
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Book Title
Sharon Creech
830
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When they are assigned to work on a schooner as part of the Charting a
New Course program, six problem kids encounter more excitement than
they had expected. Can they work together to survive?
In the late eighteenth century, eleven-year-old Matt befriends an Indian
boy of the Beaver clan who helps him survive alone in the wilderness.
As he walks home from his aunt's house, Jessie Bollier is kidnapped by
some sailors and taken to a ship. When he is on board "The Moonlight,"
he discovers that the ship is sailing to Africa to pick up slaves and he
will play his fife to make the slaves dance. On the journey, he faces a
kind of evil he has never seen before.
When the Germans start to enter Norway during World War II, the
children of Riswyk must secretly transport gold bricks to be shipped out
of the country. This book tells the story of twelve-year-old Peter and
the danger he encounters as he participates in this mission.
In spite of tremendous odds, a ten-year-old boy and his dog are
determined to win a dogsled race and the five-hundred-dollar prize that
will save his grandfather's farm from the tax collector.
As Meg and her family are about to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, her
father receives a call from the President of the United States. A
madman is about to start a nuclear war. Can Charles Wallace, Meg's
younger brother, help to avert the war by finding clues related to an old
Irish rune?
Runaways Prosper and Boniface join up with thirteen-year-old Scipio,
the self-proclaimed Thief Lord, and a group of orphans who live in an
old movie theater in Venice and steal from tourists for food. While
trying to evade Victor, the detective searching for them, they become
embroiled in a truly fantastic mystery.
Dr. Jake Cooper, his son Jay, and adventurer-journalist Meaghan
Flaherty evade angry terrorists and cannibal tribes as they desperately
search for Lila Cooper after her plane is hijacked in a remote corner of
the Pacific.
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself on a fabulous adventure in search of
buried treasure with a band of cutthroat buccaneers. Will Jim's friend
Long John Silver stand by his side, or deceive him for his own gain?
Thirteen-year-old Sophie joins her three uncles and two cousins aboard
a sailboat to England as they travel to visit Bompie, her grandfather.
Along the way, they all learn a lot about sailing and each other.
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Adventure
4, 6
Adventure
4, 6
Adventure
4, 6
Adventure
4, 6
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Jack London
White Stag
4, 6
Wreckers, The
Free Fall
End of the Beginning: Being the
Adventures of a Small Snail (and
An Even Smaller Ant)
Avi
Miraculous Journey of Edward
Tulane
Kate DiCamillo
Gone Away Lake
Elizabeth Enright
Sword of the Samurai: Adventure
Stories from Japan
North
NR
640
X
680
NR
Joyce Sweeney
Hudson Talbott
Far North
1020
Lain Lawrence
Safari Journal: The Adventures in
Africa of Care Monroe
The Whipping Boy
Y
Kate Seredy
4, 6
4, 6
Adventure
White Fang
970
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Cynthia DeFelice
4, 6
Adventure
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
870
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Weasel
Author
4, 6
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Book Title
780
620
NR
Q
700
Q
760
V
570
R
820
NR
650
NR
Sid Fleischman
Will Hobbs
Eric A Kimmel
Donna Jo Napoli
600
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Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is
recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the
renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery
about the concept of revenge.
In the frozen wilderness of northwest Canada, Kiche and her lone wolf
pup struggle to survive. They go live with man and see the best and the
worst of the animal they come to know as a god.
The destiny of the Huns and Magyars rests in the hands of three
generations. The White Stag appears to each successive generation,
and by following its path, the people find their permanent home in the
enchanted land of promise.
John Spencer's first voyage on his father's ship is ended by its
destruction on the sharp rocks of a barren coastline in Cornwall. John is
trapped in a dangerous web of intrigue as he uncovers evil secrets
about the villagers and their role in the shipwreck, making John wonder
whom he can trust in his struggle for survival.
While trapped in a cave in a Florida forest, two brothers reveal to each
other and their friends the truth about their previously hidden feelings.
X
Twelve-year-old Carey is unhappy about being sent on a trip to Kenya
with his wacky Aunt Elaine until he encounters fascinating customs,
endangered animals, and wild adventures.
X
Avon the Snail and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a
journey to an undetermined destination in search of unspecified
adventures.
X
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself
until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels
across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes,
dreams, and histories.
Portia and her cousin Julian discover summer adventure in a hidden
colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
X
A bratty prince and his "whipping boy" have many adventures when
they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous
outlaws.
After the destruction of their floatplane, two teenage boys, a Texan and
his Dene friend struggle for survival in the wilderness along the South
Nahanni River.
Short stories about Samurai warriors, their way of life, courage, wit,
and foolishness.
Tired of his mother's over-protectiveness and intrigued by the life of
African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin
travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
X
X
X
X
X
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4, 6
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Big Wander
Gordon Korman
Dogsong
R
850
S
800
NR
Philip Pullman
Will Hobbs
Gary Paulsen
Klondike Gold
1050
Captain Grey
840
Brian's Hunt
First Boy
U
Gary Paulsen
4, 6
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Avi
4, 6
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Alice Provensen
4, 6
4, 6
760
930
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The Discovery
4, 6
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Bonnie Pryor
4, 6
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R
720
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Thomas in Danger: 1779
S
Gary Paulsen
4, 6
4, 6
Adventure
Captive! (World of Adventure)
600
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4, 6
Adventure
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
810
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Grand Escape
Author
4, 6
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Book Title
1180
R
850
U
Gary Schmidt
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After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the
wonderful but dangerous outside world and are sent on three
challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of
Mysteries.
Kidnappers force a class of children onto a school bus and head out of
town. When the bus stalls, the men force four boys into the back of a
truck they hijack. The four youngsters struggle for survival against
dangerous forces in the rugged countryside.
X
Having lost their home when the Revolutionary War reached their part
of rural Pennsylvania, Thomas and his family start a new life running an
inn in Philadelphia where Thomas finds new danger that takes him into
captivity among the Mohawks.
When four kids on a marine expedition for the summer discover a
sunken treasure, it is a race against time, sharks, and each other to
bring the goods to shore. Also see other books in this series.
X
A scarecrow and his boy servant Jack set off on a dangerous adventure
as they try to outwit the crooked Buffaloni family and stake their claim
to valuable Spring Valley.
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon
country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of
Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
X
X
X
Fourteen-year-old Russel yearns for the old ways and enlists the help of
Oogruk, an old man, in his education. After Oogruk dies, Russel starts
north with his dog team to find himself and to learn the old ways.
When Bill leaves his job in a Boston shop to travel with his friend Joe to
search for gold in Canada's Yukon Territory, it seems like a dream come
true. Will the two friends strike it rich, or come home empty-handed?
Following the Revolution, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the captive
of a ruthless man who has set up his own "nation," supported by piracy,
on a remote part of the New Jersey coast.
At home in the Canadian wilderness, Brian Robeson faces the challenge
of camping alone with a wounded dog. The tale of adventure proceeds
as Brian and his dog find what happened when a murdering bear has
gone wild.
Is fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett the grandson of a grumpy old New
Hampshire dairyman, or is he the abandoned son of the President of the
United States? Cooper's adventurous tale is told with warmth and
humor and a breadth that takes him from milking cows by hand to
appearing at a national press conference.
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Rising Water
Roxie and the Hooligans
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4, 6
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4, 6
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4, 6
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
S
480
U
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
930
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860
PJ Peterson
4, 6
Adventure
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Alex Shearer
4, 6
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Sea Legs
Author
4, 6
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Book Title
Boston Jane
Julie of the Wolves
Downriver
Stormbreaker
Peter and the Shadow Thieves
SOS Titanic
Dragon Rider
Q
Jennifer L. Holm
690
U
860
U
760
NR
670
Z
Jean Craighead George
Will Hobbs
Anthony Horowitz
Dave Barry
780
V
690
T
Eve Bunting
Cornelia Funke
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Plays
25 Just Right Plays for Emergent
Marcia Williams
960
Carol Pugliano-Martin
Readers
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12 Fabulously Funny Fairy Tale Plays
Justin McCory Martin
Grades 24
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Annotation
Twin brothers want to spend more time with their father, but he is
traveling as a steward aboard a cruise ship. Together, the boys plan to
sneak aboard the ship as stowaways, but they have no idea what kinds
of adventures they're in for!
Given the choice between Juvenile Hall or public service work after
stealing a car, fourteen-year-old Kevin opts to clean animal cages at the
Jefferson Science Center. As part of Operation Start Over, Kevin is
teamed with Tracy and her brother, Luke, who teach the confused teen
about teamwork and respect.
Nine-year-old Roxie Warbler becomes a heroine when she impresses a
bunch of hooligans with her cool head and knowledge of survival tactics
while she and the hooligans are trapped on an island.
Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has been schooled in etiquette in Boston.
During her trip to the Pacific Northwest, Jane has a difficult time
remaining a proper lady and becomes known as Boston Jane, a fearless
woman of the frontier.
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteenyear-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is
befriended by a wolf pack.
Fifteen-year-old Jessie joins a group of troubled teenagers in an outdoor
education program called Discovery Unlimited. When the group
recklessly decides to stage its own whitewater rafting trip, Jessie learns
more than she expected about her own abilities in dangerous
circumstances.
X
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-yearold Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for
Britain's intelligence agency, M16.
Realizing that Molly and the other Starcatchers are in danger when the
sinister being Lord Ombria visits the island and seems to control people
through their shadows, Peter and Tinker Bell travel to England to help
save the stardust.
15-year-old Barry O'Neil traveling on the maiden voyage of the Titanic
finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg.
X
After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home,
Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in
a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven.
X
X
X
Retells seven of Shakespeare's plays for 8-11 year olds in comic book
format.
Delightful collection of short simple plays to turn the classroom into a
readers theater.
Students will have oodles of fun building essential reading skills with ribtickling versions of beloved fairy tales turned into read-aloud plays.
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Drama
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Book Title
Cinderella Outgrows the Glass Slipper
Author
Childsplay: A Collection of Scenes and
Grades 25
Kerry Muir
Monologues for Children
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What happens when Cinderella wears shoes that she's made from
recycled material to the ball? Tap into student's sense of humor with 5
lively plays that take the plots, characters, and settings of traditional
fairy tales and turn them on their heads.
A selection from over 50 sources including published and unpublished
plays.
Joan M. Wolf
and other Zany Fractured Fairytale Plays
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Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Age 811
You may use an Anthology or play from
your Basal Reader for this genre. Also
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
scripts (Readers Theater).
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
Drama
check the websites below for story
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www.teachingheart.net/readersthea
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William Shakespeare and the Globe Aliki
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Our Town
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850
Thornton Wilder
2, 7
NR
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Drama
Search: Downloads Readers
Theater
Witness
Karen Hesse
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
Drama
2, 7
NP
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Read Aloud Plays: Tall Tales
Carol Martin-Rugleano
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James and the Giant Peach: A Play
Roald Dahl, adapted by Richard
R. George
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Bull Run
Paul Fleischman
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The Miracle Worker
W
This is the story of Shakespeare's Elizabethan England of 400 years ago
and the Globe theater in a five-act play.
Set in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, this Pulitzer Prize-winning play
tells the story of Emily, who grows to love the boy next door, but
tragically dies in childbirth. Given a chance to relive a day in her life,
Emily learns about the joy of little things and the way that people ignore
them.
When the Ku Klux Klan invades a small town in Vermont in the early
1920s, its inhabitants are divided. A small Jewish girl and an AfricanAmerican girl are two of the witnesses who see what prejudice can do
to people.
The colorful voices of Paul Bunyan, Annie Christmas, Pecos Bill, Slue
Foot Sue and other tall tale heroes will come alive in your classroom
with this lively collection of reproducible read-aloud plays. Perfect for
small groups or the whole class, each play comes complete with
background information, reading comprehension questions, writing
prompts, and cross-curricular activities.
When James drops a bag of green things under an old peach tree, an
extraordinary peach grows and James has an adventure of a lifetime.
810
Y
NP
X
William Gibson
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and
worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the
disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
In this play, Anne Sullivan Macy attempts to teach her pupil, Helen
Keller, to learn and communicate with the world around her.
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Genre
Grade
Drama
2, 7
GLCE
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2, 7
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
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Fable
3
Fable
3
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
Fable
3
The Crucible
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Arthur Miller
NR
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich and Albert
Hackett
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Fables
Arnold Lobel
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Squids will be Squids
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
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Fable
Book Title
The Hare and the Tortoise
540
N
650
NR
Ranjit Bolt
J
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Feathers and Tails
David Kherdian
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward
Tulane
Kate DiCamillo
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The Eagle and The Wren: A Fable
Jane Goodall
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Fly, Eagle, Fly! An African Tale
Christopher Gregorowski
700
Q
I Wish I Were A Butterfly
James Howe
R.NT.03.02
Henrietta and The Golden Eggs
Hanna Johansen
R.NT.03.02
A Froggy Fable
John Lechner
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An Extraordinary Egg
Leo Lionni
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Fables
Arnold Lobel
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The Tortoise and The Jackrabbit
Susan Lowell
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Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake
Rafe Martin
540
L
630
K
640
L
520
M
540
N
560
M
430
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Zen Shorts
The Chicken Sisters
Joh Muth
Laura Numeroff
540
K
560
L
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Accusations of witchcraft affect the lives of the villagers in Salem,
Massachussetts, in the late 1690s as a teenager tries to dispose of a
rival.
In this anthologized excerpt of a play, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank
goes into hiding with her family when the Nazis start taking Jews. Note:
The questions in this quiz are limited to an excerpt of the original text
as it appears in a reading textbook series.
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from
crocodile to ostrich.
This is an experiment in changing everyday nuisances into fables in the
tradition of Aesop. Here the funny characters are squids.
Ranjit Bolt has transfomed these familiar tales into such idiomatically
entertaining English that it is a pleasure rather than a chore to read
them aloud to young children.
Crows, bears, peacocks, jackals; animals stubborn, proud, loyal, clever,
wise, and witty parade in this illustrated story-bag of fables collected
from around the world.
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself
until he is separated from the little girl who adores him.
When the birds have a contest to see which one can fly the highest,
they all learn a valuable lesson about cooperation.
A farmer finds an eagle and raises it to behave like a chicken until a
friend helps the eagle learn to find its rightful place in the sky.
420
450
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In KDL
System
Annotation
X
X
A wise dragonfly helps a despondent cricket realize that he is special in
his own way.
The persistence of Henrietta, one of 3,333 chickens on a chicken farm,
leads to a better life for them all.
A little frog learns that change can be good after all.
X
A frog befriends the animal that hatches from an egg she brought
home, thinking it is a chicken.
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from
crocodile to ostrich.
A race between a slow but steady Tortoise and a quick, overconfident
Jackrabbit set in the southwestern desert.
As all the animals panic and flee at little rabbit's announcement that the
earth is breaking up, a brave lion steps in and brings sense to the
situation.
When Stillwater the Bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he
tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
X
The Chicken Sisters drive a troublesome wolf home to his mother with
their overwhelming eccentricities.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Grade
GLCE
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Fable
3
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
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Fantasy
Fantasy
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Fantasy
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6
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
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Book Title
Cockadoodle Dudley
Charlotte's Web
Duck in the Truck
Author
Bill Peet
Jez Alborough
Digby & Kate and The Beautiful Day Barbara Baker
Minnie & Moo save the Earth
Denys Cazet
First Graders from Mars Episode 3
Shana Corey
N
680
R
260
I
130
J
130
K
80
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Owen
Doreen Cronin
160
K
370
K
270
J
300
J
300
K
Kevin Henkes
My Lucky Day
Keith Kasza
Froggy Gets Dressed
Jonathan London
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.01.02
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1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.01.02
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6
Frog and Toad All Year
Arnold Lobel
New Kid in Town
Mercer Mayer
Sweet Tooth
Margie Palatini
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.01.02
6
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1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Poppleton and Friends
Cynthia Rylant
Horton Hatches The Egg
Dr. Seuss
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A Bad Case of Stripes
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.01.02
6
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1, 2, 4, 5,
6
570
E. B. White
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.01.02
6
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6
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
NP
390
M
360
J
460
David Shannon
Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg
Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook
Michael Garland
540
P
520
N
680
G
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In KDL
System
Annotation
Determined to prove that the sun will rise without Dudley's cock-adoodle-doo, Gunther, a nasty goose, exposes the rooster as a fake. He
drives him away, but the next day the sun never rises.
X
Wilbur, the pig is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be
the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides
to help him.
When Duck gets his truck stuck in the muck, he needs some help to get
it out. Story in rhyme.
Digby the dog and Kate the cat argue but remain friends.
X
X
X
While relaxing in the farmer's hot tub, two cow friends unknowingly
thwart an alien invasion and save the planet.
When Nergal's first grade class concentrates on health and fitness
during Martian Health Week, he is very nervous about doing poorly in
the upcoming space race.
When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn, they start
making demands and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give
them what they want.
Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he
starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution
that makes everyone happy.
When a young pig knocks on a fox's door, the fox thinks dinner has
arrived, but the pig has other plans.
Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is
called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.
X
Two friends share experiences in each season of the year.
X
Little Critter and his friends spend time with a boy who has just moved
to their neighborhood.
Stewart's loud, obnoxious sweet tooth constantly gets him into trouble
until Stewart uses a healthy diet to take control of the situation.
X
Poppleton the pig goes to the beach, solves a lint mystery, and learns
that friends are the secret to a long life.
When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton the
elephant to sit on her egg - which he does through all sorts of hazards
until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
In order to ensure her popularity, Camilla Cream always does what is
expected until the day arrives when she no longer recognizes herself.
X
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to
receive a special gift from Santa Claus.
When the new teacher, Miss Smith, reads to her class, Zack and his
classmates are amazed to find that the storybook characters come to
life.
X
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Genre
Grade
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Pizza for Breakfast
Maryann Kovalski
Strega Nona
Tomie dePaola
Linda Bailey
Horton Hears a Who
Dr. Seuss
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Doctor DeSoto
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740
J
800
M
270
K
The Secret Shortcut
William Steig
Patricia Polacco
Dinosaur Bob
William Joyce
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.02.02
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6
The Littles
John Peterson
The Magic Tree House Series
Mary Osborne
Dragon Slayer's Academy
560
M
570
L
360
P
520
N
460
M
varies
M
Mark Teague
Babushka's Doll
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490
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6
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Melinda Long
Stanley's Party
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
How I Became a Pirate
Author
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.02.02
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6
Fantasy
Fantasy
Book Title
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
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Fantasy
GLCE
Kate McMullan
M
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.02.02
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1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.04.02
6
R.NT.04.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Put Me In the Zoo
Robert Lopshire
I Was a Rat!
Philip Pullman
A Straw for Two
Eric Sanvoisin
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.04.02
6
Cat's Meow
Gary Soto
In KDL
System
Annotation
Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about
pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.
A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of
the wild things where he becomes their king.
Frank and Zelda learn the folly of making wishes when they ask for
more customers at their pizza restaurant.
When Big Anthony ignores Strega Nona's warning not to touch her
magic pot, a flood of pasta threatens to cover the town. Authored and
illustrated by Tomie dePaolo, this Caldecott Honor Book provides a
lighthearted lesson about taking responsibility.
Stanley is a good dog, but one night when his humans are out, he can't
help throwing a wild party.
A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened until the smallest Who
of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist.
X
Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various
animals, except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to
him in great pain.
Because Wendall and Floyd have a problem getting to school on time,
they decide to take a shortcut which, however, leads to unexpected
adventure.
A little girl gets a doll that turns out to be twice as rambunctious as her
own.
While vacationing in Africa, the Lazardo family finds and brings back to
America a friendly dinosaur the becomes the talk of the town.
X
Here's a tiny family that always ends up in big trouble; the Littles have
adventures galore in the land of the Biggs.
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie finds a magic
treehouse that whisks them back in time and they have many
adventures.
When a traveling minstrel foretells that he is to become a hero, Wiglaf
sets off to fulfill his destiny: he signs up at Dragon Slayers Academy.
X
A large spotted animal discovers he really belongs in a circus, not a zoo.
720
500
P
640
N
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the
house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
Ever since he was bitten by an ink-drinking vampire, Odilon sucks in the
words and plots off the pages of books. He's lonely until he meets
Camilla, a mysterious new girl in school. This is a sequel to The
Inkdrinker.
Eight-year-old Graciela, who is half Mexican, is amazed when her cat
Pip starts speaking in Spanish.
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Genre
Grade
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
GLCE
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6
Fantasy
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6
Fantasy
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Fantasy
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6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
Fantasy
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Fantasy
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6
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
680
NR
510
N
Mary Jane Auch
Avi
The Mayor of Central Park
Avi
The Door to Time
R
Pierdomenico Baccalario
Falcon's Egg
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1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.04.02
6
R.NT.04.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Great-Grandpa's in the Litter Box
Luli Gray
Dan Greenburg
Satch & Me: A Baseball Card
Adventure
Dan Gutman
Emily Windsnap and the Monster
from the Deep
Liz Kessler
Lady Lollipop
Dick King-Smith
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the
Egg
Gail Carson Levine
Three Swords for Granada
Walter Dean Myers
Archer's Quest
Linda Sue Park
Peter and the Shadow Thieves
Dave Barry
570
M
660
R
570
N
740
O
660
Q
650
O
690
P
780
X
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System
Annotation
In letters home to Mom and Dad, Little Wolf describes his journey to
rescue his little brother, Smellybreff, from a crafty cubnapper, Mister
Twister the Fox.
When Brian's dog Arful suddenly begins talking, Brian and his two
friends send the dog to find out what their classmates are planning for
the school talent show.
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old
porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds
himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals,
fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs
move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar
and his animal friends from their home.
After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast,
eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has
twisting tunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a
mysterious, locked door.
Taking care of her younger brother and a loving but flighty mother has
made Falcon very responsible for a eleven-year-old, but she needs the
help of her great-great aunt, a friendly neighbor, and an ornithologist
when she finds an unusual egg in Central Park.
840
R.NT.04.02
Fantasy
Ereth's Birthday
Ian Whybrow
610
R.NT.04.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
I was a Third Grade Spy
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
570
R.NT.04.02
Fantasy
Little Wolf's Diary of Daring Deeds
Author
610
R.NT.04.02
Fantasy
Book Title
Zack takes home a scruffy tomcat from the local animal shelter who not
only talks but claims to be the reincarnation of Zack's Great-Grandpa
Julius.
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe
takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the
fastest pitcher ever.
Reunited with her merman father and now living on an island located in
the Bermuda Triangle, twelve-year-old Emily accidentally awakens the
fearsome kraken and also faces a bully form her past.
A quick-witted swineherd and a pig named Lollipop are royally rewarded
after they reform a spoiled princess.
After a hurricane injures the fairies' godlike Mother Dove, whose
magical feathers and precious egg are of powerful importance to both
fairies and Neverland itself, it falls to newcomer Prilla and two
companions to set things right.
In 1420 Spain, three young cat friends join the warrior cats as they
struggle to save their beloved Granada from the vicious dogs of the
Fidorean Guard.
Twelve-year-old Kevin Kim helps Chu-mong, a legendary king of ancient
Korea, return to his own time.
Realizing that Molly and the other Starcatchers are in danger when the
sinister being Lord Ombra visits an island and seems to control people
through their shadows, Peter and Tinker Bell travel to England to help
save the stardust.
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Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy
Grade
GLCE
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Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
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1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
Pigsty
Mark Teague
Julius, The Baby of the World
Kevin Henkes
The Cricket in Time Square
Frank Baum
Scholastic Junior Classic: The
Twelve Dancing Princesses
Ellen Miles
Redwall
Brian Jacques
Mariel of Redwall
Brian Jacques
Rowan of Rin
590
M
460
K
780
S
1000
P
840
P
890
P
800
NR
900
Z
800
M
George Selden
Scholastic Junior Classic: The
Wizard of Oz
Scholastic Junior Classic: Doctor
Dolittle
Strega Nona
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Ellen Miles
Tomie de Paola
Emily Rodda
Magyk
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.05.02
6
R.NT.05.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Beyond The Deepwoods
T
Angie Sage
640
R.NT.05.02
Fantasy
Author
660
R.NT.05.02
Fantasy
Book Title
W
Paul Stewart
Passager
Jane Yolen
The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
720
R
860
S
770
U
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In KDL
System
Annotation
Wendell's messy room really does become a pigsty.
Lilly is convinced that the arrival of her new baby brother is the worst
thing that has happened in their house, until cousin Garland comes to
visit.
Chester resides in a newsstand in Time Square. He has many
adventures climaxing with rescue of the newstand owner from financial
disaster.
After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out
the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and
understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his
favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.
When the king's twelve daughters, under an evil spell, wear holes in
their dancing slippers every night, Peter the gardener's boy, discovers
their secret and breaks the spell.
A community of peaceful animals, living at Redwall Abbey, band
together to fight the attacking rats from the seacoast.
The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of
Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, Warlord
of rodent corsairs.
When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big
Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak, and timid
Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore
their water supply as fears of a dragon and other horrors threaten to
drive them back.
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home
and carried toward safety by the extraordinary Wizard, those she
always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known
only as Boy 412 -- pursued by agents of those who killed her mother
ten years earlier.
X
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his
woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his
Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
X
A foundling rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who
adopts him.
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a
hazardous mission to save Prydain from the forces of evil.
X
X
X
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Grade
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
GLCE
Book Title
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Peter & The Starcatchers
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Dave Barry
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Fairy-Tale Detectives
Gregor The Overlander
Over Sea Under Stone
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
840
R
630
T
830
X
Susan Cooper
Tony DiTerlizzi
Dragon Rider
Cornelia Funke
1230
710
The Witch Catcher
Tail of Emily Windsnap
Gossamer
W
T
Liz Kessler
600
R.NT.05.02
T
Mary Dowing Hahn
710
R.NT.05.02
Y
Neil Gaiman
740
R.NT.05.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
R
Suzanne Collins
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
780
Michael Buckley
Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to
the Fantastical World Around You
Coraline
X
Lynne Reid Banks
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
R.NT.05.02
Fantasy
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
770
R.NT.05.02
Fantasy
Author
S
Lois Lowry
660
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
T
In KDL
System
Annotation
Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never
Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher. Her mission
is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the
native inhabitants of a remote island.
X
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little
key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the
Indian comes to life in the cupboard and be friends with him.
X
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric
grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
X
When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into
a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men,
bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient
prophecy.
Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which
sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true
story of King Arthur.
When the Grace children go to stay at their great Aunt Lucinda's worn
Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other
creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.
X
X
X
After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home,
Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in
a quest to find the legendary valley know as the Rim of Heaven. They
encounter friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggle
to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.
X
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door
into a world that is similar, yes disturbingly different from her own. She
must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents,
and the souls of three others.
X
Having just moved into the West Virginia home her family inherited
from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father
is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what
the spooky woman really wants.
X
After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming
lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret
about herself that opens up a whole new world.
X
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an
eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the
nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
X
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Genre
Grade
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
GLCE
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.06.02
Fantasy
Fantasy
Punished!
Midnight for Charlie Bone
Eragon
Author
The Amulet of Samarkand
Jonathan Stroud
R.NT.06.02
Dragon Keeper
Fantasy
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
630
T
710
V
690
P
800
Y
Carole Wilkinson
760
R.NT.06.02
Whittington
Revenge of the Shadow King
Artemis Fowl
The Dark is Rising
R.NT.06.02
R.NT.06.02
Tale of Despereaux
The Ruins of Gorlan
The Sea of Trolls
Y
Susan Cooper
920
R.NT.06.02
L
Eoin Colfer
600
R.NT.06.02
T
Derek Benz
860
R.NT.06.02
T
Alan Armstrong
760
R.NT.06.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Q
Christopher Paopini
Linda Sue Parker
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
540
Jenny Nimmo
Archer's Quest
Fantasy
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
David Lubar
1, 2, 4, 5, R.NT.06.02
6
R.NT.06.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
Book Title
X
Kate DiCamillo
670
NR
920
X
John Flanagan
Nancy Farmer
670
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
X
In KDL
System
Annotation
After Logan receives a face full of magic dust from a man in the
reference section of the library, he finds the only way to stop his
incessant punning is to find oxymorons, anagrams, and palindromes to
fulfill the requirement of three quests.
Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers
undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear
people in photographs talking.
In Alagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon
finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of
destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
X
X
X
Twelve-year-old Kevin Kim helps Chu-mong, a legendary king of ancient
Korea, return to his own time.
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus
and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful
magician Simon Lovelace.
An orphan slave girl becomes a Dragon Keeper when she heroically
comes to the aid of an aging dragon. Together they go on a dangerous
journey across China to protect a mysterious stone vital to the dragon's
legacy.
Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of
English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and
restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story.
X
When Max Sumner and three friends play a magical card game called
Round Table, they realize that it is up to them to prevent the wicked
creatures of the cards from destroying their town and their world.
X
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by
capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back
with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
X
On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of
the Old Ones. He is destined to seek the six magical signs that will
enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
X
The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents,
the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess,
and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.
X
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battlerschool, he becomes the
reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt and winds up
protecting the kingdom from danger.
After Jack is apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are
captured by Viking Berserkers. They are taken to the home of King
Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a
vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
X
X
X
X
X
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Genre
Grade
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
GLCE
R.NT.06.02
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
R.NT.06.02
W.GN.06.01
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
I, Coriander
The Goose Girl
Princess Academy
Fly By Night
A Wrinkle in Time
Artemis Fowl
T
Neil Gaiman
W
Sally Gardner
T
Shannon Hale
W
Shannon Hale
890
R.NT.06.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Coraline
R
Cornelia Funke
670
R.NT.06.02
Fantasy
Inkspell
860
R.NT.06.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Cornelia Funke
740
R.NT.06.02
Fantasy
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
890
R.NT.06.02
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Inkheart
Author
780
R.NT.06.02
Fantasy
Book Title
T
Frances Hardinge
1080
X
740
W
600
Y
Madeline L'Engle
Eoin Colfer
W.GN.06.01
Boris and Bella
Carolyn Crimi
W.GN.06.01
A Bad Case of Stripes
David Shannon
540
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
P
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System
Annotation
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds
books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of
those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
X
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to
Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out
Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
X
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door
into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different, from her own.
She must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her
parents, and the souls of three others.
X
In 17th century London, Coriander, a girl who has inherited magic from
her mother, must find a way to use this magic to save both herself and
an inhabitant of the fairy world where her mother was born.
X
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is
betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting. She must become a
goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim
the crown that is rightfully hers.
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other
girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers
unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
X
Driven by her love of language to find a better life, twelve-year-old
Mosca Mye, an orphan, travels to the city of Mandelion. She and her
homicidal goose, Saracen, find themselves on the heels of a smoothtalking con-man named Eponymous Clent.
X
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers in
a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret
work for the government.
When wealthy twelve-year-old genius Artemis Fowl decides he wants
something, he gets it. After he succeeds in copying the power-filled
Fairy Book, the creatures of Lower Earth are led on an exciting mission
that includes kidnapping, magic, and all kinds of danger.
X
X
Bella Legrossi and Boris Kleanitoff, the messiest and cleanest monsters
in Booville respectively, do nothing but argue until the night of Harry
Beastie's Halloween party.
After she refuses to eat her lima beans, Camilla finds herself covered
with stripes. The stripes change into stars, polka dots, and other
patterns. Camilla overcomes her "illness" when she learns to be herself.
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Genre
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Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
GLCE
W.GN.06.01
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Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.06.01
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Fantasy
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
W.GN.06.01
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Ella Enchanted
Airborn
Patricia Polacco
520
P
890
U
670
U
Diana Wynne Jones
Gail Carson Levine
Kenneth Oppel
Dragon Rider
Tuck Everlasting
Zathura
The Akhenaten Adventure
V
Chris VanAllsburg
540
M
900
T
P.B. Kerr
The Nine Crying Dolls
Anne Pellowski
R.NT.01.02
The Princess Who Lost Her Hair
Tololwa M. Mollel
The Egyptian Cinderella
T
Natalie Babbitt
R.NT.01.02
R.NT.01.02
W
Cornelia Funke
770
W.GN.06.01
Folktale
Castle in the Air
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
710
W.GN.06.01
1, 2, 4, 5,
6
Welcome Comfort
Author
760
W.GN.06.01
Fantasy
Book Title
In KDL
System
Annotation
Welcome Comfort is the new boy in school who is teased by the other
children because of his weight. The new friendship he makes with the
school's custodian lasts a lifetime, and changes Welcome's life in a big
way on Christmas Eve.
Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his
mundane life as a carpet merchant, Abdullah unexpectedly purchases a
magic carpet and his life changes dramatically as his daydreams come
true and dangerous adventures become daily fare.
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the
childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Matt Cruse is a cabin boy aboard the airship Aurora, and he dreams of
sailing her. On one voyage, he meets the granddaughter of a balloonist
he had tried to rescue. Together, Matt and Kate embark on an
adventure to prove that what her grandfather witnessed was real. Along
the way, they'll have to fight pirates and try to save Matt's beloved
ship.
This excellent fantasy tells how a dragon, a boy, and a brownie go on a
quest to find the Rim of Heaven, a mythical haven for dragons. Their
many, magical adventures will ensnare and charm readers.
When ten-year-old Winnie discovers Jesse Tuck in her family's wood,
she is taken to the Tucks' home to protect their secret. Their chance
meeting with a mysterious man threatens to expose everything.
Walter and Danny are left alone while their parents go out for the
evening. While playing a mysterious and magical board game they find
in the park, the brothers must work together to survive a harrowing
space adventure.
Twelve-year-old twins John and Philippa are about to set off on a
marvelous adventure. The twins discover after a shared dream that
they are djinn, and travel to London to meet their Uncle Nimrod and
learn to use their powers. Will the search for seventy lost djinn and an
evil pharaoh end their adventures before they start?
In an effort to cure her own baby of his incessant crying, a mother
inadvertently starts an epidemic of crying babies in her village.
550
O
620
0
Shirley Climo
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
An angry bird casts a spell on a princess with beautiful hair. When she
loses her hair, a beggar boy must pass a test to help the princess do
what is needed to grow back her hair.
In this version of the Cinderella story set in Egypt in the sixth century
B.C., Rhodopis, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the
Pharaoh as his queen.
Page 17
Genre
Grade
Folktale
1,3,6
GLCE
R.NT.01.02
R.NT.01.02
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
R.NT.01.02
R.NT.01.02
R.NT.01.02
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Harriet Ziefert
180
H
860
O
480
L
NP
O
630
N
370
L
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun Alejandro Cruz Martinez
Stone Soup
Marcia Brown
Hey Diddle Diddle and other Mother Tomie dePaola
Goose Rhymes
Prince Cinders
Babette Cole
Where's the Big Bad Wolf?
Eileen Christelow
R.NT.01.02
Falling for Rapunzel
Leah Wilcox
N
R.NT.01.02
The Three Little Javelinas
Susan Lowell
R.NT.03.02
Half-Chicken
Alma Flor Ada
740
L
680
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters :An
African Tale
John Steptoe
Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella
Story
Robert D. San Souci
R.NT.03.02
Rumpelstiltskin
Paul O. Zelinsky
R.NT.03.02
The Frog Prince Continued
Jon Scieszka
R.NT.03.02
1,3,6
The Turnip
Author
R.NT.01.02
R.NT.03.02
Folktale
Book Title
R.NT.03.02
R.NT.03.02
R.NT.03.02
720
T
640
O
740
N
600
K
Lon PoPo: A Red-Riding Hood story Ed Young
from China
670
S
The Golden Sandal: A Middle
Eastern Cinderella Story
Rebecca Hickox
870
P
The Persian Cinderella
Shirley Climo
760
J
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
System
Annotation
One of an old man's turnips grows to such an enormous size that he
needs the help of his wife, a little girl, a dog, a cat, and a mouse to pull
it up.
A folktale of the Zapotec people, the legend tells of a strange and
beautiful woman who arrives in a mountain village. She is viewed with
distrust by the villagers because of her differences and they learn a
valuable lesson about acceptance.
When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been
hidden, they set out to make soup from water and stones, and all the
town enjoys a feast.
An illustrated collection of 204 Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including
well-known ones such as "Little Boy Blue" and less familiar ones such as
"Charlie Warlie and his cow."
Take a classic story, substitute a few key ingredients, season freely with
silliness and imagination, dress it all up in jaunty illustrations, and you
have an outrageously funny romp.
After the three little pigs' house is blown down, Detective Doggedly
searches for the Big Bad Wolf.
A variation on a classic tale, Rapunzel and the prince never quite
understand each other as they try to shout to each other since Rapunzel
is in her tower, and the prince is on the ground.
This is a southwestern adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs."
A Mexican folk tale which explains why the weathervane has a little
rooster on one end that spins around to let us know which way the wind
is blowing.
A Cinderella tale of two sisters in Africa with one who is very good and
one who is false. The king is looking for a wife and must ultimately
decide between the two.
A Native American Cinderella tale of three sisters. Although Sootface is
mocked and mistreated by her two older sisters, she wins the mighty
invisible warriors heart.
A tale of a young maiden who outwits a troll.
A fractured fairy tale of the "Frog Prince" and what life was like after the
marriage. The frog and the princess are not living happily ever after
and the prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the
situation.
A Red Riding Hood story that has three sisters staying home alone are
endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.
An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl
who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband
with the help of a magic fish.
A retelling of the traditional Persian tale in which Settarah, neglected
and abused by her step-mother and step-sisters finds her life with the
help of a little blue bug.
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Genre
Grade
GLCE
R.NT.03.02
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Ai-Ling Louie
R.NT.03.02
Leola and the Honeybears
Melodye Benson Rosales
R.NT.03.02
The Talking Eggs
Robert D. San Souci
R.NT.03.02
The Mud Pony
Caron Lee Cohen
The True Story of the Three Little
Pigs
Jon Scieszka
Verna Aardema
R.NT.03.02
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's
Ears
Lon Po Po
R.NT.03.02
Coyote Places the Stars
Harriet Peck Taylor
R.NT.03.02
R.NT.03.02
R.NT.06.02
Folktale
1,3,6
R.NT.06.02
Folktale
Ed Young
Solomon and the Ant and the Other Sheldon Oberman
Jewish Folktales
Anansi Does the Impossible: An
Verna Aardema
Ashanti Tale
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
P
800
O
940
M
610
L
570
Q
770
N
670
S
780
M
630
O
Strega Nona
Tomie dePaloa
800
R.NT.06.02
1,3,6
840
610
1,3,6
Folktale
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Ashley Bryan
1,3,6
R.NT.06.02
Folktale
Author
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from
China
R.NT.03.02
Folktale
Book Title
R.NT.06.02
R.NT.06.02
M
Cendrillon: A Carribbean Cinderella Robert D. San Souci
The Talking Eggs
The Dancing Kettle
540
O
940
M
Robert D. San Souci
Yoshiko Uchida
910
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
System
Annotation
A Cinderella tale of two sisters in China and a magical fish that aids the
younger sister. Based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1,000
years before the earlist European version.
An African-American version of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Blanch is kind to a strange old lady who in turn gives her a magical gift.
A poor boy becomes a powerful leader when mother Earth turns his
mud pony into a real one, but after the pony turns back to mud he must
find his own strength.
A fractured fairy tale of "The Three Little Pigs" told from the wolf's
perspective when gives his own outlandish version of what really
happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
African tale behind the sound a mosquito makes and why.
Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who
is disguised as their grandmother.
Coyote climbs to the moon to discover the secrets of the heavens.
Instead he finds a way to make beautiful pictures in the sky of his
friends and life.
A chronologically arranged collection of more than over forty Jewish
folktales with commentary.
All folktales are owned by the Sky God. Anansi, the smart little spider,
wants to buy the tales back for the people; but the price the Sky God
requires is high. Will Anansi find a way to do what the Sky God asks?
Five Nigerian folktales--"Hen and Frog," "Why Bush Cow and Elephant
are Bad Friends," "The Husband Who Counted the Spoonfuls," "Why
Frog and Snake Never Play Together," and "How Animals Got Their
Tails"--comprise this book.
When Big Anthony ignores Strega Nona's warning not to touch her
magic pot, a flood of pasta threatens to cover the town. Authored and
illustrated by Tomie dePaolo, this Caldecott Honor Book provides a
lighthearted lesson about taking responsibility.
When her mother dies, a girl receives a mahogany wand that can be
used only to help someone she loves. After the girl grows up, she uses
it to help her godchild, Cendrillon. But will Cendrillon be happy using
magic to make the handsome Paul fall in love with her?
Blanche follows the instructions of an old woman and gains riches, while
her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.
This book features 14 authentic Japanese folk stories, including "The
Wedding of the Mouse," "The Eight-Headed Dragon," and "The Rabbit
and the Crocodile."
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Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
1,3,6
Folktale
GLCE
R.NT.06.02
Author
The Dark Thirty:Southern Tales of
the Supernatural
Patricia C. McKissack
R.NT.06.02
The Day It Snowed Tortillas
Joe Hayes
R.NT.06.02
Cow Tail Switch
R.NT.06.02
The Hungry Coat: A Tale From
Turkey
Harold Courlander and George
Herzog
Demi
Historical Fiction
5,8
Historical Fiction
5,8
Historical Fiction
5,8
Historical Fiction
5,8
Historical Fiction
5,8
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
Historical Fiction
5,8
Historical Fiction
5,8
Historical Fiction
5,8
Historical Fiction
5,8
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
5,8
Adaline Falling Star
Bronze Bow, The
Caddie Woodlawn
Caleb's Choice
The Cat Who Escaped from
Steerage
Charley Skedaddle
Devils Arithmetic, The
Don't You Know There's a War on?
Door in the Wall
Dovey Coe
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
730
1,3,6
R.NT.05.02
Historical Fiction
Book Title
R
690
720
NR
920
L
Mary Osborne
720
R
760
U
890
R
750
S
Elizabeth George Speare
Carol Brink
G. Clifton Wisler
Eelyn Wilde Mayerson, Ronald
Himler
Patricia Betty
940
870
U
730
X
500
S
990
U
980
X
Jane Yolen
Avi
Marguerite DeAngeli
Frances Dowell
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In KDL
System
Annotation
These ghost stories with African-American themes are designed to be
told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts
seem all too believable.
This collection of short stories recounts the thrilling folklore of America's
Southwest.
Humorous and ironic folktales reveal the customs and thoughts of the
West Africans.
Nasrettin cares more about helping others than his shabby appearance.
He is ignored at a party until he changes into a fancy coat. When he
starts putting food inside his coat, the host and guests are amazed! This
folktale on the importance of true character is simply told with Demi's
stylish illustrations and clever words.
When eleven-year-old Adaline is left with relatives during her father's
expedition through the Rocky Mountains, she is forced to work as a
servant because her mother was Arapaho. When she begins to think
that her father has abandoned her forever, Adaline decides to search
for him on her own.
A young Jewish rebel is filled with hatred for the Romans and a desire
to avenge his parents' deaths until Jesus teaches him love and
understanding of others.
The adventures of eleven-year-old Caddie are chronicled through her
growing up with her six brothers and sisters on the Wisconsin frontier in
the mid-nineteenth century.
While living in Texas in 1858, fourteen-year-old Caleb faces a dilemma
in deciding whether or not to assist fugitive slaves in their run for
freedom.
Living in the steerage section of a steamship bound for America,
Chanah tries to keep her newly found cat a secret.
During the Civil War, a 12-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City
joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia,
and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel
places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied
Poland.
The author recalls his efforts to win the Second World War, including
planting a victory garden, collecting tin foil, and looking for spies.
This Newbery award winner tells the story of Robin, a crippled boy in
14th-century England, who proves his courage and is recognized by the
king.
Twelve-year-old Dovey Coe enjoys her mountain surroundings and
loves her deaf brother, whom she feels she must protect. When an
obnoxious young man begins courting her sister and ignores Amos, she
fears Caroline will actually marry him. Her animosity toward Parnell
leads to her being tried for murder.
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Joan Blos
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Harry Mazer
JIP: His Story
Katherine Paterson
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Leah’s Pony
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Let the Circle Be Unbroken
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Elizabeth Friedrich
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Mildred Taylor
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Annie Moore takes care of her two younger brothers on a voyage from
Ireland to America, where she becomes the first immigrant to enter the
Ellis Island processing center.
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a
Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his
attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.
Thirteen-year-old Esperanza's world changes completely when she and
her mother are forced to leave their comfortable life in Mexico and work
in a labor camp in California. When her mother becomes ill, Esperanza
must learn to survive in the new world so that she can help her mother.
During the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old
Matilda Cook gains new strengths. In a mixed atmosphere of mistrust,
fear, and caring, Matilda learns to cope with the loss of business,
friends, and family. She also learns to deal with the illness herself.
A young Southern girl finds her loyalties challenged when she returns to
her home in the North and discovers her father and brother have been
helping runaway slaves.
In this award-winning book, fourteen-year-old Catherine chronicles the
hardships and delights experienced by her New England farm family in
the early 1830s. She grows in character as she faces challenges such as
a plea from a runaway slave, acceptance of a new stepmother, the
death of a beloved friend, and separation from family and home.
A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape
his own destiny.
In the third of Mazer's World War II Trilogy, seventeen-year-old Adam
Pelko can't wait to join the marines. After convincing his grandfather to
sign for him, Adam is trained and shipped to Okinawa where he learns
that war is not the adventure he expected it to be.
While living on a Vermont poor farm in 1855, Jip, who was abandoned
as a toddler, struggles to build a life for himself. When the teacher
arrives in the area, Jip discovers his true identity.
Amid the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Leah's father is faced with the loss of
the family farm. When he puts his stock and equipment up for auction,
Leah comes up with the money needed by selling her beloved pony.
Amid the Depression, the Logan family struggles to protect its
Mississippi farm and begins to feel the pressures of racial unrest when a
friend is unjustly convicted of a crime by a white jury.
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Deborah Hopkinson, Deborah
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Memories of Anne Frank:
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Alison Gold
Mississippi Bridge
Mildred Taylor
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Number the Stars
Riding Freedom
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Roller Skates
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Collier and Collier
770
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670
U
720
P
920
W
Lois Lowry
Pam Ryan
Mildred Taylor
Ruth Sawyer
810
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Taken from his pioneer home as a child and raised by the Lenni Lenape,
fifteen-year-old True Son has always thought of himself as an Indian.
When a treaty sends him home to his real family, True Son must come
to terms with both a new identity and the hatred he has learned to feel
for white people. Who is he, and where does he belong?
In this 1999 Newbery Honor Book, Joey and Mary Alice take part in
many adventures as they visit Grandma each summer during the
1930s: feeding out-of-work drifters the same day as seeing the sheriff
singing in his underpants, seeing a corpse that isn't ready to be buried,
and gaining justice by using a mouse in a milk bottle.
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain
her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell,
Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
With beautiful illustrations, this fact-based fictional account of Maria
Mitchell's childhood illustrates the dreams of a young girl. Maria reaches
out and upward for the stars to later become America's first female
astronomer.
This book recounts the story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne
Frank and one of the last to see her alive.
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old
white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a
crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then
set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
When Sam Meeker leaves his home in Redding, Connecticut, a town
loyal to the king, to fight with the rebel army, he places his family in a
very difficult position. Should his brother Tim support Sam in defeating
the British, or remain true to his father and the other loyalists?
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old
Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps
shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
A girl who grows up as an orphan must live her life disguised as a boy
to succeed. She eventually buys her own land and succeeds in voting
when women are not allowed to vote.
Cassie Logan lives in Mississippi during the 1930s. As the black
descendant of slave grandparents, Cassie does not understand why she
is not treated the same as the white children. This is the story of how
her family survives through racial attacks and economic struggles.
This book features the discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old
Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of
the 1890s.
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Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
W
Joan Hiatt Harlow
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Carolyn Reeder
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Patricia MacLachlan
Second Daughter: The Story of a
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Shades of Gray
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Gary Blackwood
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Patricia MacLachlan
Barry Denenberg
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In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African-American girl and her
family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother, who take opposite
sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who
seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for
herself in the wilderness
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in
their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother
and hope that she will stay.
Ten-year-old Elizabeth Mary Barker's story continues in the newly
formed colony of Jamestown in 1610. After the colony's new leader,
Lord Delaware, enforces extremely harsh rules for the citizens,
Elizabeth is summoned to speak with Lord Delaware at his home.
A woman tells the story of her older sister, a slave who married a free
man and then fought in court for her right to freedom.
When a school board member decides to close the school instead of
replacing the teacher, fourteen-year-old Ida and the children will not
receive credit for the year. The students decide to continue with Ida as
their teacher. But can Ida teach, do her farm chores, and study for her
own exam to enter high school?
At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his
immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia
countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because
he refused to take part in the war.
In 1942, while the Second World War is being fought, fourteen-year-old
Jill travels to her grandmother's home in Maine to spend the summer
while her parents are traveling. After she arrives in the small town, she
uncovers many big secrets. Jill is drawn into a mystery in which she
worries that her grandmother may be involved with spies.
When the Black Plague forces Shakespeare's players to leave London,
fifteen-year-old Widge tries to learn about his origins while battling
unforeseen dangers and worrying about those who are left behind.
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine
to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able
to remain a family.
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her
work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals
a great longing for her family.
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Whipping Boy
White Star: A Dog on the Titanic
William H. Armstrong, James
Barkley
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The
Coast to Coast with Alice
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Mary Williams
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Bull Run
830
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840
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970
T
Louise Erdrich
Paul Fleischman
810
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Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing
food for his family, a young black boy gains courage and understanding
by learning to read with the help of the devoted dog, Sounder.
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century,
Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family
from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
Paul Revere's exciting adventures during the Revolutionary War are
related through enjoyable text which exposes his busy life as a
silversmith and a spy.
In this Newbery Medal-winning book, a bratty prince and his whipping
boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after
becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
Sam Harris is on board an ocean liner, traveling to New York City to
meet his mother and new stepfather, when he befriends a dog named
Star. However, fate has far more in store for the two than Sam could
imagine: the ship that is carrying them across the Atlantic Ocean is the
doomed vessel, "Titanic." When the ship strikes an iceberg, Sam risks
everything to save the life of his new friend.
Orphan Kit Tyler arrives at her aunt's house unannounced after being
raised in Barbados, and Kit's Puritan Connecticut neighbors suspect her
of witchcraft. Can Kit prove to the town that she isn't a witch before it's
too late? This Newbery Medal winner offers a fascinating tale.
The cross country trip taken by automobile in 1909 unfolds in journal
entries written by Minna Jahns, a spirited, adventurous sixteen year old
who is one of the passengers.
A Lebanese man who comes to the US to seek his fortune suffers
several setbacks, but makes his dream come true.
The story of eight year of Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan,
finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds
of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the US.
Set in 16th century America, Walnut is a young Native American with a
special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight. He journeys with an old
warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.
X
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe,
lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in
Lake Superior in 1847.
Sixteen different voices tell the story of Bull Run, the first great battle
of the Civil War, each from their own point of view, including
Northerners, Southerners, soldiers, and others.
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A powerful, look at the Battle of Gettysburg through the eyes of 14 year
old Tillie. From her attic window, she watches the blue and gray
soldiers performing - shooting, running, and falling - as if in a show.
Soon, Tillie realizes the war is real… and ugly.
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Carol Gorman & Ron J. Fidley
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose
father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and
heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the
Negro Leagues.
During the early 1900s, eleven-year-old Viney spends her summer
working for the local midwife and learns firsthand about birth, death,
and "catchin' babies."
While vacationing over the course of several summers in Austria, French
siblings Guy and Sarah Masson become best friends with a German boy
until the outbreak of World War I puts them on opposing sides.
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Out of the Dust
North to Freedom
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Juanita Havil
710
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Karen Hesse
Anne Holm
980
NR
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Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan
Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San
Francisco earthquake and the subsequent fires.
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Carol Otis Hurst
In 1864, fifth-grader Charlotte befriends an Irish-American girl at school
and tries to understand the prejudices between the Irish and the
Yankees in her town of Westfield, Massachusetts.
X
With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson
Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. When he
infiltrates colonel Watie's Confederate camp as a spy, he discovers the
enemy is much like himself - only fighting for a different cause.
X
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in
their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother
and hope that she will stay.
In order to escape the London bombing during WWII, nine-year-old
Willie travels to the country to live with sad Mr. Tom. Unhappily, he is
summoned home by his disturbed mother.
It's 1947, and twelve-year-old Pattie Mae tells the story of her favorite
Uncle Buddy, who is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman.
When the Klan arrives at the jail, Buddy escapes into the swamp.
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In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of
living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl
years of the Depression.
Also titled David and translated from the Danish, 12-year-old David has
spent his entire life in a prison camp in eastern Europe. For reasons he
does not understand, the head guard allows him to escape.
Deborah Hopkinson
5, 8
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Into the Firestorm
5, 8
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Rifles for Watie
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Good Night, Mr. Tom
The Legend of Buddy Bush
V
Harold Keith
910
NR
560
R
760
Z
Patricia MacLachlan
Michelle Magorian
Sheilia P. Moses
760
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X
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Sue Park
Mr. Tucket
Nine Days a Queen: The Short Life Ann Rinaldi
and Reign of Lady Jane Grey
Under the Blood-Red Sun
Marven of the Great North Woods
The Butterfly
When Jessie Came Across the Sea
Dancing with the Indians
So Far From the Sea
Almost to Freedom
Beatrice's Goat
Lady Jane Grey, who at sixteen was Queen of England for nine days
before being executed, recounts her life story from the age of nine.
X
W
Tomi has always lived in Hawaii, but his family is Japanese. When
Pearl Harbor is bombed in 1941, his life is turned upside down.
X
640
620
P
430
NR
470
M
600
M
590
NR
530
N
640
N
710
R
590
S
Angela Shelf Medearis
Eve Bunting
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Page McBrier
Patricia Polacco
Emily Arnold McCully
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Pink and Say
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Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a
bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate
celadon ceramics himself.
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old
Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a
one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
T
Kathyrn Lasky
Yoshiko Uchida
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830
Graham Salisbury
The Bracelet
The Bobbin Girl
U
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840
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When his Jewish parents send him to a Minesoata logging camp to
escape the influencza epidemic of 1918, ten-year old Marvin finds a
special friend.
During the Nazi occupation of France Monique's family hids a Jewish
family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.
A 13 year old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and
immigrates to NYC where she works to earn money to bring her
grandmother over too.
A young girl joins her family on an outing to a Native American powwow. They plan to dance with the Seminoles, whose anscetors rescued
her Grandpa from slavery and accepted him as their brother.
When 7 year old Laura and her family visit grandfather's grave at the
Manzanar War Relocation Center, the Japanese American child leaves
behind a special symbol.
The story of young girl's escape from slavery via the Underground
Railroad told from the perspective of her beloved rag doll.
True account of Beatrice Biira, an impoverished Ugandan girl whose life
is transformed by the gift of a goat from the nonprofit world hunger
organization Heifer International.
A story of a childhood friendship set against the background of a
Japanese American Internment camp during WWII
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier,
during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops.
Although Rebecca is only ten years old, she must work in the damp
cotton mill to help with her family's financial needs. When an older girl
starts a protest, Rebecca must choose between what is right and what
is necessary.
Based on the actual kidnapping of Inuit Eskimos by seventeenthcentury traders, the story centers on Osuqo, an Inuit, and Christine, a
Norwegian servant forced to guard her.
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540
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster
Boy
Scott O'Dell
Girl in Blue
The Butterfly
Johnny Tremain
A True and Faithful Narrative
Listening for Lions
820
T
1000
Y
Gary D. Schmidt
Ann Rinaldi
680
NR
430
NR
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Z
950
W
900
X
Patricia Polacco
Esther Forbes
Katherine Sturtevant
Gloria Whelan
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New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Allan Wolf
Voyage of Discovery
850
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When Emi's best friend gives her a bracelet to remember her by, Emi
vows to wear it always. But does she really need an object to help her
remember someone so dear?
In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the
Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with
him.
Twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's family has lived on the western coast of
Ireland for generations. But when a terrible blight ruins everyone's
potato crops, Nory must find a way to keep herself, her family, and her
friends alive.
When the Navaho are forced to move from their homes to Fort Sumner,
Bright Morning and Tall Boy struggle to survive and live in their
traditional ways.
Turner Buckminster is thirteen, son of a preacher, and miserable when
he moves to small Phippsburg, Maine, in 1912. Then he meets Lizzie
Bright Griffin, the first African American he's ever met. Turner is
crushed when the town tries to uproot Lizzie's community to make way
for tourists. Can Turner save Lizzie and her family?
When sixteen-year-old Sarah discovers that her abusive father has
arranged for her to marry a widower, she masquerades as a man to join
the Union Army. After her real identity is discovered, Sarah becomes a
Union spy in the house of a Confederate sympathizer in Washington,
D.C.
Monique awakens during the night to see a ghost sitting at the end of
her bed. The ghost is actually a Jewish girl who is hiding in Monique's
cellar. The girls become friends, but soon they must separate. Will they
ever see one another again?
Because Johnny is proud of the work he does as a silversmith's
apprentice, his master warns him that pride goes before a fall. When
Johnny violates the law by working on Sabbath Day, his hand is maimed
by hot silver and he must find a new profession. His search lands him in
the middle of America's fight for freedom.
In London in the 1680s, Meg - now sixteen years old - tries to decide
whether to marry either of the two men who court her, taking into
account both love and her writing ambitions.
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in
1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased
neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dreams is to
return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of
Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland
dog, all tell of the historic exploration expedition to seek a water route
to the Pacific Ocean.
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Sweetgrass Basket
Marlene Carvell
The Stone Goddess
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2, 4, 7
NR
820
U
1000
W
New Boy
L A Meyer
Private Peaceful
Michael Morpurgo
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Weetamoo, Heart of the Pacassets
Bony-Legs
1020
W
990
Y
Julian Houston
Under the Jolly Roger: Being an
Account of the Further Nautical
Adventures of Jacky Faber
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster
Boy
NR
Minfong Ho
1000
NR
860
X
1000
Y
Gary Schmidt
5, 8
Historical Fiction
910
Karen Cushman
5, 8
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W
850
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Blood on the River: James Town
1607
Matilda Bone
780
Joseph Bruchac
5, 8
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Code Talker
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Avi
5, 8
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Author
5, 8
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Book Title
Patricia Clark Smith
1050
V
370
K
Janna Cole
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in
fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life
juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a
useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by
the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World
War II in their native tongue.
Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith,
twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of
James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend
and foe.
In alternating passages, two Mohawk sisters describe their lives at the
Carlisle Indian Industrial School, established in 1879 to educate Native
Americans, as they try to assimilate into white culture and one of them
is falsely accused of stealing.
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of
medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various
aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
After the Communist take over Cambodia and her family is torn from
their city life, twelve-year-old Nakri and her older sister attempt to
maintain their hope as well as their classical dancing skills in the midst
of their struggle to survive.
As a new sophomore at an exclusive boarding school, a young black
man is witness to the persecution of another student with bad acne.
In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she
gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army,
Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years
old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly,
and himself.
In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine.
Things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor,
nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town
fathers -- and Turner's -- want to change into a tourist spot.
The 1653 - 1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl,
destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes
with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's
interaction with the English "Coatmen" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes
with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and
dog.
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Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
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Eric A Kimmell
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Gerald McDermott
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Kathy-jo Wargin
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Kathy-jo Wargin
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Bill Balcziak
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
X
L
N
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit
of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
X
480
380
J
Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.
X
After being shown the wonders of nature by Grandmother Lom, two
children venture out in her boat along, find themselves in danger, and
are rescued by a mysterious bird.
In this retelling of an Ojibwe Indian tale, a mother bear loses sight of
her two cubs as they all attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming
across Lake Michigan.
A young maiden is entranced by the Sprit Wood, where playful fairies
known as the Pukwukjininees live, and wants to keep visiting there
despite being forbidden to do so by her family.
X
Presents the story of the baby Pecos Bill being raised by coyotes and his
eventual marriage to Slue-Foot Sue, another legend from the American
Southwest.
Whoever can remove the famed "sword from the stone" is the rightful
king of Britain. Brave knights, important lords, and strong men from
across the kingdom all try and fail. Then one steps forward whose touch
frees the sword like magic. But could the next
X
N
170
L
340
N
290
Kathy-jo Wargin
520
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Scholastic Junior Classic: King
Arthur
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest
The Legend of the Poinsettia
Jane Mason
790
P
1050
S
680
O
860
O
Ann McGovern
Tomie dePaola
Scholastic Junior Classic: The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Jane Mason
Captain Stormalong
Larry Dane Brimner
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System
Annotation
Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the
river on the buzzard's back.
Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the
chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he
bargained for.
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the
melon in which he is hiding can talk.
In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life,
Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.
310
Gerald McDermott
Raven: A Trickster tale from the
Pacific Northwest
The Legend of the Loon
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Arrow to the Sun
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Eric A Kimmell
Eric A Kimmell
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Paul Goble
Anansi and The Talking Melon
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Iktomi and the Coyote: a Plains
Indian Story
Anansi and the Magic Stick
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820
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X
X
X
X
X
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of
followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting
tyranny.
Mexican legend about how a Lucinda is sad because she has nothing
beautiful or valuable to give to the baby Jesus. But and old wise woman
convinces her that a simple gift will be appreciated; it turns out to be
magical.
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmers daughter,
has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
Describes some of the adventures of the legendary Captain Stormalong,
who weighed some four tons at the age of twelve and was known for
riding a whale.
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Grade
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
2, 4, 7
Legend
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2, 4, 7
Tomie DePaola
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Margaret Hodges
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Julius Lester
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Blackbeard, the Pirate King
J Patrick Lewis
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From the Land of the White Birch
Shirley Neitzel
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Little Pierre: A Cajun Story from
Louisiana
Robert D San Souci
The Secret of the Stones
Robert D San Souci
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O
720
790
Star Boy
M
I
p
Paul Goble
The Baker's Dozen: A Saint
Nicholas Tale
Aaron Shepard
The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese
Legend
Aaron Shepard
2, 4, 7
Legend
740
660
2, 4, 7
2, 4, 7
P
700
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650
860
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Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Lynn Cullen
The Legend of the Bluebonnet
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The Mightiest Heart
Author
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Book Title
720
L
400
L
The Sea King's Daughter: A Russian Aaron Shepard
Legend
520
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The Legend of Mackinaw
Kathy jo Wargin
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
O
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Annotation
Based on a Welsh legend about Prince Llywelyn and his loyal dog Gelert,
who is wrongly banished when the prince believes that the dog has
attacked his son.
A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice
brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.
Retells the legend of the poor boy in medieval England who trades his
beloved cat for a fortune in gold and jewels and eventually becomes
Lord Mayor of London.
Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced
against a stream drill to cut through a mountain.
Poems about the life and adventures of Blackbeard, one of the most
famous and mysterious pirates of the seven seas.
A collection of three Ojibwa legends including The Sun Snarer, Ojeeg's
Search for Summer, and Wassamowin and the Thunderbirds.
X
X
X
X
X
X
A very tiny but clever boy outwits his older brothers, an ogre, an
alligator, and a giant catfish to rescue a rich man's daughter in this
Cajun version of a French fairy tale.
When they try to find out who is doing their chores while they are
working in the field, a childless couple discovers that the two stones
they have brought home are actually two bewitched orphans.
X
Star Boy, son of Morning Star and an earthly mother, yearns to marry
the chief's daughter, but he must first seek the approval of the Sun.
X
X
Van Amsterdam, a baker, gives his customers what they pay for, no
more and no less. He receives a visit from an old woman who casts a
spell on him and is forced to rethink the way he counts his baker's
dozen.
This Vietnamese legend tells of the rich girl Mi Nuong who hears a man
singing a song. She falls in love with him without ever seeing him.
When she finally meets him, she laughs in his face. Mi Nuong then must
learn how badly she has hurt him.
When Sadko, a poor musician from the city of Novgorod, plays his
instrument at the underwater palace of the King of the Sea, he is
chosen to be the husband of one of the king's daughters. However,
when his bride, Princess Volkhova, realizes how much Sadko misses his
homeland, she returns him to Novgorod.
Retells the story of the great Turtle Makinawk that enlists the aid of
other animals to help create the special place known as Mackinac
Island.
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7
Memoir
7
Memoir
7
Memoir
7
Memoir
7
7
Memoir
7
Memoir
7
Patricia Polacco
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Memoir
7
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
Desert Exile
Anne Frank Remembered
Knots in My Yo-yo String: The
Autobiography of a Kid
Thank You, Mr. Falker
Night
Through My Eyes
470
L
810
U
630
M
850
U
650
N
1090
T
1280
NR
920
NR
980
U
650
M
590
Z
860
W
970
NR
Patricia Polacco
Chicken Sunday
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Joseph Bruchac
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Flying with the Eagle, Racing the
Great Bear
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
ed. Amy Ehrlich
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Level
Level
The Story of Lightning and Thunder Ashley Bryan
When I Was Your Age: Vol. 1
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Author
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Book Title
Roald Dahl
Yoshiko Uchida
Miep Gies
Jerry Spinelli
Patricia Polacco
Elie Wiesel
Ruby Bridges
Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Barbara Rogasky
Holocaust
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
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Annotation
Ma Sheep Thunder and Son Ram Lightning can call their friend Rain
when the farm fields are dry or there is a fire. When Son Ram Lightning
becomes bigger, however, he begins to cause problems for the village.
The King must find a way to protect the villagers from Son Ram
Lightning using his head.
A collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various
Indian nations.
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family
helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their
own Hanukkah miracle. This book is based on a memory from the
author's childhood.
In this book, 10 award-winning authors tell stories drawn from their
own childhood.
To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three
children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
This book presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood,
which include summer holidays in Norway and an English boarding
school.
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government forced
many Japanese Americans to move to "relocation centers," where they
lived in cramped conditions for many months. In this book, the author
recounts her families experience during this difficult time of exile.
The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in
Amsterdam during the Second World War, present a vivid story of life
under Nazi occupation.
Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli tells the story of his life from age six to
sixteen years with humor and some drama. Jerry relates how he
dreamed of being a cowboy, was attacked by leeches, experienced his
first kiss, and many other exciting adventures.
At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes
her feel dumb until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her
understand and overcome her problem.
The author gives a first-person account of the horrifying and lifechanging experiences of his confinement as a Jewish teenager in a
concentration camp during the Holocaust.
This autobiographical book reveals the character of the first black child
to attend the William Frantz Public School in Louisiana in 1960. Read
about the challenges faced by six-year-old Ruby Bridges as she
pioneers integration in a racist South.
This book examines the causes, events, and legacies of the holocaust
which resulted in the extermination of six million Jews.
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7
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7
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Shadow
Mama's Girl
R
910
S
920
1050
We Beat the Street: How a
Friendship Pact Led To Success
Rocket Boys: A Memoir
NR
860
W
900
NR
Homer Hickam
Lorraine Jean Hopping
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the
Cultural Revolution
Ji-li Jiang
950
Y
Z
Nancy Mace
1060
Bad Boy: A Memoir
Y
Sampson Davis
Bone Detective: The Story of
Forensic Anthropologist Diane
France
In the Company of Men-A Woman
at the Citadel
NR
Veronica Chambers
7
7
1050
780
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Nelly Toll
Behind the Secret Window: A
Memoir of a Hidden Childhood
During WWII
The Lost Childhood: A World War II Nir Yehuda
Memoir
7
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Stephen Swinburne
Once A Wolf: How Wildlife
Biologists Fought to Bring Back the
Gray Wolf
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
950
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Memoir
Author
7
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Book Title
NR
Walter Dean Myers
970
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X
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Annotation
Surveys the history of the troubled relationship between wolves and
humans, examines the view that these predators are a valuable part of
ecosystem, and describes the conservation movement to restore them
to the wild.
The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were
hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lwaw, Poland, during
World war II.
Nir, whose affluent Polish family endured the German occupation and
persecution as Jews, suffered the murder of his father and fled with his
mother and sister to escape deportation to an extermination camp.
X
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their
energy to the Hilter Youth and the propaganda that brought gave Hitler
his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement.
X
Chambers, an editor at Glamour, writes about the aftermath of the
violent and explosive divorce between her parents that tore her family
apart. The author didn't give up. Instead she concentrated her
energies on academics and making a better life for herself.
X
Growing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, the authors
could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing,
gangs, and prison. But they made a pact among themselves that they
would become doctors. Despite all the hardships along the way, the
three succeeded.
Hickam recalls his distinguished NASA career, which all started when he
saw Sputnik as a little boy and began designing and launching
homemade rockets
Diane France loves bones. She claims they talk to her. How did a smalltown girl full of curiosity and mischief become a world-famous bone
detective? The life story of Diane France will intrigue and inspire
readers of all ages.
In 1966, Ji-li Jiang turned twelve. She had everything: brains, the
admiration of her peers, and a bright future in China's Communist
Party. But that year China's leader launched the Cultural Revolution,
and everything changed. Finally, with the detention of her father, Ji-li
faced the most difficult choice of her life.
X
Steeped in tradition and lore, the Citadel is considered one of the
South's most infamous and controversial institutions. Built in 1842, it
has turned out a unique brand of southern man -- and now woman.
This is the true account of one young woman's battle to be a part of the
long gray line.
Myers paints a fascinating picture of his childhood growing up in Harlem
in the 1940s. The book details how one young man's gifts separate him
from his peers, causing him to stir up trouble in order to belong.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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7
Mystery
5, 7
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5, 7
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5, 7
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This Land was Made for You and
Me: The Life & Songs of Woody
Guthrie
Elizabeth Partridge
Bunnicula
James Howe
Chasing Vermeer
Coffin on a Case
Field Guide, Spiderwick Chronicles
Ghost Belonged to Me
Ghost in Room 11
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
700
Q
770
S
610
S
600
Q
900
V
Richard Peck
Betty Ren Wright
660
House on Hackman’s Hill, The
Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe
P
Joan Nixon
780
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Z
Holly Black
5, 7
Mystery
1020
Eve Bunting
5, 7
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Blue Balliett
5, 7
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Elizabeth Partridge
5, 7
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Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
1010
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John Lennon: All I Want is the
Truth
Author
7
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Book Title
T
Patricia Reilly Giff
Last Treasure
Janet Anderson
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Locked in Time
Lois Duncan
660
S
990
NR
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Partridge chronicles the emotional highs and paralyzing lows Lennon
transformed into brilliant, evocative songs. With striking black-and
white photographs spanning his entire life, this book is the
unforgettable story of one of rock's biggest legends.
X
Before Springsteen and Dylan, there was Woody Guthrie. He brilliantly
captured in song the experience of twentieth-century America. Whether
he sang about union organizers, migrant workers, or war, Woody took
his inspiration from the plights of the people around him as well as from
his own tragic childhood.
X
Is the baby rabbit found at the movies by the Monroes a vampire? After
they find a dry, white tomato in the kitchen, Chester the cat and Harold
the dog try to find the answer.
Eleven year olds Petra and Calder set out to discover what has
happened to a missing Vermeer painting, using a set of pentominoes
and their willingness to question coincidences.
Twelve-year-old Henry Coffin, the son of a private investigator, helps a
gorgeous high school girl in her dangerous attempt to find her
kidnapped mother.
As soon as nine-year-old twins, Jared and Simon, and their thirteenyear-old sister, Mallory, move into their great-aunt's old, dilapidated
house with their mother, strange things begin to happen. They discover
a secret room that contains a field guide to faeries that was written by
an ancestor.
Thirteen-year-old Alexander Armsworth sees lights in the barn, is
identified by Blossom Culp's spiritualist mother as gifted, and begins a
series of Mississippi River adventures accompanied by his aged Uncle
Miles and a curious female ghost.
X
When he tries to impress his new classmates with lies, Matt only makes
matters worse, especially after he sees a ghost that no one else can
see. Can he convince anyone to believe him?
After hearing Mr. Karsten's story about the old Hackman mansion and a
stolen mummy, cousins Jeff and Debbie decide to search the deserted
house in spite of an oncoming snowstorm.
Things are disappearing in Sharkfin Bay--an amber ring, a fishing rod,
even a cat. With the help of a police officer, a skinny kid, and a cat
named Max, Minnie vows to make this mystery the first case solved by
her newly created detective agency.
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Ellsworth knows there's a family treasure hidden inside the empty
house on the Square. Can he and Jess find it?
When Nore visits her new step-mother in Louisiana, she is unnerved by
a feeling of evil and eerie threats which pervade the plantation.
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Secret Hideout, The
Shadow Spinner
NR
490
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NR
David Almond
Snow Spider
Jenny Nimmo
Trouble at Betts Pets
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810
R
720
R
620
NR
770
NR
Kelly Easton
5, 7
Mystery
1130
710
5, 7
5, 7
NR
Susan Fletcher
5, 7
Mystery
840
Paul Hutchens
5, 7
Skellig
NR
Paul Zindel
5, 7
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Scream Museum, The
Under the Cat's Eye: A Tale of
Morph and Mystery
Gillian Rubenstein, Victor Lee
View from the Cherry Tree
Willo Davis Roberts
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In KDL
System
Annotation
Jenny and Allie have just moved to their seventh house in the five years
since their mother's death. Jenny hopes this home will be a permanent
one, but will her plans be spoiled when a ghost starts causing trouble?
When Chris's bike mysteriously disappears on Halloween night, he's
sure that magic is to blame. But his science-whiz brother insists there's
a rational explanation for everything. All the evidence points to a
shadowy figure who Chris is convinced is a warlock.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Running Out of Time
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Avi
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No More Magic
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Betty Ren Wright
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Level
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Moonlight Man, The
Author
5, 7
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Book Title
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old
Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen
observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the
village and save the lives of the dying children.
P.C. and Mackenzie are hard at work trying to solve a murder. The head
of research at the museum where P.C.'s father works has been
murdered, and the accused is P.C. and Mackenzie's friend. They set out
to prove his innocence.
A newly discovered cave, a ghost, and a secret passage all combine to
keep the Sugar Creek Gang busy in their latest adventure. To add to
the fun, a muddy lamb creates a riot when it follows Poetry to school.
Shahrazad, a courageous wife who postpones her own execution by
enthralling the Sultan with suspenseful stories, is aided by a disabled
young woman who spins stories of her own.
Staged in England, a young adolescent boy discovers a mysterious
being in the dilapidated garage of his new home. His life becomes very
chaotic when his baby sister is hospitalized and he meets an interesting
girl next door.
On Gwyn's ninth birthday, his grandmother gives him five mysterious
objects with which he may learn whether or not he is a magician. Still
blamed by his father for the disappearance of his sister four years
before, Gwyn is able to use the five objects to solve the mystery of his
sister's whereabouts. This is the first book in the "Magician Trilogy"
series.
The animals at Betts Pets are disappearing, and fifth grader Aaron Betts
doesn't know why. When Aaron and his math tutor, Sharon Trout, find
the missing animals, they also solve the mystery of a missing homeless
woman.
Although Jai Kala didn't want to stay at the strange boarding school, he
had no idea how strange it would be. Award-winning author Gillian
Rubinstein spins an intriguing tale of other worlds in this suspenseful
fantasy.
Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the
murderer.
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Mystery
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Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Avi
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
1040
Two-Minute Mysteries
Donald Sobol
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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wendelin Van Draanen
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Level
Level
The Dollhouse Murders
Chasing Vermeer
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
Trial by Journal
The Dead Man in Indian Creek
V
Ellen Raskin
X
X
840
T
670
S
770
S
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light and dolls that have changed places
lead Amy and her sister to unravel the mystery surrounding murders
that took place years ago.
When a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-old Petra
and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
U
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project,
Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine - Ruby Redfort the detective.
X
900
V
820
X
In this illustrated novel told through journal entries, news clippings, and
letters, Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial and conducts her
own undercover investigation.
When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a
drug-related death, they fear Parker's mother may be involved.
X
850
640
P
Mary Downing Hahn
The Westing Game
You'll need your detective hat to solve these 79 short mysteries.
Answers are given if you need them.
Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she
involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel.
S
Kate Klise
Sara Nickerson
X
820
Lauren Child
How to Disappear Completely and
Never Be Found
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an
unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his
death before they can claim their inheritance.
V
Blue Balliett
Anthony Horowitz
Many townspeople are already going crazy from the ever-ringing church
bells and now, after a bat is spotted in the hotel run by Bernie's family,
the worry that the dangerous Indiana Aztec bat has finally arrived.
750
Betty Ren Wright
The Falcons Malteser: A Diamond
Brothers Mystery
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While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the
Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the
rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who
seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
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Windcatcher
Author
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Book Title
720
W
750
V
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After his older brother, a fledgling private detective, agrees to
safeguard a package for a dwarf who does not live long, Nick must
solve the mystery and elude an assortment of thugs.
When she learns an old mansion is somehow connected to her family,
twelve-year-old Margaret decides to investigate it. Her discoveries
introduce her to a special comic book series, and help her understand
her father's death.
When sixteen people are called together for the reading of wealthy Sam
Westing's will, they are surprised to learn that the will is actually a
contest in which they are all to participate. Working with partners, the
potential heirs take their clues to try to find the elusive answer to the
Westing game and thus take their shares of the two-hundred-milliondollar prize.
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X
X
X
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Mystery
T
640
T
Michael Hoeye
Donald J. Sobol
Down the Rabbit Hole
Peter Abrahams
Grooves: A Kind of Mystery
960
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
W
John Feinstein
5, 7
760
Room One: A Mystery or Two
W
Kevin Brockmeier
5, 7
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Mystery
More Two-Minute Mysteries
850
680
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Mystery
Time Stops for No Mouse
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Wendelin Van Draanen
5, 7
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Mystery
Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of
Mercy
Author
810
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Book Title
T
Andrew Clements
5, 7
840
U
Seventh-grader Sammy Keyes has to do community service at St.
Mary's. While there, Sammy helps out some visiting nuns, befriends a
girl who lives in a refrigerator box, and is accused of stealing from the
church. Through it all, Sammy learns about the people who really love
her and discovers that things aren't always what they seem.
When Hermux finds Dr. Dandiffer's journal, he sets out on an adventure
that lands him in the Last Resort strapped to a giant mousetrap.
Clues that lead to the solution of murder, robbery, and fraud cases are
presented to the reader, who matches his answers with those of the
fictional detective Dr. Haledjian.
Eighth-grader Ingrid finds herself wound up in a murder mystery. The
more she tries to cover up where she's been, the deeper she digs
herself into a hole. Ingrid decides the only way out of the mess she's
made is to solve the mystery herself. To find the guilty person, Ingrid
uses some skills she learned while reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Seventh grader Dwayne Ruggles is a typical kid with typical friends in a
typical school - until he sees sparks floating around the wealthy Howard
Thigpen. Then Dwayne hears a strange message recorded in the
grooves of his blue jeans that sounds like someone needs help.
Together with friends Kevin Applebab and Emily Holmes, Dwayne sets
out to solve this very unusual mystery.
Thirteen-year-old Stevie Thomas lives and breathes basketball, so he's
thrilled when he wins the chance of a lifetime to report from the Final
Four in New Orleans. With his co-winner, Susan Carol Anderson, Stevie
soon finds more than he was expecting. Not only does Stevie learn what
the sport is really like, but he finds a mystery that could destroy the
Final Four. Can Stevie and Susan Carol unravel the mystery in time?
Ted attends a one-room school in his small town of Plattsford,
Nebraska. He loves mysteries, and when he sees a face in the window
of an abandoned house, Ted knows that he has to investigate. Soon,
Ted needs his teacher's help to decide what to do.
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Regarding the Bathrooms
Kate Klise
In this novel told through letters, newspaper articles, and police
reports, a middle school principal's bathroom renovation project leads
to the discovery of stolen Roman antiquities.
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The Dolphins of Laurentum
Caroline Lawrence
A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead
Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia to a seaside
villa where possible danger and treasure are close at hand.
5, 7
5, 7
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System
Annotation
660
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Book Title
How to Disappear Completely and
Never Be Found
Author
Sara Nickerson
5, 7
720
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5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
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Level
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Ghost Ship
Cryptid Hunters
Behind the Curtain
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
The Last Treasure
Dietlof Reiche
Exile
Utterly Me, Clarice Bean
Room One: A Mystery or Two
Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
The Missing Manatee
X
Twins, grace and Marty, along with a mysterious uncle, are dropped into
the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing
photojournalist parents.
An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is
kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.
X
X
S
650
T
1000
Y
660
S
Gilda Joyce invites herself to the mansion of a distant cousin, where she
uses her detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boardedup tower.
Ellsworth visits relatives he has never met and, with a cousin, uncovers
family secrets and searches for an ancestor's hidden treasure.
R
Katie, Lily, and Jasper become embroiled in a mystery involving
lederhosen-clothed quintuplets and a screaming ventriloquist.
X
750
S
When a precious Vermeer painting disappears, Petra and Calder
combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
X
770
W
840
W
900
U
After a seventh-grader discovers that his blue jeans are encoded with a
cry for help, he sets out to save factory workers from a greedy
entrepreneur.
Thirteen-year-old Lady grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen
Elizabeth I, describes in her diary how she tries to discover who stole a
magical ruby.
When someone steals the winner's trophy for the school book project,
Clarice emulates her favorite book heroine, Ruby Redfort the detective.
X
960
U
1010
S
830
S
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small town's one-room
schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless
family.
Flint Future Detective Club members Steven Carter, his friend Russell,
and Russell's huge dog Zoopy solve the mystery of a quadrillion-dollar
bill with the image of James Brown on it.
While coping with his parents' separation, Skeet spends most of Spring
Break in his skiff on a Florida river where he finds a manatee shot to
death and begins looking for the killer.
X
840
Janet Anderson
Blue Balliett
An eighteenth-century figurehead, the journal of a ship's quartermaster,
and supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort lead twelve-year-old
Vicki and her friend Peter on a quest to lift a curse and set right a
horrible deed committed two hundred and thirty years in the past.
750
Jennifer Allison
Chasing Vermeer
X
X
Peter Abrahams
M. T. Anderson
With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about
a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the
true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an
island in the Pacific Northwest.
740
Roland Smith
The Clue of the Linoleum
Lederhosen
Grooves: A Kind of Mystery
W
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System
Annotation
Kevin Brockmeier
Grace Cavendish
Lauren Child
Andrew Clements
Christopher Paul Curtis
Cynthia DeFelic
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X
X
X
X
X
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Mystery
5, 7
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The House on the Gulf
John Feinstein
5, 7
Mystery
5, 7
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Myth
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
S
Flush
Time Stops for No Mouse
In Darkness, Death
The Star of Kazan
Spy Cat
U
Carl Hiassen
W
Michael Hoeye
640
T
760
U
Dorothy Hoobler
Eva Ibbotson
880
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Myth
740
Margaret Haddix
5, 7
5, 7
T
830
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Mystery
760
Dan Gutman
5, 7
Mystery
Myth
The Million Dollar Strike
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
730
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Mystery
Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery
Author
5, 7
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Book Title
W
Peg Kehret
670
Q
In KDL
System
Annotation
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eight grader Stevie and
Susan are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover
that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
X
Best friends Ouchie and Squishy meet the eccentric owner of a local
bowling alley and try to help him save Bowl-A-Rama from the wrecking
ball and a destructive psychotic lunatic.
A sixteen-year-old boy arranges a house-sitting job for the summer, but
he starts acting strangely after his family moves in. His sister begins to
suspect they are not supposed to be there.
X
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his
younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this
floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protective waters
around their Florida Keys home.
X
When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to
be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamog is caught up in a
world of dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what
happened to her.
In eighteenth-centrury Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a
ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder
of a samurai.
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenthcentury Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming
to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely
decrepit mansion in Germany.
X
A series of buglaries in their quiet community upsets Alex's family,
particularly his younger brother Benjie, but the bad guys are no match
for the very protective family cat and Benjie's spy" skills.
X
X
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Hercules; The Man, The Myth, The
Hero
Kathryn Lasky
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Aliki
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The Gods and Goddesses of
Olympus
The Hero Beowulf
In this ambitious retelling of an epic myth, Lasky uses the first-person
voice of Hercules, giving the tale immediacy, but also creating some
difficulties.
Tales of the Greeks
Eric Kimmel
A picture book retelling the epic poem Beowulf
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Get to Work, Hercules!
Kate McMullan
Heard the one about Hercules slaying a lion with his bare hands and
making a cloak from its skin? That was no cloak-Hercules was wearing
the lion. We're talking Siegfried and Roy here! Sure, Hercules had great
big muscles. But he had an itty-bitty brain. He couldn't have done even
one heroic deed if that lion hadn't been there, telling him exactly what
to do.
From the Myth-o-Mania Series.
4, 7
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X
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Myth
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
GLCE
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4, 7
Myth
4, 7
William Russell
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Greek Myths for Young Children
Heather Amery and Linda
Edwards
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4, 7
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's
Ears
Verna Aardema
Raven: A Trickster tale from the
pacific northwest
Gerald McDermott
The Arkadians
Lloyd Alexander
4, 7
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4, 7
Myth
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
Myth
4, 7
1070
NR
780
Q
770
NR
380
J
780
W
Lloyd Alexander
680
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The Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark
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Juliet Dove, Queen of Love
Bruce Coville
Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the
Greek Myths
Bernard Evslin
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Love Flute
Paul Goble
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In the Beginning: Creation Stories
from Around the World
Have a Hot Time, Hades
Virginia Hamilton
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710
670
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Myth
The Iron Ring
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Ingri D'Aulaire
Classic Myths to Read Aloud
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D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
Author
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Book Title
800
T
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630
640
NR
550
R
870
Y
810
NR
Kate McMullen
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Mary Pope Osborn
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Mary Pope Osborn
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Annotation
The kings and heroes of ancient legend will remain forever matter- offact; the pictures interpret the text literally and are full of detail and
witty observation.
Most complete collection of Greek and Roman myths specially arranged
to be read aloud to children aged five to twelve.
Filled with wonderful stories full of brave heroes, frightful monsters,
powerful gods and goddesses, battles and great adventures, this
enchantingly illustrated book can be read aloud to younger children or
read on it's own by older children.
An African Myth about how a mosquito sets off a series of reactions in
the jungle with dire consequences. It takes the wise council of King
Lion to sort out who is to blame.
Raven invokes his ability to change shape in order to obtain the box in
which the light was kept. Although a trickster, he is revered because he
brought light and warmth to the people at a time when all was dark and
cold.
To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked soothsayers, an honest
young man joins with a poet-turned-donkey and a young girl with
mystical powers on a series of epic adventures.
Driven by his sense of "dharma" or honor, young King Tamar sets off on
a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine. He
meets talking animals, villainous and noble kings, demons, and the love
of his life.
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the
traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
A shy twelve-year-old girl must solve a puzzle involving characters from
Greek mythology to free herself from a spell which makes her
irresistible to boys.
Retelling of the ancient Greek myths, arranged in four sections: the
Gods, Nature Myths, Demigods, and Fables. Includes a brief section on
words from the Greek myths which are part of the English language.
A gift to a shy young man from the birds and animals helps him to
express his love to a beautiful girl.
An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the
world explaining the creation of the world.
Puts a modern spin on the Greek myth of how Zeus became the Ruler
of the Universe, as told by Hades, Ruler of the Underworld, who insists
that Zeus cheated.
This book contains 12 ancient Greek stories made exciting and
accessible for today's young readers.
This collection of rarely retold tales is recounted from the "Elder Edda"
and the "Younger Edda," two 600-year-old Norse manuscripts.
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4, 7
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4, 7
Nursery Rhyme
K
Nursery Rhyme
K
Nursery Rhyme
K
Nursery Rhyme
K
Nursery Rhyme
K
Nursery Rhyme
K
Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme
K
K
Nursery Rhyme
K
Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme
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Northern Myths
Padraic Colum
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Demi
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Who Lived Before Achilles
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Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
510
M
980
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Classic Myths to Read Aloud
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Aphrodite's Blessings: Love Stories Clemence McLaren
from the Greek
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770
Y
A retelling of the Norse sagas about Odin, Freya, Thor, Loki and the
other gods and goddesses who lived in Asgard before the dawn of
history.
King Midas's gift to change things into gold becomes a burden when his
food and his servants turn to gold.
Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the
Golden Fleece, as well as the tales of the Creation of Heaven and Earth,
the labors of Hercules, and the battle between Theseus and the
Minotaur.
Presents the essential Greek and Roman myths that form the basis of
our cultural literary heritage.
This collection of Greek myths tells the stories of three teenage
heroines struggling to find happiness in a male-dominated world.
Michael Hague
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Mother Goose A Collection of
Classic Nursery Rhymes
You Read to Me: I'll Read to You 'Very Short Mother Goose Tales to
Read Together
Big Book of Mother Goose Rhymes
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Mary Engelbreit Mother Goose
Mary Engelbreit
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Nina Crews
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Goose
Teddy Bears Mother Goose
Michael Hague
NP
Teddy Bear Theme.
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Sylvia Long
NP
Illustrated collection of familiar nursery rhymes
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Ticktock: Time Nursery Rhymes
Terry Pierce
K
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Dan Yaccarino
NP
K
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Will Moses Mother Goose
Will Moses
NP
K
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Mother Goose Remembers
Clare Beaton
NP
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John Ciardi
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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You:
Very Short Stories to Read
Together
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every
Child's Book of Poems
Whiskers and Rhymes
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The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
Jack Prelutsky
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Zoo Doings: Animal Poems
Jack Prelutsky
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K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
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NP
MaryAnn Hoberman
NP
Modern Publishing
Arnold Lobel
J
Short rhyme stories for two readers to read their own parts and then
read the the center together.
Popular rhymes from MG .
NP
NP
NR
NP
NR
Illustrated collection of 100 nursery rhymes - familiar to less familiar.
Collection of illustrated with photographs in a city setting.
Well known and less familiar nursery rhymes.
NP
NP
NP
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
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System
Annotation
N
NP
NP
NP
O
NP
N
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K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
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Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
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Poetry
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Poetry
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Shimmy Shake Earthquake: Don't
Forget to Dance Poems
It's Snowing! It's Snowing! Winter
Poems
Jack Prelutsky
Simms Taback
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Swallowed A Fly
Animal Stackers
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Building Fluency: Grades 1-2
Publisher: Scholastic
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Jack Prelutsky
Presents a collection of over a dozen, illustrated, rhyming poems about
winter.
NP
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L
Jennifer Belle
Gr. 1 & 2
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A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein
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Falling Up
Shel Silverstein
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Candy Corn
James Stevenson
NP
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If Peas Could Taste Like Candy and Crystal Bowman
other funny poems for kids.
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Polkabats and Octopus Slacks
Calef Brown
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Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers
Calef Brown
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The Hopeful Trout and Other
Limericks
Mammalabilia
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A version of a famous American folk poem first heard in the U.S. in the
1940's.
An illustrated collection about animals. The first etter in each line of
verse spells the name of an animal.
Teachers can help students become confident, fluent readers using
poetry. Compiled by a reading specialist, this book includes 50 engaging
poems specially selected for building different aspects of oral reading
fluency: poems to build intonation and phrasing, poems to build phonics
patterns and sight words, and poems for repeated, expert readings.
Also includes poems that are just right for partner and small group
reading. Plus, research-based background on reading fluency and oral
reading strategies to help students succeed.
This classic collection of poems and drawings features an assortment of
characters, including Almost Perfect Mary Hume and The Turnable
Twistable Man.
This classic collection of humorous poems and drawings is geared to
elementary age children.
A collection of short poems with titles such as "The Morning After
Halloween," "Dumpsters," and "What Frogs Say To Each Other."
A collection of humorous poems about school, love, church, families,
and God.
X
Fourteen rhyming tales about a variety of fanciful topics.
X
Fourteen poems about quirky subjects and characters.
X
John Ciardi
Fourteen poems about quirky subjects and characters.
X
Douglas Florian
A collection of humorous poems about mammals such as the tiger,
gorilla, and rhebok.
Douglas Florian's playful selections offer readers a choice of poetry
about food, fear, ogres, dragons, and other subjects. They are
guaranteed to make you laugh!
Poems and haiku verses provides glimpses of life in the city.
X
An illustrated collection of humorous poems on a variety of topics.
X
A selection of thirty visual (concrete) poems that take the shape of the
things they describe.
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700
NR
430
NR
Laugh-eteria: Poems And Drawings Douglas Florian
By Douglas Florian
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A Pocketful of Poems
Nikki Grimes
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Dinosaur Dinner (With a Slice of
Alligator Pie)
A Poke in the I
Dennis Lee
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System
Annotation
Paul Janeczko
O
390
N
NP
P
NP
NR
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
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Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
X
Paul Janeczko
Contains a collection of illustrated senryu--short poems related to haiku-covering a wide range of subjects, including baby-sitters, jumping
rope, snoring parents, spoiled pets, and more.
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The Book of Pigericks
Arnold Lobel
Thirty-eight original limericks about all manner of pigs.
X
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Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant
Jack Prelutsky
An illustrated collection of humorous poems on a variety of topics.
X
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Beneath a Blue Umbrella
Jack Prelutsky
A collection of short humorous poems in which a hungry hippo raids a
melon stand, a butterfly tickles a girl's nose, and children frolic in a
Mardi Gras parade.
This book contains an illustrated collection of Jack Prelutsky's humorous
poems on a variety of topics.
This book by Jack Prelutsky contains a collection of humorous poems
about dinosaurs.
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A collection of humorous poems such as "The Dancing Hippopotami,"
"You Can't Make Me Eat That," "My Father's Name is Sasquatch," and
"Dear Wumbledeedumble."
This book presents a collection of humorous poetry on a variety of
topics ranging from seeds to grow spaghetti to someone swallowing a
magnet.
The poetry of Jack Prelutsky will make you laugh as you read about
things you may never have thought of before, like jellyfish stew, a
bouncing mouse, or a boneless chicken.
X
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Something Big Has Been Here
Jack Prelutsky
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Jack Prelutsky
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It's Raining Pigs and Noodles
A Pizza the Size of the Sun
NP
NR
NP
N
NP
M
NP
O
1090
O
Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky
NP
The New Kid on the Block
Jack Prelutsky
K, 2, 4, 7
NP
The Dragons are Singing Tonight
NP
Scranimals
NP
A Kick in the Head
NR
Jack Prelutsky
K, 2, 4, 7
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Jack Prelutsky
K, 2, 4, 7
K, 2, 4, 7
What does it take to be a poet? In this collection of poems, children are
introduced to a variety of poetic forms through fun, accessible excerpts
and complete works. Each poem is accompanied by a delightful, fullcolor illustration that provides clues about the structure of the poem.
Complete definitions and explanations of poetic forms and terminology
are also provided.
Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku
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Paul Janeczko
In KDL
System
Annotation
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Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
NR
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Poetry
A Kick in the Head
Author
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
Poetry
Book Title
P
Paul B. Janeczko
NP
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
NR
X
X
X
X
This collection of poems about dragons includes "I'm an Amiable
Dragon," "If You Don't Believe in Dragons," and "A Dragon Is in My
Computer."
X
Come sail to Scranimal Island, where you will see such wild and
interesting animals as the spinachickens, camelberta peaches,
bananacondas, and the frightening radisharks! Peter Sís's gorgeous
illustrations accompany the funny rhyming text of Jack Prelutsky.
X
In this splendid and playful volume the author presents lively examples
of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only the (sometimes
bendable) rules of poetry, but also the spirit that brings these forms so
wonderfully to life.Plus a guide on how to use/write these types of
poems.
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Poetry
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Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
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Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
GLCE
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David Scott Kastan & Marina
Kastan
Eileen Gillooly
Walt Whitman: Poetry for Young
People
Jonathan Levin
Edward Lear: Poetry for Young
People
Carl Sandburg: Poetry for Young
People
Emily Dickson : Poetry for Young
People
Secrets of a Small Brother
Edward Mendelson
If I Were in Charge of the World
and other Worries
Judith Viorst
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I'm in Charge of Celebrations
Byrd Baylor
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Armadillo from Amarillo
Lynne Cherry
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A Tree Place and Other Poems
Constance Levy
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The Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein
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Falling Up
Shel Silverstein
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
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The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
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Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
Dr. Seuss
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K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Author
William Shakespeare: Poetry for
Young People
Robert Browning: Poetry for Young
People
Robert Frost: Poetry for Young
People
Lewis Carroll: Poetry for Young
People
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Book Title
Gary D. Schmidt
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Frances Schoonmaker Bolin
NR
NP
NR
NP
NR
NP
NR
Entery a delightful world of poetry where the rules of logic don't apply,
no one behaves properly and no one does what he or she is told.
NP
NR
An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer
poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
NP
NR
NP
NR
NP
NR
Richard J. Margolis
700
N
720
NR
NP
NR
NP
NR
NP
NR
530
J
750
Oh, the Places You'll Go
Dr. Seuss
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Heart to Heart
Jan Greenberg
600
P
NR
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Insectlopedia
A Collection of poems about people and places.
A collection of poems dealing with nature.
A collection of poems that include limericks and nonsense characters
and places.
A collection of short poems that depict everyday events, people and
places.
A collection of poems with life connections and easy to read language.
Collection of poems told from a younger boy's point of view.
NP
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A Collection of sonnets and scenes from William Shakespeare's works.
NP
Edward Mendelson
Frances Schoonmaker Bolin
In KDL
System
Annotation
Douglas Florian
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Poems for everyone who has ever had trouble apologizing or writing a
thank you letter, or talked too much, or had visions of the very worst
happening at the very worst time.
A dweller in the desert celebrates a triple rainbow, a chance encounter
with a coyote, and the wonders of the wilderness.
A Wandering Armadillo sees some of the cities, historical sites,
geographical features, and wildlife of Texas.
A collection of forty poems that give a new perspective to the world
around us.
Poetry collection for young readers.
Poetry collection for young readers.
Poetry collection for young readers.
This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation
about a tree who loved a little boy.
Miss Bonkers is the best-liked teacher at Diffendoofer School because
she is the most different. When the students face the threat of having
to go to school in dreary Flobbertown, Miss Bonkers saves the day.
Advice in rhyme for preceeding in life.
Works of art by forty-three American artists are commemorated by
distinguished twentieth-century American poets.
Insects are seen in a new light through witty verses and spirited
paintings.
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K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Wonderful Words
Lee Bennett
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The Dream Keeper
Langston Hughes
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I am Phoenix: Poems for Two
Voices
Paul Fleischman
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K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
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Poetry
K, 2, 4, 7
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices Paul Fleischman
Carver A Life in Poems
Love that Dog
Neighborhood Odes
Polkabats and Octopus Slacks
Calef Brown
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
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Our Teacher's Having a Baby
The Remarkable Farkle McBride
NR
1010
T
NP
NR
1120
NR
700
NR
NP
NR
530
I
410
Q
NP
P
Gordon Korman
Barbara Bottner
1, 3, 8
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Gary Soto
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Bootsie Barker Bites
P
Sharon Creech
Robert Frost
D- Poems of Jeremy Bloom
NP
Marilyn Nelson
You Come Too
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NP
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Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Bruce Lansky
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My Dog Ate My Homework
Author
NR
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Poetry
Book Title
Eve Bunting
John Lithgow
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
System
Annotation
These silly poems take a crazy look at everyday situations in the life of
a child, as well as some funny made-up problems. Included are poems
about a child who watches too much television and a new cook in the
school cafeteria
Join acclaimed poet Lee Bennett Hopkins in this glorious collection
celebrating words in speech, reading, languare, and drama and how
they influence our lives.
Sixty-six poems selected by the author include lyrical poems, songs,
and blues, many exploring the black experience.
A book of poems for two voices from the Newbery Medal-winning author
Paul Fleischman creates wonderful word pictures of various birds.
This unique collection of Newbery Medal-winning poetry is intended to
be read aloud by two readers at the same time. The lives and habits of
several different types of insects are described.
Poignant poems describe a giant of a man, George Washington Carver,
whose humble life transformed agriculture and the people who looked
up to him.
At first, Jack refuses to write poetry because he believes that it is only
for girls. After his teacher, Miss Stretchberry, introduces him to the
work of Walter Dean Myers and types some of his writing for display on
the bulletin board, Jack finds his poetic voice.
Twenty-one poems about growing up in an Hispanic neighborhood
highlight the delights in such everyday items as sprinklers, the park, the
library, and pomegranates.
This collection is an introduction to Robert Frost containing fifty-one of
his best poems for young people.
Why are flies swarming around Ed's head, and what caused the traffic
jam on Highwire 66? Learn the answers to these questions while
exploring the fanciful world created in this collection of fourteen
rhyming tales.
Mistakenly signing up for poetry class, Jeremy tackles the task of
writing about homework, cleaning his room, measly allowances, and
more
The little girl in the story endures Bootsie's torments for as long as she
can, but when faced with the prospect of Bootsie coming over to spend
the night, she has to be resourceful and learns that big problems
require big solutions.
As the months pass during first-grade teacher Mrs. Neal's pregnancy,
her class gets involved writing letters to the baby, thinking up possible
names for it, and designing a baby room on the bulletin board.
The musical prodigy Farkle McBride tries a number of instruments
before discovering that conducting the orchestra makes him happy.
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Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
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1, 3, 8
Mo Willems
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Emily's Art
Peter Catalanotto
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Ted
Tony Diterlizzi
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On Mother's Lap
Ann Herbert Scott
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I'll Always Come Back
Steve Metzger
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The Great Gracie Chase Stop That
Dog!
Not Norman A Goldfish Story
Cynthia Rylant
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1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
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Thank You, Mr. Falker
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Chicken Sunday
Patricia Polacco
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Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
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Mrs. Mack
Mr. Lincoln 's Way
When Lightning Comes in a Jar
120
I
200
L
230
L
520
K
360
H
410
L
460
I
590
L
500
L
810
M
650
M
650
N
630
M
610
P
450
M
540
M
Tiki and Ronde Barber
Florence Parry Heide & Judith
Heide Gilliland
Patricia Polacco
Thunder Cake
L
Tiki and Ronde Barber
The Day of Ahmed's Secret
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By My Brother's Side
690
Kelly Bennett
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Game Day
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Inga Moore
Knuffle Bunny
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Six-Dinner Sid
Author
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Book Title
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
System
Annotation
In an unsuspecting neighborhood, Sid the conniving kitty belongs to six
different families and gets six meals a day. It all comes to an end when
one nasty cough results in six trips to the vet and Sid's cover is blown.
A toddler becomes distraught when a beloved "somebunny" is left
behind at the Laundromat.
Emily paints four pictures and enters one in the first-grade art contest,
but the judge interprets Emily's entry as a rabbit instead of a dog.
A young boy manages to get his busy father's attention with the help of
a special imaginary friend.
A little Inuit boy discovers there is room for his baby sister and himself
on their mother's lap.
This tender picture book follows a child's day at school.
A cumulative tale about a small dog named Gracie whose quiet life is
disrupted by some noisy painters.
As a boy attempts to convince someone else to take his disappointing
pet, he learns to love Norman the goldfish himself.
Written about the NFL superstar twin brothers Tiki and Ronde Barber
this book shares how as youngsters they learned that success is built on
team effort.
Based on the childhood of National Football League superstars Ronde
and Tiki Barber, this book shares how the values of family, hard work,
and determination lead to what it takes to be a champion. The twins
overcame many obstacles, never forgetting the words of their mother,
"stick together, believe in yourselves, and you can do anything."
The bustling streets of Cairo are exciting, but today Ahmed will share
his secret , which is even more exciting.
A young girl struggles with reading through elementary school until one
special teacher touches her life.
To thank old Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, the
children sell decorated eggs and buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
A young girl and her grandmother spend an afternoon together
gathering the special ingreidents to make a special cake before a
thunderstorm.
The author remembers the summer when she was 10 years old &
staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons &
befriended a horse.
When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest" principal in the whole world" discovers
that Eugene, the school bully knows a lot about birds. He uses this
interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.
A young girl describes the family reunion at her grandmothers house,
from the food and baseball and photes to the flickering fireflies on the
lawn.
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Book Title
Pink and Say
Author
Patricia Polacco
1, 3, 8
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Patricia Polacco
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Freckle Juice
Beverly Clearly
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Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
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Aunt Flossies's Hats and Crab
Cakes Later
Tree of Cranes
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Don't Say Ain't
Irene Smalls
1, 3, 8
Allen Say
Boundless Grace
780
P
630
M
370
M
400
M
470
P
Goin' Somplace Special
The Wednesday Surprise
Mary Hoffman
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Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs Tomie de Paola
Wall Eve
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Shop Talk
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The Two Tyrones
My Ol' Man
M
550
M
540
K
690
M
530
L
270
N
530
L
530
L
640
N
Eve Bunting
Everybody Cooks Rice
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Patricia McKissack
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O
N/P
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660
Patricia Polacco
The Trees of the Dancing Goats
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An Orange for Frankie
Patricia Polacco
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Just Plain Fancy
Norah Dooley
Bunting
Juwanda G. Ford
Wade Hudson
Patricia Polacco
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
System
Annotation
Fifteen year old Say is left for dead on a Georgia battlefield during the
Civil War. Pink a young slave and his mother nurse Say back to health
only to be slain themselves by the confederates.
600
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Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Naomi, an Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the
importanfe of adhering to the simple ways of her people is horrifed
when one of her eggs hatches into an extremely fancy bird.
The Stowell family is preparing for Christmas while their father goes to
get the traditional Christams oranges for a special Christmas present,
but will Father get home in time?
A magical holiday story about neighbors who made Christmas and
Hanukkah special even in the midst of an epidemic
Andrew wants freckles more than anything else and uses various
recipes with hilarious results.
Sara and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes and stories about hats
when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie.
A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine
tree with cranes.
A young African-American girl must learn how to deal with the conflict
of attending an integrated school in the 1950's while still being cool with
her friends who did not qualify to attend.
Grace's father, whom she does not remember lives in Gombia and
sends for her and her grandmother. It takes the wise counsel of both
adults to help Grace come to terms with her life as a child of divorced
parents.
In segregated 1950's Nashville, a young African-American girl braves a
series of indignites and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated
places in town.
On Wednesday nights Grandma stays with Anna. After their meal they
sit down together to read. But they have a surprise in store for Dad's
upcoming birthday.
Carrie on her hunt for her little brother Anthony discovers that
everybody cooks rice.
A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his greatgrandmother, but learns to face their inevitable death.
A boy and his father visit the Vietnam Vets Memorial and find the name
of his grandfather who was killed in the conflict.
A boy describes his fun visit to the barbershop, including who he sees
there, how they interact, and how the converstaion is different from
talking anywhere eles.
Tyrone Rashon William's excitement about the first day of school wanes
when he sees that everyone is wearing the same new sneakers he is so
proud of, but it gets worse when a new student arrives who has his
exact same name.
An inspiring story of a dad trying to support his kids by bring hope
through a special rock.
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Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction
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Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
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In My Momma's Kitchen
Jerdine Nolen
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Dancing in the Wings
Debbie Allen
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What's in Aunt Mary's Room
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
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Sami and the time of the Troubles
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Mrs. Katz and Tush
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Almost Starring Skinnybones
Florence Parry Heide & Judith
Heide Gilliland
Patricia Polacco
The Case of the Food Fight
James Preller
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Mary Quattlebaum
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Jackson Jones and the Puddle of
Thorns
Brothers
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Hoop Girlz
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Yin, Chris Soentpiet
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Eve Bunting
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Dori Hillestad Butler
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Honeysuckle House
Judy Cox
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Alice DeLaCroix
Cody Unplugged
530
M
540
L
510
O
600
N
530
P
620
O
390
N
510
580
N
630
P
Jane Cutler
A child describes the family events like making apple pie and having
relatives visit.
A young girl dreams of becoming a dancer, but has big feet and is tall.
Eventually her dream comes true.
While visiting their Great-Aunt Flossie, two sisters get a chance to see
what family treasures are stored in a locked room there.
A poetic story of a family's survival and a boy's optimism in war-torn
Lenanon
A long lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young AfricanAmerican boy and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow when Larnel
presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail.
Alex lands a part in a commercial, but his plans for stardom go astray
when his classmates think the commercial is really dumb.
Realizing that Joey has been falsely accused of starting a food fight,
Jigsaw Jones investigates to find the real culprit.
Jackson wants a basketball for his birthday, but his mother gives him a
garden plot near their inner city apartment.
Having arrived in San Francisco from China to work in his brother's
store, Ming is lonely until an Irish boy befriends him.
When River, who is crazy about basketball, is not chosen to play in the
tournament, she decides to organize a team of her own.
X
Alex struggles to do the right thing when he wants to keep the toy
mouse he found, even after posters appear asking for its return.
X
X
X
Star baseball player Joelle starts an all-girl baseball league against the
wishes of her school coaches and others in the town.
X
R
P
An all-American girl with Chinese ancestors and a new immigrant from
China find little in common at first, but become friends.
X
600
450
M
X
660
O
500
M
Best friends Matt and Eddie have a falling out that threatens to ruin
their science fair project.
Edward and his brother Jason find themselves in various wild
predicaments
When Randall changes to a new school, he pretends to be an
anonymous hero until, when his third grade class plans a fundraiser, he
finds that being himself is good enough.
Concerned that his television and video habits have gotten out of hand,
Cody's parents send him to Camp Bear, where he learns to experience
real life rather than virtual reality.
After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they
discover that someone is stalking their house, Kevin and his older sister
flee to Venice, California, where they hope that new identities will keep
them safe.
Betsy Duffey
530
Disappearing Act
In KDL
System
Annotation
580
Andrea Cheng
That Crazy Eddie and the Science
Project of Doom
No Dogs Allowed!
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Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Barbara park
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Author
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Book Title
Sid Fleischman
550
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Q
X
X
X
X
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1, 3, 8
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1, 3, 8
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Dork on the Run
Carol Gorman
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I Smell Like Ham
Betty Hicks
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Pinky and Rex and the Just-Right
Pet
James Howe
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Martin Bridge: Blazing Ahead!
Jessica Scott Kerrin
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Crown Me!
Kathryn Lay
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Book Title
The Gold-Threaded Dress
Crow Boy
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
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1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Q
L
Pinky is upset when his sister picks a cat for the family pet. But when
the cat takes a special liking to Pinky, his feelings change.
X
530
700
N
X
650
Q
Chaos ensues when Martin Bridge, after falling for his friend's horrormovie slime prank, gets revenge.
As part of an experiment in class, Justin and Andrea are declared king
and queen, but they soon learn that royal life is a royal pain.
O
When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood,
her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because she is
different.
When a new student arrives at school, the children nickname him Chibi.
Chibi, who is different from the others, is a loner. Chibi is finally
accepted after a new teacher brings out his unique character in this
Caldecott Honor-winning book.
Despite her father's objections, a young Amish girl secretly looks
forward to attending public school where she makes a best friend and
gains a new perspective on her family's way of life.
X
710
510
Taro Yashima
760
L
710
Q
Virginia Sorenson
Johanna Spyri
The Hundred Dresses
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Eleanor Estes
Because You're Lucky
Irene Smalls
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Time of Wonder
Robert McCloskey
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The SOS File
Romona Forever
Alejandro's Gift
870
O
950
Z
Mark Twain
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Heidi
X
S
960
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Realistic Fiction
Plain Girl
Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey,
Laurie Myers
940
O
600
R
810
O
840
O
Beverly Cleary
Richard E. Albert
In KDL
System
Annotation
Having reluctantly agreed to run for class president, Jerry finds his
opponent playing dirty tricks on him.
Nick works to succeed on the school basketball team, adjust to his new
stepfamily, and deal with peer pressure from his friends.
640
Carolyn Marsden
1, 3, 8
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Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
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X
X
X
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved
grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and
to care for an invalid girl in the city.
The girls of Room 13 like to tease Wanda about her one hundred
dresses, but when Wanda moves away, Maddie realizes that they were
wrong. How can she make amends?
In this classic story of boyhood escapades on the shores of the
Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn together find trouble and
adventures wherever they go.
This is a simple story of how families can change and grow in ways that
they are lucky to discover.
The wonders of childhood are brought to life in this Caldecott Medal
award-winning story of a family's summer vacation on an island off the
coast of Maine.
Mr. Magro's students have written about their biggest emergencies and
tucked them into the SOS file. Now it is time to read the stories out
loud and try to guess who hasn't earned extra credit.
Ramona is trying to be on her best behavior so she can go straight
home after school instead of going to Mrs. Kemp's house after school,
but being good gets Ramona in trouble.
Lonely in his house beside a road in the desert Alejandro builds an oasis
to attract the many animals around him.
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1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
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Koya DeLaney and the Good Girl
Blues
Eloise Greenfield
Sadako and the Thousand Paper
Cranes
Eleanor Coerr
The Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick
Kate McMullan
1, 3, 8
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Keepers
Pepita Talks Twice
Jeri Hanel Watts and Felicia
Marshall
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
1, 3, 8
P
550
N
740
P
630
R
580
Allie's Basketball Dream
Turtle Bay
Stories Julian Tells
After Kenyon squanders the money he has saved for his grandmother's
birthday present, he searches for another special gift.
K
When Pepita grows tired of translating for everyone in her
neighborhood, she stops speaking Spanish and gives her dog an English
name. A near disaster makes her realize that it is better to talk in two
languages instead of one.
Determined in her effort to play basketball, the young African American
girl gives it one more shot with the support of a special friend.
M
Ann Cameron
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Ann Cameron
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Don't Call Me Beanhead
Susan Wojciechowski
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The Talent Show
Susan Wojciechowski
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Centerfield Ballhawk
Matt Christopher
560
N
430
N
810
N
600
640
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Suffering in a family full of females, Justin learns real lessons in what
"women's work" is when he spends time on his beloved grandfather's
ranch.
Nine-year-old Yingtao feels like an outcast in his family because he does
not have the natural musical abilities of his brother and sisters. After
moving to America, Yingtao meets Matthew and discovers where his
natural talents lie.
Luz Mendes is determined to run-down vacant lot into a garden, but she
must convince her neighbors to help.
Koya sometimes hides her feelings behind the mask of laughter. But a
fight between her sister and best friend makes her realize she much
confront her emotions.
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, Leukemia, a child in
Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to
verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
N
Saviour Pirotta
490
In KDL
System
Annotation
In a series of episodes, fifth grader Lila has some truly amazing "great
ideas" that get her out of and into all kinds of trouble.
Barbara Barber
450
R.NT.03.02
1, 3, 8
700
Ofelia Lachtman
1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
P
470
R.NT.03.02
Realistic Fiction
620
810
R.NT.03.02
Realistic Fiction
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Lensey Namioka
Ear
Ellen Schecter
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Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Mildred Pitts Walter
The Big Idea
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Justin and the Best Biscuits in the
World
Author
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Book Title
M
Some people think Jiro-San is weird. He says the wind gives him
messages, he sweeps the beach with a broom, and he always seems to
be waiting for something. One day, the wind tells him his old friends are
coming, and he must prepare the beach for their arrival.
Julian doesn't think there is anyone his age to play with as he walks
down the street near his home. Much to his surprise he meets Gloria,
whom he gets to know as they spend the afternoon together.
More episodes from the life of Julian.
Join the humorous adventures as Beany spends time in school,
attempts to have fancy fingernails, prepares for a talent show and
more.
Beany is worried about messing up her and Carol Ann's act for the
school talent show.
Baseball player Jose Mendez worries about his poor performance with
the bat and fears disappointing his father a former baseball player with
an outstanding batting average.
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1, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
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670
Y
600
NR
960
X
James Howe
Doug Wilhelm
Flipped
Life as We Knew It
R
Cynthia Voigt
1, 3, 8
630
So Be It
U
Susan Pfeffer
770
Homecoming
S
Wendelin VanDraanen
1, 3, 8
1, 3, 8
NR
720
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The Revealers
840
Ann Brashares
1, 3, 8
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The Misfits
V
580
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Realistic Fiction
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
560
Ben Mikaelsen
1, 3, 8
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Touching Spirit Bear
U
Jodi Piccoult
1, 3, 8
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Realistic Fiction
My Sisters Keeper
690
Karen Hess
1, 3, 8
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Realistic Fiction
Music of the Dolphins
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Jerry Spinelli
1, 3, 8
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Wringer
Author
1, 3, 8
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Book Title
X
Sarah Weeks
860
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
NR
In KDL
System
Annotation
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a
wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose
it.
After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she
has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the
human world
Thirteen-year-old Anna was born after an embryonic selection process
that ensured she would be an ideal matching donor for her sister Kate,
who suffers from leukemia. After many years of bone marrow
transplants and the like, Anna decides to sue her parents to prevent a
kidney donation that could save Kate's life.
Fifteen-year-old Cole Matthews has been in trouble for most of his life,
and he blames everyone but himself. Fear of his abusive father has
caused him to want others to fear him, but this time he has gone too
far. After he severely beats a fellow student, causing permanent
damage, Cole has to acknowledge who he is and what he has done. It
isn't easy.
Four fifteen-year-old best friends spend their first summer apart bonded
together by a pair of "magical" jeans. They write a list of rules to
accompany the Pants and take turns wearing them through various new
experiences.
Skeezie, Addie, Joe, and Bobby are not the most popular kids in the
school, but at least they're helping each other survive the seventh
grade. Together, they may change the school forever.
Russell is bullied by Richie. Elliot loves computers and dinosaurs.
Catalina has just moved to town from the Philippines. When these three
very different 7th graders become friends, they start sharing stories on
the school intranet and start taking back their school from bullies.
In alternating chapters, Juli Baker and Bryce Loski, who have been
neighbors since the second grade, describe their lives together as they
grow from a casual friendship to a budding eighth-grade romantic
Through her journal, sixteen-year-old Miranda tells the story of her
Pennsylvania family's survival in a world hit with tsunamis, volcanic
eruptions, and earthquakes after a meteor hits the moon.
When the Tillerman kids--Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy--are
abandoned by their mother, thirteen-year-old Dicey has to feed, care
for, and make difficult decisions for her young family. She must find a
way to get her family to Aunt Cilla's house--and hope for the best.
Twelve-year-old Heidi wants to know where she came from. Her
mentally disabled mother and she seemed to fall from heaven when
Heidi was a baby. Now Heidi wants and needs to know the truth.
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1, 3, 8
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1, 3, 8
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1, 3, 8
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1, 3, 8
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1, 3, 8
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A Chair for My Mother
Bucking the Sarge
J
600
T
360
P
680
L
640
M
Tony Jonhston
Eve Bunting
Sarah Stewart
Vera Williams
Christopher Paul Curtis
Life is Funny
Fat Kid Rules the World
930
NR
Sue Monk Kidd
1, 3, 8
840
Helping Students Write The Best
Research Reports Ever (Grades 48)
NR
John Green
1, 3, 8
The Secret Life of Bees
NR
K.L. Going
700
Looking for Alaska
NR
E.R. Frank
1, 3, 8
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The Journey
680
830
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Realistic Fiction
Smoky Night
Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
1, 3, 8
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Any Small Goodness
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
1000
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Amazing Grace
Author
1, 3, 8
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Book Title
Lois Laase
K-8
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NR
In KDL
System
Annotation
Although a classmate says that Grace cannot play Peter Pan in the
school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do
anything she sets her mind to do.
Growing up in the barrio of East Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Arturo
struggles to make sense of the world around him. Although his family is
loving, frightening events take place, reminding Arturo that nobody is
really safe.
When riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a boy and his
mother learn from two cats how to befriend others no matter what their
background or nationality.
Hannah had never been to a big city, but thanks to Aunt Clara she was
going on her birthday. How different would the city be from the farm
she knew?
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a
comfortable armchair after all of their furniture is lost in a fire.
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business
dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of
humor while running the Happy Neighborhood Group Home for Men, all
the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
The lives of a number of young people of different races, economic
backgrounds, and family situations living in Brooklyn, New York,
become intertwined over a seven-year period.
X
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300
pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who
is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
X
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in
Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the
search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
X
14-year-old Lily Owen spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when
she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely
remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the
family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidently
shot and killed her mother.
X
Everything you need to teach the research process in a way that's fun
and engaging. Mini-lessons are designed to take students from selecting
manageable, meaningful topics, to navigating references, effective notetaking, learning to paraphrase, organizing materials, and writing
research reports that really show what they've learned. Includes a
chapter on 10 creative projects.
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Grade
GLCE
K-8
Research Project
K-8
6, 7
Research Report
6, 7
Research Report
6, 7
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
That's Very Canadian!: An
Exceptionally Interesting Report
About All Things Canadian, by
Rachel
Vivien Bowers
Written from the viewpoint of a student doing a project on Canada's
symbols and cultural identity. A scrapbook-style overview of Canada
that covers its history, geography, government, symbols, sports, foods,
unique words, wildlife, and attractions.
R.IT.06.01
Paragraph Writing Made Easy
Rosemary Shiras
R.IT.07.01
How to Write a Great Research
Paper
Beverly Chin
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Alien Secrets
Annette Klause
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Book of Names; Diadem – Worlds
of Magic
John Peel
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Computer Nut
Betsy Byars
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Dark side of Nowhere
Neal Shusterman
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NP
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Forgotten Door, The
Alexander Key
R.NT.05.02
Hork-Bajir Chronicles
Katherine A. Applegate
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Many Waters
Madeline L’Engle
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Pendragon; The Merchant of Death DJ McHale
Stinker from Space
5,8
Easy lessons and reproducible practice pages to teach paragraph writing
that really work!
Filled with easy-to-follow instructions and valuable tips, this new guide
breaks the entire process down into 7 Keys to Success: Find a Topic,
Look It Up, Take Notes , Outline Your Paper , Create Your First Draft,
Revise and Edit Your Draft and Present Your Paper .
680
NR
670
NR
620
R
850
NR
720
T
530
T
700
V
660
NR
820
Virtually Perfect
NR
Pamela Service
5,8
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In KDL
System
Annotation
These creative, ready-to-go alternatives to traditional reports are
guaranteed to motivate even the most reluctant report writers! Ideas
include data disks, lockbooks, interactive notebooks, storywheels,
circlebooks, and 30 more classroom-tested ideas. Includes loads of
reproducible templates, easy-to-follow directions, and fabulous display
suggestions.
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Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Michael Gravois
R.IT.06.01
Research Report
Author
35 Ready-To-Go Ways to Publish
Students' Research and Writing
(Grades 4-8)
W.GN.07.03
Research Project
Book Title
NR
Dan Gutman
570
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NR
A suspenseful interplantary adventure for a girl expelled from boarding
school.
Score, a New York street orphan, Renald, a princess/warrior, and Pixel,
a boy who lives in a world dominated by virtual reality, are taken from
their homes at the command of the Shadows and drawn into a world of
danger and magic.
Kate and Willie are on the trail of BB-9 who says he's an alien
monitoring earth's computer network.
Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he
is the son of aliens who stayed on Earth following a botched invasion
mission.
Jon must find the secret passage to his own peaceful world, through
which he fell into this one.
The story of the Andalites before the rise of the Yeerks
X
This continuation of the time trilogy finds Sandy and Denny thrown back
in time to the days of Noah and the Ark.
Bobby Pendragon, in possession of a magic ring, is transported into
another world where he encounters danger that threatens his survival.
An agent of the Sylon Confederacy, fleeing from enemy ships, crash
lands on earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists
the aid fo two children in getting back to his home planet.
When twelve-year-old Yip uses his father's new software to make a
computer simulation of a boy his age, the creation breaks out of
cyberspace into the real world and begins to complicate Yip's life.
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Science Fiction
5,8
GLCE
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Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
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Enchantress from the Stars
The White Mountains
Rash
Hole in the Sky
5,8
Uglies
660
X
660
W
Margaret Peterson Haddix
690
X
910
NR
920
V
730
T
Sylvia Louise Engdahl
John Christopher
Pete Hautman
Pete Hautman
5,8
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Turnabout
V
Nancy Farmer
5,8
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The House of the Scorpion
760
O.T. Nelson
5,8
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The Girl Who Owned a City
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
John Christopher
5,8
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When the Tripods Came
Author
5,8
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Book Title
700
NR
770
NR
Scott Westerfield
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In KDL
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Annotation
Fourteen-year-old Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when
the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone
with their hypnotic caps.
A plague has swept through the city, killing everyone above the age of
twelve. Lisa is a very intelligent ten-year-old, and the children will
survive and be safe from the gangs roaming the streets only if they put
her ideas into action.
For the first six years of his life, Matt knows no world but Celia, the
loving woman who cares for him in their small cottage in the midst of
the poppy fields. When he sees other children playing outside, including
the lively María, he is injured trying to join them. It is only the
beginning of years of trying to learn who--and even what--he really is.
Follow Melly and Anny Beth's intellectual and spiritual growth as they
take charge of their own increasingly younger lives. An unaging
experiment is made believable by award winning author Margaret
Peterson Haddix in her portrayal of two women, both past the age of
one hundred, who grow younger every year.
Three civilizations, from different planets, in widely varying stages of
development, clash in what could be either a mutually disastrous or
beneficial encounter.
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward
an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling
Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile,
obedient servants.
In the late twenty-first century, sixteen-year-old Bo Marsten is unjustly
accused of starting a rash that plagues his school. He is sentenced to
work in a pizza factory in the Canadian tundra. While there, he plays on
the highly illegal prison football team. Bork, the Artificial Intelligence
that Bo has created, tracks him down and offers to help reduce his
sentence. But, can Bo really trust him?
It's the year 2028, and the world has been ravaged by a killer Flu. After
his uncle and sister disappear, sixteen-year-old Ceej must avoid being
captured by the Survivors as he embarks on a mysterious adventure to
save his family and keep his beloved Grand Canyon from being
destroyed.
Tally has looked forward to having the high-tech operation to become
pretty like all sixteen-year-olds in her futuristic society. But after her
best friend, Peris, goes through with the operation, he seems different
in more ways than one. Then she meets a strange boy named David,
who tells her she is beautiful just the way she is. Will she risk her life
and others' to avoid the mind-changing surgery?
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5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
R.NT.08.02
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Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
R.NT.08.02
R.NT.08.02
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Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Heir Apparent
War of the Worlds
Uglies
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Feed
Foundation
R.NT.08.02
Ender's Game
Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About
the Future
The White Mountains
5,8
800
W
820
W
1170
Z
Vivian Vande Velde
H G Wells
Scott Westerfield
770
NR
1000
NR
770
X
Douglas Adams
M T Anderson
Isaac Asimov
Mchael Cart
780
NR
840
NR
John Christopher
920
House of the Scorpion
NR
Orson Scott Card
5,8
R.NT.08.02
U
Margaret Peterson Haddix
830
R.NT.08.02
Science Fiction
Among the Hidden
5,8
R.NT.08.02
Science Fiction
Terence Blacker
5,8
Science Fiction
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
700
R.NT.08.02
Science Fiction
The Angel Factory
Author
5,8
R.NT.08.02
Science Fiction
Book Title
V
Nancy Farmer
660
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
W
In KDL
System
Annotation
When twelve-year-old Thomas Wisdom opens a secret file on his
father's computer, he learns that his perfect family may be flawed--a
discovery that takes him on an incredible, other-world journey.
In the future, when it is illegal for a family to have more than two
children, Luke, a twelve-year-old boy, lives his life in hiding because he
is a third child. Luke lives in isolation until he discovers another third
child. One day, the Population Police knocks on the front door. What will
happen to Luke?
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and
intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have
damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win
the game quickly or be damaged herself.
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country
curate, and others struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians
in 1894.
Tally lives in a futuristic society whose citizens believe that they are
ugly until age 16 when an operation changes them into pleasureseeking "pretties." But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to
be pretty… First of a trilogy.
Chronicles of the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys,
notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
X
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to
control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious
trouble.
A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari
Seldon, plant a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the
declining Galactic empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of
humankind.
A expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that
he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is
commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking earth's
complete destruction.
A collection of ten stories about the future, by such authors as Lois
Lowry, Katherine Patterson, and Jon Scieszzka.
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward
an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling
Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile,
obedient servants. First in the trilogy.
X
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as
the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug
empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Grade
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5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
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Science Fiction
5,8
Science Fiction
5,8
Song
K
Song
K
Song
K
Song
K
Song
K
Book Title
Among The Hidden
Mr. Was
Dune
The Giver
Author
Margaret Peterson Haddix
R.NT.08.02
Shade's Children
Garth Nix
R.NT.00.02
Down by the Bay
Raffi
R.NT.00.02
Lulu Delacre
R.NT.00.02
Arrorro, MI Nino: Latino Lullabies
and Gentle Games
The Wheels on The Bus
R.NT.00.02
Five Little Ducks
Raffi
R.NT.00.02
This Land is Your Land
Woody Guthrie
R.NT.00.02
Miss Mary Mack
Mary Ann Hoberman
Mary Alice Moore
K
R.NT.00.02
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary Ann Hoberman
K
R.NT.00.02
Mary Wore her Red Dress
Merle Peek
R.NT.00.02
The Eensy-Weensy Spider
MaryAnn Hoberman
K
R.NT.00.02
Mrs. Oleary's Cow
MaryAnn Hoberman
R.NT.00.02
There was an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Fly
There was an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Trout
Simms Taback
R.NT.00.02
Song
K
NR
800
NR
760
Y
980
NR
NA
F
NP
NP
E
F
NP
NP
K
Song
840
Lois Lowry
Song
Song
K
W
Frank Herbert
K
Song
800
Pete Hautman
Song
Song
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
N
F
A government decree allows each family only two children. For Luke, a
third child, this has meant a lifetime of hiding. But could a stray
glimpse of a child hiding in the house across the way lead to freedom?
X
After a stranger encounter with his dying grandfather, a teenage boy
discovers a door that sends him fifty years into the past.
X
Opposing forces struggle for control of the universe when the
archenemy of the cosmic emperor is banished to a barren world where
savages fight for water.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas
becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his
community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which
he lives.
In a city of the future, nonhuman creatures keep children until the age
of fourteen, at which time their brains are harvested.
Whimsical rhymes fill this picture book about animals down by the bay.
X
NA
D
310
I
NP
J
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
X
This adaptation of the favorite children's chant gives the reader the full
story behind the mysterious Miss Mary Mack. The easy-to-read text is
accompanied by whimsical color illustrations.
Sing a long story with coutning out rhymes.
Teri Sloat
X
Counting Book - 5 little ducks disappear & the mother duck finds them Counting Backward.
Traditional folk song about USA
Clothing and colors that kids wear to a birthday party.
L
X
Illustrated Collection of nursery rhymes, finger play & lullabies from
major Lataino groups US.
Traditional song describes how students/staff ride the bus to school.
NP
NP
In KDL
System
Annotation
An expanded version of the familiar children's finger-play rhyme
describing what the little spider does after being washed out of the
water-spout.
An adaptation of the well-known song, "There'll be a hot time in the old
town tonight," based on the true story of the Great Chicago Fire. When
Mrs. O'Leary leaves her lantern in the barn, the cow kicks it over and
starts a fire. In this humorous story, the fire is put out in the end by 10
heroic firefighters
A cumulative ryhme in which the solution proves worse than the
predicament when an old lady swallow a fly.
When an old lady swallows a trout, it is only the beginning of a long line
of sea creatures who become trapped in the woman's stomach. How will
they ever escape to win their freedom?
x
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Grade
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Song
K
Song
K
Song
K
Song
K
K
Song
K
Song
K
Story
K
Story
K
Story
K
Story
K
Story
Author
There was an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Bat
Lucille Colandro
Take Me Out of the Bath Tub and
Other Silly Dilly Songs
Alan Katz
R.NT.00.02
Five Little Monkeys Jumping
Eileen Christelow
R.NT.00.02
I'm A Little Teapot
Iza Trapani
R.NT.00.02
Row Row Row Your Boat
Pippa Goodhart or Kevin O'Malley
R.NT.00.02
Song
Book Title
R.NT.00.02
R.NT.00.02
R.NT.00.02
R.NT.00.02
Catalina Magdalena
He's Got the Whole World In His
Hands
What Joe Saw
Here Are My Hands
400
Kadir Nelson
K
Story
K
Story
K
Story
K
E
NP
J
NP
J
NP
NR
230
I
420
F
410
H
BR
NR
360
G
Bill Martin, Jr.
Lorinda Bryan Cauley
R.NT.00.02
These Hands
Hope Lunne Price
R.NT.00.02
Below
Nina Crews
Kelly Cunnane
R.NT.00.02
Gossie & Gertie
Olivier Dunrea
R.NT.00.02
Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti
Anna Grossnickle Hines
R.NT.00.02
The Other Emily
Gibbs Davis
760
K
10
C
300
J
280
J
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
System
Annotation
Lucille Colandro has created a fun Halloween version of the original
cumulative rhyme "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly."
Songwriter and television comedy writer Katz provides ludicrous lyrics
to 14 traditional tunes, offering playful parodies on some familiar
routines.
In this counting book, one by one, the little monkeys jump on the bed
only to fall off and bump their heads.
Tradional nursery rhyme set to music
A familiar song is continued as two children sail their boat to an island
where they have fun adventures. They decide to end their stay on the
island after meeting a lion.
Catalina is a very unusual girl. This book is filled with funny, colorful
illustrations that bring a new meaning to the old camp song.
Traditonal spiritual in picture book form--beautiful paintings
NP
Anna Grossnickle
K
Story
310
Tedd Arnold
Clap Your Hands
For You Are a Kenyan Child
I
L
R.NT.00.02
R.NT.00.02
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
A boy who is always last in line sees many animals and birds in nature
that his classmates overlook as they walk together to a park.
The owner of a human body celebrates it by pointing out various parts
and mentioning their functions, from "hands for catching and throwing"
to the "skin that bundles me in."
Rhyming text instructs children and animals to use different parts of
their body to move, change, and have fun.
A simply written rhyming text follows a young African-American girl
through her day.
Jack and his toy Guy like playing on the stairs in Jack's house. When
Guy falls into a hole on a step, Jack wonders what might be happening
to Guy in that dark and mysterious place. Readers will enjoy this photocollage style book celebrating a child's imagination.
In this lyrical story, rich in detail, the reader is asked to imagine that he
or she is a child living in a small Kenyan village who must take his
grandfather's cows out to pasture. Although life in the boy's African
village is very different than life in America in some ways, in other ways
this Kenyan child is like children you know. What will happen when he
decides to visit with friends and leaves the cows all alone?
Gossie wants her best friend, Gertie, to follow her. When Gertie doesn't
listen, Gossie decides to follow Gertie instead.
Corey's father makes spaghetti, dresses up like Bathman, and acts like
a barking dog.
Emily is in for a surprise when students introduce themselves on the
first day of school.
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Story
K
GLCE
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K
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
Tall Tale
5
R.NT.05.02
The Seven Chinese Brothers
Margaret Mahy
R.NT.05.02
Swamp Angel
Anne Isaacs
5, 6
720
M
820
O
1020
O
Larry Dane Brimner
Johnny Appleseed
William Jones
Paul Bunyan
Steven Kellogg
1030
Pecos Bill
O
Roberta Collier
Paul Bunyan
Marianne Johnston
880
John Henry
Julius Lester
R.NT.05.02
American Tall Tales
Mary Pope Osborne
R.NT.05.02
The Bunyans
Audrey Wood
R.NT.05.02
Mike Fink
Steven Kellogg
R.NT.05.02
Pecos Bill
Bill Balcziak
720
M
970
Q
980
P
870
N
520
Tall Tale Of John Henry, The
David Neufeld
440
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In KDL
System
Annotation
Eight animals add ingredients to make a cake with unexpected results.
Spanish words, a glossary, and a recipe for pineapple upside-down cake
are included.
It's a tough life for one stray dog wandering the city for food and a
place to sleep. Even at a shelter, there is not enough food to spare for
one scruffy animal. But a woman who works there decides to take the
dog home and show him what it is like to finally be loved.
This is the classic story of John Henry's struggle to outdo the steam
drill, and the fight to maintain human inqunuity in the face of
industrialization.
Seven sisters have extraordinary powers that they use in times of need.
Seven brothers elude execution by virture of their extraordinary
individual qualities.
A Tennessee tall tale about a good-natured heroine who rescues a
wagon train from the swamp, and overcomes a huge bear who is
terrorizing the settlers.
Describe some of the adventures of the legendary Captain Stormalong,
who weighed some four tons at the age of twelve and was known for
riding a whale.
Retells the wandering of John Chapman whose devotion to planting
apple trees made him a legendary figure in American history.
There are many extravagant tales woven about the life of Johnny
Appleseed. These are some new additions to the classic story line.
When Pecos Bill was a baby, his kinfolk decide to pack up and head
west. Bill becomes the ultimate cowboy, inventing rodeos, lassos, and
cattle roping.
Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size
and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.
660
W.GN.06.01
Tall Tale
J
750
R.NT.05.02
5
400
820
R.NT.05.02
Tall Tale
Captain Stormalong
NR
Julius Lester
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
5
John Henry
350
Stephen Michael King
Kathy Tucker
R.NT.05.02
Tall Tale
Mutt Dog!
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Susan Middleton Elya
The Seven Chinese Sisters
R.NT.05.02
5
Eight Animals Bake a Cake
Author
R.NT.05.02
R.NT.05.02
Tall Tale
Book Title
T
This is the classic story of John Henry's struggle to outdo the steam
drill, and the fight to maintain human ingenuity in the face of
industrialization.
A collection of many tall tale stories.
Follows the story of the fictional family, the Bunyans, and how their day
to day lifestyle literally shaped America.
This is the retold tale of wild child Mike Fink, who became the greatest
keelboat man on the Mississippi.
Presents the story of the baby, Pecos Bill, being raised by coyotes and
his eventual marriage to Slue Foot Sue, another tall tale from the
American Southwest.
John Henry embodies all the good qualities of every man who ever
sweated and risked his life working on the railroad. This book explores
the origins of the legend of this great man and how he won a contest
against a steam-powered drill.
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Tall Tale
5, 6
Tall Tale
GLCE
Book Title
Author
W.GN.06.01
Tall Tales: Timeless Tales
W.GN.06.01
Robert D. San Souci
Cut From The Same Cloth:
American Women Of Myth, Legend,
And Tall Tale
5, 6
Tana Reiff
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
In KDL
System
Annotation
This book is a collection of well-known tall tales, retold for today's
reader.
This is a collection of fifteen stories about legendary American women
taken from folktales, ballads, and stories. Three stories from each of
five regions of the United States represent a variety of cultures,
including Native American, African American, and Anglo American.
510
NR
1050
T
370
E
30
E
Even though Little Critter is young, there are many things he can do all
by himself. He is proud of what he can do on his own, but he knows he
still needs help with some things.
With help from his mother, Scott practices paddling and kicking in a
pool.
430
J
When no one will let Little Critter do anything he wants to do, he
becomes so mad that he decides to run away. Can anything stop him?
970
L
On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled
by the thought that other people have bad days, too.
NARRATIVE
WRITING:
Adventure
4, 6
Drama
7
Fable
3
Fantasy
2, 4, 6
Folktale
3, 6
Historical Fiction
5, 8
Legend
4, 7
Memoir
7
Mystery
5, 7
Myth
4, 7
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
W.GN.04.01
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.07.01
W.GN.03.01
W.GN.02.01
W.GN.04.02
W.GN.06.02
W.GN.03.01
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.05.01
W.GN.08.01
W.GN.04.01
W.GN.07.01
W.GN.07.01
W.GN.05.01
W.GN.07.01
W.GN.04.01
W.GN.07.01
W.GN.00.01
See Fantasy Reading lists:
R.NT.02.02, R.NT.04.02,
R.NT.06.02
See Folktale Reading lists:
R.NT.03.02 and R.NT.06.02
See Historical Fiction Reading lists:
R.NT.05.02 R.NT.08.01
See Legend Reading lists:
R.NT.04.02 R.NT.07.02
See Memoir Reading list:
R.NT.07.02
See Mystery Reading lists:
R.NT.05.02 R.NT.07.02
See Myth Reading lists:
R.NT.04.02 R.NT.07.02
All By Myself
Mercer Mayer
W.GN.00.01
I Can Swim
Edana Eckart
W.GN.00.01
I Was So Mad
Mercer Mayer
W.GN.00.01
W.GN.00.01
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
See Adventure Reading lists:
R.NT.04.02 and R.NT.06.02
See Drama Reading list:
R.NT.07.02
See Fable Reading list: R.NT.03.01
Alexander And The Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst
Being Me
Julie Broski
40
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
C
The narrator talks about all the things she likes and does that make her
who she is. "Being Me" is a book from the Rookie Reader series.
Page 58
Genre
Grade
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
GLCE
W.GN.00.01
Book Title
Don't Hit Me!
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Bernette Ford
250
W.GN.00.01
I Like Myself!
Karen Beaumont
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
G
W.GN.01.01
The Dress I'll Wear to the Party
Shirley Neitzel
W.GN.01.01
The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's
Shirley Neitzel
W.GN.01.01
The Zebra Wall
W.GN.01.01
The Worst Best School Year Ever
Barbara Robinson
W.GN.01.01
Me on the Map
Joan Sweeney
W.GN.01.01
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Mark Teague
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
W.GN.02.01
Nate the Great
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
W.GN.02.01
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Mark Teague
W.GN.02.01
Something Beautiful
Sharon Wyeth
W.GN.02.01
I'm in Charge of Celebrations
Byrd Baylor
W.GN.02.01
When I Was Young in the Mountains Cynthia Rylant
W.GN.02.01
My Mama Had a Dancing Heart
Libba Moore Gray
W.GN.02.01
Enemy Pie
Derek Munson
J
In cumulative verses and rebuses a girl describes how she is dressing
up in her mother's party things.
NP
L
In cumulative verses and rebuses a young boy and his mother have
different views on how to pack a bag for a trip to Grandma's.
800
S
1020
P
When ten-year-old Adine's mother has a new baby, eccentric Aunt Irene
comes to stay and shares Adine's bedroom--an event which requires a
great deal of adjustment.
The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world,
cause mayhem throughout the school year.
280
J
A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her
country become part of a map of her world.
NP
I
130
K
Alexander and the Terrible,
Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
A boy tells his class, in rhyming verses, how he spent his summer
vacation: learning cowboy tricks like starting fires with sticks and roping
cattle, and stopping a stampede by twirling a large tablecloth.
A boy detective solves mysteries in his neighborhood with the help of
his friends and his pets.
A schoolboy tells his class how he spent his summer vacation, during
which he joined a group of cowboys and helped stop a cattle stampede.
410
When she goes looking for "something beautiful" within her city
neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.
700
A dweller in the desert celebrates a triple rainbow, a chance encounter
with a coyote, and other wonders of the wilderness.
Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child
980
1010
330
W.GN.02.01
In a simple rhyming story a boy faces a very common problem. His
friend hits him, right in the middle of a game. Will the two boys find a
way to make up and get along?
A young girl describes her looks and personality in an amusing way.
She is happy with who she is because there is no one else she would
rather be. This rhyming book uses colorful illustrations to support the
points the young girl is trying to make.
NP
Kevin Henkes
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative
E
In KDL
System
Annotation
Judith Viorst
970
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
O
A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each
season with a dance outdoors.
Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid
of his enemy, a little boy finds that it actually helps him make a new
friend.
On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled
by the thought that other people have bad days too.
Page 59
Genre
Grade
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
2
Personal Narrative
GLCE
Book Title
Author
W.GN.02.01
Christmas in the Country
Cynthia Rylant
W.GN.02.01
Earrings!
Judith Viorst
W.GN.02.01
A Good Day's Fishing!
James Prosek
W.GN.02.01
Gooney Bird Greene
Lois Lowry
W.GN.06.01
The View From Saturday
E. L. Konigsburg
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
630
A young girl growing up in the country enjoys a simple but enchanting
Christmas with her family.
470
A young girl uses various arguments to convince her parents to let her
have her ears pierced.
A child searches through the hooks, lures, bobbers, and other
paraphernalia in his tacklebox for the one thing he needs to ensure a
good day's fishing. Includes a detailed glossary.
Amost unusual new student who needs to be the center of attention
entertains her teacher and fellow 2nd graders by telling abosultely true
stories about herself, including how she got her name.
2
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.06.01
Number the Stars
Bud, Not Buddy
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.06.01
W.GN.06.01
The Cheat
Sahara Special
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
U
950
T
620
U
660
S
800
X
700
S
750
V
Esme Raji Codell
Deborah Ellis
My Name Is Brain Brian
Jeanne Betancourt
Missing May
670
Amy Goldman Koss
Richard Peck
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
W.GN.06.01
U
Christopher Paul Curtis
Three Wishes: Palestinian And
Israeli Children Speak
A Long Way From Chicago
870
Louis Lowry
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
In KDL
System
Annotation
Cynthia Rylant
980
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
W
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond
and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses
them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl
competition.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old
Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps
shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
This Newbery Award-winning book tells the story of ten-year-old Bud,
an orphan during the Great Depression. After running away from his
foster home, Bud sets out to search for the man he believes to be his
father.
Six eighth-graders are affected differently by the act of cheating--or not
cheating--when they are offered the answers to last year's geography
midterm exam.
Fifth grader Sahara Jones, an aspiring writer, is misunderstood in school
until she enters Miss Pointy's classroom. Miss Pointy is an unusual type
of teacher.
Learn first-hand from Palestinian and Israeli children, ages eight to
eighteen, what they think about war and how it has shaped their lives.
Although he is helped by his new sixth-grade teacher after being
diagnosed as dyslexic, Brian still has some problems with school and
with people he thought were his friends.
In this 1999 Newbery Honor Book, Joey and Mary Alice take part in
many adventures as they visit Grandma each summer during the
1930s: feeding out-of-work drifters the same day as seeing the sheriff
singing in his underpants, seeing a corpse that isn't ready to be buried,
and gaining justice by using a mouse in a milk bottle.
This short novel is a study of grief--chiefly, that felt by Summer after
her foster mother's sudden death, but also her sorrow at witnessing the
grief of Ob, her foster father--she realizes that she herself may not be
reason enough for him to go on living.
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Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon
Maybe
Bird
Author
Bette Greene
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Poetry
K-8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
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900
Y
710
Y
310
L
490
O
230
C
440
L
300
K
Angela Johnson
Personal Narrative K, 1, 2, 6
Poetry
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
In KDL
System
Annotation
Sixth-grader Beth Lambert is a natural winner. She is always the one
who is best at everything she does. Philip Hall is the smartest and
cutest boy in the class. Philip beats Beth in everything until Beth
realizes that she lets Philip win. Can their friendship survive when Philip
loses to Beth?
An open-ended, interconnected narrative in three voices. Bird, 13, has
run away from Cleveland to rural Alabama, trying to find her stepfather,
Cecil, and bring him home. On the way, she befriends two boys and an
elderly woman living alone, and learns exactly what it was she thought
she was looking for.
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The Boxcar Children
Biscuit Visits the Big City
Mr. Tanen's Tie Trouble
Bernard Waber
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Get Ready for Second Grade,
Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
The Pizza That We Made
Joan Holub
NA
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
A little boy is excited at the prospect of spending the night at his
friend's house but worries how he'll get along without his teddy bear.
Four orphaned children run away and live in a boxcar until they are
found by their grandfather. Includes a biography and photographs of
the author.
On his first visit to the city, an excited puppy sees tall buildings, hears
loud buses, and tries to say hello to everyone he meets.
X
Mr. Tanen loves his ties, but when his school runs out of money to build
a new playground, he decides to sell his ties in order to raise the
needed money.
Amber is nervous about starting second grade with a new teacher, but
despite being in the same class as mean Hannah Burton, things turn out
just fine.
Three young cooks have fun making their own pizza, cleaning up their
mess, and eating hot slices!
X
X
X
X
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Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Realistic Fiction
2, 3, 8
Science Fiction
8
Tall Tale
5, 6
Tall Tale
5,6
Tall Tale
GLCE
W.GN.02.01
Book Title
The Hello,Goodbye Window
Author
Norton Juster
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Whistle for Willie
Ezra Jack Keats
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Emma's Yucky Brother
Jean Little
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The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
Shirley Neitzel
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Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish
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Thunder Cake
Patricia Polacco
W.GN.02.01
Henry and Mudge and Annie's
Perfect Pet
Cynthia Rylant
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W.GN.08.02
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K
410
L
200
J
NP
K
120
L
630
M
180
J
In KDL
System
Annotation
The kitchen window at her grandparents' house is a magic gateway for
one little girl. The story depicts the special relationship she has with
her grandparents.
A little boy wishes so much that he could whistle.
X
Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts
a four-year-old boy named Max.
A young girl names all the clothes that she must wear to play in the
snow.
A literal-minded housekeeper causes a ruckus in the household when
she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
X
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
X
Although Henry's cousin Annie likes his dog Mudge, when she gets her
own pet she decides that a bunny will be perfect for her.
X
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Teaching Tall Tales (Scholastic)
ISBN-13:978-0590365116
X
X
X
X
Tracy West
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http://www.readwritethink.o Thundering Tall Tales:
rg/lessons/lesson_view.asp?i Using Read-Aloud as a
Springboard to Writing
d=327
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Use magazines, newspapers,
pictures of billboards, etc., as
models
Time for Kids Almanac
Beth Rowen
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The Old Farmer's Almanac for kids
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
5,6
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
This lesson, intended for the end of a unit on tall tales, uses the
book Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen to reinforce the common
elements, or text structure, of tall tales. As the text is read
aloud, students examine the elements of the book that are
characteristic of tall tales and then use that knowledge to write
their own tall tales.
INFORMATIONAL
READING:
Advertisement
5
Almanac
4
Almanac
4
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
A compilation of information for kids, featuring maps, charts, and facts
on a variety of topics, such as animals, art, building and landmarks,
computers and the Internet, the environment, history, math, space, and
others; and includes puzzles, mazes, word searches, time lines, and
homework tips.
Presents a collection of facts, figures, information, and trivia on a wide
range of topics; such as weather, gardening, pets, sports, and health.
Includes illustrations.
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Almanac
Atlas
Grade
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Atlas
5
Autobiography
4,7
Autobiography
4,7
Autobiography
4,7
Autobiography
4,7
Autobiography
5
The World Almanac for Kids
C. Alan Joyce
Provides information on topics of particular interest to kids, such as
United States history, art, weather, music, and sports, and features fun
facts, puzzles, games, activities, jokes, maps, flags, source Web sites,
and photographs. Includes special coverage of 2008 Olympic athletes
and crime scene investigation techniques.
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World Almanac and Book of Facts
World Almanac Books
Presents thousands of facts and statistics on a variety of subjects such
as economy, business, energy, health, entertainment, science and
technology, history and elections, U.S. cities and states, world nations,
and sports, and includes a review of the top ten news stories and other
highlights of 2007
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Historical Atlas of the United States Simon & Schuster
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Rand McNally Answer Atlas: The
Geography Resource for Students
Rand McNally and Company
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Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipovic
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Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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On The Banks of Plum Creek
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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By The Shores of Silver Lake
Explores the U.S.'s past from a geographical perspective, presenting
more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the
world and discussing important events and cultural changes.
640
X
930
Q
720
Q
As a child living in Sarajevo during the war, Zlata learns what it is like
to lose friends and family and to fear for her life. Throughout the war,
Zlata keeps her diary faithfully and shows her courage as her world falls
apart around her.
The author records events from her childhood in the Wisconsin
wilderness during the late nineteenth century.
The members of a Minnesota pioneer family desperately strive to get
out of debt after grasshoppers destroy their entire wheat crop.
820
Q
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at
a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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National Geographic Student Atlas
of the World: Revised Edition
National Geographic
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Soul Surfer
Bethany Hamilton
4,7
960
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In KDL
System
Annotation
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5
Autobiography
Book Title
4
Atlas
Autobiography
GLCE
The Story of My Life: An Afghan
Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
Ahmedi Farah
850
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Z
Contains a collection of maps, charts, graphs, photographs, flags, an
facts that provide a wide range of information about the continents and
countries of the world.
When Bethany Hamilton, who had been surfing in Hawaii since she was
seven years old, lost her arm in a shark attack, the media and the world
took notice. The truly amazing story about Bethany unfolded after the
attack when her faith, courage, and determination to return to
competitive surfing became apparent. Bethany has inspired countless
people around the world with her positive outlook
Farah Ahmedi, the victim of a land mine when she was just twelve
years old, tells about her childhood in Afghanistan, a country trapped in
war her entire life, and discusses the challenges she has faced as a
result of losing her leg, and in trying to adapt to living in the United
States.
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4,7
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Autobiography
4,7
Autobiography
4,7
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Autobiography
Rosa Parks My Story
Benjamin Franklin
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Peck
Through My Eyes
Autobiography
4,7
Autobiography
4,7
Autobiography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
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The House of Mango Street
Living Up the Street
Muhammad
Demi
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Gandhi
Demi
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Dare to Dream: 25 Extraordinary
Lives
Ordinary Genius: The Story of
Albert Einstein
The Story of Walt Disney: Maker of
Magical Worlds
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography
Sandra McLeod Humphrey
The Story of Benjamin Franklin:
Amazing American
Margaret Davidson
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NR
690
Z
940
NR
860
W
870
W
1140
Y
480
M
Gary Soto
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Sandro Cisneros
Patricia Polacco
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970
Ruby Bridges
My Rotten Older RedHeaded Step
Brother
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X
Esther Hautzig
4,7
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1090
Rosa Parks
The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin
The Endless Steppe
Guided
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Reading
Level
Level
Helen Keller
4,7
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Autobiography
The Story of My Life Helen Keller
Author
4,7
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Autobiography
Book Title
980
In KDL
System
Annotation
At the age of nineteen months, Helen Keller became deaf and blind after
a serious illness. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Helen
overcame adversities to learn to read, write, speak, and enjoy the world
around her.
Rosa Parks recounts her life story as a civil rights activist in
Montgomery, Alabama. She describes her involvement in many
nonviolent protests, including her refusal to give up her seat to a white
man on a bus.
Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is a
lively, spellbinding account of his unique and wonderful life as an
athlete, a man of letters, a scientist, an inventor, and a writer.
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs
for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be
done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and
her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies
and exiled to Siberia.
This autobiographical book reveals the character of the first black child
to attend the William Frantz Public School in Louisiana in 1960. Read
about the challenges faced by six-year-old Ruby Bridges as she
pioneers integration in a racist South.
Esperanza narrates her experiences growing up on Mango Street in the
Latino section of Chicago, telling of the different characters in her
neighborhood and of her transition from girlhood to womanhood.
This is the story of a boy growing up in Fresno, California. It describes
his life, his loves, playing Little League, and life on the streets of the
barrio.
After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to
her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star
A story of Muhammad and his journey discovering spirituality and the
Islamic Religion.
A story of Gandhi and his journey discovering the philosophy of peaceful
resistance.
Stephanie Sammartino
McPherson
Bernice Selden
William Anderson
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Biography
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Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
GLCE
Dr. Seuss
Dana Meachen Rau
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Jesse Owens, Picture Book of
David A. Adler
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Thurgood Marshall, A Picture Book
of
Martin Luther King, Jr., A Picture
Book of
David A. Adler
Fredrick Douglass, A Picture Book
of
David Adler
George Washington Carver, A
Picture Book of
Harriet Tubman, A Picture Book of
David Adler
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David Adler
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Go Fly a Kite, Ben Franklin
Peter and Connie Roop
4,7
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Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
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N
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M
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M
820
M
830
N
760
M
890
M
680
N
690
N
750
M
Peter and Connie Roop
Let's Dream, Martin Luther King,
Jr.!
Peter and Connie Roop
Let's Split Logs Abe Lincoln!
Peter and Connie Roop
700
N
660
N
450
N
700
L
610
O
670
T
810
R
Turn on the Light, Thomas Edison ! Peter and Connie Roop
Let's Play Solider, George
Washington!
Peter and Connie Roop
Give Me a Sign, Helen Keller!
Peter and Connie Roop
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Fredrick Douglass
Catherine A. Welch
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Harriet Tubman
Maryann N. Weidt
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Rosa Parks
Maryann N. Weidt
In KDL
System
Annotation
390
David Adler
Jackie Robinsion: He was the First
Let's Fly, Wilbur and Orville!
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
David Adler
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Biography
Author
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Book Title
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
A noted African-American track star who competed in the 1936 Berlin
Olympics.
Follows the life of the first African-American to serve as a judge on the
U.S. Supreme Court .
Biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosphy
and practice of non-violence disobedience helped American Blacks win
any battles for equal rights.
Biography of the man who, after escaping slavery became an orator,
writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth
century.
The scientist who overcame tremendous hardship to make unusual and
important discoveries in the field of agriculture.
Biography of the African-American woman who escaped from slavery to
become famous as a conductor on the Underground Railrod.
A biography about an African American man and his struggles with race
in the military and baseball.
An easy biography about Ben Franklin when he was a child and the
events that lead to his discover conducting electricity and his role in
American government.
An easy biography about the life of two brothers and how their family
and childhood adventures eventually lead them to be the first men to
fly!
An easy biography describing the childhood of Martin Luther King Jr.
and how many family and childhood experiences helped fuel his desire
to help African-Americans nation wide with non-violent practices.
An easy biography depicting the life of the young presidental hopeful
and how is life in Illinois and his experiences being a lawyer lead to him
becoming the 16th Presidnet of the United States.
An easy biography of the famous inventor and how his curious nature
lead to him conducting over 1000 experiements throughout his life,
including the lightbulb.
An easy biography explaining how the life of a plantation owner would
lead to him being our first President in the United States.
An easy biography of how young girl's struggle with blindness and being
deaf would lead to a heroic tale and an wonderful example for many to
follow.
Fredrick Douglass was born a slave, but he had the spirit of a freeman.
He had the courage to lead others to freedom.
The life of Harriet Tubman who worked on the Underground Raildroad is
chronicled.
This is the story of Rosa Parks who made history on December 1, 1955.
Her bravery inspired many other African Americans to stand up for
themselves.
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Grade
GLCE
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4,7
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Biography
Author
Great Black Heroes: Five Bold
Freedom Fighters
Wade Hudson
Five Notable Inventors
Wade Hudson
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
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Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
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Great Black Heroes: Five Brillant
Scienctists
Lynda Jones
Five Brave Explorers
Wade Hudson
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Dorothy Sterling
Tubman
Coming Home from the Life of
Floyd Cooper
Langston Hughes
Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei
Peter Sis
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Biography
4,7
Biography
4,7
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of
Discovery
Lincoln: A Photobiography
620
P
660
P
570
P
910
T
770
830
P
730
0
1030
W
30923
Y
910
T
Jean Fritz
4,7
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Rober Coles
Promises to Keep: How Jackie
Sharon Robinson
Robinson Changed America
All Shook Up: The Life and Death of Barry Deneberg
Elvis Presley
The Double Life of Pocahontas
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
810
4,7
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Book Title
Russell Freedman
1100
W
1110
V
Russell Freedman
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
In KDL
System
Annotation
This book is a collection of five African-Americans and their fight for
freedom and equal rights. The book includes Fannie Lou Hamer, Harriet
Tubman, Richard Allen, Mary Chruch Terrell, and Medgar Evers.
Profiles of Five African-Americans and how their inventions have
contributed to American society. The book includes Madame C.J.
Walker, Elijah McCoy, Garrett A. Morgan, Granville T. Woods, and Jan
Ernst Matzeliger.
Describes the early lives and notable achievements of five black
scientists. The book includes Ernest Just, George Washington Carver,
Shirley Jackson, Percy Julian, and Susan McKinney Steward.
Brief Biographies of five great African-American explorers. The book
includes James Beckwourth, Mae Jemison, Matthew Henson, Esteban,
and Jean DuSable.
Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line at least 18 times, a brave Negro woman
leads many fellow slaves to freedom.
This book is a simple, touching biography of Langston Hughes, the poet,
with vivid pictures and simple text.
This story relates the story of Galileo,the scientist, mathematician,
astronomer, philosospher, and physicist in simple language but with rich
illustrations.
For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of
white parents when she becomes the first African-American girl to
integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
A biography of baseball legend to play in the major leagues at told by
his daughters.
Black-and-white photographs and quotes from contemporaries add to
the tale of a poor boy from Tupelo who became the King of Rock and
Roll. An index and bibliography are included.
Pocahontas loves her life as a favored daughter of a powerful Indian
chief; Englishmen, however, threaten the existence of all she holds
dear, while one man, John Smith, holds a special charm for her that she
cannot resist. Soon she is torn between two worlds.
Eleanor Roosevelt attributed much of what she became to her years at
Allenswood, an exclusive finishing school in London, and its dynamic
headmistress, Mademoiselle Souvestre. This anthologized excerpt from
the book of the same name describes her transformation from a timid
child to a confident young woman. Note: The questions in this quiz are
limited to an excerpt of the original text as it appears in a reading
textbook series.
The life of Abraham Lincoln is traced through photographs in this
interesting examination of Lincoln's presidency through the Civil War.
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Grade
GLCE
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4,7
Russell Freedman
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and
Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Virginia Hamilton
Hidden Child of the Holocaust
Stacy Cretzmeyer
860
4,7
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Biography
Harvesting Hope: The Story of
Cesar Chavez
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Brochure
7
Comparative Essay
8
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
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800
R
Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Marfe Ferguson Delano
Einstein
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Bring in examples from your own
family's or friends' travel
See: writing of Comparative Essays
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The Food Guide Pyramid - Series
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The Human Body System -Series
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Apple Trees
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Lois Ehlert
Fish Eyes /Variety concept
books/season/weather/counting/ab
c/food/shapes
One Is A Snail, Ten Is a Crab - A
April Pulley Sayre & Jeff Sayre
Counting by Feet
The Hidden Alphabet
Laura Seeger
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A to Z An Alphabet Adventure
Mick Inkpen
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The Animal ABC
Lois Ehlert
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V
780
1030
Helen Frost
Y
NA
NA
Gail Saunders-Smith
360
D
NP
I
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Told from the point of view of a very young girl, this true account of
Jewish lives in Nazi-occupied France relates how the kindness of
strangers, from villagers to the Mother Superior of a convent, helped a
Jewish family to survive.
Cesar Chavez grew up on his family's ranch in Arizona. But when they
lost the ranch after a drought, the Chavezes were forced to move to
California to find work as migrant workers. As this illustrated biography
explains, these early experiences spurred Cesar to successfully fight for
better pay and working conditions for all migrant workers.
Einstein's theory of relativity is known worldwide, and much of his
scientific work laid the foundations for today's technology. This
outstanding photobiography shows the famous scientist was as
passionate about his beliefs as he was about his work. He fell in love
twice, proved theories that changed the world, and made time to speak
out on pacifism, personal freedoms, and justice. Throughout his entire
life, Einstein stretched his imagination and kept questioning.
Simple text and photographs present the foods that are part of the food
pyramid. Table of Cont/Index
Simple text , photographs and diagrams introduce the body systems.
Table of Contents/Index.
Simple text, photos describe an apple tree through the seasons. T of
C/Index
Counting numbers, fish and rhyming text. Most of her work is rhyming
text - variety of topics.
Pictures transformed into letters.
NP
NA
Anthony Burns was a slave who escaped to Boston in 1854 and was
arrested at the instigation of his owner. His trial caused a furor between
abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
Counting book with animal feet in the ocean
NP
90
In KDL
System
Annotation
This moving biography recounts Crazy Horse's rise to greatness
as a Sioux warrior, as well as the hardships and battles his people
endured trying to save their land. Historical illustrations by Crazy
Horse's cousin, Amos Bad Heart Bull, accompany the text.
Kathleen Krull
4,7
Biography
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
1100
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Biography
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Author
4,7
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Biography
Book Title
E
Learn the alpha while Kipper and his friend collect animals and other
animals for each letter
Learn the alphbet with animals
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Genre
Grade
Concept Book
K
Concept Book
K
GLCE
Book Title
Author
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Farm Life
Elizabeth Spurr
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The World of Color
Loretta Kruplinski
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Emily's Balloon
E Sakai
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
NA
NA
Concept Book
K
Concept
Concept
Concept
Concept
K
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Brown Bear Brown Bear
Bill Martin
440
K
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Just the Opposite - Series
Sharon Gordon
NA
K
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The Reason for Seasons
Gail Gibbons
620
K
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Wildflowers ABC
Diana Pomeroy
NA
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Book
Book
Book
Book
J
NA
C
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System
Annotation
Parts of farm life /different barns with color, rhyme, number learning
concepts. Glossary
Colors
A little girl's new friend is round, lighter than air,and looks like the
moon at night.
Brown Bear sees animals in the primary colors.
Hard/Soft, Big/Small, etc.
M
Informational book on seasons
The different colors/flowers.
Editorial
5
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Encyclopedia
5
5
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Use local newspapers from small
communities and villages in your
district for current issues of debate use also for Core Democratic
Values and writing persuasive
essays.
The Grand Rapids Press
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Editorial Cartoons for Kids
5
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Periodicals
3
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http://en.wikipedia.org
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Britannica student encyclopedia.
[multi-volume set]
Contains over 2,200 alphabetized, cross-referenced articles for young
readers on topics and figures in many areas of knowledge and
endeavor, such as art, science, geography, history, and wildlife.
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Scholastic Children's Encyclopedia
Presents brief articles on a wide variety of topics from Abolition
Movement and Earthquakes to Prehistoric Peoples and Zoology.
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World Book Encyclopedia
Grade 5 Up–A look through the Research Guide/Index in Volume 22 will
assure readers that the content of this annually updated encyclopedia
continues to reflect contemporary concerns and interests.
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The Usborne First Encyclopedia of
Our World
Text and color illustrations present introductory overviews of
geographical topics, from the seasons and weather to the seas and the
rain forest, and provide related Web site addresses.
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Signs
Literacy 2000 Rigby
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I Read Signs
Tana Hoben
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I Read Symbols
Tana Hoben
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City 1-2-3
Zoran Milich
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Signs
Twig/Wright Group
Encyclopedia
3
Encyclopedia
3
Encyclopedia
3
Encyclopedia
3
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
NA
B
Wordless with envrionmental pictures. Introduces signs and symbols
frequently seen along the street.
NA
Wordless with envrionmental pictures
NA
Photographs of buildings with numbers attached.
NA
NA
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Predictable book with signs around town
E
Signs in the environment, what you would see around town.
Page 68
Genre
Grade
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Environmental Text
K
Experiment
5
GLCE
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Experiment
Author
Jennifer S. Burke
Welcome Books Series/Circles/Triangles/Squares/Re
ctangles/Stars/Ovals
One White Wishing Stone A Beach Doris Gayzagian
Day Counting Book
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The JET Alphabet Book
Jerry Pallotta and Rob Bolster
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The Deep Blue Sea - A Book of
Colors
Audrey Wood
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Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and
Shpheres
Tana Hoban
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M is for Mitten
Annie Appleford
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Rectangles Around Town
Nathan Olson
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ABC Letters in the Library
Bonnie Tarmer
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Tickets to Ride
Mark Rogalski
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Firefighters A-Z
Chris L Demarest
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Everything Kids' Science
Experiments Book
Science Experiments You Can Eat
Tom Mark Robinson
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Experiment
Book Title
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
G-H
NA
NA
Table of Contents & Index - Each book describes the shapes in the
environment.
A counting book using the beach environment.
Explore the sea environment with the emphasis on colors.
NP
Shapes
NA
Alphabet book depiciting MI landmarks/common objects found in the
States environment.
NP
Finding rectangle shapes round town.
560
Finding the letters of the alpha in the Library
NP
Alphabetic picture book that features 26 amusement rides with a ticket
for each.
NP
310
In KDL
System
Annotation
Illustrations of different jets/logos with the letters of the alpha in
different settings.
NP
F
Location: Firebarn/A-Z alphabet identification.
Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity -- Challenge the World Around
You!
The kitchen is a perfect laboratory for thirty-nine easy and delicious
science experiments with food. Students can investigate starches,
sugars, proteins, carbohydrates, and more--then eat the results!
980
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365 Simple Science Experiments
with Everyday Materials
Churchill and Loesching
Illustrated by Frances Zweifel. The fundamentals of science are brought
to life in a year's worth of fun and educational hands-on experiments
that can be performed easily and inexpensively at home.
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How a Book is Made
Aliki
A look at book publishing, from writing the story through the editing,
proofreading, designing, and printing procedures, to the promotional
and sales steps, and the diverse technical processes involved.
5
1, 2
240
Vicki Cobb
5
How-to-Book
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
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Clay Art With Gloria Elliott
390
N
20
E
210
G
NP
G
Pamela Chanko
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Oranges to Orange Juice
Inez Snyder
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All You Need for a Snowman
Alice Schertle
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Peanut Butter and Jelly
Nadine Bernard Westcott
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Color photographs and simple text show how Gloria Elliot uses clay to
make sculptures, necklaces, mobiles, and finger puppets.
Simple text and color photographs show a father and daughter making
orange juice from oranges.
Lists everything that one needs to build the perfect snowman, from the
very first snowflake that falls.
Clap your hands, slap your knees along with the play rhyme about that
favorite of all sandwiches-peanut butter and jelly.
Page 69
Genre
Grade
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
GLCE
Author
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The Usborne Internet-Linked
Children's World Cookbook
Angela Wilkes and Fiona Watt
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Building a House
Byron Barton
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Let's Make Pizza
Mary Hill
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How to be a Friend: A Guide to
Marc Brown
Making Friends and Keeping Them.
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Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!
The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Book
1, 2
1, 2
How-to-Book
1,2
How-to-Book
1, 2
H
120
E
420
N
M
Readers can follow the pictures and text as they watch a house being
built.
Shari and her father prepare a homemade pizza in this photographfilled, easy-to-read text.
This uses precise language and hunorous illustrations to offer specific
ways to be a friend and specific not to be one. There is a special
section on dealing with bosses and bullies.
Big Brown Rooster is sick of chicken feed, so along with his friends-turtle, iguana, and pot-bellied pig--he sets out to make the most
magnificent strawberry shortcake in the whole world. Although no-one
knows how to cook, with teamwork they forge ahead to success.
Young readers will love following along as the hen, with no help from
her friends, goes through the steps of making a pizza - shopping for
supplies, making the dough, and adding the toppings.
The Furry News: How to Make a
Newspaper
Loreen Leedy
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The Boxcar Children Cookbook
Diane Blain
A collection of recipes based on the meals eaten by the Boxcar Children
in the series of books describing their mysterious adventures.
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"How to Draw" series….
Barbara Soloff Levy
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Super Simple Paper Airplanes:
Step-by-Step Instructions to Make
Planes that Really Fly.
Look at My Book: How Kids Can
Write & Illustrate Terrific Books
Nick Robinson
Series of "how-to" books by same author on how to draw pets, animals,
funny faces, flowers, birds, cars and trucks, dinosaurs and storybook
characters, etc.
40 different types of paper airplanes that range from super simple to
sophisticated looking. Children follow directions on choosing and folding
the paper.
Leedy focuses on the creation of a book from start to finish. In an easyto-follow format, she lays out the basics of producing a fiction or
nonfiction book, offering practical suggestions and clever ideas that will
encourage kids to pick up a pen or pencil and start writing. Following
the writing process fairly closely, from brainstorming ideas to binding
the book, she takes readers through a step-by-step formula that almost
guarantees a successful product.
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How-to-Book
100
320
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In KDL
System
Annotation
Contains more than forty simple recipes from around the world and
provides information on what is traditionally eaten in different countries
and the ingredients which are used; includes addresses for Web sites
which offer more coverage of the topic.
Philemon Sturges
1, 2
How-to-Book
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Susan Stevens Crummel & Janet
Stevens
1, 2
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How-to-Book
Book Title
440
I
Loreen Leedy
NR
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Messages in Mailbox: How to Write Loreen Leedy
a Letter
Games Around the World Magic
Tricks
520
Cythia Klingel and Robert B.
Noyed
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
NR
Big Bear and other animals work hard to write, edit, and print their
newspaper, "The Furry News." It includes tips for making your own
newspaper and defines a number of newspaper terms.
Discusses the different kinds of letters, the parts of a letter, and who
can be a potential correspondent, and provides examples.
Step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations show you how to do
magic thricks that will maze everyone.
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Genre
Grade
How-to-Book
1, 2
How-to-Article
6
How-to-Article
6
How-to-Article
6
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
GLCE
Book Title
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations show you how to do
card tricks that will entertain and surprise your friends.
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Games Around the World Card
Tricks
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http://www.wikihow.com/Wr
ite-a-How-to-Article
Instruction manuals, home
improvement web sites
Gives teachers practicle step by step ways to teach how to write How-to
articles.
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Beth Means and Lindy Linder
Teaching writing in the Middle
School:Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
ISBN-13: 978-1563085628
Teacher Resource
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Scholastic News
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Weekly Reader
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Your Big Backyard
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Highlights High Five
Child-focused, curriculum-connected current events newsweekly for
elementary students and their teachers. Presents late-breaking news in
a variety of formats.
Provides maps, high-interest topics and graphs to capture the interest
of your children.
For children aged 3 to 7 years. Filled with activities, simple stories and
wild animals that the little ones love. It draws preschoolers closer to
nature and gets them ready to read. Youngsters will enjoy the seasonal
crafts, simple cooking recipes, fun games, and more. Published
monthly.
For ages 2 to 6, encourages children's development. Each issue brings a
mix of read-aloud stories and age appropriate puzzles and activities.
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Ask
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Scholastic News
www.scholastic.com
Scholastic News brings current news stories to the classroom in an ageappropriate way. Bi-lingual magazines also available.
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Time For Kids
www.timeforkids.com
TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids
to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to
learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! A powerful
teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is
easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies,
science and math. Available K-1, 2-3, 4-6.
R.IT.02.01
Weekly Reader
www.weeklyreader.com
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Ranger Rick
www.rangerrick.com
Provides maps, high-interest topics and graphs to capture the interest
of your children.
Ranger Rick is for children ages 7 and up. Each issue is packed with
amazing facts, stunning photos and outdoor adventures that help kids
sharpen reading skills and develop a deeper appreciation for nature. A
Parent's Choice Gold Award recipient in 1999. Published monthly.
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Cythia Klingel and Robert B.
Noyed
In KDL
System
Annotation
National Wildlife Federation
Ask investigates the world with past and present inventors, artists, and
thinkers, and scientists. From the publishers of Click, Ask offers
cartoons, contests, projects, Web experiments, games, and puzzles for
kids ages 7 to 10 (grades 2 - 4).
1,2, 3
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Genre
Magazine
Magazine
Magazine
Magazine
Grade
Book Title
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
ZooBooks
www.zoobooks.com
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Click
Carus Publishing
www.cricketmagazine.com
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National Geographic Kids
www.nationalgeographic.com
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Your Big Backyard
For children aged 3 to 7 years. Filled with activities, simple stories and
wild animals that the little ones love. It draws preschoolers closer to
nature and gets them ready to read. Youngsters will enjoy the seasonal
crafts, simple cooking recipes, fun games, and more. Published monthly
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Highlights
Highlights for Children to age 14 delivers puzzles, science projects,
jokes and riddles to challenge young minds, while characters in regular
features like Hidden Pictures, The Timbertoes, Goofus and Gallant and
the Bear Family, keep children coming back like good friends should.
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Reading Safari
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Ranger Rick
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National Geographic for Kids
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Sports Illustrated Kids
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Time for Kids
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Cobblestone
1,2, 3
1,2, 3
1,2, 3
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Mondo Publishing
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
Magazine
1,2, 3
In KDL
System
Annotation
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1,2, 3
Magazine
Magazine
GLCE
Simply written and beautifully illustrated. Each monthly issue "captures"
one of 60 different animals through magnificent photography,
illustrations, diagrams, descriptions and includes interactive activity
pages. Kids get "up close and personal" with the world's most amazing
creatures.
Opens up a universe of wonder by introducing kids ages 3 to 7 to the
world that's all around them. Click is about the sciences, nature and the
environment. Produced by the editors of Ladybug, Click is written so
that children will love the challenge of new learning.
Ages 8 – 14 - Presents articles of interest to children ages 8-14, dealing
with crafts, nature, world cultures, science and general interest.
Includes pull-out supersize pages and contests.
Each Safari Magazine contains a fiction selection, a nonfiction article, a
poetry selection and a play.
Ranger Rick is for children ages 7 and up. Each issue is packed with
amazing facts, stunning photos and outdoor adventures that help kids
sharpen reading skills and develop a deeper appreciation for nature. A
Parent's Choice Gold Award recipient in 1999. Published monthly.
Ages 8 – 14 - Presents articles of interest to children ages 8-14, dealing
with crafts, nature, world cultures, science and general interest.
Includes pull-out supersize pages and contests.
www.sikids.com
Sports Illustrated KIDS is THE magazine for boys and girls who love
sports
TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids
to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to
learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! A powerful
teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is
easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies,
science and math. Available K-1, 2-3, 4-6.
Cobblestone Publishing, Inc.
Cobblestone is a history magazine that highlights a historical era,
concept, or individual and goes into depth about it.
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
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Genre
Grade
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Newspaper
(writings)
4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
GLCE
4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
4, 8
Personal
Correspondence
Personal
Correspondence
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Comprehensive Literacy Resource
for grades 3-6 Teachers.
Miriam Trehearne
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Karen's Newspaper
Ann M. Martin
440
I
530
N
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System
Annotation
Big Bear, Rabbit, and the other animals work hard to write, edit, and
print their newspaper, "The Furry News." This book includes tips for
making your own newspaper and defines a number of newspaper
terms.
This book follows the daily work at a newspaper from editorial meetings
until the paper leaves the printing press and is delivered to homes.
This book provides research based instructional strategies for teaching
informational and narrative text structure.
Karen hatches the idea of starting a neighborhood newspaper just for
kids, but when she and her friends print gossip about the neighbors,
they get into trouble.
In this lesson, students will write a news article for the school
newspaper. The lesson begins with a discussion about freedom of
speech and the important role it plays in journalism. Next, students will
learn how to create news articles by developing 'lead paragraphs' and
by using the 'inverted pyramid' model. Once this is done, they will be
given time during class to select topics, conduct research, write their
articles and proof read and peer edit their own and other's works.
420
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http://www.mediaawareness.ca/english/resources/ed
ucational/lessons/secondary/broadc
ast_news/writing_newspaper_articl
e.cfm
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http://www.jhuapl.edu/education/el
ementary/newspapercourse/forteac
hers/forteachers.htm
This site will give lesson plans for newspaper writing with focus on Who,
What, When, Where, and Why.
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http://www.northernstar.info/nina/
highschool/write.html
Will give teacher tips on how to teach newspaper writing.
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http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=311
Students identify genre characteristics for narrative short stories and
journalistic newspaper articles then practice both genres by turning a
short story into a news article and an article into a short story.
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http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=249
Comprehensive site that walks teachers through creating a classroom
newspaper.
Dear Mr. Blueberry
Simon James
2, 7
660
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Yours Truly, Goldilocks
Alma FlorAda
2, 7
810
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2, 7
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Loreen Leedy
Deadline! From News To Newspaper Gail Gibbons
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Personal
Correspondence
Furry News, The
Author
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4, 8
Newspaper
(writings)
Book Title
The Jolly Postman or Other People's Janet & Alan Ahlberg
Letters
NP
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
K
Throughout the summer, Emily and Mr. Blueberry exchange letters,
until Emily has a happy surprise to share with her teacher. In the
process, Emily learns a lot about whales. Mr. Blueberry learns even
more about imagination, faith, and love.
Correspondence of Goldilocks, the Three Pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit,
and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party
for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.
A jolly postman delivers letters to several famous fairy tale characters
such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Each letter
may be removed from its envelope page and read separately.
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Genre
Grade
Personal
Correspondence
2, 7
GLCE
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2, 7
Personal
Correspondence
2, 7
Personal
Correspondence
2, 7
Personal
Correspondence
2, 7
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Personal
Correspondence
Personal
Correspondence
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2, 7
Personal
Correspondence
2, 7
The Gardener
Mark Teague
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
Doreen Cronin
Postcards from Pluto
M
570
L
500
L
160
K
330
K
Doreen Cronin
Loreen Leedy
Dear Miss Breed
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P.S. Longer Letter Later
Paula Danzinger & Ann Martin
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary
1040
Y
750
U
910
Dear Austin: Letters from the
Underground Railroad
P
Joanne Openheim
2, 7
2, 7
400
Sarah Stewart
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from
Obedience School
Giggle, Giggle, Quack
L
Ann Whitehead Nagda
490
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Personal
Correspondence
Dear Whiskers
2, 7
Personal
Correspondence
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Joanna Harrison
2, 7
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Personal
Correspondence
Dear Bear
Author
140
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Personal
Correspondence
Book Title
Q
Elvira Woodruff
970
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T
In KDL
System
Annotation
Katie is afraid of the bear that lives under the stairs in her house, until
they exchange letters and she finally gets to meet him.
4th graders write a letter to their 2nd grade pen pals pretending they
are a mouse living inside the 2nd graders desk. This warm story is a
wonderful introduction to a letter writing unit.
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his
job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city, but takes
her love for gardening with her.
Gertrude LaRue receives typewriten and paw-written letters from her
dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine
Academy and come back home.
Farmer Brown thinks it's odd when he hears typing sounds coming from
the barn. But his troubles really begin when his cows start leaving him
notes.
Farmer Brown leaves his brother Bob in charge while he goes on
vacation. He gives Bob detailed notes what to do and warns him, "but
keep an eye on duck. He's trouble." Bob follows the notes exactly--not
realizing that duck has re-written them.
Six young, ethnically diverse tourists, led by a robot, Dr. Quasar, travel
to each planet in succession, and send their impressions back home on
postcards addressed to appropriate towns.
Imagine waking up on December 7, 1941, as an American citizen but
becoming the nation's enemy before nightfall. This powerful book tells
of Japanese Americans who were wrongly imprisoned by their own
government and of one determined librarian who encouraged their
children. Copies of their correspondence, photographs, and recent
interviews with survivors make this an outstanding collection of stories.
When Elizabeth's best friend, Tara, moves away, they continue their
friendship through letters.
In his diary and in correspondence with his favorite author, Mr.
Henshaw, sixth grader Leigh relates details of his school life and his
relationship with his truck-driver father while developing his writing
skills.
In a series of letters to his brother, eleven-year-old Levi Ives describes
daily life in pre-Civil War Pennsylvania during the era of the
Underground Railroad. Readers will learn how prejudice destroys Levi's
youthful innocence and teaches him to use his wits and his courage to
fight the injustices of slavery.
Page 74
Genre
Grade
GLCE
R.IT.07.01
Personal
Correspondence
2, 7
R.IT.07.01
Personal
Correspondence
Personal
Correspondence
R.IT.07.01
Jan Colbert,
Ann McMillan Harris
Cave Painting To E-Mail: The
Evolution Of Writing
Elizabeth West
E-Mail
Personal
Correspondence
2, 7
2, 7
4
5,6,7,8
P
Jaclyn Moriarty
890
Regarding the Sink
Z
Larry Dane Brimner
2, 7
2, 7
Discover how writing has advanced from the days of pictures in caves
to the use of computers in this illustrated and informative text.
870
The Year of Secret Assignments
In KDL
System
Annotation
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an American civil rights hero. In this
collection of letters to Dr. King, today's children tell how they have been
inspired by this great man.
700
2, 7
Personal
Correspondence
Persuasive Essay
Dear Dr. King: Letters From
Contemporary Children To A Civil
Rights Hero
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
1000
R.IT.07.01
Personal
Correspondence
Personal Essay
Author
2, 7
R.IT.07.01
Personal
Correspondence
Book Title
NR
Kate Klise
950
T
This book is about e-mail, and the rules for using it. It explains the
different parts of an e-mail address and problems that could arise using
the Internet.
When the students at rival high schools are forced to write to each
other as pen pals, three best friends take the task to heart. Through
writing to their pen pals, Lydia, Emily, and Cassie make new friends and
discover new aspects of themselves that they had never realized before.
But not knowing who is on the other side of the letter can be dangerous
and revealing. How will the girls cope when the lesson in
correspondence becomes a dual school brawl?
Florence Waters, the artist who designed the school fountain, is needed
to design a new cafeteria sink, but she is missing. Finding her becomes
the focus of the sixth-grade class from Geyser Creek Middle School in
Missouri. A U.S. Senator, the principal's rich mother, Chinese Sinkiang
Blinking Spotted Suckerfish, big business, and beans all play a role in
this mystery that eventually leads to a class trip to China. The story is
conveyed through letters, student drawings and poems,
advertisements, e-mails, school assignments, facsimiles, stock reports,
newspaper articles, a variety of other kinds of documents, and
cartoons. Each page is designed to look like the kind of document it
represents.
R.IT.07.01
1001 Letters for All Occasions: The Corey Sandler & Janice Keefe
Best Models for Every Business and
Personal Need
Teacher/Student resource for writing all types of personal
correspondence from personal letters to business letters.
R.IT.07.01
www.ttms.org
Download Prompted Writing (PDF), Great site for many other writing
resources.
R.IT.04.01
Discover American History
R.IT.07.01
Why We Must Run With Scissors:
Voice Lesson in Persuasive Writing
Barry Lane and Gretchen
Bernabei
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Practical, usable book filled with ideas to be used in the teaching of
persuasive writing.
Page 75
Genre
Grade
Persuasive Essay
7, 8
Persuasive Essay
7, 8
Persuasive Essay
7, 8
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
GLCE
Book Title
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
In KDL
System
Annotation
R.IT.07.01
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=268
Critical stance and development of a strong argument are key strategies
when writing to convince someone to agree with your position on a
topic. This lesson focuses on having students create persuasive essays
that address environmental issues that are relevant to their lives.
R.IT.08.01
www.ttms.org
R.IT.08.01
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme "Textbooks on Disk" by Beth W.
/6_8/showcase/7-8/research.html
Download Prompted Writing (PDF), Great site for many other writing
resources.
Example of a Persuasive Essay about the advantages of putting
textbooks on CD's.
R.IT.00.01
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson
R.IT.00.01
Mr. Gumpy's Outing
John Burningham
R.IT.00.01
Flotsam
David Wiesner
490
K
ABC book, Harold explores A to Z with his purple crayon, creating a
picture from which the word becomes part of a story
390
L
Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders obn his boat.
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
Picture Book
K
R.IT.00.01
Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
820
Q
Boy goes to the beach discovers underwater camera with unusual
pictures.
A toy rabbit learnsthat a child's love can make him real.
K
R.IT.00.01
Katie and the Sunflowers
James Mayhew
340
L
While visiting the art museum Katie has an adventure.
R.IT.00.01
Zoom
Banyai Istuan
Wordless picture book presents series of scenes, each one farther away.
R.IT.00.01
The Red Book
Barb Lehman
R.IT.00.01
The Monster Who Ate My Peas
Danny Schnitzlein
R.IT.00.01
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Arnold Lobel
Friends find thenselves having a strange adventure when they open up
a book.
Boy agrees to give a disgusting monster his first soccer ball in return for
eating his peas.
Adventures of two best friends
R.IT.00.01
Edward in the Jungle
David McPhail
R.IT.00.01
Good Night Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
R.IT.00.01
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
R.IT.00.01
Henry & the Buccaneer Bunnies
Carolyn Crimi
R.IT.06.01
http://www.readwritethink.o
rg/lessons/lesson_view.asp?i
d=983
After he is sent to bed without supper, he behaves like a wild thing and
get sent to bed without supper.
Captain Barnacle is ashamed of his son until the day a storm
approaches.
In this lesson, students view an interactive PowerPoint presentation that
guides them through the process of research on the Internet. Students
then discuss the various types of search engines, how to search for
information on the Internet, and how to cite Internet sources.
R.IT.07.01
http://www.readwritethink.o
rg/lessons/lesson_view.asp?i
d=983
In this lesson, students view an interactive PowerPoint presentation that
guides them through the process of research on the Internet. Students
then discuss the various types of search engines, how to search for
information on the Internet, and how to cite Internet sources.
R.IT.08.01
http://www.readwritethink.o Book Report Alternative:A
rg/lessons/lesson_view.asp?i character's letter to the Editor
d=930
Adopting the persona of a character from a novel the student explores
the genre of letters to the editor.
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
Picture Book
K
Research Report
Research Report
Technical Writing
6
7
8
np
L
400
K
680
L
np
H
740
J
910
Q
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
6
Edward becomes so absorbed in Tarzan book, he finds himself deep in
jungle.
A little rabbit says goodnight to all of his favorite things in his room.
Page 76
Genre
Technical Writing
Grade
GLCE
8
Textbook
3
Author
R.IT.08.01
Use instruction manuals,
newspapers, business material,
reports, e-mails, processes,
instructions, memos,and proposals.
R.IT.08.01
http://www.readwritethink.o Book Report Alternative:Creating
rg/lessons/lesson_view.asp?i Careers for Characters
d=245
R.IT.03.01
See district adoptions for examples
of Textbooks
W.GN.08.02
http://www.webenglishteach
er.com/biography.html
W.GN.08.02
She Said Yes: The Unlikely
Martyrdom Of Cassie Bernall
8
Technical Writing
Book Title
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
In KDL
System
Annotation
Students become characters from novels or short stories they have
read and use Internet sources, classified ads, and resumes to write an
original resume for a character they are exploring.
INFORMATIONAL
WRITINGS:
Biography
8
Biography
8
Biography
8
Biography
8
W.GN.08.02
W.GN.08.02
W.GN.08.02
Biography
8
W.GN.08.02
Biography
Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk to Barry Denenberg
Freedom
Native American Doctor: The Story Jeri Ferris
of Susan Leflesche Picotte
Out of Darkness
8
1110
The author describes the life and transformation of her daughter,
Cassie, who was one of the victims of the shootings at Columbine High
School.
This biography recounts the life, imprisonment, and leadership role of
Nelson Mandela.
A biography of the young Omaha Indian woman who became the first
Native American woman to graduate from medical school.
1000
In a time when blind people usually became beggars, Louis Braille
struggled to learn as much as he could in school. After he developed a
system that made reading easier for blind people to read, he became a
teacher and encouraged other blind students.
1030
NR
950
Y
Russell Freedman
Jaime Escalante: Sensational
Teacher
Ann Byers
To Be a Princess: The Fascinating
Lives of Real Princesses
Hugh Brewster and Laurie
Coulter
980
NP
8
W.GN.08.02
Biography
Misty Bernall
8
W.GN.08.02
Biography
Autobiography, Biography, Personal Narrative, and Memoir lesson plans
and teaching ideas.
Ten Kings: And the Worlds They
Ruled
S
X
NR
Milton Meltzer
990
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
U
Jaime Escalante came from humble beginnings in Bolivia before moving
to the United States, where he taught many students to excel in
mathematics by using unorthodox but highly effective methods.
Offering biographies of several real-life princesses, including England's
Victoria, Hawaii's Ka'iulani, and India's Gayatri "Ayesha" Devi, this book
aims to describe what childhood was like for various royalty. Time lines,
portrait-like paintings, and archival photos illuminate the biographies.
Learn about the lives of ten historic kings who used and abused their
powers to change the course of history. Meltzer introduces readers to a
diverse group of rulers from Hammurabi of Mesopotamia to Peter the
Great of Russia. Each chapter includes the individual's name, dates of
rule, and a map of the area over which he reigned.
Page 77
Genre
Grade
GLCE
W.GN.08.02
Biography
8
Biography
8
Biography
8
Biography
8
Biography
8
Comparative Essay
Comparative Essay
Comparative Essay
Comparative Essay
W.GN.08.02
W.GN.08.02
W.GN.08.02
W.GN.08.02
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anastasia's Album
Lives Of The Presidents: Fame,
Shame (And What The Neighbors
Thought)
Famous Women from Nefertiti to
Diana
Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost
Expedition
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Jean Darby
940
NR
1010
U
1240
NR
1060
NR
1130
W
Hugh Brewster
Kathleen Krull
Richard Dungworth, Philippa
Wingate
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
This book describes the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., from the time of
his birth in Atlanta, Georgia, to his death in Memphis, Tennessee. It
relates King's role in the struggle for racial equality for African
Americans and includes many black-and-white photos which help
illustrate that period of American history.
A scrapbook derived from journals, letters, photographs, and watercolor
paintings provides glimpses into the life of the youngest daughter of
Russia's last tsar.
With color illustrations, this book makes the U.S. presidents come alive
as it describes their achievements, interests, failures, and family lives in
fascinating detail.
This book explores the lives of over a hundred famous women
throughout history.
Ernest Shackleton leads a crew on an Antarctic expedition, but their
ship is crushed by ice. This beautifully photographed book tells the story
of Shackleton's efforts to rescue his men.
This lesson uses brainstorming and modeling to encourage young
writers to create their own texts. The teacher demonstrates the process
of writing a comparison and contrast paper for the class, inviting them
to collaborate in the process. Students continue the process of writing
the essay on their own.
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=275
W.GN.04.02
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=974
W.GN.04.02
Food for Life
John D. Baines
Every human on the planet has one thing in common: we all need food
to survive. For many centuries, the Earth was capable of sustaining the
needs of most of its inhabitants (famine and natural disasters aside).
Now, however, we may be in danger of exhausting the Earth's
resources permanently. John Baines examines the state of farming and
other food production, as well as possible long-term repercussions if we
do not change our methods of acquiring food. By looking at the past,
present, and future methods of farming, Baines explores the concept of
sustainable versus non-sustainable food sources.
W.GN.04.02
That's Very Canadian!: An
Exceptionally Interesting Report
About All Things Canadian, by
Rachel
Vivien Bowers
Written from the viewpoint of a student doing a project on Canada's
symbols and cultural identity. A scrapbook-style overview of Canada
that covers its history, geography, government, symbols, sports, foods,
unique words, wildlife, and attractions.
Organizing Thinking Book II
"Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick
Douglass"
Sandra Parks and Howard Black,
Critical Thinking Press &
Software. P.O. Box 448 Pacific
Grove CA 93950 1800-4584849
4, 6
4, 6
Using picture books as mentor texts, students learn effective strategies
for organizing information that compares and contrasts. Students can
then apply appropriate organizational strategies to their own papers.
4, 6
4, 6
4, 6
In KDL
System
Annotation
W.GN.04.02
W.GN.06.02
Comparative Essay
Book Title
NP
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
NR
Information about both Lincoln and Douglas that could be used to writie
a comparative essay.
Page 78
Genre
Grade
Comparative Essay
4, 6
Comparative Essay
4, 6
Comparative Essay
GLCE
Crafting Comparison Papers
Marcia S. Freeman
W.GN.06.02
Explorer
Rupert Matthews
W.GN.06.02
And Not Afraid To Dare: The Stories Tonya Bolden
Of Ten African-American Women
W.GN.06.02
4, 6
Essay
6
Essay
6
Essay
6
Essay
Feature Article
(Magazine)
Author
W.GN.06.02
4, 6
Comparative Essay
Book Title
Parallel Journeys
Eleanor Ayer, Helen Waterford,
Alfons Heck
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Offers lessons to aid students in learning how to create papers that
describe both similarities and differences - a skill that will prove
invaluable for both higher education and career-related writing.
1100
NR
1170
T
1050
Y
Mark Pennington
Feature Article
(Magazine)
2
The lives of ten African-American women, ranging from the pre-Civil
War era to contemporary times, are used as examples of exemplary
lives as influential as Harriet Tubman's, Barbara Jordan's, and Dr.
Jocelyn Elders'.
A survivor of Auschwitz and a member of the Hitler Youth recount their
war experiences, and recount how they met forty years later.
Teaching Essay Strategies ISBN13:978-1424310654
R.IT.06.01
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writ Personal Essays and how to write
them.
ing/creative/personal.html
Lesson that walks you through teaching personal essays.
R.IT.06.01
http://www.geocities.com/s
oho/Atrium/1437/tips.html
Tips and Techniques for Teaching and Learning to Write
the Five Paragraph Essay
R.IT.06.01
http://www.readwritethink.o Alpha Biography project:Totally
rg/lessons/lesson_view.asp?i You
d=937
In this lesson plan, however, the traditional
autobiography writing project is given a twist as students
write alphabiographies—recording an event, person,
object, or feeling associated with each letter of the
alphabet. After the entry for each letter in their
alphabiographies, students sum up the stories and
vignettes by recording the life lessons they learned from
the events. Since this type of autobiography breaks out of
chronological order, students can choose what has been
important in their lives.
W.GN.02.03
See R.IT.02.01 for list of Magazines
in which examples of Feature
Articles may be found
W.GN.02.03
Nation Challenged: A Visual History New York Times
Of 9/11 And Its Aftermath, A
2
2
In this book, the author looks at various explorers and their impacts
throughout the centuries.
R.IT.06.01
Teacher Resource book
6
Feature Article
(Magazine)
In KDL
System
Annotation
W.GN.02.03
1130
NR
One week after the events of September 11, 2001, "The New York
Times" introduced a special section--titled A Nation Challenged-honoring the victims of the day. Striking photos and personal accounts
are excerpted.
See national and/or local periodicals
for examples.
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Page 79
Genre
Historical
Expository Piece
Grade
Book Title
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
8
Historical
Expository Piece
8
http://www.readwritethink.o
rg/lessons/lesson_view.asp?i
d=416
In this lesson plan, students explore a variety of resources—texts,
images, movies, artwork—to learn more about the Holocaust. Beginning
with journal writings and a picture book to introduce the issues, the
lesson plan focuses on student-centered inquiry. Students explore a
range of print and nonprint resources through extensive online inquiry
activities. Progressing from individual work to a group learning project,
the lesson plan culminates in publishing the group’s findings in topicbased newspapers.
W.GN.08.02
http://www.readwritethink.o
rg/calendar/calendar_day.as
p?id=431
One of the most interesting aspects of the Pepys Diary is that we can
read about the details of this person’s life and then make assumptions
about life in general for the people of that time period.
W.GN.08.02
Expository Writing (Scholastic)
ISBN 13:978-0590103879
Terra McCarthy
Teacher Resource book
W.GN.08.02
Teaching Essay Strategies ISBN13:978-1424310654
Mark Pennington
Ask students to write diary entries that recap everything they did the
day before. They should write about what they ate, the clothes they
wore, activities they did, and so on, making their diary entries as
detailed and descriptive as possible. Then, have each student switch
diary entries with another student, who will read the entry as if he or
she were living a hundred years from now . Direct students to underline
words and phrases that describe what life must have been like for
teenagers in the year 2007.
W.GN.08.02
Step-By-Step Strategies for
Barbara Mariconda
Teaching Expository Writing
(Teaching Resources) ISBN 13: 9780439260817
Level I Science Footprints in the
Hello Reader Series by Cynthia
Snow
Benjamin
8
Historical
Expository Piece
8
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
In KDL
System
Annotation
W.GN.08.02
8
Historical
Expository Piece
Historical
Expository Piece
GLCE
W.GN.00.03
W.GN.00.03
A day in the Life of a Fire Fighter
Eye Witness Readers/Linda
Hayward
W.GN.00.03
Airport
Byron Barton
W.GN.00.03
Move!
Steve Jenkins
W.GN.00.03
Actual Size
Steve Jenkins
W.GN.00.03
Birds of All Kinds - series
Bobbie Kalman
W.GN.00.03
What Do You do when Something
Wants to Eat You?
Steve Jenkins
W.GN.00.03
It Could Still Be A Tree
Allan Fowler
Teacher Resource book
20
D
150
I
400
I
450
L
1080
L
Describes the work of a firefighter.
This book shows what happens when the pass arrives and boards a
plane and arrives.
How various animals move.
Learn about the size of animals from the Atlas moth to the Africian
Elephant
Different birds with descriptions and their habitat.
NA
580
K
570
F
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Forest animals tracks in the snow as they rush to their home.
How animals defend themselves and escape danger.
Facts about several types of trees.
Page 80
Genre
Grade
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
K
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
1
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
1
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
GLCE
Steve Jenkins
W.GN.00.03
I Want to Be An Astronaut
Byron Barton
W.GN.00.03
What Do Authors Do?
Eileen Christenlow
W.GN.01.03
Is That a Fact?
Tony Stead
Explores a variety of authentic purposes for writing nonfiction.
W.GN.01.03
Gobble Up Science
Carol A. Johmann and Elizabeth
J. Rieth
A fun and unique way for kids to learn about science and nutrition. It's
packed with activities and experiments to motivate kids and get them
thinking.
W.GN.01.03
Why Should I Recycle?
Jen Green
Mr. Jones takes his students on a visit to a recycling center, and
teaches them some of the many ways in which they can recycle and
reuse.
W.GN.01.03
Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Betsy Maestro
This book explains how leaves change their colors in autumn and then
separate from the tree as the tree prepares for winter.
620
J
100
G
340
O
580
What Am I Made Of?
540
W.GN.01.03
1
W.GN.01.03
I Know How We Fight Germs
W.GN.01.03
**See also Research Project
W.GN.01.04
W.GN.08.02
Within Reach: My Everest Story
1
8
I Wonder Why Trees Have Leaves
L
David Bennett
1
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
In KDL
System
Annotation
What Do You Do With A Tail Like
This?
1
1
Journal
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
1
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
Author
W.GN.00.03
W.GN.01.03
Informational Piece
w/Focus Questions
Book Title
N
Andrew Charman
890
O
430
O
Kate Rowan
Mark Pfetzer & Jack Galvin
970
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Mark Raffler, 616-364-1333, September 2007
X
How animals use their tails, feet, and mouth.
Describes the job of an astronaut
Informational book describes the work an author does from rough draft
to published book.
This book tells all about a person's body. It describes how babies are
formed and how cells make up every person's body. It talks about the
different organs in the body and what each organ does. It also gives
some suggestions on how people should take care of their bodies.
From the I Wonder Why series published by Scholastic. Colorful
illustrations help the reader learn many facts about plants, such as why
fruit is sweet, which plant has a private pool, and how certain plants
attract insects.
When Sam gets a cold, his mother uses the opportunity to teach him
about germs, bacteria, and how the human body fights viruses and
infections.
Mark Pfetzer was fourteen when he began climbing mountains to
prepare for his ultimate goal--climbing Mount Everest. Will all of his
training be enough to help him realize his dream at the age of sixteen?
Page 81
Genre
Grade
GLCE
W.GN.08.02
Journal
Journal
8
Journal
8
W.GN.08.02
8
W.GN.08.02
On the Shuttle: Eight Days in Space Barbara Bondar
Winter Watch
Diary of Loyota Hunter
Journal
8
Personal Essay
6
Personal Essay
6
Personal Essay
6
NR
690
NR
Wow Canada!: Exploring this Land
from Coast to Coast
Johanna Hurwitz
NP
Notebook - Know - How
W.GN.06.02
See Essays
W.GN.06.02
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writ Personal Essays and how to write
them.
ing/creative/personal.html
W.GN.06.02
A Child in a Prison Camp
Pictures and text follow Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman
astronaut, as she flies on the space shuttle "Discovery" in January
1992. This book describes preparations for the flight, living conditions
on the shuttle, the work astronauts do in space, and the effect of zero
gravity on their bodies.
James Ramsey lived alone for 266 days, testing himself against the
solitude and watching an Arctic winter come and go. This book is his
account of what happens in the sky, the land, and the river, and how he
coped with the cold, the long darkness, and hazards.
The diary of Latoya Hunter follows her as she goes through her first
year of junior high school in the Bronx.
A biography of a young Jewish girl who died in the Holocaust but left
behind a diary detailing the two years her family hid from the Nazis.
W
Vivien Bowers
W.GN.08.02
In KDL
System
Annotation
A more diverse group with differing opinions and attitudes couldn't be
found to take on the mightiest empire on the globe. Yet the American
colonists dared to dedicate themselves to freedom...and won! Hear, in
revolutionaries' own words, about the major events of the Revolution.
1220
990
W.GN.08.02
8
1130
Loyota Hunter
Milton Meltzer
The American Revolutionaries: A
History In Their Own Words (17501800)
Anne Frank: Life in Hiding
NR
James Ramsey
8
Journal
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
1050
W.GN.08.02
Journal
Author
8
W.GN.08.02
Journal
Book Title
NR
Aimee Buckner
This engaging travel book is written as the journal of 13-year-old Guy
as he tours Canada with his parents and younger sister, Rachel. Bowers
presents chapters on each province and territory with information about
major cities along the way. Each section also includes a list of "Things
We'll Do and Places We'll Go Next Time," which may lead to further
reading. .The full-color graphics include illustrations, cartoons,
photographs, slides, and maps. Quick facts about each province
including size, population, cities, and industries are appended.
Resource for teachers to help students keep notebooks that promote
journal writing.
Lesson that walks you through teaching personal essays.
Shizuye Takashima
550
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
X
The author, who is of Japanese origin, tells the story of her time in a
Canadian internment camp during World War II.
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Genre
Grade
GLCE
R.IT.04.01
Personal Essay
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
4
5
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
5
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
5
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
5
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
6
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
5
Persuasive Essay
5
Persuasive Essay
6
Persuasive Essay
6
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
6
Report
3
Report
3
Author
The Milestones Project: Celebrating Richard Steckel
Childhood Around the World
www.milestonesproject.com
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
NP
NR
In KDL
System
Annotation
Featuring original writings by children's authors, illustrators, and
advocates. The Milestones Project is a collection of 23,000 (and
growing) photographs of children from our global family.
Using ReadWriteThink.org online tools, students write short pieces in a
variety of genres about a favorite media icon. After working with each
tool, students print out their work and assemble the documents into
their own zines
This lesson teaches elementary students to write persuasive arguments.
Within the context of a game, students are made aware of their
inherent knowledge of how to persuade. The lesson then extends their
understanding of oral argument into the written word.
W.GN.05.03
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id.=1013
W.GN.05.03
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=56
W.GN.05.03
http://www.readwritethink.org/mat
erials/persuasion_map/
Graphic organizer for writing a persuasive essay. Can be printed or
interactive on the web.
W.GN.05.03
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=268
Critical stance and development of a strong argument are key strategies
when writing to convince someone to agree with your position on a
topic. This lesson focuses on having students create persuasive essays
that address environmental issues that are relevant to their lives.
W.GN.05.03
http://www.readwritethink.org/mat
erials/persuasion_map/
Graphic organizer for writing a persuasive essay. Can be printed or
interactive on the web.
W.GN.06.02
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id.=268
Critical stance and development of a strong argument are key strategies
when writing to convince someone to agree with your position on a
topic. This lesson focuses on having students create persuasive essays
that address environmental issues that are relevant to their lives.
W.GN.05.03
"Should there be zoos?"
W.GN.05.03
www.ttms.org
W.GN.06.02
www.michigan.gov/mde/0,1
607,7-14022709_31168_31355--,00.html
W.GN.06.02
www.ttms.org
W.GN.06.02
"Should there be zoos?"
5
Persuasive Essay:
Position/Evidence
Book Title
Tony Stead New York Mondo
Publishing 2002
A popular book with students that promote persuasive writing.
Download Prompted Writing (PDF), Great site for many other writing
resources.
Released items from the Social Studies MEAP tests from 1998 - 2003 at
K-5, 6-8, and high school include persuasive essays.
Download Prompted Writing (PDF), Great site for many other writing
resources.
A popular book with students that promote persuasive writing.
Tony Stead New York Mondo
Publishing 2002
W.GN.03.03 Snakes are Hunters
Patricia Lauber
W.GN.03.03 Wild Babies
Seymour Simon
590
M
1000
O
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
This book describes the physical characteristics of a variety of
snakes and how they hunt, catch, and eat their prey
Brief text and color photos describe wild animals, their parenting
techniques and the behavior and characteristics of their offspring.
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Genre
Grade
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
Research Project
Research Project
Research Project
K-8
Research
Research
Research
Research
Research
Project
Project
Project
Project
Project
K-8
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
GLCE
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Black Seeing Black All Around Us
K-8
W.GN.00.04
Dry or Wet
Bruce McMillan
K-8
W.GN.00.04
What is Square?
Rebecca Dotlick
Pictures of what is a square/shapes.
K-8
W.GN.00.04
What is Round
Rebecca Dotlick
Pictures of what is round/shapes.
W.GN.00.04
Lois Ehlert
W.GN.00.04
Eating the Alphabet - Fruits and
Vegetables
My Visit to the Aquarium
W.GN.00.04
Dinosaurs Are Different
K-8
W.GN.00.04
The Boat Book
Gail Gibbons
K-8
W.GN.00.04
How a House Is Built
Gail Gibbons
K-8
W.GN.00.04
Penquins
Gail Gibbons
W.GN.00.04
Turtle Splash!: Countdown at the
Pond
Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles: Animal
Counting Book
The Water Hole
Cathryn Falwell
The Magic School Bus and the
Missing Tooth
Joanna Cole
W.GN.00.04
W.GN.00.04
W.GN.01.04
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
W.GN.01.04
Aliki
710
O
Aliki
530
N
A child visits a museum to learn about dinosaurs
290
G
Informational book on boats/ships
570
M
Information on building a home from the ground up.
610
O
Informational book on penquins in Antarctic
160
H
NP
H
230
NR
Chris Wormell
Graeme Base
820
P
620
K
540
H
400
I
Ruth Heller
Allan Fowler
W.GN.01.04
How a Seed Grows
Helene J. Jordan
W.GN.01.04
Needs and Wants
Susan Ring
W.GN.01.04
Communities
Gail Saunders-Smith
350
Publisher:
Children's Press
www.childrenspress.com
Grade
Level: 1
&2
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
A child visits an aquarium to learn about fishes.
Life cycle of a turtle
Discover teeth, tails and tentacles on animals
Animals drinking
Students and animals open wide for the Magic School Bus when Ms.
Frizzle takes the class on a trip to find the owner of a missing tooth.
370
It Could Still Be a Mammal
Rookie Biography Series - Jackie
Robinson, Oprah Winfrey,
Alexander Graham Bell, Ben
Franklin, Rosa Parks, Abraham
Lincoln, Helen Keller, Dr. Suess,
Martin Luther King
An alpha book of what is edible.
H
You're Tall in the Morning But
Melvin and Gilda Berger
Shorter at Night and Other Amazing
Facts About the Human Body
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones
T of C, Glossary, full color phots in non fiction format. Finding the color
black - what is black?
What is dry and what is wet with photos.
NA
W.GN.01.04
W.GN.02.04
K-8
Michael Dahl
In KDL
System
Annotation
W.GN.00.04
W.GN.01.04
Research Project
Book Title
D
From the top of the head to the tips of the toes, the human body is a
wondrously intricate and complicated machine. Learn amazing facts
such as these: half the body's weight comes from muscles, and
sneezing sends breath out of the mouth at 100 miles per hour.
This pictorial introduction to animals that lay eggs includes chickens as
well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few
mammals.
Explains how an animal can be a mammal even if it lives in the ocean or
flies like a bird.
Bean seeds planted in eggshells show how seeds turn into plants.
Includes index. Presents the things that everyone needs, as well as
things some people want, and invites the reader to consider his or her
own wants and needs.
Describes various kinds of workers in a community and explains the
service which persons in each occupation provide.
These titles give very basic information about their subject from birth to
death. A summary ties up the data. Each spread contains 1-4
sentences and 1-2 paragraphs facing a full-color or black and white
reproduction. These books can be an easy tool for students to
synthesize information and generate focus questions.
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Genre
Grade
GLCE
W.GN.02.04
Research Project
K-8
W.GN.02.04
Research Project
K-8
W.GN.02.04
Research Project
K-8
W.GN.02.04
Research Project
K-8
W.GN.02.04
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
W.GN.02.04
Book Title
"A Picture Book" series… Abraham
Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Helen Keller, Christopher
Columbus, Ben Franklin, John F.
Kennedy, Anne Frank, Rosa Parks,
Harriet Tubman, Jessie Owens,
Thomas Alva Edison, Eleanor
Rosevelt, Louis Braille.
Author
David Adler
World of Plants Series - All Kinds of Carrie Branigan
Plants, Flowers and Seeds, Fruits
and Vegetables, How Plants Grow
Publisher: HarperCollins
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science:
Ant Cities, Be a Friend to Trees,
How Do Apples Grow? Look Out for
Turtles!, Snakes are Hunters, Who
Eats What? Why Do Leaves
Change Color? Feel the Wind,
Glash, Crash, Ruble, and roll,
Tornado Alert
Hello Reader! Series - I am Water, Scholastic
Make Way for Tooth Decay, I am an
Apple, Chomp! A Book About
Sharks, Growl! A Book About Bears,
Snap! A Book About Alligators and
Crocodiles, Great Snakes!, Mighty
Spiders!, Wild Weather Hurricanes!
Paul Showers
In KDL
System
Annotation
This series gives a well-written, straight forward account of the
subject's life taking readers through the important milestones and
accomplishments. Included at the end of each book is a timeline of
their life.
680-930
www.lernerclassroom.com
On My Own Biographies - Aunt
Clara Brown, Cesar Chavez, George
Washington Carver, Dian Fossey
and the Mountain Gorillas, Mother
Theresa, Booker T. Washington,
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Pablo Picasso,
Martha Washington, Wilma
Rudolph, Jesse Owens, Florence
Nightengale, Bessie Coleman
Where Does the Garbage Go?
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
M-N
Narrative story format * Important historical figures * Written in story
format, each book features pivotal episodes that reveal each subject's
character and how he or she came to be famous.
390-720
N, O, P
Clear photographs, activities, and easy to copy diagrams help the
student learn all about the amazing world of plants.
Ages
7-10
Ages
9
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science books help satisfy a young chld's
curiosity about how the world works. Each book in the series
introduces basic science concepts and builds on them using a step-bystep method, based on theories about how young children learn best.
5-
Hello Reader Series are designed to help children become more
inquisitive about favorite topics and assist them in researching areas of
interest. This series also gives simple explanations anwering questions
about the topic. Real-life pictures assist the students in understanding
more about the topic.
Grades K3
810
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
M
Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now
recycled and put into landfills.
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Genre
Grade
GLCE
W.GN.02.04
Research Project
Research Project
Research Project
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
Ages
7
W.GN.02.04
Why Should I Save Water?
Jen Green
W.GN.02.04
Why Should I Recycle?
Jen Green
W.GN.02.04
Why Should I Save Energy?
Jen Green
W.GN.02.04
Environment - First Step - NonFiction - Conservation - Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle
Civics - Pull Ahead Series - The
Alamo, The Bald Eagle, The
American Flag, The Statue of
Liberty, Washington Monument,
Mount Rushmore, The Lincoln
Memorial, The Whitehouse
www.lernerclassroom.com
Community Helpers - Doctors,
Librarians, Firefighters, Police
Officers, Teachers, Principals
www.lernerclassroom.com
4-
K-8
Research Project
K-8
W.GN.02.04
K-8
W.GN.02.04
K-8
In KDL
System
Annotation
When children take a trip to the countryside, some of them are rowdy
and careless, breaking tree branches and scattering trash. But if
everyone acted that way, there would soon be no trees, no birds, and
the fields would be ugly and unsafe for both animals and people. Brief,
entertaining stories answer children’s questions with amusing color
illustrations on every page, complemented with simple, straightforward
text.
Children learn that clean water is one of our most precious natural
resources. In this book, boys and girls are told about dozens of ways in
which they and their families can avoid wasting water. Brief,
entertaining stories answer children’s questions with amusing color
illustrations on every page, complemented with simple, straightforward
text.
What if everybody threw away old bottles and newspapers, littering the
world with glass and plastic and tin cans that should be recycled and
made into new products? Mr. Jones is a teacher who sets a good
example for kids by separating his trash for recycling. When he takes
them on a class trip to a recycling plant they learn the value of
recycling. Brief, entertaining stories answer children’s questions with
amusing color illustrations on every page, complemented with simple,
straightforward text
Jen Green
K-8
K-8
Research Project
Why Should I Protect Nature?
Author
K-8
Research Project
Research Project
Book Title
Children take electricity and other energy sources for granted, until one
day their community has a power blackout. They come to realize that in
lighting homes and keeping houses warm, we are using up natural
resources that can’t be easily replaced. If we fail to save energy, a time
may come when our homes will always be cold and dark. Brief,
entertaining stories answer children’s questions with amusing color
illustrations on every page, complemented with simple, straightforward
text.
B
www.lernerclassroom.com
350-470
320-400
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Concrete examples kids can relate to * Direct photo/text support * Each
of these simple books examines ways students can help conserve
resoures in the community.
Historical photographs and illustrations * Introduces civic ideals * Visit
some of America's national monuments and investigate the history of
our most recognizable symbols.
M
L
Early career exploration * Understanding roles and responsibilities *
These easy-to-read books introduce how each type of community helper
interacts with and serves the community.
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Genre
Grade
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
5, 6
Research Project
5, 6
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Project
K-8
Research Report
3,7
Research Report
3,7
Research Report
3,7
GLCE
Book Title
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
In KDL
System
Annotation
W.GN.02.04
Never Too Early To Write:
Adventures in the K-1 Writing
Workshop
Bea Johnson
Very best book around for working with K-2. Assists teachers with the
basics of writing, setting up writing center, teaching editing, modeling,
holding conference, and everything else you want to know!!
W.GN.02.04
Write Source Handbooks for
Students: Grade 2 - Write Away
Patrick Sebranek
W.GN.02.04
W.GN.03.04
Stephanie Harvey
Non-Fiction Matters: Reading,
Writing, and Research in Grades 38.
Into the Sea
Brenda Guiberson
This book has to do with the writing process, traits, modes, genres,
research, examples, finding topics, methods and strategies, revision
and editing, and pre-writing to publishing.
Tips for finding good sources, taking notes, thinking through
organization, and reading and using non-fiction, and research.
W.GN.03.04
Space Probes to the Planets
900
O
Fay Robinson
910
W.GN.04.04
This is Figure Skating
Margaret Blackstone
W.GN.04.04
Penguins
Gail Gibbons
W.GN.04.04
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
W.GN.04.04
The Magic School Bus Lost in the
Solar System
Komodo Dragons
W.GN.05.04
The Magic School Bus Series
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
W.GN.05.03
W.GN.06.02
W.GN.05.03
W.GN.06.02
W.GN.06.03
Persuasive Essays
Tara McCarthy
Persuasive Essays
Tara McCarthy
W.GN.07.03
W.GN.07.03
W.GN.08.03
W.GN.08.03
W.GN.03.03
W.GN.03.03
Tracey Reeder
Easy read about figure skating.
740
O
480
P
950
R
Resource for teachers to give students an outline of how to write a
research report.
Resource for teachers to give students an outline of how to write a
research report.
Makes the process of writing a successful research paper more
manageable for both the teacher and student.
Makes the process of writing a successful research paper more
manageable for both the teacher and student.
Resource for teachers to give students an outline of how to write a
research report.
Makes the process of writing a successful research paper more
manageable for both the teacher and student.
CEA Collins Education Associates "A John J. Collins
Suvivor's Guide to the Research
Paper"
Persuasive Essays
Tara McCarthy
830
720
W.GN.07.02
Expository Writing
Describes the habitat, physical characteristics and behavior of different
kinds of penguins.
Take a ride on the Magic School Bus through the solar system and learn
about it.
Informational reading on the life cycle of the Komodo Dragon.
Various adventures with Ms. Frizzle
290-660
CEA Collins Education Associates "A John J. Collins
Suvivor's Guide to the Research
Paper"
CEA Collins Education Associates "A John J. Collins
Suvivor's Guide to the Research
Paper"
Persuasive Essays
Tara McCarthy
Yippee-Yay!- a book about Cowboys Gail Gibbons
and Cowgirls
Wild Shots, They're My Life
Tui De Roy
Prose text and a dramatic sense of danger describe the real life cycle of
a female sea turtle.
Readers can learn how space probes have given information about the
characteristics of the nine planets in the solar system.
Tara McCarthy
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
M
Resource for teachers to give students an outline of how to write a
research report.
Explains and illustrates the equipment, work, and lifestyle of cowboys
and cowgirls in the Old West.
In this anthologized selection from "Ranger Rick" magazine, the author
relates her adventures as an animal photographer in the Galapagos
Islands.
Resource for teachers to give students an outline of how to write a
research report.
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Genre
Grade
GLCE
W.GN.08.02
Simulated Memoir
8
Book Title
Author
Guided
Lexile
Reading
Level
Level
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=13
Created by Kent Intermediate School District, contact Susan Laninga, 616-364-1333, September 2007
Annotation
In KDL
System
Students will combine reading with descriptive writing. Embedded in
this project are skills such as compiling, composing, defining,
describing, illustrating, rewriting, and validating
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