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This book by author D. Pinkwater is for ages 9-12 and takes everyday life and changes it so that it is just odd enough to make it implausible. Highlights include the Fish who Thought it was Drowning, the Mix, Mush, and Microwave vending machine, and the submarine whose name was 'The Flying Piggie'. No morals in these stories! They are pure silliness.
This volume contains four books: Borgle, Yobgorgle, The Worms of Kukulima, The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror.
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This book by author W. Isdell is for young adults. Julie hates algebra - until she meets Al, and the Periodic horses and they journey through the Land of Mathematics, where the Orders of Operations are real places and fruits that look like Bohr models grow on chemistrees. Wonderfully written and a joy to read, it's full of math and science basics made fun and accessible.
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This book by author F. H. Burnett is for ages 9-12. Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school in the late 1800's.
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This book by author S. Anderson is for ages 4-8. Welcome to Castle MacPelican where Thomas and Esmerelda have just arrived for a visit. They are going to find the castle a very puzzling place indeed! Their uncle, Hector MacPelican, has prepared a treasure hunt for each of them, but there are many other puzzles for them to solve--they are certain there is a thief in the castle.
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This series of ten books by author L. Snicket is for ages 9-12. These books tell an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though the Baudelaire siblings are charming and clever, they lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of the book in the series when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.
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This book by L. Park is for ages 9-12. Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a 12th-century Korean potters' village. For a long time he is content living with Crane-man under a bridge barely surviving on scraps of food. All that changes when he sees master potter Min making his beautiful pottery. Tree-ear sneaks back to Min’s workplace and dreams of creating his own pots someday. When he accidentally breaks a pot, he must work for the master to pay for the damage. Though the work is long and hard, Tree-ear is eager to learn. Then he is sent to the King...
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This is comprehensive reference guide to the "Beasts, Monsters, Races, Deities, and Flora" from Tolkien's world. It has tons of imformation and a timeline of the light ages.
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Six year old Charles Wallace is ill. His sister Meg is worried when he says there are dragons in the garden. He is right, and the dragons are actually there to help him fight his sickness. The dragons and their companion, Blajeny, help Meg and Calvin O'Keefe on a mission to save Charles Wallace.
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Everyone in town thinks Meg Murry is volatile and dull-witted, and that her younger brother, Charles Wallace, is dumb. People are also saying that their physicist father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors and an unearthly stranger, the tesseract-touting Mrs. Whatsit, Meg and Charles Wallace and their new friend Calvin O'Keefe embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so, they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a t...
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In this Newbery Award winner, newlywed mice Abel and Amanda are out for a picnic in the woods when they are caught in a sudden storm. As they hide in a cave, a wind scoops up Amanda's scarf, and Abel tries to retrieve it. He is swept away and finds himself deserted on an island, where he is stuck and has different trials in trying to survive and escape the island.
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In this book the author, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's. His boyhood was full of excitement and the unexpected.
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This book uses the metaphor of six different hats to talk about different styles of thinking. A great resource for parents and teachers who are interested in helping bright young people to differentiate their thinking abilities.
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Sam's big sister Anastasia (Anastasia Krupnik, Anastasia at Your Service) thinks he's, well, there's no other word for it, weird. Their parents say he's precocious. But Sam knows, even on the morning of his birth, when there are bright lights, and he's cold, and someone is messing around with his belly button, that he's just Sam. And as the younger brother of the original drama queen herself, Anastasia, Sam deserves a book all to himself. From those early moments at the hospital, to his first steps and words, to his lively days of nursery schoo...
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"Using recommendations from librarians, teachers, book reviews, and their own experiences as mothers, the authors have compiled a list of classic and current titles from almost every genre that provides girls with positive role models."
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This resource helps you guide your students in learning about various countries and cultures around the world. Other curriculum areas are incorporated in the activities provided as you study about each country in depth. Teaching notes, blackline maps, extension activities, a list of foreign words and phrases, and a bibliography of fiction and non-fiction books for each country help you to organize your study. This guide covers Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, China, Japan, India, Russia, Asia, France, Italy, Greece, the U.K., Norway, and fin...
http://www.teachercreated.com/
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This is a wonderful source for books to use for History, Literature, Art, Music, and Nature Study. It is a great resource for anyone using a Classic Curriculum, but those who are not will also find materials here. Full of historical non-fiction and fiction, study guides, activity books, reference books, biographies, etc.
http://www.greenleafpress.com/
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This website for the Cattermole catalogue is a great source of affordable, secondhand books. In addition to the on-line catalogue, the website also provides their listing of the 100 best books of the 20th century.
http://www.cattermole.com/page2.htm
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The HearthSong catalog and web site are places to rediscover favorite childhood playthings and pastimes. In addition to childhood "classics," HearthSong also offers many newly invented toys designed especially for HearthSong. Unusual craft kits for parents and children to make together, family games and decorations for seasonal festivals reinforce the "family" theme.
http://www.hearthsong.com/
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Learning Streams offers a wide variety of educational tools, including toys, textbooks, lab equipment, cd roms, games and more. Searches can be done by topic and/or grade level.
http://www.learningstreams.com/
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This website offers some great ideas on comparing the books The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Crucible. This site provides a brief introduction, discusses the political themes, parallel characters, and instructional implications of pairing the two books. The website also provides some linked resources, including an article by Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible, on why he wrote the play: as a response to McCarthyism, the modern day "witch hunts."
http://www.delanet.com/~ftise/crucible.html
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A great site that provides links to many popular authors, illustrators, and books.
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/studentlinks/authors.htm
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A club where kids can talk about the books they like to read. Features reading lists for many ages, study guides and discussion questions
http://www.booknutsreadingclub.com/
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BookCrossing is a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs? Well, the books our members leave in the wild are free... but it's the act of freeing books that points to the heart of BookCrossing. Book trading has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind.
Here...
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
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This website is the official Redwall website. There is news about Brian Jacques' future books, how they animate and what channels show the Redwall movie, crossword puzzles, links, a gift-shop, how to receive the Redwall newsletter, and more intriguing websites related to Redwall.
http://www.redwall.org/
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This website tells you everything about the Redwall series. There is an encyclopedia listed alphabetically and by book as well as links, FAQ's and other Redwall related stuff.
http://www.sullivanet.com/redwall/
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This website offers the most complete source for Terry-Deary's books. Do not be fooled by thinking that the Terry-Dreary House of books contains only Horrible Histories. In fact it contains fiction, non-fiction, science books, ghost stories, thrillers and funny books.
http://www.terry-deary.com/shop/pages/index.html
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This website is by fantasy author T.A. Barron and contains information about the author and his books, as well as some games based on his books.
http://www.tabarron.com/
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