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LIBRARY MEDIA SERVICES NEWSLETTER February 21, 2012
Schools
Recognized BY
ISMF
KATHLEEN ELEMENTARY
DUNDEE RIDGE MIDDLE
Rev Up and Read Race Car
564 books were distributed to 290 needy students in grades K-12
through the guidance counselors. Books were donated by the
Polk County Reading Council, the Polk Educational Media
Association, Teacher Created Materials, Delta Epsilon Chapter of
Florida Delta Kappa Sorority, and Spessard Holland Elementary
School students, faculty and staff. The books were donated in
continuation for Celebrate Literacy Week and the Florida DOE
“Rev up and Read” race car visit to two schools. Floral Avenue
Elementary and Westwood Middle School were visited on
February 21 to encourage students to take the lead and read.
CELEBRATE LITERACY WEEK A SUCCESS
WEBINAR FOR EBOOKS NEW eBooks
We have recently acquired five eBooks from Britannica
for your preview. Tell me what you think of these
eBooks . Do you think that the link appearing in the
MARC records makes it user friendly? Do you think
students will access these books using Destiny? Please
give feedback once you have evaluated them. A
webinar below: (Click on the date to register)
E–Books Webinars (1:30 – 2 p.m. Central Time)
Thursday, February 16
Tuesday, March 13
Thursday, April 19
Tuesday, May 15
The International Student Media Festival was held in
Jacksonville, Florida November 10-12. The festival
consisted of a number of different learning
opportunities for educators, parents, and students.
Events included educational field trips, Student
Producer Showcase, networking opportunities, Awards
Ceremony, and numerous other celebrations for media
producers. Three of our schools earned plagues:
Southwest Middle School, Lawton Chiles Middle School
and Griffin Elementary School.
SSYRA
Thanks for all who have signed up for the
SSYRA Book Festival.
All entries should be turned in by May 4th at
4:00 p.m. to Library Media Services.
The rubrics will be in public folders if you
would like to look at them.
The festival will be held May 22nd and 23rd at
the Jim Miles PD Center. Please plan to
attend.
State
PSA Contest
\
Congratulations ITV students!
Elementary School Level
1st Place Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary, Palm
Beach County, "Little Reader Who Became a Leader"
2nd Place Timber Trace Elementary, Palm Beach County,
"Florida Readers… Start Your Engines!"
3rd Place Spessard Holland Elementary, Polk County,
"Readers are Leaders"
Middle School Level
1st Place Lake Gibson Middle School, Polk County, "Fall
in Love with Reading"
2nd Place Explorer K-8, Hernando County, "When
Reading Comes to Life"
3rd Place Stambaugh Middle School, Polk County,
"Readin' and Leadin'"
High School Level
1st Place Clearwater High School, Pinellas County, "Be a
Reader Leader"
2nd Place Cypress Lake High School, Lee County,
"Silhouettes"
3rd Place Florida Virtual School - High School,
"Need to Escape? Just Pick up a Book"
You can view the videos on the DOE website.
Reading Comes Alive
A Success In December we had the largest crowd ever. The following schools attended: Bethune, Carlton Palmore, Cleveland Court, Combee, Crystal Lake, Davenport SOA, Dundee, Gibbons, Griffin, Highland City, Highlands Grove, Kathleen, Lake Alfred, Lena Vista, Lewis Anna Woodbury, Oscar Pope, Padgett, Philip O’Brien, Purcell, R. Bruce Wagner, Rochelle, and Sleep Hill. The books performed by the Harrison students under the tutelage of Mrs. Ilene Finns were Stop that Pickle, Christian the Huggable Lion, One, Ugly Pie and What’s in the Egg: Little Pip. A special Thank You goes to the Greater Foundation of Lakeland for helping with buses in the Lakeland area.
Library Media Center Named
The library media center was named in honor of Cathy Worthen at Winston Elementary School on Sunday, February 19, 2012. The superintendent and the mayor of Lakeland were among those who attended. This continues the legacy of schools naming library media centers after their library media specialists. Some centers that have named for former library media specialists can be found at Southwest Elementary, Winter Haven HS and Boone MS. There may be more. Cathy Worthen worked at four schools during her employment for Polk County Schools. She served as a teacher at Dixieland and Crystal Lake. She served as a library media specialist at Padgett and Winston until her death. A special thank you goes to Winston Elementary, Mrs. Strong and the SAC committee for recognizing Cathy and the contributions that this library media specialist made in the lives of Winston’s students.
Does your library have these books in your collection? The following lists are examples for you to check your collections in preparation for our shift to support Common Core. You probably have many or similar titles already in your collections. The three Common Core ELA & Literacy evidence-based pedagogical shifts are: Shift 1: Balance informational and literary reading in
all grades by emphasizing informational texts and the
Common Core Appendix B Text Exemplars.
Shift 2: Emphasize reading in many K–12 disciplines;
including history, social studies, and science, with
thoughtfully selected supplemental booklists.
Shift 3: Require knowledge and direct
consideration of the text to support students'
evidentiary argument skills at all grade levels.
The list below is only a sample list. Different
companies are preparing documents to help with
this topic. If you check Teaching Books.Net and
Renaissance BookFind, you will find additional titles
and information.
Please tentatively mark your calendars for March
21st
for a meeting with Just Read Florida. The
location has not yet been determined.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
SSYRA BOOK FESTIVAL PROJECTS DUE – MAY 4 TEXTBOOK INVENTORY DUE – JUNE 20 SSYRA BOOK FESTIVAL – MAY 22/23 INVENTORY DUE – LAST TEACHERS’ WORKDAY APRIL is School Library Month April 8-14 is National Library Week Initialize(Start) the library Inventory Mark your calendars tentative for March 21 March – National Reading Month to honor Dr. Seuss
Common Core
Grade K - Exemplar Collection
The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne
Days with Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel
Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia, Carmen Lomas Garza
Father Bear Comes Home, Else Holmelund Minarik
Fire! Fire!, Gail Gibbons
Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean, Arthur Dorros
Frog and Toad Together, Arnold Lobel
Hi! Fly Guy, Tedd Arnold
Little Bear's Friend, Else Holmelund Minarik
Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China, Ed Young
Mr. Popper's Penguins, Richard & Florence Atwater
My Five Senses, Aliki
My Many Colored Days, Dr. Suess
Pancakes for Breakfast, Tomie dePaola
The Paper Crane, Molly Bang
Reason For Seasons, Gibbons, Gail
The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, Gail Gibbons
A Story, A Story, retold by Gail E. Haley
Ten Apples On Top, Seuss, Dr.
Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews
Ten, Nine, Eight, Molly Bang
When We Were Very Young: Halfway Down Poem, A. A. Milne
Grade K - Expanded Collection
Fiction
Anno's Counting Book, Mitsumasa Anno
Apple Pie Fourth of July, Janet Wong
Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale, Gerald McDermott
Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Bill Martin Jr.
The Carrot Seed, Ruth Krauss
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
Clifford Goes to Washington, Norman Bridwell
Curious George, H.A. Rey
Fireflies, Julie Brinckloe
The Grouchy Ladybug, Eric Carle
Koala Lou, Mem Fox
Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
Mary Wore Her Red Dress, and Henry WoreHis Green Sneakers,
Merle Peek
Me on the Map, Joan Sweeney
Officer Buckle and Gloria, Peggy Rathmann
Owl Moon, Jane Yolen
The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats
The Story of Jumping Mouse, John Steptoe
This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie
The Three Billy Goats Gruff, retold by Paul Galdone
The Three Little Pigs, James Marshall
A Tree Is Nice, Janice M. Udry
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
The Very Lovely Firefly, CARLE, E.
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
Informational
As The Crow Flies, Hartman, G.
Check It Out! The Book About Libraries, Gail Gibbons
Count Your Way Thru China, Jim Haskins
Fire! Fire!, Gail Gibbons
The Four Seasons
From Caterpillar to Butterfly, Deborah Heiligman
From Tadpole to Frog, Wendy Pfeffer
How Many Do You See?
How a Seed Grows, Helene J. Jordan
I Pledge Allegiance, Bill Martin Jr.
Independence Day, Mir Tamim Ansary
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mir Tamim Ansary
Me on the Map, Joan Sweeney
Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, Muriel Feelings
My Five Senses /Mis Cinco Sentidos, Aliki
National Geographic Our World: A Child's First Picture Atlas,
National Geographic Society Staff
Nature's Colors
One Plant, Many Parts
One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab: A Counting by Feet, April Pulley
Sayre
The Post Office Book: Mail and How It Moves, Gail Gibbons
RedEyed Tree Frog, Joy Cowley
Shapes in Nature
The Tiny Seed, Eric Carle
Water
Weather Changes
Grade 1 - Exemplar Collection
Are You My Mother?, P.D. Eastman
Doctor Seuss's ABCC, Seuss, Dr.
Exactly the Opposite, Tana Hoban
Fables, Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad All Year, Arnold Lobel
Green Eggs and Ham Cover Craft, Seuss, Dr.
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!C Seuss, Dr.
A Kiss for Little Bear, Else Holmelund Minarik
Little Bear's Visit, Else Holmelund Minarik
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, Mordicai Gerstein
Marimba: Animales from A to Z, MORA, P.
School Bus, Donald Crews
Seven Blind Mice, Ed Young
Starfish, Edith Thacher Hurd
Ten Apples On Top, Seuss, Dr.
Twisters and Other Terrible StormsMagic Tree House Research
Guide, Will Osborne & Mary Pope Osborne
A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver, Aliki
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins & Robin
Page
When Sophie Gets AngryReally, Really Angry, Molly Bang
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, BAUM, F.
YehShen: A Cinderella Story from China, retold by AiLing Louie
Grade 1 - Expanded Collection
Fiction
A. Lincoln and Me, Louise Borden
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale, Hopkinson,
Deboray
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,
Judith Viorst
The Bat Boy and His Violin, Gavin Curtis
Changes, Changes, Pat Hutchins
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
Eating the Alphabet, Lois Ehlert
The Egyptian Cinderella, Shirley Climo
Goin' Someplace Special, Patricia C. McKissack
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff
Inch by Inch, Leo Lionni
James Marshall's Cinderella, Barbara Karlin
The Lion & the Mouse, Pinkney, Jerry
The Little Red Hen, Paul Galdone
Morris Goes to School, Bernard Wiseman
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, John Steptoe
My Name Is Yoon, Helen Recorvits
Owl at Home, Arnold Lobel
Prince Cinders, Babette Cole
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack
Prelutsky
Swimmy, Leo Lionni
Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson, Sharon
Robinson
The Ugly Duckling, adapted by Jerry Pinkney
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
The Wind Blew, Pat Hutchins
Informational
Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints, Millicent E.
Selsam
Dave the Potter: Artist, Potter, Slave, Laban Carrick Hill
George Washington and the General's Dog, Frank Murphy
George Washington, Wil Mara
The Graphic Alphabet, David Pelletier
The Hidden Alphabet, Laura Vaccaro Seeger
How Animals Work, DK Publishing
How People Learned to Fly, Fran Hodgkins
I Read Signs, Tana Hoban
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, Mordicai Gerstein
North America, Madeline Donaldson
Paul Revere(Rookie Biographies), Wil Mara
Twenty Six Letters and 99 Cents, Tana Hoban
A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver, Aliki
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins & Robin
Page
What Lives in a Shell?, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
What's It Like to Be a Fish?, Wendy Pfeffer
Where Do Chicks Come From?, Amy E. Sklansky
Grade 2 - Exemplar Collection
Buffalo Before Breakfast, Mary Pope Osborne
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, Maurice Sendak
Christina Rossetti Selected Poems, Christina Rossetti
Cowboys and Cowgirls: YippeeYay!, Gail Gibbons
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa, Erica Silverman
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Langston Hughes
The Fire Cat, Esther Holden Averill
Ghost Town at Sundown, Mary Pope Osborne
Guts: Our Digestive, Simon, Seymour
Henry and Mudge and the Snowman Plan, Cynthia Rylant
Henry and Mudge: The First Book, Cynthia Rylant
How I Learned Geography, Uri Shulevitz
In the Night Kitchen, SENDAK, M.
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington(1963), Frances
E. Ruffin
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, Carmen Agra
Deedy
Poppleton In Winter, Cynthia Rylant
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack
Prelutsky
The Story of Ruby Bridges, Robert Coles
The Twentieth Century Children's PoetryTreasury, Jack Prelutsky
Grade 2 - Expanded Collection
Fiction
Boy Called Slow, Joseph Bruchac
Bread, Bread, Bread, Ann Morris
Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina
Chato's Kitchen, Gary Soto
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Partners, Erica Silverman
Crazy Horse's Vision, Joseph Bruchac
The Day of Ahmed's Secret, Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide
Gilliland
Dim Sum for Everyone!, Grace Lin
Freedom Summer, Deborah Wiles
Freedom on the Menu, Carole Boston Weatherford
George and Martha, James Marshall
Gregory the Terrible Eater, Mitchell Sharmat
Henry's Freedom Box, Ellen Levine & Kadir Nelson
How My Parents Learned to Eat, Ina R. Friedman
Little Red Riding Hood, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
The Mitten (Brett), Jan Brett
The Other Side, Jacqueline Woodson
Paul Bunyan, Steven Kellogg
Pecos Bill, Steven Kellogg
Stone Soup, Marcia Brown
Stone Soup, Ann McGovern
Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola
Tar Beach, Faith Ringgold
Thunder Cake, Patricia Polacco
Too Many Tamales, Gary Soto
The Toughest Cowboy: Or How the Wild West Was Tamed, John
Frank
Informational
Bill Pickett: Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy, Andrea D. Pinkney
Cactus Hotel, Brenda Z. Guiberson
Houses and Homes, Ann Morris
How I Learned Geography, Uri Shulevitz
John Henry, Julius Lester
Johnny Appleseed, Steven Kellogg
Kit Carson: A Life of Adventure CovertoCover Chapter Book
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Russell Freedman
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Doreen
Rappaport
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom,
Carole Boston Weatherford
Muscles, Seymour Simon
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship,
Isabella & Craig Hatkoff & Dr. Paula Kahumbu
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Jen
Bryant
Rosa Parks, Wil Mara
Ruby Bridges Goes to School, Ruby Bridges
Snowflake Bentley, Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Very First Americans, Cara Ashrose
The Village of Round and Square Houses, Ann Grifalconi
What Do Authors Do, Christelow, E.
Zen Shorts, Jon J. Muth
Grade 3 - Exemplar Collection
14 Cows for America, Carmen Agra Deedy
Ah, Music!, Aliki
Amos and Boris, William Steig
Ancient Greece and the OlympicsMagic Tree House Research Guide,
Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs, Kathleen V. Kudlinski
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder, Walter Wick
Hour of the Olympics, Mary Pope Osborne
The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses, Edward Lear
A Medieval Feast, Aliki
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Floca, Brian
The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections, Jan
Mark
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
The Search for Delicious, Natalie Babbitt
The Sign Painter, Allen Say
The Stories Julian Tells, Ann Cameron
The Storm, Cynthia Rylant
Through Grandpa's Eyes, Patricia MacLachlan
Tops and Bottoms, Janet Stevens
The Twentieth Century Children's PoetryTreasury, Jack Prelutsky
Vacation Under the Volcano, Mary Pope Osborne
What the World Eats
You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers, Robert Frost
Grade 3 - Expanded Collection
Fiction
Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?, Herman Parish
Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish
Annie and the Old One, Miska Miles
Arthur Meets the President, Marc Brown
Canoe Days, Gary Paulsen
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Even More Parts: Idioms from Head to Toe, Tedd Arnold
Frindle, Andrew Clements
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, Aliki
Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl, Marissa Moss
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Bette Bao Lord
Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
Molly's Pilgrim, Barbara Cohen
Next Stop Neptune: Experiencing the Solar System, Alvin Jenkins
PaddletotheSea, Holling C. Holling
The Pot that Juan Built, ANDREWSGOEBEL, N.
Shark Attack!, Cathy East Dubowski
The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare
Snowed in with Grandmother Silk, Carol Fenner
Song and Dance Man, Karen Ackerman
Thank You, Amelia Bedelia, Peggy Parish
There's a Frog in My Throat! 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me,
Loreen Leedy & Pat Street
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe, Vera B. Williams
Vote!, Eileen Christelow
The Whale, Cynthia Rylant
Why the Banana Split: Adventures in Idioms, Rick Walton
Informational
Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the Telephone, Editors of
Time for Kids with John Micklos, Jr.
Ancient Greece, Anne Pearson
Ancient Rome, Simon James
Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs, Kathleen V. Kudlinski
The Cod's Tale, Mark Kurlansky
A Drop Around the World, McKinney, Barbara Shaw
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution,
Elizabeth Levy
Inside Ancient Rome CovertoCover Chapter Book
Journey of the Humpback Whale, Caryn Jenner
Kites Sail High: A Book About Verbs, Ruth Heller
MerryGoRound: A Book About Nouns, Ruth Heller
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Floca, Brian
Paul Gauguin, Venezia, M.
Planets!Time for Kids: Science Scoops, Editors of Time for Kids
with Lisa Jo Rudy
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, Jean Fritz
Smart About the Presidents, Jon Buller & Susan Schade
The Solar System, Gregory Vogt
Thomas Edison: A Brilliant Inventor, Editors of Time for Kids
with Lisa deMauro
Uranus, Elaine Landau
Van Gogh, Venezia, M.
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson,
Pam Munoz Ryan
Grade 4 - Exemplar Collection
The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
Can It Rain Cats and Dogs?: Questions and Answers About
Weather, Melvin & Gilda Berger
Can You Hear a Shout in Space? Questions and Answers About
Space Exploration, Melvin & Gilda Berger
Carl Sandburg: Poetry for Young People: Grade 4, Carl Sandburg
The Cloud Book: Words and Pictures: Grade 4, Tomie DePaola
Do Stars Have Points?: Questions and Answers About Stars and
Planets, Melvin & Gilda Berger
Dogs (Smithsonian): Grade 4, Seymour Simon
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Langston Hughes
A Emily Dickerson: Poetry for Young People: Grade 4, Emily
Dickinson
The Grey King(The Dark is Rising Sequence) (advanced): Grade 4,
Susan Cooper
Hurricanes: Grade 4, Seymour Simon
The Long Winter, WILDER, L.
Love That Dog, Sharon Creech
Robert Frost's Poems, Robert Frost
Storms, Seymour Simon
Grade 4 - Expanded Collection
Fiction
And Still the Turtle Watched, Sheila MacGillCallahan
Because of WinnDixie, Kate DiCamillo
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
Every Living Thing, Cynthia Rylant
Fourth Grade Rats, Jerry Spinelli
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, Paul Goble
Just Juice, Karen Hesse
Knights of the Kitchen Table, Jon Scieszka
The Library Card, Jerry Spinelli
Marley: A Dog Like No Other, John Grogan
Merlin and the Dragons, Jane Yolen
Midnight on the Moon, Mary Pope Osborne
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O'Brien
Paint the Wind, Pam Munoz Ryan
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Poppy, Avi
Race Across America, Geronimo Stilton
Ragweed, Avi
Saint George and the Dragon, retold by Margaret Hodges
Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure,
Cindy Neuschwander
Space Explorers, Eva Moore
Tacky the Penguin, Helen Lester
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Storyof a Mouse, a Princess,
Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, Kate DiCamillo
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume
The Woman Who Outshone the Sun/La MujerQue Brillaba Aun
Mas Que El Sol, Rosalma Zubizarreta, H. Rohmer & D. Schecter
Informational
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, Jean Fritz
Can It Rain Cats and Dogs?: Questions and Answers About
Weather, Melvin & Gilda Berger
Can You Hear a Shout in Space? Questions and Answers About
Space Exploration, Melvin & Gilda Berger
Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share, Molly
Bang
Coyote Places the Stars, TAYLOR, H.
Do Stars Have Points?: Questions and Answers About Stars and
Planets, Melvin & Gilda Berger
The Heart: Our Circulatory System, Seymour Simon
I Want to Be a Veterinarian, Stephanie Maze
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution, Kay Moore
In Their Own Words: Paul Revere, George Sullivan
Molly Pitcher: Young American Patriot Graphic Novels, Jason
Glaser
Mounds of earth and shell : Native sites : the Southeast
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Gene
Barretta
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship,
Isabella & Craig Hatkoff & Dr. Paula Kahumbu
The Respiratory System
Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson, Ann McGovern
Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays, Peg Kehret
Space Magic Tree House Research Guide, Will Osborne & Mary
Pope Osborne
Storms, Seymour Simon
The Sun, Seymour Simon
The Trail of Tears, Joseph Bruchac
William Shakespeare and the Globe, Aliki
Grade 5 - Exemplar Collection
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Tor Classic), Lewis Carroll
The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Casey At The Bat, Thayer, E.
Children of the Great Depression, Russell Freedman
A History of US: First Americans, Prehistory1600 (Book 1): Grade
5, Joy Hakim
A History of US: The New Nation, 17891859 (Book 4): Grade 5,
Joy Hakim
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery, translated by Richard
Howard
My Librarian is a Camel: How Books are Brought to Children
Around the World: Grade 5, Margriet Ruurs
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest
of New Guinea, Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
The Secret Garden , Frances Hodgson Burnett
Toys!: Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions: Grade 5,
Don L. Wulffson and Laurie Keller
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
The William Blake: Poetry for Young People: Grade 5, William
Blake
Grade 5 - Expanded Collection
Fiction
Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt
Baseball Saved Us, Ken Mochizuki
Blue Willow, Doris Gates
Boy Called Slow, Joseph Bruchac
Bull Run, Paul Fleischman
Carver: a life in poems, Marilyn Nelson
Disappearing Alphabet, Richard Wilbur
Do You Have a Hat?, Eileen Spinelli
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery, Peter Abrahams
Fine print : a story about Johann Gutenberg, Burch, J.
Follow the Drinking Gourd, Jeanette Winter
Homer Price, Robert McCloskey
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer, Robert Byrd
A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl, Tonya Bolden
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest, Gerald
McDermott
The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Deborah Hopkinson
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
What Are You Figuring Now, Ferris, J.
A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
Informational
Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West, Lillian Schlissel
Children of the Dust Bowl, Jerry Stanley
The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings Tale Blazers
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes, TURNER, P.
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America, Anne Kamma
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War, Kay Moore
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad, Ellen Levine
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln All Aboard Reading, Jean Fritz
Leonardo da Vinci, Diane Stanley
Michelangelo, Venezia, M.
Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology, Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Thomas Edison/Own Words, Sullivan, G.
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Sis
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, Jean Fritz
Who Was Albert Einstein?, Jess M. Brallier
Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?, Sydelle Kramer
Who Was Marco Polo?, Joan Holub
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?, Margaret Frith
Grade 6 - Exemplar Collection
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad, SUTCLIFF, R.
Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl
Dragonwings, Laurence Yep
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann
Petry
Just So Stories, Mem Fox
Lyddie, Katherine Paterson
The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan
The Number Devil, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book, Virginia Hamilton
SOS Titanic, Eve Bunting
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, Katherine Paterson
The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, Katherine Paterson
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros
Grade 6 - Expanded Collection
Fiction
Baseball Saved Us, Ken Mochizuki
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett
Circuit, JIMENEZ, F.
Counting on Grace, Elizabeth Winthrop
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales: Grade 6, Arthur
Ransome
Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths, Bernard Evslin
Iqbal, Francesco D'Adamo
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
Journey of the Sparrows, Fran Leaper Buss with Daisy Cubias
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan
The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
The Name of this Book is Secret, Pseudonymous Bosch
Peter Pan, James M. Barrie
Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
SOS Titanic, Eve Bunting
Something About America, Maria Testa
Under the Blood-Red Sun, Graham Salisbury
War Comes to Willy Freeman, James Lincoln Collier & Christopher
Collier
Weedflower, KADOHATA, C.
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
Informational
Amelia Earhart (DK Biography): Grade 6, Tanya Stone
Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation, James Haskins
Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl
Building an Igloo, Steltzer, Ulli
Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero: Grade 6, James Giblin
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an
American Boy, Andrea Warren
First Americans: Story of Where They Came From and Who They
Became: Grade 6, Anthony F. Aveni and S.D. Nelson
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants, GALLO, D.
G Is For Googol: A Math Alphabet Book, Schwartz, David M.
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann
Petry
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island, Ellen Levine
Immigrant Kids, Russell Freedman
Kids On Strike, Bartoletti, Susan Campbel
Kids with Courage, Barbara A. Lewis
Leon's Story, Leon Tillage
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to
Freedom, Hamilton, Virginia
Math Curse, Scieszka, Jon
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,
Frederick Douglass
Night to Remember, Walter Lord
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, Ji-li Jiang
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr
The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets: Grade
6, Henk Tennekes
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the
Cultural Revolution, Moying Li
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America, Deborah
Hopkinson
Wilbur & Orville Wright: Taking Flight:Grade 6, Stephanie
Sammartino McPherson
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Soldier!: Barbarians You’d
Rather Not Meet (YouWouldn’t Want To meet, David Stewart
and David Antram
Baseball Saved Us, Ken Mochizuki
Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation, James Haskins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Circuit, JIMENEZ, F.
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy, Andrea Warren
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales: Grade 6, Arthur Ransome
First Crossing: Stories About Teen Immigrants, GALLO, D.
G Is For Googol: A Math Alphabet Book, Schwartz, David M.
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island, Ellen Levine
Immigrant Kids, Russell Freedman
Iqbal, Francesco D'Adamo
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
Kids with Courage, Barbara A. Lewis
Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata
Leon's Story, Leon Tillage
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Night to Remember, Walter Lord
Peter and the Shadow Thieves, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
SOS Titanic, Eve Bunting
The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets: Grade 6, Henk Tennekes
Something About America, Maria Testa
Under the Blood-Red Sun, Graham Salisbury
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America, Deborah Hopkinson
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
When I Was Your Age, EHRLICH, A.
Grade 9
101 Great American Poems, American Poetry & Literac
The Aeneid, Virgil
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich M. Remarque
Antigone, Sophocles
Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf
Black Boy, Richard Wright
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place, Harry Crews
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer
Everyday Use - Tale Blazers, Walker, Alice
The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings - Tale Blazers
Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester
Hakiu, Andrew Vachss
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell
How Much Land Does a Man Need?, Leo Tolstoy
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar, Robert Alexander
Lyrical Ballads 1798, William Wadsworth
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
The Most Dangerous Game - Tale Blazers
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, Johnathan Shay
The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus, Homer
Oedipus the King - Tale Blazers
Oedipus the King, Sophocles
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
One Writer's Beginning, WELTY, E.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-twenties, Allen, Frederick Lewis
Operation Homecoming: Iran, Afghanistanand the Home Front, in the Words of US Troops and their Fami, Andrew Carroll
Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, James Moffett & Kenneth R. McElheny, eds.
Ramayana, attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki
Robert Frost's Poems, Robert Frost
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, Elizabeth D Samet
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings, Edgar Allan Poe
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Twenty-One Great Stories, Abraham Lass & Norma Tasman, eds.
Within Reach: My Everest Story, Mark Pfetzer, written by Jack Galvin
The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston
You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers, Robert Frost
Grade 10
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Complete Short Novels, Anton Chekhov
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Death Of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka
Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories, Nikolay Gogol
The Epic Of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian andSumerian, Andrew George
A Gabriela Mistral Reader, Gabriela Mistral, Maria Giachetti, trans., Marjorie Agosin, ed.
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
The I Ching for a New Age: The Book of Answers for Changing Times, transmitted by Fei Zhi
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Long Walk To Freedom
Martha Quest, Doris Lessing
Master Harold and the Boys, Athol Fugard
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mississippi Trial, 1955, Chris Crowe
My Name is Red, Orham Pamuk
Nectar in a Sieve, Kamala Markandaya
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Notes From Underground
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass, Isak Dinesen
Ramayana, attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki
The Scandal of Empire: India and the creation of Imperial Britain, Nicholas B. Dirks
Six Records of a Floating Life, Shen Fu
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Pu Songling, ed
The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet (selections), Benjamin Hoff
The Thief and the Dogs, Naguib Mahfouz
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (selections), Pablo Neruda and W.S. Merwin, trans.
Under The Red Flag (selections), Ha Jin
The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution, Mariano Azuela
Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
Grade 11
101 Great American Poems, American Poetry & Literac
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X with Alex Haley
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Collected Essays, Baldwin, James/ Morrison,
Common Sense and The Crisis - Tale Blazers, Paine, Thomas
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, Edgar Allan Poe
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Into the Wild (Krakauer), Jon Krakauer
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Tale Blazers, Irving, Washington
Lift Every Voice and Sing: Selected Poems, James Weldon Johnson
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass
Native Son, Richard Wright
Piano Lesson, Wilson, August
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Rip Van Winkle - Tale Blazers, Irving, Washington
Roman Fever and Other Stories, Edith Wharton
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seize the Day, Bellow, Saul
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God And Other Puritan Sermons, Jonathon Edwards
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Speaking My Mind: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Ronald Reagan
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Voices of a People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Walden and Other Writings, Henry David Thoreau
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
The Yellow Wallpaper, GILMAN, C.
Grade 12
984, George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Tor Classic), Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich M. Remarque
Antigone, Sophocles
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by R.M. Lumiansky
The Canterbury Tales: A Selection, Geoffrey Chaucer
Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems, Christina Rossetti
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories, Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno, Alighieri, Dante
A Doll's House (Four Major Plays, Vol. I), Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Emma, Jane Austen
Faust, GOETHE, J.
Fifty Years of American Poetry; Over 200 Important Works by America's Modern Masters, Academy of American Poets
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Hamlet - Parallel Text, William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer, Joseph Conrad
The History of the Medieval World, S. Wise Bauer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
The Importance of Being Earnest (8 Great Comedies), Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront
King Lear - Parallel Text, William Shakespeare
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers, Hamsun, Knut
Passage to India, E.M. Forster
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous
Three Musketeers, Dumas, A.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte