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Kids
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Books to Life including:
A Ball for Daisy by Chris
Raschka (Newbery Medal),
Blackout by John Rocco (Newbery Honor),
Grandpa Green by Lane Smith
(Newbery Honor), and
Me ... Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Newbery
Honor) PLUS
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems (2005
Newbery Honor)
Recently
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The
Notorious Benedict Arnold, A Story of Adventure, Heroism, and Treachery
by Steve Sheinkin (5th grade up)
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Individual guides from Reading
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Aliens on Vacation by Clete
Barrett Smith--One of the funniest in years!
Benjamin
Franklinstein Lives by Johanna Hurwitz
Challenger:
America's Favorite Eagle by Margot Theis Raven
Chasing Lincoln’s
Killer by James L. Swanson GREAT for middle and high school
Cheshire
Cheese Cat, a Dickens of a Tale by Carmen Agra Deedy--FANTASTIC!
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
by Candace Fleming
EllRay Jakes is Not
a Chicken by Sally Warner--New Anti-Bullying Literature
Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem
Hamster Magic by Lynne Jonell--Fun
and easy chapter book!
Hero by Mike Lupica
Hot
Diggity Dog paired with Chocolate, Riches
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Just Being Audrey by Margaret
Caudillo
Lawn Boy Returns by Gary Paulsen--as
TERRIFIC as the first!
Like
Pickle Juice on a Cookie by Julie Sternberg, Easy 3rd grade school
starting, lyrical
Moon Over Manifest by Clare
Vanderpool (Winner of the 2011 Newbery Medal)
The Magic Half by Annie Barrows
Misty Gordon and the Mystery
of the Ghost Pirates by Kim Kennedy
The
Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick (2010
Newbery Honor Book) ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIC for grades 5+
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt--GREAT
for grades 5-8!
Play,
Louis, Play: The True Story of Louis Armstrong as told by His Horn
Postcards from Camp by Simms
Taback
Ruth and the Green Book
by Calvin Alexander Ramsey--Black History Picture Book
Scarum Fair by Jessica Swaim -- a
scary, haunted carnival in poetry
Thunder
Birds by Jim Arnosky
Under the Mambo Moon by Julia
Durango--Blank Verse Poetry, Latin music and dance
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin (2010 Newbery Honor Book)
Wonder Struck by Brian Selznick
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Kids
Wings Units contain
a variety of activities including:
group discussion cards,
anticipation guides
original readers theater scripts,
chapter questions to build predict/confirm
multiple-choice comprehension,
vocabulary activities,
logic and crossword puzzles,
writing lessons,
character lessons,
games,
art,
songs,
math,
research,
writing/discussion prompts
many with a Jeopardy-type game
and MORE
units for grades 1-3 units like
How
Rocket Learned to Read and
Interrupting Chicken
PLUS
units for grades 3-7 units like
The
Case of the Case
of Mistaken Identity,
Gary Paulsen's Woods Runner,
and just added:
The
Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, a unique Civil War
story by Rodman Philbrick,
a 2010 Newbery Honor Book
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