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Pre-K

Recommended Reading for Pre-K students:-

Note:  these are books someone will probably need to read to the student.  Invest the time; it will be worth it!

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Froggy Goes to School

Jonathan London

Miss Nelson is Missing

Harry Allard

Green Eggs and Ham

Dr. Seuss

Hop on Pop

Dr. Seuss

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?

Bill Martin, Jr.

Guess How Much I Love You

Sam McBratney

The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

Falling Up

Shel Silverstein

The Going-To-Bed Book

Sandra Boynton

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Crockett Johnson

Excuse Me: A Little Book of Manners

Karen Katz

Corduroy

Don Freeman

The Polar Express

Chris Val Allsburg

The Night Before Christmas

Clement Clarke Moore

Counting Kisses

Karen Katz

Daddy and Me

Karen Katz

10 Little Rubber Ducks

Eric Carle

366 and More Nature Stories

Anne-Marie Dalmais

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

Dr. Seuss

Abuela

Arthur Dorros

The Crayon box that Talked

Shane deRolf

 

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Kindergarten

Arp Elementary

Kindergarten Suggested Reading List

Kindergarten students are exposed to over 2000 books during the school year. The following is a sample.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,                             Judith Viorst

Alligator Baby                                                                      Robert Munsch

Charlie the Caterpillar                                                        Dom Deluise

Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom                                             Bill Martin

Countdown to Kindergarten                                                Nonfiction

Down at the Farm                                                                 Nonfiction

Fish Eyes                                                                               Lois Ehleert

In a Small, Small Pond                                                       Denise Fleming

Little Bear                                                                           Else Minarik

Lyle, Lyle Crocodile                                                           Benard Waber

Miss Bindergarten gets Ready                                         Joseph Slate

Stars, Stars, Stars                                                              Nonfiction

Stone Soup                                                                           Marcia Wise Brown

Tadpole to Frog                                                                   Nonfiction

The Grouchy Ladybug                                                        Eric Carle

The Moon Book                                                                   Nonfiction

The Rainbow Fish                                                                Marcus Pfister

The Very Hungry Caterpillar                                            Eric Carle

 

Music K-5 Grades
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Fantasia   (excerpts)

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Fantasia2000  (excerpts) 

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Make Mine Music

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Melody Time

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Stomp Out Loud

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Blast

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Instrumental Classmates

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The Composers’ Specials

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Silver Burdett Making Music

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First

Series:

Biscuit                                Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Berenstein Bears             Jan and Stan Berenstein

Clifford                                Norman Bridwell

Arthur                                  Marc Brown

Frog and Toad                    Arnold Lobel

Henry and Mudge              Cynthias Rylant

Junie B. Jones                    Barbara Park

Franklin                               Bourgeois

Little Bear                            Minarik

Curious George                  Rey

Olivia                                    Ian Falconer

  

Various Books by different authors

Including but not limited to:

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Eric Carle books
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The Mixed Up Chameleon, The Very Busy Spider, The Very Hungry Caterpillar; etc.

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Bill Martin, Jr.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?; Polar Bear Polar Bear What Do You Hear?; etc.

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Laura Numeroff
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If you Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, If You Take a Mouse to School, etc.

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The Enormous Turnip                             Alexi Tolstoy

Hattie and the Fox                                    Mem Fox

Sheep in a Jeep                                        Nancy Shaw

A Dozen Dogs                                          Harriet Ziefert

The Foot Book                                          Dr. Seuss

The Eye Book                                           Theo LeSieg

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse                 Kevin Henkes

 

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Stories Alive – African and African American Folktales

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Nature Series – Dinosaurs, Fun, Facts and Fantasy

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The Magic School Bus – The Busasaurus

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Nature Series – Tyrannosaurus Rex

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Eyewitness – Dinosaur

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Dinosaur!

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America’s Greatest Caverns

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Spirit of Exploration

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

 

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Second

2nd Grade Reading List

 

·  Alexander and the Horrible , No Good Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst

·  Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish

·  Any title from the Berenstain Bears Series - Stan and Jan Berenstain

·  Any title from the Curious George Series - H. A. Rey

·  Any title from the Henry and Mudge Series - Cynthia Rylant

·  Any title from the Horrible Harry Series - Suzy Kline

·  Any title from the Madeleine Series - Ludwig Bemelmans

·  Any title from the Magic School Bus Series - Cole and Degan

·  Any title from the Magic Tree House Series - Mary Pope Osborne

·  Any title from the Nate the Great Series - Marjorie W. Sharmat

·  Arthur’s Eyes - Marc Brown

·  Corduroy - Don Freeman

·  Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown

·  Frederick - Leo Lionni

·  George and Martha - James Marshall

·  How Much is a Million? - David Kellogg

·  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Joffe Numeroff

·  Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy - Barbara Park

·  Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag

·  Miss Nelson is Missing - James Allard

·  Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney

·  Mouse Soup - Arnold Lobel

·  Owl Moon - Jane Yolen

·  Stellaluna - Janell Cannon

·  Strega Nona - Tomie DePaola

·  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig

·  The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein

·  The Great Kapok Tree - Lynne Cherry

·  The Josefina Story Quilt - Eleanor Coerr

·  The Rainbow Fish - Marcus Pfister

·  The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Jon Scieszka

 

 

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Third

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Johnny Appleseed and other folk tales by Steven Kellogg

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Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

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Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon

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The Legend of the Indian Paint Brush and other books by Tomie de Paola

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The Polar Express and other books by Chris Van Allsburg

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The Gingerbread Baby and other books by Jan Brett

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The Gingerbread Man

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The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo

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Benjamin Franklin books

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Balto, The Dog Who Saved Nome by Margaret Davidson

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Washington and Lincoln books

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Tar Beach  and Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold

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Take a Stand, Rosa Parks! by Peter & Connie Roop

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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

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Armadillo from Amarillo by Lynne Cherry

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Bringing Rain to Kapiti Plain and Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Verna Aardema

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Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary

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Coyote Places the Stars and other Native American legends

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Muggie Maggie

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Helen Keller: Crusader for the Blind and Deaf by Stewart & Polly Anne Graff

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

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Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

 

 

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Fourth

LA

4th Grade Read Alouds (Enjoyment)

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The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo

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Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

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Holes - Louis Sachar

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Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

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Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls

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The Giver - Lois Lowry

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Homecoming - Cynthia Voight

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The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Bunnicula - Deborah and James Howe

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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

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Hatchet - Gary Paulsen

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Summer of the Swans - Betsy Byars

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Because of Winn Dixie - Kate DiCamillo

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Tiger Rising - Kate DiCamillo

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Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech

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Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks

Assigned/Project Classroom Reads

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Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia McLaughlin

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Skylark - Patricia McLaughlin

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Little House Christmas - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Summer Books to Read

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Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

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Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

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Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown

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The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner

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The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling

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Fudge by Charlotte Graeber

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Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss

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The Magic School Bus Books by Joanna Cole

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Amelia Bedilia and related books by Peggy Parish

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Books by Beverly Cleary

 

 

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Fifth

LA

5th Grade Suggested Reading List

 

5th Grade Comedian                                          Elizabeth Levy

Anastasia Krupnik                                            Lois Lowry

Bad Case of Stripes                                           David Shannon

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory                  Roald Dahl

Chicken Soup                                                 

Island of the Blue Dolphins                               Scott O’Dell

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh                    Robert O’Brien

Nothing’s Fair in the 5th Grade                       Barthe DeClements

Old Yeller                                                             Fred Gipson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry                          Mildred Taylor

Shh, We’re Writing the Constitution             Jean Fritz

Tar Beach                                                            Faith Ringgold

Thank you, Mr. Fauker                                     P. Polacco

The Worst School Year Ever                            Barbara Robinson

Tuck Everlasting                                               Natalie Babbitt

Where the Sidewalk Ends                                Shel Silverstein

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Little House on the Prarie-Beginnings

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Tuck Everlasting

 

 

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Sixth

LA

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Maniac MaGee

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The Giver or Number the Stars

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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Technology Applications

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"The Alamo" (not Rated) (John Wayne version from AJH library. 

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Seventh

LA

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The Cay

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Trouble River

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Tuck Everlasting

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The House of Dies Drear

Science

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Science of Animals  -  Seidlitz

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Scientists of the Ancient World  -  Anderson

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Science and Medicine  -  DeAngelis

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Scientists  -  Hacker

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Microorganisms: The Unseen World  -  Ricciuti

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Energy  -  Challoner

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Energy at Work  -  Marshal, John

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Insects and Spiders  -  Time Life

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Just What the Doctor Ordered – The History of American Medicine  -  Miller

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Muscles and Bones  -  Llamas

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Respiration and Circulation  -  Llamas

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Digestion and Reproduction  -  Llamas

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Disease Book: A Kid’s Guide  -  Hyde

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Sharing The World with Animals  -  Shaw

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Amphibians  -  Ricciuti

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Crustaceans  -  Ricciuti

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Plant Life  -  Time Life

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Weather and Climate  -  Silverstein

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Environment  -  Snedden

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Our Solar System  -  Kirkwood

 

SS

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The Alamo-Walt Disney

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Gone to Texas Pt 2

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Eighth

English & Reading

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The Outsiders

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Star Girl

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The Light in the Forest

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The Phantom Tollbooth

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Julie of the Wolves

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Sounder

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name

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Flowers for Algernon

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The Diary of Anne Frank

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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

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Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain

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Across Five Aprils  - Yates

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Amos Fortune, Free Man -  Brink

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Bronze Bow  -  Forbes

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By the Shores of Silver Lake – Wilder

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Caddie Woodlawn – Wilder

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Calico Bush – Field

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Courage of Sarah Noble  - Dalgliesh

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Dicey’s Song  -  Voight

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Gathering of Days  -  Bios

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Indian Captive:  The Story of Mary Jamison  -  Lenski

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Johnny Tremaine  -  Forbes

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Little House in the Big Woods  -  Wilder

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Little House on the Prairie  -  Wilder

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Long Winter  -  Wilder

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Matchlock Gun  -  Edmonds

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Miss Hickory  -  Bailey

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Moccasin Trail  -  McGraw

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My Brother Sam Is Dead  -  Collier

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On the Banks of Plum Creek  -  Wilder

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Rifles for Watie  -  Keith

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Sarah, Plain and Tall  -  McLachlan

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Shiloh  -  Naylor

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Sign of the Beaver  -  Speare

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Sing Down the Moon  –  O’Dell

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Slave Dancer  -  Fox

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Strawberry Girl  -  Lenski

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These Happy Golden Years  -  Wilder

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Thimble Summer  -  Enright

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To Be A Slave  -  Lester

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Westing Game  -  Raskin

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Witch of Blackbird Pond  -  Speare

 

Science
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Apollo 11  -  Stein

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Apollo 13  -  Cole

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Apollo Moonwalkers  -  Kallen

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Earth  -  Brimmer

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Earth and How It Works  -  Parker

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Earth and Universe  -  Dunlop

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Earthquakes  -  Branley

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Natural Disasters  -  Griffey

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Science of Animals  -  Seidlitz

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Scientists of the Ancient World  -  Anderson

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Science and Medicine  -  DeAngelis

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Science to the Rescue  -  Markle

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Science and Story of Titanic  -  Hughes

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Scientists  -  Hacker

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Science Projects About Chemistry  -  Gardner

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Science Projects About Chemistry (Kitchen) – Gardner

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Storm Warning  -  Kahl

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Volcanoe and Earthquakes  -  VanRose

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Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens  -  Lauber

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Volcanoes and Other Natural Disasters  -  Griffey

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The Diary of Anne Frank

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Anne Frank Remembered

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Charly (Flowers for Algernon

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The Outsiders

 

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Johnny Tremaine and the Sons of Liberty - Walt Disney

 

Science: APOLLO 13

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Ninth

LA

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Animal Farm

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The Giver or Great Expectations

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Lord of the Flies

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Odyssey

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Romeo & Juliet

 

Spanish I

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“Selena – The Story of Selena Quintanilla

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“Spanglish” (excerpts)

Biology
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March of the Penguins (excerpts)

Alg I, MM, Geo
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“Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?”

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Tenth

LA

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Red Badge of Courage

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Julius Caesar

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A Wrinkle in Time

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High Elk's Treasure

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Selections from Poe

Spanish II

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“Giant” – Based on the novel by Edna Ferber

 

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Eleventh

LA

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The Scarlet Letter (AP)

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Of Mice and Men (AP)

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Huckleberry Finn (AP)

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The Crucible or Glass Managerie

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Great Gatsby

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April Morning

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Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

 

Technology Courses

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers

Technology Courses

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October Sky

 

Digital Graphics

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trailers only, of Monsters Inc, and Madagascar

 

Health Science Technology

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Lorenzo's Oil

 

Biology
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Miss Evers' Boys

 

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The Crucible

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12 Angry Men

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Dead Poet’s Society

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Great Gatsby

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

 

Spanish 3 & 4
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“Buried Mirrors” – by Carlos Fuentes.

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Twelfth

LA

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Heart of Darkness (AP)

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Pride and Prejudice (AP)

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Macbeth

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Selections from the Canterbury Tales

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King Lear

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Spanish

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The House on Mango Street

LA

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Macbeth

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Pride and Prejudice

 

BOOKS K-4 TO CHOOSE FROM

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Albert

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Alexander the Terrible, Horrible by Judith Viorst

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Alexander, Who’s Not  by Judith Viorst

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All the Places to Love by MacLachlan

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Always Room for One More

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Amazing Bone by steig

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Amazing Grace bu Hoffman

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Amelia Bedelia Bookworn by Parish

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Armadillo Rodes by Jan brett

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Arnold the prickly teddy  by lardner

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Arthur’s Eyes

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Authur’s Halloween

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Arthur’s New Puppy

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Arthur Writes a Story by Marc Brown

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Bad Boys by Palatini (bad wolf)

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Bear Snores On by Wilson

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Belinda the Ballerina by young

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Boss of the Plains the hat that won the west by carlson

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Bubba THE Cowboy Prince by Ketteman

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Buffalo Women by Paul Goble

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Bugs by munsinger

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Charlotte’s Web

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Chester’s way by henkes

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Chicken Little by kellogg

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Chrysanthemum by henkes

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Clouds by Bauer

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Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola

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Corduroy by Freeman

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Cowboys

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Cowboy and the Blackeye Pea by Johnston

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Cowboy Stories from East Texas

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David Goes to School by shannon

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Dear Mr. Blueberry by James (letters)

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Desert Life

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Diary of a Worm

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Diggers by brown

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Dog Who Cried Woof

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Dr. Seuss Books

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            Boy on Fairfield Street

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            500 Hats

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            Cat and the Hat

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            Green Eggs and Ham

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            One Fish Two Fish

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Drawing Books

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            Dogs

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Emperor’s New Clothes

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Essential 55

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Even More Parts by Arnold  (idioms)

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Fairy Tales by Riordan  ( difference in theme and plot in Goldilocks)

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Fairytale News

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Fat Turkeys 10

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Flossie and the Fox by McKissack

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Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Cronin

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Gift of  the Sacred Dog by Goble

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Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by GobleGlerp by McPhail (quotations)

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Great Kapok Tree (Rainforest) by Cherry

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Gregor the overlander by Collins

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Goat in the Rug by Geraldine

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Hairy, Scary, Ordinary What Is An Adjective?

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Halloween Costume Hunt by Bill Cosby

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Hello Fish Visiting the Coral Reef by Earle

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Hooway For Wodney Wat by lester

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How Texas Laws Are Made

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I wonder where butterflies go in the winter insect facts

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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by numeroff

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If you were there when they signed the constitution by levy

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Inside a House That Is Haunted

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Jake Snake’s Race

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Jerome Camps Out

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Jesse Owens (black history)

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Julius the baby of th world

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Kites Sail High by heller (verbs)

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Knots on a Counting Rope by Martin Jr.

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Legend of the Bluebonnet

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Little Engine That Could by piper

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Little Polar Bear, Take Me Home

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Little Red Hen by barton

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Lon Po Po (Red-Riding Hood Story from China)

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Magic School Bus

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 the Earth

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            Makes a Rainbow

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            Lost in Solar System (2)

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            Blows its top

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            Gets cold feet (warm and cold blooded animals)

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            Sees stars

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            Plants seeds

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            Gets Eaten (food chains)

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            Inside a Hurricane

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            Gets planted

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            Going batty

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            Waterworks

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            Wild Leaf Ride

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            Ups and downs floating and sinking

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            Gets programmed computers

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            Gets ants in his pants

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            In the artic

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            Inside Ralphie (germs)

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Manana Iguana by Paul

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Many Luscious Lollipops by heller (adjectives)

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Math for All Seasons

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Merry-Go-Round by heller (nouns)

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Milky Way Legend

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Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel by burton

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Millions to Measure

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Mine All Mine by Heller (pronouns)

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Mink, a fink, a skating rink (What is a Noun?) by cleary

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Mitten by brett

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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten

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Mud by Ray

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Mystery in Bugtown

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New Kid on the Block poems by Jack Prelutsky

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One of Each by Hoberman

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One Hundred Days Plus One

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Oomph (vacation story)

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Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall

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Owls by Gail Gibbons

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Paper Bag Princess by Robert munsch

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Pearl Harbor

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Pigs on a blanket Math time

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Plains Indians

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Puddles by London

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Relatives Came

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Return of the Buffaloes by Paul Goble

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Rivers

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Rose’s Journal (great depression)

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Round Up A Texas Number Book by Crane

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Salty seagull a tale of an old salt

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Sarah Morton’s Day Life of a Pilgrim Girl by waters

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Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

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Sheila Rae the Brave by henkes

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Sitting Bull by penner

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Smoky Night by Eve Bunting

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Solids And Liquids

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Statue of Liberty

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Stellaluna

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Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Studpi Tales

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Substitue Teacher from the Black Lagoon

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Subway mouse by reid

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Surprising Sharks

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Sharks

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Tacky the penguin by lester

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Teacher from the black lagoon

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Tenth Good Thing About Barney by viorst

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Terrible Thing That Happened at our House by Blaine

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There’s An Alligator Under My Bed

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Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

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Three Sillies

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Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

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To  Root, to Toot, to Parachute  (verb)

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Today I Feel Silly and other moods that make my day

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Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

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Trail of Tears

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Try, Try Again  Winnie the Pooh

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Unlovable by yaccarino

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Walk in the Desert by Arnold

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Weslandia

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What a Scare, Jesse Bear (Halloween)

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Where The Wild Things Are

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Why Cowboys Sleep with Their Boots On

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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears by Aardema (tape)

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Whos Who In My Family by Loreen Leedy

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Winter Poems by Rogasky

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Y

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Z

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Zoo Doings by Prelustsky poems

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    BOOKS 5-12 TO CHOOSE FROM

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    Amelia Earhart  -  Shore

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    Amazon:  A Young Readers Look  At the Last Frontier  -   Lourie

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    Aliens and Extarrestials  -  Asimov

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    Alexander Graham Bell:  Inventor and Teacher  -  Schuma 

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    Albert Einstein & the Laws of Relativity

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    Alamo  -  Sullivan

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    Africa -  Peterson

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    Adventures of Tom Sawyer  -  Twain (RL5.3)

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain (RL6)

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    Abe Lincoln:  Log Cabin to White  House – North

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    A.J. Foyt  -  Wilker

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    American Inventors of the 20th Century  -  Jeffre

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    Ancient Egypt  -  Hart

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    Ancient Greece  -  Pearson

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    Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary

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    Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl-  Frank

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    Annie Oakley  -  Hamilton

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    Antarctica  -  Peterson

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    Antarctica  -  Sayre

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    Apollo 11: First Moon Landing  -     Cole

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    Apollo 13: Space Emergency  -   Cole

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    Apollo Moonwalkers  -  Kallen

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    Arctic Explorer: The Story of  Matthew Henson -  Ferris

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     Archeology  -  McIntosh 

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    Asia  -  Sayre

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    Australia  -  Sayre

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    Aztec, Inca, and Maya – Baquedano

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    Barry Bonds  -  Goodman

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    Barry Sanders:  Star Running Back  -  Aaseng

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    Baseball  - Owens

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    Basketball  -  Owens

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    Battle of the Alamo  -  Santello

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    Best of the Best in Basketball  -  Rutledge

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    Best of the Best in Figure Skating-  Rutledge

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    Best of the Best in Gymnastics –  Rutledge

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    Best of the Best in Tennis  -     Rutledge

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    Best of the Best in Track and  Field  -  Rutledge

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    Bill Cosby  -  Conord

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    Bill Gates: Billionaire Computer Genius  -  Dickinson

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    Bill of Rights  -  Quirl

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    Black Beauty  -  Sewell

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    Booker T. Washington  -  Troy

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    Bosnia:  Civil War in Europe

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    Boston Tea Party -  O’Neill

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    Boy on a Black Horse  -  Springer

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    Boy on Defense  -  Young

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    Building the Panama Canal –  Israel

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    Caddie Woodlawn  -  Brink

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    Cal Ripkin, Jr.:  Baseball’s Iron Man  -  Gutman

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    Cal Ripkin, Jr.: Play Ball!  -  Ripkin  & Bryan

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    Call of the Wild  -  London (AR)

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    Canada  -  Barlas & Tompsett

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    Canyon  -  Paulsen

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    Careers Inside the World of Health  Care  -  Wilkinson

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    Careers Inside the World of Government  -  Hurwitz

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    Careers Inside the World of Sales-  Frisch

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    Careers Inside the World of Technology -  Spencer

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    Cars and How They Work  - Cruickshank

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    Castle  -  Gravett

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    Change the Game: One Athlete’sm  Thoughts on Sports,  Dreams, and Growing Up  -  Hil 

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    Charles P. Lazarus: The Titan of ToysRUs  -  Koopman

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    Chicago Bulls Basketball Team –    Owens

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    China  -  Stefoff

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    Chris Mullin: Star Forward

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    Christy  -  Marshall

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    Christopher Reeve: Hollywood’s  Man of Courage  -  Wren

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    Civil War  -  Gay

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    Civil War Generals -  Harmon

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    Classic Motorcycles  -  Carroll

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    Colin Powell  -  Patrick & Wexler

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    Colin Powell: Soldier and Patriot

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    Colonial Life  -  Kalman

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    Communicating on the Internet – Wolinsky

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    Coretta Scott King  -  Klingel

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    Corvett: The American Sports Car

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    Custom Bikes  -  Pupeza

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    Dale Earnhardt  -  Benson

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    Dallas Cowboys Football

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              Team  -  Lace

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    Dallas Mavericks  -  Joseph

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    Dallas Stars  -  Gilbert

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    Dan Marino: Star Quarterback  -   Kenned

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    Dan Jansen: Olympic Speedskating Champion-Italia

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    David Robinson: Star Center  -     Macnow

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    David Copperfield -  Dickens

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    Dental Hygienist  -  Simon

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    Dirt Bikes  -  Pupeza

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    Dirt Bikes  -  Young

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    Dominique Moceanu: A Gymnastics Sensation  -  Quir

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    Donna Karen: Designing An  American Dream -  Tipp

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    Double Life of Pocohontos  -  Fritz

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    Drag Racing  -  Cockerham

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    Drew Carey  -  Gaines

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    Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry for Young  People  -  Poe & Bagert

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    Egyptians  -  Coote

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    Egyptian Pyramid  -  Morley

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    Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor –  Henry

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    Elizabeth Dole  -  Kozar

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    Explorers of Early Texas  - Warren

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    Exploring Careers As An  Electrician  -  Lytle

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    Exploring Careers in Cyberspace -        Fulton

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    Exploring the Origins of the  Universe  -  Kallen

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    Exploring the Titanic -  Ballard

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    Extreme Skateboarding  -  Ryan

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    Fact or Fiction: Beasts  -  Ross

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    Fact or Fiction: Pirates  -  Ross

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    First in the Field: Baseball Hero  Jackie Robinson – Dingle

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    First Ladies -  Clinton

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    Flags  -  Cooper

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    Flight: The Journey of Charles  Lindbergh

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    Flowers for Algernon  -  Keyes

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    Football  -  Thomas & Helmer

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    Formula I Racing  -  McKenna

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    Friends  -  Yumoto

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    George Washington Carver  -   Carey

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    George Washington, Thomas  Jefferson, Andrew  Jackson  -  Lindop

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    Getting Ready for a Career As   A Computer Animator –  Lund

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    Getting Ready for A Career As An Internet Designer –     Lund

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    Getting Ready for A Career As  A Video Game Designer –Lund

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    Getting Ready for a Career in  Health Care  -  Lund

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    Gettysburg Address  -  Richards

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    Gift of the Magi  -  Henry

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    Gloria Estefan: Singer and Entertainer  -  Gonzales

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    Golden Fleece and the Heroes  Who Lived Before Achilles  -  Colum

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    Great African Americans in Business  -  Rediger

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    Great African Americans in  History  -  Hacker

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    Great African Americans in Music  -  Rediger

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    Great African Americans in Olympics  -  Hunter

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    Great African Americans in  Sports  -  Rediger

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    Great American Businesswomen –      Jeffrey

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    Great Pyramid  -  Martel

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    Gregory Hines  -  DeAngelis

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    Growing Up in America from 1830-1860    -  Toynton

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    Growing Up in Colonial America –     Barrett

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    Guion Bluford  -  Jeffrey

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    Harriet Ross Tubman  -  Troy

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    Hatchet  -  Paulsen

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    Hearing the Pitch: Evaluating All  Kinds of Advertising- Frisch

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    Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan:  Working Miracles Together-   Zonderma

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    Helen Gurley Brown: The Queen   Of Cosmopolitan – Falko

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    Hidden Children of the Holocaust:Teens Who Hid From the Nazis  -  Kustanowitz

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    Hide and Seek: Creatures in     Camaflauge  -  Perry

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    Hiroshima and Nagaski  -  Grant

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    History of NASCAR  -  McGuire

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    History of the New York Yankees –       Rambeck

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    History of the Houston Astros  -      Goodman

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    History of the Internet & the World Wide Web -  Wolinsky

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    History of the Texas Rangers –   Rambeck

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    Hobbit  -  Tolkien

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    Holocaust: Understanding &     Remembering – Strahin

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    Holocaust, Hitler, and Nazi  Germany  -  Altman

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    Holocaust  -  Grant

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    Home Run Heroes: McGuire  And Sosa  -  Stewart

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    Homer Price  -  McCloskey

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    Hoops  -  Myers

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    Horse and Pony Breeds  - Budd

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    Horseback Riding  -  Stewart

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    Hot Dogging and Snow  Boarding  -  Guthrie

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    Hound of the Baskervilles –        Doyle

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    House of Dries Drear -  Hamilton

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    How the West Was Won –        L’Amou

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    I Have Lived a Thousand Years:   Growing Up in the Holocaust  -  Britton &  Jackson

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    I Want to Be an Astronaut  -  Maze

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    I Want to Be an Engineer  -  Maze

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    I Want to Be a Firefighter  -  Maze

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    I Want to Be a Veterinarian – Maze

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    I Was a Teenage Professional  Wrestler  -  Lewin

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    Indian Treaties  -  Gold

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    Indians Who Lived in Texas  -  Warren

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    Internet  -  Jortberg

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    Island Stallion  -  Farley

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    J.C. Watts  -  Lutz

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    Jack London  -  Dyer

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    Jackie Joyner-Kersee  -   Harrington

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    Jackie Robinson: Baseball’s Civil  Rights Legend -  Coombs

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    Jamestown Colony  -  Sakurai

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    Jane Goodall: Protector of  Chimpanzees  -  Meachum

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    Japan  -  Heinrichs  (RL6.9)

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    Jedi Under Siege  -  Anderson

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    Jesse Jackson: Civil Rights  Activist  -  Haskins

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    Jesse Owens: Track and Field  Legend -  Josephson

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    Jim Thorpe  -  Coffey

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    Jimmy Spoon and the Pony Express  - Gregory

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    Joan of Arc: Soldier Saint –     Christopher

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    Joe Montana: The Comeback  Kid  -  Spence

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    John Elway  - Dougherty

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    John F. Kennedy  -  Kent

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    John Muir: Wilderness Protector    Wadsworth

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    John Paul Jones: Father of the   U.S. Navy  -  Lutz

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    John Lennon  -  Stockdale

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    John Wesley Powell: Explorer of    The Grand Canyon  - Brun

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    John Sculley: Building the Apple    Dream – Speisman

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    Johnny Got His Gun  - Trumbo

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    Johnny Texas on the San Antonio  Road – Hoff

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    Johnny Tremain  - Forbes

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    Johnny Depp  -  Hawes

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    Journal of Joshua Loper: A  Black Cowboy, The  Chisholm Trail, 1871 –       Myers

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    Journey of the Red Wold  - Smith

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    Journey to the New World: The  Diary of Remember Patience Whipple,  Mayflower, 620 – Lasky

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    Julie of the Wolves  -  George

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    Jurassic Park  -  Crichton

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    Just So Stories  -  Kipling

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    Karate  -  Casey

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    Karate  -  Gutman

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    Keanu Reeves  -  Memberry

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    Ken Griffey, Jr.: Baseball’s Best Gutman

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    Kevin Garnett  -  Dougherty

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    Kevin Costner: Award Winning  Actor/Director – Hamilton

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    Key to the Indian  -  Reid

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    Kickboxing  -  Sipe

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    Kid Comes Back  -  Tunis

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    Kid From Tomkinsville – Tunis

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    King Arthur & the Knights of the  Round Table – Pyle

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    King of the World: The Rise of Muhammad Ali – Remnick

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    King of the Wind  -  Henry

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    Kit Carson: Frontier Scout –  Sanford

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    Klondike Gold Rush  -  Shepherd

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    Kon-Tiki  -  Heyerdahl

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    Korean War: The Forgotten  War  -  Stein

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    Lamborghini: The Fastest  -Haines

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    Langston Hughes  -  Rummell

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    Langston Hughes: Young Black  Poet  - Dunham

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    On Dreams ~ Sigmund Freud

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    On the Beach ~ Nevil Shute

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    Larry Walker  -  DeMarco

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    Last of the Mohicans -  Cooper (abridged – AR)

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    Lee Ann Rimes  -  Zymet

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    Leonardo DiCaprio  -  Stauffer

     

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    Let the Circle Be Unbroken –   Taylor

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    Let Women Vote!  -  Brill

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    Letters from the Mountain  -      Garland

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    Lewis and Clark  - Stein

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    Lexington and Concord  -  Kent

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    Light in the Storm: The Civil War  Diary of Amelia Martin –   Hesse

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    Lincoln’s Little Girl: A True Story  -  Trump

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    Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda   Lawrence -  Garland

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    Line of Fire  -  David

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    Linnea in Monet’s Garden –     Bjork

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    Lives of the Presidents: Fame,   Shame (And What the  Neighbors Thought) –        Krull

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    Lives of the Athletes  - Krull

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    Long Road to Gettysburg  -    Murphy

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    Long-Arm Quarterback –     Christopher

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    Long Trail of Texas   Longhorns  -  Chorlian

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    Los Angeles Lakers  -  Joseph

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    Lost Cities  -  Goldenstern

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    Lost City of the Jedi  -  Davids

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    Lost Prince  -  Burnett

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    Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart  - Lauber

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    Lost Treasure of the Inca – Lourie

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    Louis Armstrong: King of Jazz –     Old

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    Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball’s  Greatest  -  VanRiper

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    Louis Pasteur: Disease Fighter –     Smith

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    Lowriders  -  Lake

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    Luckiest Girl – Cleary

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    Madam C.J. Walker: Building a  Business Empire  -Coleman

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    Mae Jemison  -  Yannuzzi

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    Magnificent Seven: The  Authorized Story of American Gold – Kleinbaum

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    Make Lemonade  -  Wolff

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    Makeup Artist  -  Quinlan

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    Make Way for Sam Houston –      Fritz

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    Making of a Race Car  -  Huff

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    Mandela for Young Beginners  -  Adler

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    March on Washington: 1963  Gathering to be Heard-Andryszewski

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    Marian Anderson: A Great Singer     McKissack

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    Margaret Bourke-White  -  Welch

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    Marie Curie and Radium – Parker

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    Mario Lemieux: Star Center  -      Rappoport

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    Mark McGuire  -  Dougherty

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    Mark McGuire: Star Home Run  Hitter  -  Thornley

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    Mark Martin  -  Mello

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    Mark Messier: Star Center -  Sullivan

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    Mark Twain: Legendary Writer and  Humorist  -  Pflueger

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    Mark Twain  -  Wheeler

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. – Jakoubek

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    Martin Luther King Jr.: Leader for  Civil Rights -  Schuman

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    Marvin Gaye  -  Stockdale

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    Mary Poppins  -  Travers

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    Mary Todd Lincoln: Tragic First Lady of the Civil War – Hull

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    Mastering Martial Arts  -  Potts

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    Master Puppeteer  -  Paterson

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    Matthew Henson  -  Gilman

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    Maya Lin   -   Ling

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    Maya Indians  -  Sherrow

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    Medieval Castle  -  Macdonald

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    Medieval Life  -  Langley

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    Mediterranean Sea  -  Lambert

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    Memorial Day  -  Sorensen

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    Men Who Fought the Civil Wars-  Wade

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    Mexico  -  Rummel

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    Mexico  -  Stein

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    Michael Eisner: Fun for Everyone-     Tippins

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    Michael J. Fox  -  Kozar

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    Michael Jordon -  Lovitt

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    Michael Jordon: Star Guard -   Knapp

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    Middle East: Struggle for a Homeland  -  Greenberg

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    Middle Ages  -  Caselli

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    Monica Seles  -  Murdico

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    Monster Trucks and Tractors  -      Mead

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    Morgan Freeman  -  DeAngelia

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    Morgan Horse  -  Wilcox

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    Mother Teresa: Helping the Poor-       Jacobs

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    Mount Rushmore -  Doherty

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    Muhammad Ali: The People’s    Champion  -  Macht

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    Mummies and Their Mysteries      Wilcox

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    Mummy  -  Putman

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    Music  -  Ardley

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    Mysteries of the Rain Forest:  20th Century Medicine   Man  -  Pascoe

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    Mysteries of the Sahara –    Israel

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    Mysteries of UFO’s  -  Innes

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    Mystery at Lake Placid –      Mac Gregor

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    National Flags  -  Pickels

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    National Velvet  -  Bagnold

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    Natural Born Winner: The Jeff Gordon Story  -  Mair

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    Nelson Mandela, “No Easy Walk  To Freedom” – Denenberg

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    Neil Armstrong: The First Man on  The Moon  -  Kramer

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    Nefertiti: The Mystery Queen  -      Holmes

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    Never Cry Wolf  -  Mowat

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    Night  -  Wiesel

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    Nineteenth Amendment  -Monroe

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    No Man’s Land  -  Bartoletti

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    Nolan Ryan: Texas Football to Cooperstown – Anderson

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    Old New England  -  Stone

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    On Board the Titanic  -  Tanaka

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    On the Beach  -  Shute

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    100 Unforgettable Moments in the  Winter Olympics  -  Italia

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    100 Unforgettable Moments in the   Summer Olympics – Italia

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    100 Unforgettable Moments in Pro  Football  -  Italia

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    100 Unforgettable Moments in Pro   Baseball  -  Italia

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    Only Way I Know  -  Ripken

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    Oregon Trail  -  Fisher

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    Out of Darkness: The Story of  Louis Braille  - Freeman

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    Overland to California in 1859:   A Guide for Wagon Train Travelers – Bloch

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    Over the Top of the World:   Explorer Will Stegar’s  Trek Across the Arctic-    Steger

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    Painter of the Caves  -  Lauber

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    Palomino Horse -  Stewart

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    Pearl  -  Steinbeck

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    Pet or Not?  -  Silverstein

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    Peter Pan  -  Barrie

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    Phillis Wheatley  -  Richmond

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    Photographer  -  Quinlan

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    Pickup Trucks  -  Koons

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    Pigman  -  Zindel

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    Pigman & Me  -  Zindel

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    Pilgrims and Puritans 1620-1676    -Collier

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    Pilgrims  -  Stein

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    Pillars of Gold & Silver  -     DeLaGarza

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    Pioneering Women of the Wild West -  Savage

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    Pinto Horse  -  Stewart

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    Piranhas  -  Pinkguni

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    Pirate  -  Platt

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    Pirate Lafitte & the Battle of  New Orleans  - Tallant

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    Pizarro: Conqueror of Peru –    Jacobs

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    Pizarro & the Conquest of the  Incan Empire in World    History  -  Worth

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    Place of Lions  -  Campbell

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    Plains Outbreak Tornadoes: Killer Twisters  -  Sherrow

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    Poisonous Creatures – Aaseng

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    Poland  -  Heale

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    Polar Regions  -  Bonner

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    Pool of Fire  -  Christopher

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    Postern of Fate  -  Christie

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    Powers of Congress  -  Stein

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    Powers of the Supreme Court  -   Stein

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    Pride’s Last Race  -  Campbell

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    Pride’s Challenge  -  Campbell

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    Pride of the Southwest  -  Belfiglio

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    Protecting Our Rivers and Lakes  -     Costa/Paw

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    Protecting Our Forest  -Costa/Paw

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    Queen’s Confession  -  Holt

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    Race to Space  -  Kallen

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    Rachel Carson  -  Jezer

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    Rain Forests  -  Green

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    Rainbow Valley  -  Montgomery

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    Rainforest  -  Wood

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    Red Badge of Courage  -    (abridged)  Crane

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    Red Planet: Mars  -  Asimov

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    Red Pony  -  Steinbeck

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    Restaurant at the End of the   Universe  -  Adams

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    Return of the Indian  -  Reid

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    Revolutionaries  -  Time Life Editors

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    Revolutionary Soldiers: 1715-1783    -Wilbur

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    Revolutionary War  -  Gay

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    Return of Honor  -  O’Grady

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    Richard Petty  -  Franki

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    Rifles for Watie  -  Keith

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    River  -  Paulsen

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    Roaring Twenties  -  Stein

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    Robert Ballard: Oceanographer    Who Discovered the  Titanic  -  Hill

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    Robert E. Lee: Civil War Hero –      Kananaugh

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    Roberto Clemente  -  Macht

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    Roberto Clemente: Young Ball  Player  -  Dunham

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    Roberto Clemente  -  Gilbert

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    Robinson Crusoe  -  DeFoe    (abridged)

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    Robot Trouble  -  Coville

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    Rodeos: The Greatest Show on     Dirt  -  Alter

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    Roman Empire & the Dark Ages –       Caselli

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    Romans  -  Hicks

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    Rome  -  Stein

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    Ron Howard: Child Star &  Hollywood Director – Kram

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    Ronald Reagan  -  Joseph

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    Ronald Reagan  -  Kent

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    Rookie  -  Greene

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    Roots  -  Haley

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    Rosa Parks: My Story  -  Parks

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    Rosie the Riveter: Women  Working on the Home Front in World War II –     Colman

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    Rough Rider  -  Morris

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    Ruby in the Smoke  -  Pullman

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    Runaway’s Revenge -  Jackson

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    Running Loose  -  Crutcher

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    Russia  -  Murrell

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    Russia  -  Torchinsky

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    Sacagawea  -  St. George

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    Sammy Sosa  -   Dougherty

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    Samuel Adams:  The Father of  American Independence     Fradin

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    Samuel Adams: Grandfather of  His Country – Farley

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    Santa Anna: Patriot of Scoundrel-       Tolliver

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    Savage Sam  -  Gipson

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    Scary Animals  -  DeSart

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    Schindler’s List  -  Keneally

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    Science and Technology  -      Rowe

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    Science Fair Projects, Planning,  Presenting, Succeeding –         Gardner

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    Science Fair Success –Bombaugh

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    Science Fair Success with Plants       Perry

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    Seaman: The Dog Explored The  West with Lewis & Clark –     Karwoski

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    Sea Wolf  -  London

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    Search for Lost Treasure –     Gallagher

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    Secret Garden  -  Burnett

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    Secret of the Lizard People –       Friedman

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    Secret of the Indian  -  Reid Banks

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    Sequoyah: Inventor of the   Cherokee Alphabet –       Shumate

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    Serpent Never Sleeps  -  O’Dell

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    Seven of Nine  -  Golden

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    Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind –        Staples

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    Shadow of a Bull –Wojciechowska

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    Shannon Lucid: Space  Ambassador – Bredeson

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    Shipwreck  -  Platt

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    Shipwreck at the Bottom of the    World: Shacketon’s    Amazing Voyage –       Armstrong

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    Shoeless Joe  -  Kinsella

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    Sing Down the Moon  -  O’Dell

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    Sir Gawain & the Green Knight –         Burrow

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    Sister of the Bride  -  Cleary

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    SOS Titanic  -  Bunting

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    Unidentified Flying Objects &    Extraterrestial  Life  -     Marsh

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    Voyage on the Great Titanic: The   Diary of Margaret Ann    Brady  -  White

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    Weslandia  -  Fleischman

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    When the Legends Die  -       Borland

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    Wild Horses I Have Known  -       Ryden

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    Will Smith  -  Joseph

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    William Shakespeare & the Globe-       Aliki

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    Wolves  -  Simon

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    Women in Space: Reaching the  Last Frontier -  Briggs

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    Wonderful Flight to the  Mushroom Planet –       Cameron

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    Wonderful Story of Henry   Sugar and Six More-       Dahl

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    Wonderful Wizard of Oz-        Baum

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    Working Together Against   Drinking and Driving  -Grosshandler/Smith

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  • AP & Pre-AP Approved Summer Reading List

  • English 3 AP - American Lit. - Summer Reading List

     

    1. Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    2. Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie

    3. Tim O’Brien – The Things They Carried

     

    English 4 AP - British Lit. - Summer Reading List

    1. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

    2. George Orwell - 1984

    3. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

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    (Essays) ~ Joan Didion

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    (Essays) ~ John Dryden

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    (Essays) ~ Jonathon Swift

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    (Essays) ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    (Essays) ~ Ralph Ellison

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    (Short Stories) ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    (Short Stories) ~ Eudora Welty

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    (Short Stories) ~ Flannery O’Connor

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    (Short Stories) ~ Joyce Carol Oates

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    (Short Stories) ~ Katherine Anne Porter

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    I Have a Dream ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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    In Cold Blood ~ Truman Capote

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    The Fifteen Elements of Effective 
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    This report delineates fifteen elements aimed at improving middle and high school literacy achievement right now.

    1. Direct, explicit comprehension instruction, which is instruction in the strategies and processes that proficient readers use to understand what they read, including summarizing, keeping track of one’s own understanding, and a host of other practices

    2. Effective instructional principles embedded in content, including language arts teachers using content-area texts and content-area teachers providing instruction and practice in reading and writing skills specific to their subject area

    3. Motivation and self-directed learning, which includes building motivation to read and learn and providing students with the instruction and supports needed for independent learning tasks they will face after graduation

    4. Text-based collaborative learning, which involves students interacting with one another around a variety of texts

    5. Strategic tutoring, which provides students with intense individualized reading, writing, and content instruction as needed

    6. Diverse texts, which are texts at a variety of difficulty levels and on a variety of topics

    7. Intensive writing, including instruction connected to the kinds of writing tasks students will have to perform well in high school and beyond

    8. A technology component, which includes technology as a tool for and a topic of literacy instruction

    9. Ongoing formative assessment of students, which is informal, often daily assessment of how students are progressing under current instructional practices

    10. Extended time for literacy, which includes approximately two to four hours of literacy instruction and practice that takes place in language arts and content-area classes

    11. Professional development that is both long term and ongoing

    12. Ongoing summative assessment of students and programs, which is more formal and provides data that are reported for accountability and research purposes

    13. Teacher teams, which are interdisciplinary teams that meet regularly to discuss students and align instruction

    14. Leadership, which can come from principals and teachers who have a solid understanding of how to teach reading and writing to the full array of students present in schools

    15. A comprehensive and coordinated literacy program, which is interdisciplinary and

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