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GRADES 6-8

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Don’t You Dare Read Dragon’s Gate NOVEL UNITS CATALOG
This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Jeff Kinney Laurence Yep
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Level T 950L Level W 730L
Boys don’t keep diaries—or do Level 890L When he accidentally kills a
they? The launch of an exciting Manchu, a fifteen-year-old
and innovatively illustrated Everyone has to keep a journal Chinese boy is sent to America
series narrated by an unforget- in Mrs. Dunphrey’s English to join his father, an uncle, and
table kid every family can class, but the teacher has prom- other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the
relate to. It’s a new school year, and Greg Heffley ised she won’t read any entry marked "Do not transcontinental railroad through the Sierra
finds himself thrust into middle school, where read this." It’s the kind of assignment Tish Bon- Nevada mountains in 1867. In spite of the pres-
undersized weaklings share the hallways with ner, one of the girls with big hair who sit in the ence of family, Otter is a stranger among the
kids who are taller, meaner, and already shav- back row, usually wouldn’t take very seriously. other Chinese in this new land. And where he
ing. The hazards of growing up before you’re But right now, Tish desperately needs someone expected to see a land of goldfields, he sees
ready are uniquely revealed through words and to talk to, even if it’s only a notebook she only vast, cold whiteness. But Otter’s dream is
drawings as Greg records them in his diary. In doesn’t dare let anyone read. As Tish’s life spins to learn all he can, take the technology back,
book one of this debut series, Greg is happy out of control, the entries in her journal become and free China from the Manchu invaders.
to have Rowley, his sidekick, along for the ride. more and more private...and dangerous. Is she Otter and the others board a machine that will
But when Rowley’s star starts to rise, Greg tries risking everything that matters to her by putting
to use his best friend’s newfound popularity to the truth on paper? And is she risking more by change his life. Historical Fiction
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Student Packet ISBN 9781561379897 $13.99 The Door in the Wall Laurence Yep

Dicey’s Song Marguerite De Angeli Level W 870L
Moon Shadow is eight when
Cynthia Voigt Level U 990L he sails from China to join his
Set in the fourteenth century, the father, Windrider, in America.
Level X 710L classic story of one boy’s personal Windrider lives in San Fran-
The four Tillerman children heroism when he loses the use of cisco’s Chinatown and works in a laundry. Moon
finally have a home at their Shadow has never seen him. Moon Shadow
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scared. Her father, a truck driver is missing. And way to pursue the boy she has a crush on,
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secrets, their school is abuzz with rumors about their feelings for each other, neither Remy nor
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Russell Susskit hates wak- Nickie decides to take a stop sign from a poorly
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erful dream of a long-ago self and by a desire to shopping at the mall—Remy and Morgan’s
find his own song, Russell takes Oogruk’s dogs tortured inner searchings are all the more
on an journey of self-discovery that will change harrowing. Given Cooney’s vigorous, evocative
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie The Egypt Game Ender’s Game

Jordan Sonnenblick Zilpha Keatley Snyder Orson Scott Card

Level V 940L Level X 1010L Level Z 780L
A brave and beautiful story The first time Melanie Ross In order to develop a secure
that will make readers laugh, meets April Hall, she’s not defense against a hostile alien
and break their hearts at the sure they have anything race’s next attack, government
same time. Now with a special in common. But she soon agencies breed child geniuses
note from the author! Steven discovers that they both love and train them as soldiers. A
has a totally normal life (well, anything to do with ancient brilliant boy, Andrew “Ender”
almost). He plays drums in the All-City Jazz Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his
Band (whose members call him the Peasant), storage yard, Melanie and April decide it’s the sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves
has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who perfect spot for the Egypt Game. Before long him more than anyone else, his sister Valentine.
doesn’t even know he’s alive), and is constantly there are six Egyptians, and they all meet to Peter and Valentine were candidates for the
annoyed by his younger brother, Jeffrey (who is wear costumes, hold ceremonies, and work soldier-training program but didn’t make the cut.
cuter than cute - which is also pretty annoying). on their secret code. Everyone thinks it’s just a Ender’s skills make him a leader in school, where
But when Jeffrey gets sick, Steven’s world is game until strange things start happening. Has children play at mock battles in zero gravity. His
turned upside down, and he is forced to deal psychological battles include loneliness, and
with his brother’s illness, his parents’ attempts the Egypt Game gone too far? Mystery fear that he is becoming like his cruel brother. Is
to keep the family in one piece, his homework,
the band, girls, and Dangerous Pie (yes, you’ll Individual Book ISBN 9781416990512 $8.99 Ender the general Earth needs? Fantasy
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Class Set ISBN 9781502018656 $321.25 Elijah of Buxton
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561379965 $12.99
Christopher Paul Curtis Eragon

Student Packet ISBN 9781561379972 $13.99 Level W 980L Christopher Paolini
Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in
Each Little Bird That Sings Buxton, Canada, a settlement Level Y 710L
of runaway slaves near the Fifteen-year-old Eragon be-
Deborah Wiles American border. Elijah’s the lieves that he is merely a poor
first child in town to be born farm boy—until his destiny as
Level U 760L free, and he ought to be famous just for that — a Dragon Rider is revealed.
Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberg- not to mention for being the best at chunking Gifted with only an ancient
er has attended 247 funerals. But rocks and catching fish. Unfortunately, all that sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from
that’s not surprising, considering most people see is a "fragile" boy who’s scared an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a
that her family runs the town of snakes and tends to talk too much. But dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power.
funeral home. And even though everything changes when a former slave steals Now his choices could save—or destroy—the
Great-uncle Edisto keeled over money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving
with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Floren- to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Empire. Fantasy
tine dropped dead—just like that—six months Now it’s up to Elijah to track down the thief —
later, Comfort knows how to deal with loss, or and his dangerous journey just might make a Individual Book ISBN 9780375826696 $11.99
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won’t talk to her. Life is full of surprises. And the Student Packet ISBN 9781605390413 $13.99
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handle them. Realistic Fiction Class Set ISBN 9781502018755 $261.25 Esperanza Rising

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Esperanza thought she’d
Class Set ISBN 9781502018663 $261.25 Ella Enchanted always live a privileged life on
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781608786725 $12.99 her family’s ranch in Mexico.
Student Packet ISBN 9781608786732 $13.99 Gail Carson Levine She’d always have fancy dress-
es, a beautiful home filled with
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Level U 670L servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care
How can a fairy’s blessing be for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza
Nancy Farmer such a curse? At her birth, Ella and Mama to flee to California and settle in a
of Frell was the unfortunate Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn’t ready
Level Y 660L recipient of a foolish fairy’s for the hard work, financial struggles brought
In Zimbabwe in the year 2194, gift—the “gift” of obedience. on by the Great Depression, or lack of accep-
the military ruler’s 13-year-old Ella must obey any order given tance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and
son and his younger brother to her, whether it’s hopping on one foot for a day a strike for better working conditions threatens
and sister leave their technolog- and a half, or chopping off her own head! But to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a
ically over controlled home and strong-willed Ella does not tamely accept her way to rise above her difficult circumstances-
find themselves on a series of fate. Against a bold backdrop of princes, ogres, because Mama’s life, and her own, depend on
perilous adventures. Tendai and his siblings en- giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers,
counter mile-high buildings and other miracles Ella goes on a quest to break the curse—once it. Historical Fiction
of scientific advance; they also find fetid slums
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Everything on a Waffle Fair Weather Fever 1793 NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Polly Horvath Richard Peck Laurie Halse Anderson

Level V 950L Level T 670L Level Z 580L
Primrose Squarp simply knows Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett “Fever 1973” refers to the
her parents did not perish at has never strayed further from epidemic of Yellow Fever
sea during a terrible storm, her family’s farm than a horse can in Philadelphia that wiped
despite what the other resi- pull a cart. Then a letter from Aunt Euterpe out 5,000 people in three
dents of Coal Harbour believe. arrives, and everything changes. It’s 1893, the months. Fourteen-year-old
After realizing the impractical- year of the World’s Columbian Exposition—the Mattie Cook is ambitious,
ity of continuing to pay Miss “wonder of the age”—otherwise known as the adventurous, and sick to death of listening to
Perfidy (a mothball-scented elderly lady) an Chicago World’s Fair. Tucked inside the letter her mother. Mattie wants to turn the Cook Cof-
hourly wage to baby-sit her, the town council are train tickets to Chicago inviting the family feehouse into the finest business in Philadel-
places her with Uncle Jack, who reluctantly for a visit and to see the fair! There, Rosie dis- phia, the capital of the new United States. But
agrees. Primrose does warm up to him, but her covers the world and meets some of the era’s “Fever” spreads from the docks and threatens
true sanctuary is a local restaurant called The Girl most famous people—including showgirl Lillian everything she holds dear. Then tragedy strikes
on the Red Swing, where everything—includ- Russell and Colonel William F. Cody (a.k.a. Buf- the coffeehouse, and Mattie is trapped in a liv-
ing lasagna—is served on a waffle, and where ing nightmare. Suddenly, her struggle to build
the proprietor Miss Bowzer offers a willing ear. falo Bill). Historical Fiction a better life must give way to something even

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A Family Apart
The Face on the Milk Carton The Fighting Ground
Joan Lowery Nixon
Caroline B. Cooney Avi
Level W 820L
Level Y 660L Imagine being taken from your Level V 580L
No one ever really paid close home. Imagine your mother is the America is caught up in the
attention to the faces of the one who lets it happen. This is the Revolutionary War. Near Tren-
missing children on the milk fate that befalls the Kelly children. It’s 1856, and ton, New Jersey, a 13-year-old
cartons. But as Janie Johnson their widowed mother has sent them west from boy and his father are working
glanced at the face of the or- New York City because she’s convinced that on their farm. He wants to
dinary little girl with her hair in she can’t give them the life they deserve. The fight. He knows how to use a gun-why won’t
tight pigtails, wearing a dress Kellys board an "orphan train" and are taken to his father let him go? Unexpectedly, they hear
with a narrow white collar—a three-year-old St. Joseph, Missouri, where their problems only a bell-an alarm ringing from the nearby tavern.
who had been kidnapped twelve years before grow worse. It was bad enough that they had to Jonathan is sent to find out what the trouble is.
from a shopping mall in New Jersey—she felt say goodbye to their mother, but now they’re What he learns, when he does fight and is taken
overcome with shock. She recognized that little forced to part ways with their fellow siblings prisoner by three Hessian soldiers, changes
girl—it was she. How could it possibly be true? as well. Thirteen-year-old Frances won’t stand his understanding of war and life forever. The
Janie can’t believe that her loving parents kid- for it. She’s going to protect her brothers and real war, he discovers, is being fought within
napped her, but as she begins to piece things sisters, even if it means dressing up like a boy
together, nothing makes sense. Something is and putting herself in danger. Will Frances be himself. Historical Fiction
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Student Packet ISBN 9781608785247 $13.99 Jane Langton

The Facts and Fictions Farewell to Manzanar Level U 800L
of Minna Pratt If there’s one thing Georgie
Jeanne Houston Hall has always been, it’s de-
Patricia MacLachlan termined... So when her step
Level Z 1040L cousins Eleanor and Eddy tell
Level U 650L During World War II a com- her that she can’t fly, Georgie
Minna wishes for many things. munity called Manzanar was doesn’t get discouraged—she just tries harder.
She wishes she understood the created in the high mountain She feels a peculiar lightness when she jumps
quote taped above her moth- desert country of California. Its purpose was from the porch and soars to the rooftop before
er’s typewriter: Fact and fiction to house thousands of Japanese Americans. landing safely on the ground. And now that a
are different truths. She wishes Among them was the Wakatsuki family, who mysterious Canada goose is visiting Georgie’s
her mother would stop writing long enough to were ordered to leave their fishing business window on a nightly basis, the Hall family begins
really listen to her. She wishes her house were in Long Beach and take with them only the to wonder just what Georgie is capable of…
peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas’s. Most belongings they could carry. Jeanne Wakatsuki
of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her Houston, who was seven years old when she Fantasy
cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be arrived at Manzanar in 1942, recalls life in the
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Flip-Flop Girl Found From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Katherine Paterson Margaret Peterson Haddix
E. L. Konigsburg
Level U 720L Level X 750L
Uprooted following the death One night a plane appeared Level S 700L
of their father, nine-year-old out of nowhere, the only Claudia decided to run away.
Vinnie and her five-year-old passengers aboard: thirty-six She decided to teach her parents
brother, Mason reluctantly babies. As soon as they were a lesson in Claudia apprecia-
move with their mother from taken off the plane, it vanished. tion. And she would live at the
D.C. to Virginia to live with Now, thirteen years later, two of those children Metropolitan Museum of Art. She
their grandmother. They both cope with the are receiving sinister messages, and they begin saved her money, and invited
help of a fellow outcast classmate Lupe, “the to investigate their past. Their quest to discover her brother Jamie to go. But, Claudia had two
flip-flop girl.” Vinnie lives a life filled with fanta- where they really came from leads them to a unexpected problems: She felt just the same,
sy, but when the object of her romantic dreams, conspiracy that reaches from the far past to and she wanted to feel different; and she found
Mr. Clayton, announces he is getting married, the distant future—and will take them hurtling a statue so beautiful she could not go home until
she feels betrayed. Enraged, she scratches his through time. In this exciting new series, best- she discovered its maker, a question that baffled
car—whereupon her remorse teaches her the selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix brings the experts, too. The former owner of the statue
destructive effects of her anger. She comes to an element of suspense that will keep readers on was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her, Claudia
terms with her problems and to open her eyes might never have found a way to go home.
the edge of their seats. Mystery
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Freak the Mighty
Flipped Gathering Blue
Rodman Philbrick
Wendelin Van Draanen Lois Lowry
Level W 1000L
Level U 720L MAX. FREAK. BEST Level X 680L
The first time she saw him, FRIENDS. FOREVER."I never As she did in The Giver and
she flipped. The first time he had a brain until Freak came later Messenger, in Gathering
saw her, he ran. That was the along. . . "That’s what Max Blue Lois Lowry challenges
second grade, but not much thought. All his life he’d readers to imagine what our
has changed by the seventh. been called stupid. Dumb. Slow. It didn’t help world could become, how
Juli says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with that his body seemed to be growing faster than people could evolve, and
my first kiss." He says: "It’s been six years of his mind. It didn’t help that people were afraid
strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But of him. So Max learned how to be alone at least what could be considered valuable. Fantasy
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Realistic Fiction Individual Book ISBN 9780439286060 $6.99 Gentlehands
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Student Packet ISBN 9781561370610 $13.99 Buddy Boyle lives year-round
with his family in unfashion-
Flush Friedrich able Seaville, New York, in
a cramped little house on
Carl Hiaasen Hans P. Richter the bay. Skye Pennington
spends the summers nearby
Level W 830L Level Z 650L on lavish estate complete with ocean view and
Take a romp in the swamp with His best friend thought Friedrich a butler named Peacock. But Skye and Buddy
this New York Times bestsell- was lucky. His family had a good fall in love anyway. And every once in a while
ing mystery adventure set in home and money, and in Germa- they visit Buddy’s estranged grandfather, who
the Florida Keys from Newbery ny in the early 1930s, many were makes them forget they’re from opposite sides
Honoree Carl Hiaasen. Noah’s unemployed. But when Hitler of town. Then a reporter appears, searching
dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen came to power, things began to change. Fried- for a man known as Gentlehands, a Nazi war
casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the har- rich was expelled from school, his mother died, criminal. What is his connection to Buddy’s
bor—which has made taking a dip at the local and his father was deported. For Friedrich was handsome, aristocratic grandfather? The
beach like swimming in a toilet. He can’t prove Jewish. The story covers about 15 or 16 years mystery threatens to shatter Buddy and Skye’s
it though, and so he decides that sinking the of the lives of two German children and their relationship, and change their lives forever.
boat will make an effective statement. Right. families. Sharing the same apartment building,
The boat is pumped out and back in busi- Friedrich’s family is wealthy and his friend’s is Mystery
ness within days and Noah’s dad is in the local very poor. From the two boys experiencing the
lock-up. Now Noah is determined to succeed painting of signs on Jewish stores to Friedrich’s Individual Book ISBN 9781497641990 $14.99
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The Girl Who Owned A City The Golden Goblet Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! NOVEL UNITS CATALOG
Voices From a Medieval Village
O. T. Nelson Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Laura Amy Schlitz
Level X Level V 930L
A deadly plague has devastated Young Ranofer, an orphan, lives Level Z
Earth, killing all the adults. Lisa with his half brother, Gebu, Step back to an English vil-
and her younger brother Todd who beats and mistreats him. lage in 1255, where life plays
are struggling to stay alive in Ranofer discovers that there has out in dramatic vignettes
a world where no one is safe. been a thief at the goldsmith illuminating twenty-two
Other children along Grand where he works. He thinks that it is Gebu’s unforgettable characters.
Avenue need help as well. They friend, Ibini, but later learns that Ibini is actually Maidens, monks, and millers’
band together to find food, shelter, and protec- working for Gebu, who is behind the thefts. sons — in these pages, read-
tion from dangerous gangs invading their Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his
neighborhood. When Tom Logan and his army evil half-brother, Gebu, so he can become mas- ers will meet them all. Play
start making threats, Lisa comes up with a plan ter goldsmith like their father. In this exciting
and leads her group to a safer place. But how tale of ancient Egyptian mystery and intrigue, Individual Book ISBN 9780763650940 $6.99
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Lois Lowry COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM BASED LESSON PLANS

Level Y 760L The Miracle
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Worker
Medal winner, has become STUDENT PACKET
one of the most influential GRADES 6-8 William Gibson
novels of our time. The
haunting story centers on FEATURED TITLE The Miracle
twelve-year-old Jonas, who
lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world WorkerPrediction: two weeks when Helen “goes home’?
of conformity and contentment. Not until he What will hRaEpApDen, WatRthITeEe,nTdHoIfNthKe, DISCUSS AND CONNECT
is given his life assignment as the Receiver of
Memory does he begin to understand the dark, Writing Activity: You aWreillKiaamteGKibeslloenr. Write a letter to an advice columnist about one or two
complex secrets behind his fragile community. problems your family has—the problems between Mr. Keller and James, the friction between
Lois Lowry has written three companion novels Mr. Keller and the new governess, etc. Have a classmate write back, in the role of the
to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Mes- columnist.

senger, and Son. Fantasy Literary Analysis: Set stage to represent an exterior or
In a drama, the set is the physical construction placed on the little house (pages 90 and 91).
interior location. Have students reread the description of
How do they imagine the set for the scene where the “doll’s house” is furnished?
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A. Annie Sullivan
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Supporting Roles

C. James Keller D. Kate Keller

The Glory Field E. Capt. Keller F. Aunt Ev

Walter Dean Myers H. Martha

Level X 800L Leading Roles J. Anagnos
"Those shackles didn’t L. a doctor
rob us of being black, son, Name_________________________G__. _P_ercy The Miracle Worker M. a servant
they robbed us of being Activity #7 Literary Analysis/Critical Thinking
human." This is the story of All rights reserved
one family. A family whose Writing to Persuade
history saw its first ancestor
captured, shackled, and brought to this country Directions
from Africa. A family who can still see remnants The Kellers apparently have discussed the possibility of sending Helen to an asylum.
of the shackles that held some of its members Wplaityhaangdroanuyp,odthisecrussysotuhecapnrotshainnkdocfo. nTasIko.efVtsiunurecnhys a decision—those mentioned in the
captive — even today. It is a story of pride, jotting reasons why Helen should or
determination, struggle, and love. And of the should not be placed in an asylum. You can use key words and phrases. Try to put
piece of the land that holds them together yourselves in the family members’ pKl.acgeirsl.s at the Perkins
Institution
throughout it all. Historical Fiction Should we put Helen in an asylum?

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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG The Graveyard Book Harris and Me Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer’s Stone
Neil Gaiman Gary Paulsen
J. K. Rowling
Level X 820L Level V 1060L
It takes a graveyard to raise A young city boy is sent to spend Level V 880L
a child. Nobody Owens, the summer on his aunt and Harry Potter has never been
known as Bod, is a normal uncle’s farm. Though he has lived the star of a Quidditch team,
boy. He would be completely many places over the years, he scoring points while riding a broom far above
normal if he didn’t live in a has never experienced anything like farm life . the ground. He knows no spells, has never
graveyard, being raised by . . and he has never met anyone like Harris, his helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn
ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither daredevil of a cousin. If the two of them can a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable
the world of the living nor the dead. There are survive wrestling three-hundred-pound pigs and life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and
adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an an- mouse-hunting with toothless old Louie’s fire- uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley - a
cient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned spitting pet lynx—which, unlike his master, has great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry’s room
city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. plenty of teeth—they just might make it through is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he
But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in hasn’t had a birthday party in eleven years. But
danger from the man Jack—who has already the summer! Realistic Fiction all that is about to change when a mysterious
letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an
killed Bod’s family. Fantasy Individual Book ISBN 9780152058807 $7.99 invitation to an incredible place that Harry - and
Group Set ISBN 9781502027559 $139.34 anyone who reads about him - will find unfor-
Individual Book ISBN 9780060530945 $8.99 Class Set ISBN 9781502019554 $261.25 gettable. For it’s there that he finds not only
Group Set ISBN 9781502027436 $154.34 Teacher Guide ISBN 9781608786848 $12.99 friends, aerial sports, and magic in everything
Class Set ISBN 9781502019431 $291.25 Student Packet ISBN 9781608786855 $13.99 from classes to meals, but a great destiny that’s
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561373666 $12.99 been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the
Student Packet ISBN 9781561373673 $13.99
Large Print ISBN 9781410414410 $20.99 Harry Potter and the encounter. Fantasy
Chamber of Secrets
The Great Brain Individual Book ISBN 9780590353427 $10.99
J. K. Rowling
John D. Fitzgerald
Level V 940L Group Set ISBN 9781502027580 $184.34
Ever since Harry Potter had Class Set ISBN 9781502019585 $351.25
Level T 840L come home for the summer, Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581306064 $12.99
The shrewest con man in the the Dursleys had been so mean Student Packet ISBN 9781581306071 $13.99
west of the Mississippi in the and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get Large Print ISBN 9780786222728 $20.95
early 1900’s is only ten years back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and
old. Tom Fitzgerald, a.k.a., Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry Hatchet
“The Great Brain,” is a silver- receives a warning from a strange, impish crea-
tongued genius with a knack ture who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, Gary Paulsen
for turning a profit. Stories of his exploits and disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in
schemes are told by his brother J.D. When the Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments Level R 1020L
Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the and horrors arise, including an outrageously On his way to visit his recently
Great Brain saves the day. Whether it’s saving stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts divorced father in the Canadian
the kids at school, or helping out Peg-Leg the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble mountains, thirteen-year-old
Andy, or Basil, the new kid at school, the Great begins — someone is turning Hogwarts students Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the
Brain always manages to come out on top-and to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more single-engine plane crashes. His body battered,
line his pockets in the process. poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay
Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or alive fifty-four days in the boundless Canadian
Historical Fiction could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid
of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learn-
Individual Book ISBN 9780142400586 $6.99 suspects...Harry Potter himself! Fantasy ing also to survive his parents’ divorce. Brian
Group Set ISBN 9781502027443 $124.34 discovers some stark and simple truths: Self-
Class Set ISBN 9781502019448 $231.25 pity doesn’t work. Despair doesn’t work. And if
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561374588 $12.99 Individual Book ISBN 9780439064873 $10.99 Brian is to survive physically as well as mentally,
Group Set ISBN 9781502027566 $184.34
Class Set ISBN 9781502019561 $351.25 he must discover courage. Realistic Fiction
Gregor the Overlander Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581306545 $12.99
Student Packet ISBN 9781581306552 $13.99 Individual Book ISBN 9781416936473 $8.99
Suzanne Collins Large Print ISBN 9780786222735 $20.95 Group Set ISBN 9781502027597 $154.34

Level V 630L Class Set ISBN 9781502019592 $291.25
When young Gregor falls through Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561371235 $12.99
a grate in the laundry room of his Harry Potter and the Student Packet ISBN 9781561374939 $13.99
apartment building, he hurtles Prisoner of Azkaban Large Print ISBN 9781410499196 $12.99
into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats,
and cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. J. K. Rowling The Haymeadow
This strange world is on the brink of war, and
Gregor’s arrival is no accident. A prophecy Level V 880L Gary Paulsen
foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the For twelve long years, the
Underland’s uncertain future. Gregor wants no dreaded fortress of Azkaban Level T 1010L
part of it - until he realizes it’s the only way to held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Fourteen-year-old John Barron
solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single is asked, like his father and
Gregor embarks on a dangerous adventure curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to grandfather before him, to spend
that will change both him and the Underland the Dark Lord, Voldemort. Now he has escaped, the summer taking care of their sheep in the
leaving only two clues as to where he might be haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be
forever. Fantasy headed. Harry Potter’s defeat of You-Know-Who alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all
was Black’s downfall as well. And the Azkaban those sheep. John doesn’t feel up to the task,
Individual Book ISBN 9780439678131 $7.99 guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He’s but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he
Group Set ISBN 9781502027481 $139.34 at Hogwarts ... he’s at Hogwarts." Harry Potter will finally please his father. But John is faced
Class Set ISBN 9781502019486 $261.25 isn’t safe, not even within the walls of his magical with many challenges when the river floods,
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781608786800 $12.99 school, surrounded by his friends. Because on coyotes attack, and one dog’s feet get cut.
Student Packet ISBN 9781608786817 $13.99 top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their
Realistic Fiction
midst. Fantasy
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Group Set ISBN 9781502027573 $184.34
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Heat The Hobbit Homeless Bird NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Mike Lupica J. R. R. Tolkien Gloria Whelan

Level V 940L Level Z 1000L Level X 800L
Michael Arroyo has a pitching Whisked away from his comfortable, Forced to leave her family at thir-
arm that throws serious heat unambitious life in his hobbit- teen and marry someone she has
along with aspirations of leading hole by Gandalf the wizard and a never met… Koly’s parent’s have
his team all the way to the Little company of 13 fortune-seeking dwarves, Bilbo arranged a marriage for their
League World Series. But his firepower is noth- Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid only daughter and now, like many girls her age
ing compared to the heat Michael faces in his the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a in India, she will leave home forever. She yearns
day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father large and very dangerous dragon. The dwarves’ to flee, but tradition dictates that it’s too late
led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael’s goal is to return to their ancestral home in the to turn back. On her wedding day, Koly’s fate is
only family is his seventeen-year old brother Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune sealed. Caught up in the current of tradition that
Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situa- from the dragon. Along the way, they and their threatens to sweep her toward a terrifying fate,
tion, they will be separated in the foster-care reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile Koly finds herself cast out, lost to a strange and
system—or worse, sent back to Cuba. Together, elves, ravening wolves—and, most perilous cruel world. But, sometimes, courage and hope
the boys carry on alone, dodging bills and of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum can be more powerful than tradition, and fate
anyone who asks too many questions. But then from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a rid- can be taken into one’s own hands.
someone wonders how a twelve-year-old boy
could possibly throw with as much power as dling contest. Fantasy Realistic Fiction

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Holes Hoot
Heaven
Louis Sachar Carl Hiaasen
Angela Johnson
Level V 660L Level W 760L
Level U 790L Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A This Newbery Honor-winning,
Marley’s mother found a postcard curse that began with his no-good- hilarious Floridian adventure
postmarked HEAVEN, OH, on a dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather involves new kids, bullies, al-
park bench and decided that was and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. ligators, eco-warriors, pancakes,
where she wanted to raise her family. And for Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’
twelve years, Marley’s hometown has lived up detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the pint-sized owls, and more! Mystery
to its name. She lives in a house by the river, boys build character by spending all day, every
has loving parents, a funny brother, good day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five Individual Book ISBN 9780440419396 $7.99
friends, and receives frequent letters from her feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. Group Set ISBN 9781502027764 $139.34
mysterious uncle, Jack. Then one day a letter But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn’t take Class Set ISBN 9781502019769 $261.25
arrives from Alabama and Marley’s life is turned long for Stanley to realize there’s more than char- Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581308105 $12.99
upside down. Marley doesn’t even know who acter improvement going on at Camp Green Student Packet ISBN 9781581308112 $13.99
she is anymore-where she can go for answers Lake. The boys are digging holes because the
because she’s been deceived by the people she warden is looking for something. But what could Hope Was Here
should be able to trust the most. be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries
to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly Joan Bauer
Realistic Fiction humorous tale of crime and punishment—and
Level W 710L
Individual Book ISBN 9780689822902 $7.99 redemption. Mystery Hope has been a waitress—and
a darn good one, too. She takes
Group Set ISBN 9781502027641 $139.34 Individual Book ISBN 9780440414803 $8.99 pride in making people happy
Class Set ISBN 9781502019646 $261.25 Group Set ISBN 9781502027719 $154.34 with good food, as does her
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581306125 $12.99 Class Set ISBN 9781502019714 $291.25 Aunt Addie, a diner cook extraordinaire. The
Student Packet ISBN 9781581306132 $13.99 Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581306149 $12.99 two of them have been a pair ever since Hope’s
Student Packet ISBN 9781581306156 $13.99 waitress mother abandoned her as a baby, and
Large Print ISBN 9781432841867 $20.99 now they have come to rural Wisconsin to run
The Higher Power the Welcome Stairways café for G.T. Stoop,
of Lucky Homecoming who is dying of leukemia. But he’s not dead
yet, as the kindly and greathearted restaurant
Susan Patron Cynthia Voigt owner demonstrates when he decides to run
for mayor against the wicked and corrupt Eli
Level W 1010L Level X 630L
Lucky, age ten, can’t wait another “IT’S STILL TRUE.” That’s the first Millstone. Realistic Fiction
day. The meanness gland in her thing James Tillerman says to his
heart and the crevices full of questions in sister Dicey every morning. It’s still true that Individual Book ISBN 9780142404249 $8.99
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California (population 43), the rock-bottom somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It’s Class Set ISBN 9781502019776 $291.25
only choice she has. It’s all Brigitte’s fault — for still true they have to get to Great-Aunt Cilla’s Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581307382 $12.99
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supposed to stay put and look after girls in hope of staying together as a family. But when
their care! Instead Lucky is sure that she’ll be they get there, they learn that Great-Aunt Cilla
abandoned to some orphanage in Los Angeles has died, and the home they find with Cilla’s
where her beloved dog, HMS Beagle, won’t be daughter, Eunice, isn’t the permanent haven

allowed. Realistic Fiction they’ve been searching for. Realistic Fiction

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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG The House of Dies Drear I Heard the Owl Call My Name Inkheart

Virginia Hamilton Margaret Craven Cornelia Funke

Level V 670L Level Z 1080L Level W 780L
The house held secrets, Amid the grandeur of the re- One cruel night, Meggie’s father
Thomas knew, even before he mote Pacific Northwest stands reads aloud from a book called
first saw it looming gray and Kingcome, a village so ancient INKHEART— and an evil ruler escapes the
massive on its ledge of rock. It that, according to Kwakiutl boundaries of fiction and lands in their living
had a century-old legend—two myth, it was founded by the two room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle
fugitive slaves had been killed brothers left on earth after the of the kind of adventure she has only read
by bounty hunters after leaving great flood. The Native Ameri- about in books. Meggie must learn to harness
its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the cans who still live there call it Quee, a place of the magic that has conjured this nightmare.
abolitionist who had made the house into a such incredible natural richness that hunting For only she can change the course of the
station on the Underground Railroad, had been and fishing remain primary food sources. But story that has changed her life forever. This is
murdered there. The ghosts of the three were the old culture of totems and potlatch is being INKHEART—a timeless tale about books, about
replaced by a new culture of prefab housing
said to walk its rooms... Mystery and alcoholism. Kingcome’s younger genera- imagination, about life. Fantasy
tion is disenchanted and alienated from its
Individual Book ISBN 9781416914051 $7.99 heritage. And now, coming upriver is a young Individual Book ISBN 9780439709101 $10.99
Group Set ISBN 9781502027795 $139.34 vicar, Mark Brian, on a journey of discovery that Group Set ISBN 9781502028044 $184.34
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Historical Fiction
Hush The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Individual Book ISBN 9780440343691 $7.99
Jacqueline Woodson Group Set ISBN 9781502027917 $139.34 Brian Selznick

Level U 640L Class Set ISBN 9781502019912 $261.25 Level W 820L
Evie Thomas is not who she Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561371426 $12.99 ORPHAN, CLOCK KEEPER, AND
used to be. Once she had a THIEF, Hugo lives in the walls of a
best friend, a happy home and Incident at Hawk’s Hill busy Paris train station, where his
a loving grandmother living survival depends on secrets and
nearby. Once her name was Allan W. Eckert anonymity. But when his world suddenly inter-
Toswiah. Now, everything is different. Her family locks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter
has been forced to move to a new place and Level V 1200L old man who runs a toy booth in the station,
change their identities. But that’s not all that Ben was not an ordinary six- Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious
has changed. Her once lively father has become year-old boy. He was much secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a
depressed and quiet. Her mother leaves teach- too small for his age, and he treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechani-
ing behind and clings to a new-found religion. seemed to get along better cal man, and a hidden message from Hugo’s
Her only sister is making secret plans to leave. with animals than with people. dead father form the backbone of this intricate,
And Evie, struggling to find her way in a new None of the people in North
city where kids aren’t friendly and the terrain is Corners knew quite what to tender, and spellbinding mystery. Mystery
as unfamiliar as her name, wonders who she is. make of him. Then one June
day in 1870, Ben wandered away from his home Individual Book ISBN 9780439813785 $24.99
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Group Set ISBN 9781502027894 $139.34 by forging a bond with a female badger is a Student Packet ISBN 9781608781072 $13.99
Class Set ISBN 9781502019899 $261.25 poignant story of human courage and change.
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561375783 $12.99
Student Packet ISBN 9781561375790 $13.99 Historical Fiction Island of the
Blue Dolphins
Individual Book ISBN 9780316209489 $8.99
Group Set ISBN 9781502027993 $154.34 Scott O’Dell
I Am the Cheese Class Set ISBN 9781502019998 $291.25
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561371259 $12.99 Level V 1000L
Robert Cormier Far off the coast of California
looms a harsh rock known as the island of San
Level Z 810L The Incredible Journey Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters
around it, sea otter play in the vast kelp beds,
A boy’s search for his father Sheila Burnford and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches.
becomes a desperate journey Here, in the early 1800s, according to history,
to unlock a secret past. But the Level V 1320L an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and
past must not be remembered A Siamese cat, an old bull this beautifully written novel is her story. It is
if the boy is to survive. As he terrier, and a young Labrador a romantic adventure filled with drama and
searches for the truth that hovers at the edge of retriever travel together 250 heartache, for not only was mere subsistence
his mind, the boy—and readers—arrive at a shat- miles through the Canadian on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Ka-
wilderness to find their family. rana had to contend with the ferocious pack of
tering conclusion. Realistic Fiction wild dogs that had killed her younger brother,
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It’s Like This, Cat Jacob Have I Loved Jericho’s Journey NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Emily Neville Katherine Paterson G. Clifton Wisler

Level W 810L Level X 880L Level U 810L
My father is always talking Caroline, her selfish younger An historical story about the
about how a dog can be very sister, was the one everyone Wetherby family who leave
educational for a boy. This is loved. Growing up on a tiny their home in Tennessee in
one reason I got a cat. Dave Chesapeake Bay island in 1852 for Texas, a land of op-
Mitchell and his father yell at each other a lot, the early 1940s, angry Louise portunity for some and misery
and whenever the fighting starts, Dave’s mother reveals how Caroline robbed her of everything: to others. Jericho, a small and timid 11-year-old
gets an asthma attack. That’s when Dave storms her hopes for schooling, her friends, her moth- narrates the trip filled with humor, suspense,
out of the house. Then Dave meets Tom, a er, even her name. While everyone pampered and struggles of a wild terrain. He and his
strange boy who helps him rescue Cat. It isn’t Caroline, Wheeze (her sister’s name for her) brother both learn self-reliance. They learn to
long before Cat introduces Dave to Mary, a began to learn the ways of the watermen and cross bridges without fear and rescue dogs. It
wonderful girl from Coney Island. Slowly Dave the secrets of the island. The war unexpectedly becomes “a journey that test the makings of a
comes to see the complexities in people’s lives gave her a chance to fulfill her dream to work as man” as his father tells him. The story is drawn
and to understand himself and his family a little a waterman alongside her father. Alone, Louise from an actual settler’s diary which gives it a
found a place where Caroline could not reach
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Izzy, Willy-Nilly Jim Ugly
Jason’s Gold
Cynthia Voigt Sid Fleischman
William Hobbs
Level X 790L Level Q 710L
Izzy’s never been one to Level T 860L Part timber wolf, Jim Ugly is
complain. Izzy’s the nice girl, "Gold!" Jason shouted at the a proud and aloof one-man
from a family that believes top of his lungs. "Read all about dog. And that man is Jake’s
good manners and a stiff it! Gold discovered in Alaska!" father, an actor in the raffish
upper lip are key to facing Within hours of hearing the world of the frontier West.
any situation. Even after a car thrilling news, fifteen-year-old When he suddenly disappears, Jake and the
accident leaves her disabled, she’s determined Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stows dog are thrown into an uneasy alliance on a
not to show how much she’s hurting. It takes away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and wild, helter-skelter journey to the Sierra Nevada
Rosamunde, a girl who seems to care nothing joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempt- mountains and San Francisco. The book tells a
about good manners, to forcibly disrupt Izzy’s ing the difficult journey to the Klondike. The story filled with suspense and comedy as they
life and help her face her changed existence. Dead Horse Trail, the infamous Chilkott Pass, travel through the Old West trying to find out
and a five-hundred-mile trip by canoe down the what really happened to Jake’s actor father and
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Joey Pigza Loses Control Journey King of the Wind

Jack Gantos Patricia MacLachlan Marguerite Henry

Level T 800L Level S 630L Level R 830L
Like its predecessor, this high- Journey is eleven the sum- He was named “Sham” for
voltage, honest novel mixes mer his mother leaves him the sun, this golden red stal-
humor, pain, fear and courage and his sister, Cat, with their lion born in the Sultan of Mo-
with deceptive ease. Strug- grandparents. He is sad rocco’s stone stables. Upon
gling to please everyone even and angry, and spends the his heel was a small white
as he sees himself hurtling summer looking for the clues that will explain spot, the symbol of speed. But on his chest
toward disaster, Joey emerges as a sympathetic why she left. Journey searches photographs was the symbol of misfortune. Although he
hero, and his heart of gold never loses its shine. for answers. He hunts family resemblances in was as swift as the desert winds, Sham’s proud
Grandma’s albums. Looking for happier times, pedigree would be scorned all his life by cruel
Realistic Fiction he tries to put together the torn pieces of the owners. Sham and his friend, the stable boy
pictures his mother shredded before her depar- Agba’s adventures take them from the Sahara
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Class Set ISBN 9781502020253 $261.25 provide Journey with a past. In the process, the For Sham was the Godolphin Arabian, whose
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key mother’s departure and the love that still binds
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swings. Sometimes Joey
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that he shouldn’t stick his finger in the pencil kira-kira (kee’ ra kee’ ra):
sharpener, or swallow his house key, or run with Jean Craighead George glittering; shining That’s
scissors. Joey ends up bouncing around a lot— how Katie Takeshima’s
and eventually he bounces downtown, into the Level U 860L sister, Lynn, makes everything
special-ed program. If he keeps making bad Faced with the prospect of an seem. When Katie and her
choices, he could just fall between the cracks arranged marriage or a journey family move from a Japanese community in
for good. He’s determined not to let that hap- across the barren Alaskan Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it’s Lynn
tundra, 13-year-old Miyax runs who explains to her why people stop them
pen. Realistic Fiction away. But she finds herself lost on the street to stare. And it’s Lynn who, with
in the Alaskan wilderness, without food or a her special way of viewing the world, teaches
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Johnny Tremain
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1944 Newbery Medal, is one of Student Packet ISBN 9781561378210 $13.99 The Kite Rider
the finest historical novels ever
written for children. As compel- Geraldine McCaughrean
ling today as it was seventy
years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live Killing Mr. Griffin Level W 900L
through the defining events leading up to the The Great Miao, master of the
American Revolutionary War. Fourteen-year-old Lois Duncan Jade Circus, offers twelve-
Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with year-old Haoyou the amazing
a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in Level Z 720L chance to change his life—to
a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other They only meant to scare escape from his family’s
work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the him. Mr. Griffin is the strictest poverty and the pain of his father’s recent
patriotic newspaper,The Boston Observer, and teacher at Del Norte High, with death—by becoming a kite rider! Strapped
as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, he en- a penchant for endless projects onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou
counters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. and humiliating his students. Even straight-A is sent into the sky to soar perilously among the
Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in the student Susan can’t believe how mean he is to clouds and entertain awestruck crowds below.
pivotal events shaping the American Revolution the charismatic Mark Kinney. So when her crush Traveling the Empire with the circus, Haoyou
from the Boston Tea Party to the first shots fired asks Susan to help a group of students teach a earns freedom, money, and unexpected fame
lesson of their own, she goes along. After all, as he skillfully performs for local villagers who
at Lexington. Historical Fiction it’s a harmless prank, right? But things don’t go believe he can bring back messages from lost
according to plan. When one "accident" leads loved ones whose spirits haunt the sky. The
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The Land Life As We Knew It Lily’s Crossing NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Mildred D. Taylor Susan Beth Pfeffer Patricia Reilly Giff

Level Z 760L Level Z 770L Level S 720L
The son of a prosperous This survival tale by the As in past years, Lily will
landowner and a former slave, author of The Year without spend the summer in Rocka-
Paul-Edward Logan is unlike Michael celebrates the forti- way, in her family’s summer
any other boy he knows. His tude and resourcefulness of house by the Atlantic Ocean.
white father has acknowledged human beings during critical But this summer of 1944,
him and raised him openly-something unusual times. World War II has changed everyone’s life. Lily’s
in post-Civil War Georgia. But as he grows into best friend, Margaret, has moved to a wartime
a man he learns that life for someone like him Science Fiction, Diary factory town, and, much worse, Lily’s father is
isn’t easy. Black people distrust him because he going overseas to the war. There’s no one Lily’s
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the age of fourteen, he sets out to find land as Teacher Guide ISBN 9781608787081 $12.99 war; he’s been through things Lily can’t imagine.
good as his father’s, and make it his own. Student Packet ISBN 9781608787098 $13.99 But soon they form a special friendship. Now
Lily and Albert have secrets to share: They both
Historical Fiction The Light in the Forest have told lies, and Lily has told one that may

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Mildred D. Taylor Cameron Butler was a child, he Lincoln: A Photobiography
was captured in a raid on the
Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great Russell Freedman
Level X 850L warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came
Set in rural Mississippi in 1935 to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven
during the Depression, it centers years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has Level V 1040L
on the Logan family and how signed a treaty with the white men and agreed The book starts with Lin-
racial antagonisms and hard to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old coln’s boyhood, moves to
times affect that family and what True Son. Now he must go back to the family his career as a country law-
the parents teach their children he has forgotten, whose language is no longer yer, his marriage to Mary
about pride and self-respect in order to survive. his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are Todd, the Lincoln presiden-
The Logan family owns their land, but a neigh- as strange to him as the ways of the forest are cy 1861-65, a recounting of
bor, Mr. Granger schemes to try to take it away to them. the complex issues that led a deeply divided
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The Lightning Thief tated by the death of son, Eddie. It’s a real-life,
unbroken. Historical Fiction visual portrait of a meaningful American hero.
Rick Riordan
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Letters from Rifka and have children who might
become great heroes, but Little Women
Karen Hesse most of these children meet
horrible fates at the hands of monsters by the Louisa May Alcott
Level S 660L age of twelve. Only a few learn the truth of their
Twelve year-old Rifka knows identity and make it to Half Blood Hill, a Long Is- Level Z 1300L
nothing about America when land summer camp dedicated to training young Little Women, follows the four
she flees from Russia with her demigods. Such is the revelation that launches March sisters—pretty Meg, tom-
family in 1919. But she dreams young Percy Jackson on a quest to help his real boy, author-to-be Jo; shy, frail
that she will at last be safe from father, Poseidon, avert a war among the gods. Beth; and spoiled Amy—as they
harsh treatment of the Jews. Throughout her With the help of Grover the satyr and Annabeth mature and their struggles to
journey, She records her experiences in the form the daughter of Athena, Percy must journey survive during the Civil War. They live in poverty
of letters to Tovah, the beloved cousin she has across the United States to catch a thief who has with their mother Marmee while their father is
left behind. After her family travels to Poland, stolen the original weapon of mass destruc- fighting in the war. Despite having little money,
she is left behind with a friend due to a case of tion - Zeus’ master bolt. Along the way, they the girls keep their spirits up with writing, gar-
ringworm. Rifka must endure humiliating exami- face a host of mythological enemies determined dening, acting in plays, and spending time with
nations by doctors, deadly typhus, separation to stop them. Most of all, Percy must come to friends. The story gets complex as their wealthy
from everyone, storms at sea, detainment on terms with a father he has never known, and friend Laurie becomes their adoptive brother,
Ellis Island and the loss of her glorious golden an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a as the girls deal with Meg’s wedding, Beth’s
hair, which refuses to grown back quickly. life-threatening illness, and fears for their father’s
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Living Up the Street Lupita Mariana Make Lemonade

Gary Soto Patricia Beatty Virginia Euwer Wolff

Level Y 1140L Level T 760L Level Z 890L
In a prose that is so beautiful Crossing over the border is A paying job will be La-
it is poetry, we see the world a dangerous business ... But Vaughn’s ticket out of the
of growing up and going Lupita must cross from Mexico housing projects, so she
somewhere through the dust to America. After her father agrees to baby-sit the two
and heat of Fresno’s industrial dies in a fishing boat accident children of unwed Jolly, 17,
side and beyond: It is a boy’s in the seas near their small Mexican village, in an apartment so wretched
coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, Lupita’s family is left in poverty. Lupita and her “even the roaches are driven up the wall.” But,
attending church, public summer school, and big brother, Salvador, must smuggle themselves Jolly is fired from her factory job. LaVaughn
trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little into the United States to earn money to sup- needed a part-time job, something she could
League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings port their mother and young siblings. America do after school to earn money for college.
constantly through the warmth and wry reality of is not the land of opportunity they had hoped. Jolly needed a babysitter, someone she could
these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, A new language, hard labor, and the constant trust with two kids while she looked for work.
always human remembrances. threat of la migra—the immigration police— LaVaughn didn’t feel right taking money from
make every day a difficult challenge. But for Jolly. It didn’t matter that LaVaughn was four-
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love because if she doesn’t no one else will.
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Richard Peck Lyddie The Man Who Was Poe

Level V 750L Katherine Paterson Avi
Set during the years
1929-1942, this novel recounts a Level V 860L Level Y 600L
boy and his sister’s annual sum- Impoverished Vermont farm It is night and Edmund is all
mer trips to rural Illinois to visit girl Lyddie Worthen is deter- alone. His mother is gone.
their eccentric grandmother. mined to gain her indepen- His sister has disappeared.
Grandma Dowdel, a remarkable dence by becoming a factory Edmund has no one, except
larger-than-life character, continually astounds worker in Lowell, Massachu- for a dark and mysteri-
her “city-slicker” grandchildren with her non- setts, in the 1840s. Ten-year-old Lyddie and her ous stranger who follows
conformist behavior and her gutsy, take-charge younger brother are hired out as servants to him through the cold and
attitude. Want a few examples? August 1929: help pay off their family farm’s debts after their shadowy city with offers of help. But who is this
They see their first corpse, and he isn’t resting father abandons the family. Lyddie becomes stranger who gives Edmund refuge? He has a
easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the determined to reunite her family. She works mission of his own and he needs Edmund, but
town, and Grandma fights back. August 1931: under grueling circumstances in order to make a he tells him nothing of his purpose. Yet the
Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, better life for herself. Unfortunately, their house stranger is Edmund’s only hope of discovering
poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and is sold before she has been able to pay off the the dark secrets that surround the disappear-
feed the hungry—all in one day. loan. But, in the interim Lyddie has taught herself
to read and earn a college degree. ance of his family... Historical Fiction
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Loser The Magician’s Nephew Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli C. S. Lewis Jerry Spinelli

Level U 710L Level T 790L Level W 820L
Just like other kids, Zinkoff Digory and Polly become He wasn’t born with the name
rides his bike and hopes for friends one cold summer in Maniac Magee. He came
snow days. But Zinkoff also rais- London. Their lives burst into into this world named Jeffrey
es his hand with all the wrong adventure caused by Digory’s Lionel Magee, but when
answers and trips over his own feet. Other kids Uncle Andrew, who thinks he his parents died and his life
have their own word (Loser) to describe him, is a magician. Digory and Polly changed, so did his name.
but Zinkoff is too busy to hear it. Donald finds discover a secret passage that And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even to-
support in the love of his family. When Donald’s links their houses and are tricked into vanishing day kids talk about how fast he could run; about
mailman father lets him pretend to deliver out of this world and into the World of Charn, how he hit an inside-the-park “frog” homer;
the mail, Donald opens his eyes to a bigger where they wake up the evil Queen Jadis. There, how no knot, no matter how snarled, would
universe. And when an unexpected tragedy they witness the creation of the Land of Narnia stay that way once he began to untie it. But the
reveals Donald to be more courageous than as it is sung into being by the Great Lion, Aslan. thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what
expected, it opens the eyes of others to his true he did for the kids from the East Side and those
spirit and shows that any name can someday Fantasy
from the West Side. Realistic Fiction
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Messenger Milkweed The Misfits NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Lois Lowry Jerry Spinelli James Howe

Level Y 720L Level Y 510L Level W 960L
He’s a boy called Jew. Welcome to Paintbrush Falls,
Messenger is the master- Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son home of Bobby, Joe, Addie,
ful third novel in the Giver of Abraham. He’s a boy who and Skeezie: the four best
Quartet, which began with the lives in the streets of Warsaw. friends of the Misfits series
dystopian bestseller The Giver. He’s a boy who steals food for whose fast, funny, and tender
Matty has lived in Village and himself, and the other orphans. stories have become iconic examples of the
flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind He’s a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, middle school experience, and inspired the
man known for his special sight. Village once and angels. He’s a boy who wants to be a Nazi, nationwide No Name-Calling Week.
welcomed newcomers, but something sinister with tall, shiny jackboots of his own-until the
has seeped into Village and the people have day that suddenly makes him change his mind. Realistic Fiction
voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been And when the trains come to empty the Jews
invaluable as a messenger. Now he must risk from the ghetto of the damned, he’s a boy who Individual Book ISBN 9780689839566 $8.99
realizes it’s safest of all to be nobody. Newbery Group Set ISBN 9781502029133 $154.34
everything to make one last journey through Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the Class Set ISBN 9781502021137 $291.25
the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a most devastating settings imaginable-Nazi-
power he unexpectedly discovers within himself. occupied Warsaw during World War II-and tells Teacher Guide ISBN 9781605390369 $12.99
a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through Student Packet ISBN 9781605390376 $13.99
Fantasy the bright eyes of a young Holocaust orphan.
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Sid Fleischman beans and carrots, life for
The Miracle Worker Summer and her Uncle Ob
Level V 630L has been as bleak as winter. Ob doesn’t want to
On a coach bound for Crick- William Gibson create his beautiful whirligigs anymore, and he
lewood in search of his only and Summer have slipped into a sadness that
relative, the orphan boy Touch Level Z NP they can’t shake off. They need May in whatever
meets a blacksmith and sees form they can have her — a message, a whisper,
his first glimpse of the ghost Twelve-year-old Helen Keller a sign that will tell them what to do next. When
named The Great Chaffalo. According to rumor, lived in a prison of silence and that sign comes, Summer will discover that she
he was once a famous magician who could turn darkness. Born deaf, blind, and Ob can keep missing May but still go on
a pile of straw into a horse. Now, Touch needs and mute, with no way to
the ghost’s help in order to escape his wicked express herself or comprehend with their lives. Realistic Fiction
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she would begin a frightening and incredibly Moonshiner’s Son
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is learning the craft of making
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Student Packet ISBN 9781561375318 $13.99 ages, Tom is determined to be a good appren-
tice. He is a moonshiner’s son. Then a preacher
Level X 1240L Miracle’s Boys comes to the Blue Ridge Mountains to rid Bad
The girl known only as Brat Camp Hollow of the “evils of liquor.” This is
has no family, no home, and Jacqueline Woodson when they and his father begin their campaign
no future until she meets Jane to match wits with the preacher and try to out-
the Midwife and becomes her Level Z 660L smart the law officers. But the preacher and his
apprentice. As she helps the Lafayette would do anything pretty daughter make a powerful case against
sharp-tempered Jane deliver to have things back before it. And when drink causes a tragedy, Tom is
babies, Brat-who renames things changed. Now all he
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after their father dies from drowning and their
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Mr. Revere and I My Louisiana Sky No More Dead Dogs

Robert Lawson Kimberly Willis Holt Gordon Korman

Level U 1050L Level T 770L Level U 610L
An account of the life of the Tiger Ann Parker is smart in Eighth-grade football hero
Revere family and the activi- school and good at baseball, Wallace Wallace does not
ties of the Sons of Liberty as but she's forever teased understand it—why do dogs
told from the point of view about her family by the girls die at the end of every classic
of Paul Revere’s horse. Here, in class. Tiger Ann knows story? When Wallace gives his book report, he
straight from the horse’s her folks are different from can’t bring himself to lie about his feelings—the
mouth, is the dramatic story of Scheherazade, others in their small town of Saitter, Louisiana. book stank! The teacher feels the opposite and
the mare that changed the course of American Then Granny dies suddenly and Aunt Dorie Kay forces Wallace to attend rehearsals and par-
history. Once a loyal member of the King’s army arrives, offering Tiger Ann a way out. Now Tiger ticipate in the town’s school play based on the
and then destined for the glue factory, “Sherry” Ann must make the most important decision of book. In spite of himself, he becomes wrapped
is saved by Sam Adams and enlisted by none up in the production and begins to suggest
other than Paul Revere. Thus Sherry becomes a her life. Realistic Fiction changes that improve not only the play into a
true patriot and, with one important ride, helps rock-and-roll musical, but his life as well. Wal-
lead the Sons of Liberty to victory over the Individual Book ISBN 9780312660956 $7.99 lace’s creativity gets out of hand and he drives
Group Set ISBN 9781502029386 $139.34 his teacher and classmates crazy!
British. Historical Fiction Class Set ISBN 9781502021380 $261.25
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Jean Craighead George Student Packet ISBN 9781581309478 $13.99
Mrs. Frisby and
the Rats of NIMH Level U 810L Nory Ryan’s Song
Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy
Robert C. O’Brien living in New York City with his Patricia Reilly Giff
family, so he runs away to the
Level V 790L Catskill Mountains to live in the Level T 600L
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse woods—all by himself. With only Nory Ryan’s family has lived on
with four small children, is a penknife, a ball of cord, forty Maidin Bay on the west coast of
faced with a terrible problem. dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to Ireland for generations, raising a
She must move her family to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, pig and a few chickens, planting
their summer quarters immediately, or face danger, and independence during his year potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory’s father
almost certain death. But her youngest son, in the wilderness, a year that changes his life goes away on a fishing boat and returns with
Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not the rent money for the English lord who owns
be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the forever. Realistic Fiction their cottage and fields, the English lord bent
rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can
intelligent, laboratory-enhanced creatures, Individual Book ISBN 9780141312422 $7.99 tumble the cottages and clear the fields for
who come up with a brilliant solution to her Group Set ISBN 9781502029393 $139.34 grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay,
dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them Class Set ISBN 9781502021397 $261.25 but this year, a terrible blight attacks the pota-
a great service. She overcomes her own fears Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561371068 $12.99 toes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old
to help them escape to a civilization they built Student Packet ISBN 9781561374946 $13.99 Nory must summon the courage and ingenuity
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away from a world of dangers. Fantasy
Nightjohn her family survive. Realistic Fiction
Individual Book ISBN 9780689710681 $8.99
Group Set ISBN 9781502029294 $154.34 Gary Paulsen

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Nightjohn when he is brought Teacher Guide ISBN 9781605390581 $12.99
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My Daniel neck, his body covered in scars.
He had escaped north to freedom, but he came Nothing But the Truth
Pam Conrad back—came back to teach reading. Knowing
that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, Avi
Level T Nightjohn still returned to slavery to teach oth-
An old woman tells her ers how to read. And twelve-year-old Sarny is Level U NP
grandchildren how her willing to take the risk to learn. Set in the 1850s,
beloved teenage brother was Gary Paulsen’s groundbreaking novel is unlike Using journal entries, mem-
destroyed at the time of the anything else the award-winning author has writ- oirs, letters, and dialogue, this
frenzied hunt for dinosaur ten. It is a meticulously researched, historically novel of high-school politics
remains in Nebraska (before the turn of the accurate, and an artistically crafted portrayal of shows how a minor incident can
century). Vivid description, deeply felt charac- a grim time in our nation’s past, brought to light escalate into a national media
terization, and a simple yet intricately crafted through the personal history of two unforget- event. Ninth-grade student Philip Malloy was
plot are all hallmarks of Conrad’s narrative. suspended from school for singing along to
table characters. Historical Fiction The Star-Spangled Banner in his homeroom,
Realistic Fiction causing what his teacher, Margaret Narwin,
called “a disturbance.” But was he standing up
Individual Book ISBN 9780064403092 $6.99 Individual Book ISBN 9780440219361 $6.99 for his patriotic ideals, only to be squelched by
Group Set ISBN 9781502029379 $124.34 the school system? Could it all be just a misun-
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Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561377336 $12.99 Class Set ISBN 9781502021465 $231.25 with their son along with some reporters who
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Student Packet ISBN 9781581305982 $13.99 happens at Harrison High changes everything
in ways that no one could have ever predicted.

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Number the Stars On My Honor Out of the Dust NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Lois Lowry Marion Dane Bauer Karen Hesse

Level U 670L Level S 750L Level X NP
As the German troops begin Joel’s best friend, Tony, is a
their campaign to "relocate" daredevil. It was Tony’s idea to Exquisitely written, this Newbery
all the Jews of Denmark, make the long bike ride to the Medal-winner is a poetic, compel-
Annemarie Johansen’s fam- Starved Rock state park, and ling, and often melancholy novel
ily takes in Annemarie’s best Tony’s idea to stop for a swim of a young girl growing up in the Oklahoma Dust
friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part in the dangerous Vermillion River. So why does Bowl during the Depression. A terrible accident
of the family. Through the eyes of ten-year-old Joel feel so much guilt when tragedy strikes? has transformed Billie Jo’s life, scarring her inside
Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can’t
smuggles almost the entire Jewish population Realistic Fiction talk about it. And the one thing that might make
of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, her feel better — playing the piano — is impos-
across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an Individual Book ISBN 9780547722405 $7.99
entire nation reminds us that there was pride Group Set ISBN 9781502029645 $139.34 sible with her wounded hands. Poetry
and human decency in the world even during a
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Rita Williams-Garcia

Class Set ISBN 9781502021526 $291.25 Level W 750L Peter Pan
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561372546 $12.99 Set during one of the most tumul-
Student Packet ISBN 9781561376056 $13.99 tuous years in recent American J. M. Barrie
history, One Crazy Summer is the
Large Print ISBN 9781432860844 $12.99 heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls who Level X 900L
travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 in search Peter Pan and Tinkerbell lead
Old Yeller of the mother who abandoned them. Eleven- the three Darling children over
year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two the rooftops of London and
Fred Gipson younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to away to Neverland - the island
be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them where the lost boys play. Magic and mischief is in
Level V 910L seven years ago for a radical new life in Califor- the air but if villainous Captain Hook has his way,
At first, fourteen-year old nia. But when the sisters arrive from Brooklyn before long someone will be swimming with the
Travis couldn’t stand the to spend the summer with their mother, Cecile
sight of Old Yeller. The stray is nothing like they imagined. While the girls crocodiles. Fantasy
dog was ugly, and a thieving hope to go to Disneyland and meet Tinker Bell,
rascal, too. But he sure was their mother sends them to a day camp run by Individual Book ISBN 9780141322575 $6.99
clever, and a smart dog could be a big help the Black Panthers. Unexpectedly, Delphine, Group Set ISBN 9781502029898 $124.34
on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa Vonetta, and Fern learn much about their fam- Class Set ISBN 9781502021892 $231.25
away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene. ily, their country, and themselves during one Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561376506 $12.99
Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that Student Packet ISBN 9781561376667 $13.99
he could protect Travis’s family from any sort truly crazy summer. Realistic Fiction
of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old The Phantom Tollbooth
Yeller? In the end, Travis is heart-broken to kill Individual Book ISBN 9780060760908 $7.99
his loyal dog because his was bitten by a rabid Norton Juster

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Class Set ISBN 9781502021694 $261.25 For Milo, everything’s a bore.
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781608787241 $12.99 When a tollbooth mysteriously
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Group Set ISBN 9781502029591 $124.34 through only because he’s got
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the other side, things seem dif-
Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561370818 $12.99 One-Eyed Cat ferent. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you
Student Packet ISBN 9781581307535 $13.99 get there by jumping), learns about time from
Paula Fox a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even em-
Olive’s Ocean barks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason!
Level S 890L Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes some-
Kevin Henkes Ned received a rifle for his elev- thing astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s
enth birthday from his wealthy
Level V 680L uncle. But, his preacher father exciting beyond his wildest dreams. Fantasy
Olive Barstow was killed by a forbade him to use it until he is fourteen and
car while riding her bicycle. placed it in the attic. That night after everyone Individual Book ISBN 9780394820378 $8.99
As Martha and her family went to bed, Ned slipped into the attic and Group Set ISBN 9781502029904 $154.34
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Cod, Olives’ mother gave Mar- once, at a flickering shadow in the autumn Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561372904 $12.99
tha a page from her daughter’s journal. Olive moonlight. But someone was watching from Student Packet ISBN 9781608785193 $13.99
wrote, “Martha was the nicest person in the the attic window. And when a one-eyed, deaf
entire class.” Although Martha couldn’t think of cat turns up at an elderly neighbor’s woodshed,
what made her feel that way, she was flattered. Ned is caught in a web of guilt, fear, and shame
She realizes her views on life are changing that he cannot escape—until another moonlit
and that due to a close call drowning, Martha night, brings redemption and surprising revela-
begins to figure what life might be about—to
tions. Realistic Fiction
her. Realistic Fiction
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Philip Hall Likes Me. The Pistachio Prescription Racing the Sun
I Reckon Maybe.
Paula Danziger Karina Halle
Bette Greene
Level U 600L Level Q
Level Y 900L Cassie Stephens is dealing with a Being an American Indian
Eleven-year-old Beth thinks that lot. She’s got asthma. World War wasn’t something twelve-
Philip Hall likes her, but their III is waged daily in her home, year-old Brandon Rogers
on-again, off-again relation- beginning at the breakfast table liked to advertise. His father
ship makes her wonder. Philip Hall is the cutest, and ending with slammed doors had left his Indian heritage
smartest boy in the class, and Beth Lambert at night. She’s running for freshperson class behind when he went to college and Brandon
loves him. The fact that he beats her in school president. There’s only one thing that can make had grown up in suburbia-just a regular kid.
work, and just about everything else doesn’t Cassie feel better. Pistachio nuts. Those little But then Brandon’s Navajo grandfather moved
bother her. Then she realizes that Philip might be red nuts are just the prescription for Cassie’s off the reservation and into the lower bunk in
best in everything because she’s letting him beat troubles. Cassie uses the pistachio nuts as com- Brandon’s room! It wasn’t easy having a room-
her. And coming out on top is just too natural a fort food to cope with teenage social angst like mate who chanted himself to sleep and got you
thing for Beth to hold back for very long. Beth her first boyfriend, tweezing all her eyebrows off out of bed before sunrise. But now Brandon’s
decides that she should be true to herself and and wearing sunglasses to school, and her glam- learning lessons he’ll never forget. Like how to
do the best she can and if that means she will be orous sister calling her a giraffe. But, the most grow up proud… with a heritage as real as an
important thing to her and her sister is to find a
the best, then so be it. Realistic Fiction old man’s love. Realistic Fiction
way to reunite her parents. Realistic Fiction
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Phoenix Rising The Prince and the Pauper Rascal

Karen Hesse Mark Twain Sterling North

Level W 610L Level V Level V 1140L
Nyle’s life with her grandmother Set in Renaissance England, Set in 1918, Sterling, a boy of
on their Vermont sheep farm it tells the story of Tom Canty, 11, watches in amazement as
advances rhythmically through a pauper, and Edward VI, only this baby raccoon, instinctively
the seasons until the night of the accident at son of Henry VIII, who look washes everything before eat-
the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without exactly alike. Almost by acci- ing it. Sterling knows that every
warning, Nyle’s modest world fills with protec- dent, the boys exhange places night Rascal will sneak into the house by hooking
tive masks, evacuations, contaminated food, days before Henry’s death and his claws onto the back screen door and head
disruptions, and mistrust. Nyle adjusts to the Edward’s coronation, leaving Tom to the role straight for Sterling’s bed! Virtually everywhere
changes. As long as the fallout continues blow- of future king and Edward to the mercy of the Sterling goes, Rascal is there, and life is filled
ing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go beggars’ underworld. A tale of mistaken iden- with one adventure after another. The mischie-
on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra tity where each boy learns something about the vous raccoon and Sterling are partners and
Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart other’s different station in life. This story proves best friends; swimming, fishing, exploring the
of the accident, who take temporary shelter in that deep down all men are the same, just their countryside together—until the spring day when
the back bedroom of Nyle’s house. The back clothes or their access to wealth makes them
bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother Sterling realizes he must let Rascal go. Memoir
when Nyle was six; it stole away her grandfather different. Tale/Legend
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resonate with honesty. Realistic Fiction Rabbit Hill
G. Clifton Wisler
Robert Lawson
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Group Set ISBN 9781502029928 $154.34 Ransom J. Powell, 13, lies
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Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581309126 $12.99 It has been a while since Folks the Union Army as a drummer
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even longer time since there that the young aren’t shielded
Pictures of Hollis Woods has been a garden at the from the horrors of war. He sees friends killed
House. All the animals are very before taken prisoner. He is taken to Libby
Patricia Reilly Giff excited about the new Folks moving in, and they and Andersonville prisons which are described
wonder how things will change. When kindly in grim detail. Powell meets good and bad
Level V 650L people move into the house, the poor existence people on both sides. At Andersonville, a Con-
Hollis Woods has been in so of the animals takes a definite turn for the better. federate guard helps save his life, and he never
many foster homes she can hardly The story follows the adventures of the Rabbit forgets it. Red Cap, as he was known, refuses to
remember them all. She even runs away from the family, Father (a Southern gentleman), Mother renounce his pledge of loyalty to the Union. His
Regans, the one family who offers her a home. (a chronic worrier), Little Georgie, and the life shows that heroes show up in many places.
When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist permanently-visiting Uncle Analdas, and their
who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. Historical Fiction
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Red Kayak The Return of the Indian Rip Van Winkle and NOVEL UNITS CATALOG
Other Stories
Priscilla Cummings Lynne Reid Banks
Washington Irving
Level T 800L Level U 740L
Brady loves life on the Chesa- A year after he sends Little Level Z+
peake Bay with his friends J.T. Bear, back into the magic The legendary enchant-
and Digger. But developers cupboard, Omri brings him ment of Rip Van Winkle in
and rich families are moving back, only to find that he is the Kaatskill Mountains; the
into the area, and while Brady close to death and in need gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the
befriends some of them, of help. Omri and his friend, headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the spec-
like the DiAngelos, his parents and friends are Patrick, bring a plastic nurse tre bridegroom who turned out to be happily
bitter about the changes. Tragedy strikes when to life in the cupboard to order to give medical substantial; the pride of an English village and
the DiAngelos kayak overturns in the bay, and care to Little Bear. She saves Little Bear and he the come-uppance of the over-zealous Mountjoy
Brady wonders if it was more than an accident. returns to his village, which is under seige. Omri - these witty, perceptive and captivating tales
Soon, Brady discovers the terrible truth behind and Patrick bring to life a set of toy Indians
the kayak sinking, and it will change the lives that try to defend the village. In the end, Little range from fantasy to romance. Short Stories
of those he loves forever. Priscilla Cummings Bear learns of the birth of a son and that Omri
deftly weaves a suspenseful tale of three teen- won a prize for his story about the cupboard. Individual Book ISBN 9780141330921 $6.99
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The Riddle of Penncroft Farm Gary Paulsen

Red Scarf Girl Dorothea Jensen Level R 960L
The government sends Brian
Ji-Li Jiang Level Z 860L back to the Canadian wilder-
Lars Olafson, 12, moves with ness in this beloved follow-up
Level Z 780L his parents to Valley Forge to to the award-winning classic
In 1966 China’s leader, Mao live with his aged Aunt Cass. Hatchet from three-time New-
Ze-dong, launched the Cul- Lars is miserable leaving his bery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen. Two
tural Revolution. Ji Li would friends behind—until he meets years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four
experience humiliation as she Geordie. Geordie wears odd days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the
and her family was judged by clothes and speaks strangely and tells stories government wants him to head back so they
the fact that her grandfather about Valley Forge and George Washington— can learn what he did to stay alive. This time
had been a landlord. They lived in constant stories so real that one would imagine she was Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will
terror of arrest. Finally, with the detention of there. When Aunt Cass dies suddenly, Lars is accompany him. But a freak storm leaves Derek
her father, Ji-li faced the most difficult choice faced with a mystery linked to the Revolutionary unconscious. Brian’s only hope is to transport
of her life. JiLi has an opportunity to be trained War—and Geordie’s ghostly stories are his only Derek a hundred miles down the river to a
as a gymnist and go to the best schools. But, chance of solving it. It turns out that Geordie trading post. He’s survived with only a hatchet
she must denounce her father and break with is the ghost of an eighteenth-century ancestor before—now can Brian build a raft and navigate
her family, or she could refuse and sacrifice her an unknown river? For the first time it’s not only
who helps Lars solve a mystery. Mystery Brian’s survival that’s at stake.
future in the Communist Party. Memoir
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Harold Keith
Redwall The Road to Memphis
Level Z 910L
Brian Jacques This is a story of the Civil War’s Mildred D. Taylor
Western campaign, its issues and
Level Z 800L problems, fought with a different Level X 670L
The lost sword of Martin the savagery. It tells the stories of the Drawing upon their strength
Warrior is the only thing that men of both sides who fought as a family and support of the
can save Redwall Abbey from in it. At the heart of the story is 16 year-old community, the Logans fight
the evil, one-eyed rat Cluny Jeff Bussey, who joins a regiment of Kansas for survival. Life is frustrating for
and his greedy horde. The volunteers. Jeff’s idealism is short-lived once he Cassie, 17, her brother Stacey,
young, bumbling mouse Matthias (formerly confronts the horrors and barbarism of war; it and their friends, who still need
Redwall’s most awkward novice) vows to recover is replaced by disillusionment, bitterness, fear. to defend themselves to the white people they
the legendary weapon. In the course of his And as young Jeff becomes a battle-hardened encounter. One of Cassie’s friends, realizes he
quest, Matthias forges strong ties with various survivor, he is sent on an assignment behind must leave Mississippi rather than face an unfair
local animals of Mossflower Wood. As much as enemy lines—only to discover the men he is ’’justice’’ system. Cassie realizes that as an adult
the magic of the sword, it is the help of these fighting are just like him: cold, tired, hungry, she will have to make her own decisions and
new friends that enables Matthias to defeat fight her own battles. Cassie’s dream of becom-
and ready to go home. Historical Fiction ing a lawyer and looming WWII raise questions
Cluny once and for all. Fantasy regarding the white-controlled legal system and
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Roll of Thunder , Hear My Cry The Samurai’s Tale The Search for Delicious

Mildred D. Taylor Erik Christian Haugaard Natalie Babbitt

Level W 920L Level Z 960L Level U 910L
Why is the land so important to In turbulent sixteenth-century The Prime Minister DeCree is
Cassie’s family? It takes the events Japan, the powerful Lord compiling a dictionary, and the
of one turbulent year—the year of Takeda’s soldiers sweep across King and Queen can’t agree
the night riders and the burnings, the countryside killing and on the meaning of “delicious.”
the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public plundering. After his parents So, the King orders DeCree’s
simply because she is black—to show Cassie are violently murdered, they kidnap and spare son, twelve-year-old Gaylen to
that having a place of their own is the Logan the boy, Taro’s life and take him along with poll the kingdom’s residents.
family’s lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Lo- them. Taro becomes a servant in the household The kingdom is on the brink of civil war, and he
gans their courage and pride, for no matter how of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he meets must enlist help to define “delicious” and save
others may degrade them, the Logans possess Togan, a cook, who teaches Taro cooking skills the country. Gaylen’s discussions with towns-
and makes his new life bearable. people and farmers reveal unusual answers that
something no one can take away. Historical build divisions and distrust. The queen’s brother,
Fiction Tale/Legend tries to frighten people with lies. Gaylen experi-
ences friendship and betrayal during his trip.
Individual Book ISBN 9780142401125 $8.99 Individual Book ISBN 9780618615124 $7.99 Gaylen tries to bring peace back to the world.
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Ruby Holler
Gary Paulsen
Sharon Creech
The Secret Garden
Level V 660L Level W 840L
From Sharon Creech, the Newbery So many readers have written Frances Hodgson Burnett
Medal winning author of Walk and asked: What happened to
Two Moons, comes a heartwarm- Sarny, the young slave girl who Level 970L
ing adventure about finding family, and a learned to read in Nightjohn?
home, when you least expect it. Ruby Holler Extraordinary things happened Mary Lennox, an ill-tempered
is a Carnegie Medal-winning novel, and with to her, from the moment orphan is sent to live in
its quirky protagonists and exciting journey, she fled the plantation in the last days of the England with an uncle she has
captures the imaginations of readers of all ages. Civil War, suddenly a free woman in search of never met. While there she
Brother and sister Dallas and Florida are the her sold-away children, until she found them discovers a spoiled invalid
"trouble twins." In their short thirteen years, and began a new life. Sarny’s story gives a cousin named Colin and a long-abandoned
they’ve passed through countless foster homes, panoramic view of America in a time of trial, garden. This garden is behind high walls and is
only to return to their dreary orphanage, Boxton tragedy, and hoped-for change, until her last filled with thick plants and lifeless roses. Work-
Creek Home. Run by the Trepids, a greedy and ing to restore this mysterious, hidden garden,
strict couple, Boxton Creek seems impossible to days in the 1930s. Historical Fiction she finds she also cures her own ill temper and
escape. When Mr. Trepid informs the twins that reforms her cousin as well. She uses it to teach
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Level V 740L The Secret of the Indian
The Same Stuff as Stars Capricorn Cap Anderson has
been homeschooled by his Lynne Reid Banks
Katherine Patterson hippie grandmother, Rain.
When Rain is injured in a fall, Level U 870L
Level V 670L Cap is forced to attend the Omri visits the cupboard
Angel Morgan needs help. Daddy local middle school. Although and transports himself and
is in jail, and Mama has abandoned he knows a lot about Zen Buddhism, nothing his friend Patrick back in
her and her little brother, leaving them with their has prepared him for the politics of public history to the frontier age of
great-grandmother in rural Vermont. Grandma is his cowboy friend, Boone.
aged and poor, and doesn’t make any attempt school. Realistic Fiction Omri and Patrick are hailed as
to care for the children—that’s left up to Angel, heroes after they ward off a
even though she is not yet twelve. The only Individual Book ISBN 9781423105169 $6.99 burglary by a gang of hoodlums. Luckily for the
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planets and constellations. "We’re made out of Student Packet ISBN 9781608780938 $13.99 of wounded Indian braves. During the melee,
the same stuff as the stars," he tells her. He is Patrick sends himself back in time to the Wild
actually a neighbor and the town’s friendly and West, and brings back not only cowboy Boone’s
girlfriend Ruby Lou for a miniature wedding,
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The Secret School A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Series of Unfortunate Events: NOVEL UNITS CATALOG
The Miserable Mill The Wide Window
Avi
Lemony Snicket Lemony Snicket
Level T 540L
More than anything, Ida Level V 1000L Level V 1150L
Bidson wants to become The Beaudelaire orphans The Baudelaire children are
a teacher. To do that, she are sent to live and work sent to stay with an aunt. This
must finish eighth grade, in a sinister Lucky Smells time Count Olaf is a peg-
then go on to high school. Lumbermill. Next to the mill is legged sea captain. The chil-
But her dream falters when an eye-shaped building that is dren’s newest guardian, Aunt
the one-room school in her remote Colorado an eye clinic. Klaus breaks his glasses, goes to Josephine, is filled with phobias and an expert
town shuts down. Her only hope is to keep the the clinic and he doesn’t return for hours. Violet on grammar. She’s frightened of tons of things,
school open without anyone finding out. Yet reveals that Count Olaf is disguised as Shirley such as using the telephone. One thing she
even a secret school needs a teacher. Ida can’t the receptionist. Only by using their strengths— isn’t afraid of, however, is correcting improper
Violet’s knack for inventing, Klaus’s book smarts, grammar. In fact, it’s Josephine’s obsession with
be it. . . . Or can she? Realistic Fiction and Sunny’s T-Rex-like bite—can they escape language that helps the children uncover Count

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Seedfolks
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
Paul Fleischman The Reptile Room
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Level W 710L Lemony Snicket
A Vietnamese girl plants six Level Z 970L
lima beans in a Cleveland Level V 1040L Life is both sweet and cruel to
vacant lot. Looking down on The Baudelaire orphans have strong-willed young Shabanu,
the immigrant-filled neigh- a new guardian, Dr. Mont- whose home is the windswept
borhood, a Romanian woman gomery, or Uncle Monty who Cholistan Desert of Pakistan.
watches suspiciously. A is a herpetologist. One whole The second daughter in a
school janitor gets involved, room in his house is filled with family with no sons, she’s
then a Guatemalan family. Then muscle-bound all types of snakes, including a few deadly ones. been allowed freedoms
Curtis, trying to win back Lateesha. Pregnant The children find that Uncle Monty is fun-loving forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a
Maricela. Amir from India. A sense of commu- treats them with love, respect, and kindness. tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful
But their happiness doesn’t last long. Naturally, landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older
nity sprouts and spreads. Realistic Fiction Count Olaf returns in disguise, although the sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice every-
adults don’t believe them. Then Uncle Monty thing she’s dreamed of. Should she do what is
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Level V 1010L
The Baudelaire children have FEATURED TITLE Cause/Effect
just been orphaned by a ter-
rible house fire. The executor Directions: To plot cause and effect in a story, first list the sequence of events. Then mark
of the estate—a banker named causes with a C and effects with an E. Sometimes in a chain of events, one item may be
Mr. Poe—decides they will both a cause and an effect. Draw arrows from cause statements to the appropriate effects.
live with a relative: the evil
Count Olaf, who is after their fortune. He uses Events in the story Cause Effect
the children as his servants, provides awful living
conditions, and makes them cook meals for him Name ________________________________ 1.
and his odd-ball acting troupe. The children The Wide Window
show talents: Violet, 14 years-old whose inven-
tions help the children, Klaus, 12 years-old is 2. Activity #4 • Vocabulary
smart, and Sunny—whose only ability is a strong 3C. hapters One–Two, pp. 1–35
bite. Though they suffer many hardships, in the
Vocabulary Wheel 4.
end they outsmart Olaf’s plans. Fantasy
disembarked (1) voracious (4) 5. dowager (6)
renovations (8) fluently (17) aapccpuasrteonmt e(1d9()5)6. idiomatic (25)
concoction (26) preying (32) surreptitiously (374. )

Directions: Write each vocabulary word on a piece of paper (on8e. word per piece). Make a

spinner huasvinegatdheictciiorcnlaerybealnodw.thTehseanurpulsayhathnedyf.o)llPolwacinegthgeampaepewri9st.hinaacslamssamll actoen. t(aItiniesra. good
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first player draws a word from the container. The player then s1p0in. s the spinner and follows
the direction where the pointer lands. For example, if the player draws the word “fluently”

and lands on “define,” the player must define the word fluently. If the player’s partner TEACHER GUIDE
accepts the answer as correct, the first player scores one pointAannodthpelraywpaaystsoesmtoapthceausesceoanndd effect is to look for an effect and then backtrack to the single
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earns two points. If the player cannot prove the answer is correCcatu, sthee: opposing player earns Cause: Cause:
two points. Play continues until all the words have been used. The player with the most

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GRADES 6-8

NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Shades of Gray The Sign of the Beaver A Single Shard

Carolyn Reeder Elizabeth George Speare Linda Sue Park

Level W 800L Level T 770L Level U 920L
The Civil War may be over, Although he faces responsibility In this Newbery Medal-winning
but for twelve-year-old Will bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt book set in 12th century Korea,
Page, the pain and bitterness is more than a little apprehen- Tree-ear, a 13-year-old orphan,
haven’t ended. How could they sive when his father leaves lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ vil-
have, when the Yankees were him alone to guard their new lage famed for delicate celadon ware. He has
responsible for the deaths of everyone in his cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he
entire immediate family? And now Will has to stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no wants nothing more than to watch master potter
leave his home and live with relatives he has way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of
never met. But the worst of it is that Will’s Uncle Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on
Jed had refused to fight for the Confederacy. begins to better understand their way of life and as his helper, Tree-ear is elated — until he finds
At first, Will regards his uncle as a coward. But, their growing problem in adapting to the white obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of
when Will sees his uncle stand up for what he man and the changing frontier. digging and hauling clay, Min’s irascible temper,
believes in, he realizes that he must rethink his and his own ignorance. But Tree-ear is deter-
definition of honor and courage. Historical Fiction mined to prove himself — even if it means taking
a long, solitary journey on foot to present Min’s
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Maia Wojciechowska E. L. Konigsburg

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Manolo was the son of a great Speechless Connor is sure his
bullfighter. Ever since his best friend, Branwell, couldn’t Slake’s Limbo
father’s death when he was have hurt Branwell’s baby half
three years-old, the town of sister, Nikki. But Nikki lies in Felice Holman
Arcangel has waited for when a coma, and Branwell is in a
Manolo would be twelve and face his first bull. juvenile behavioral center, suspected of a hor- Level Y 960L
When Manolo reaches his ninth birthday, six rible crime and unable to utter the words to tell Driven to the breaking point,
men started to train him for the bull ring. They what really happened. Connor is the only one Slake decides to go under-
take him to bullfights and explain the rules of who might be able to break through Branwell’s ground—into the sheltering
the sport. Manolo practices, but he knows he wall of silence. But how can he prove Branwell depths of the New York City
has no desire to follow in his father’s footsteps. didn’t commit the unspeakable act of which Subway where he stays for 121
He would rather be a doctor. Manolo must he’s accused — when Branwell can’t speak for days. This is the story about a 13-year-old mis-
find a way to be honest with himself, honor his fit’s attempts to find footing in a hostile world.
father’s memory and maintain the respect of the himself? Mystery When he disappears into the subway tunnels,
no one misses him, no one cares. But 13-year-
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humor and heart set in Eliza- and settlers is dramatically and Small Steps: The
bethan England. Widge is an courageously told by young Year I Got Polio
orphan with a rare talent for
shorthand. His fearsome master Bright Morning. Historical Fiction Peg Kehret
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alleyway, this entertaining novel is rich in period to survive a severe case of polio, then slowly
details, colorful characters, villainy, and drama. learning to walk again. Peg describes the fear
the illness caused in her and in the people
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Memoir

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Snow Bound Something Upstairs Space Station Seventh Grade NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Harry Mazer Avi Jerry Spinelli

Level T 690L Level T 580L Level W 600L
At fifteen, Tony Laporte is what Twelve year-old Kenny Huldorf Jason Herkimer is a student
many people would call a through- moves from Los Angeles to with everyday fears all kids live
ly spoiled kid. He gets away with a Rhode Island into a house built with when they begin middle
lot because his parents want him in 1789. There’s stairs that cork- school. He has to deal with
to have all the things they never had. But when screw up to a bedroom where Kenny notices everything from bullies, the
they surprise him by refusing to let him keep a a stain that begins to glow and then two arms first shower after gym, learning
stray dog he has found, Tony decides to teach and head begin to rise out of the floor. He Home Economics as a subject,
them a lesson by running off in his mother’s old discovers that his house is haunted by the spirit coping with teenage hormones, and puppy love
Plymouth. Driving without a license in the middle of Caleb, a slave who asks him to return with for Debbie Breen. Naturally, his extended family
of a severe snowstorm, he picks up a hitchhiker him to the past and prevent his murder by slave isn’t a relief for Jason. He lives with his mother,
named Cindy Reichert, an aloof girl who has traders. Kenny is sympathetic to Caleb and his stepfather, Ham, his younger sister Mary, and
always had difficulty forming friendships. To agrees to return to the past and help him solve his annoying half-brother, Timmy. Meanwhile, his
impress Cindy, Tony tries to show off his driving the murder. But, he is concerned that might be father lives alone and indulges in his passion for
skills and ends up wrecking the car in a very kosher food. Jason has a group of multicultural
desolated area far from the main highway. After stuck in the past forever. Mystery friends. Jason loves sports, dinosaurs, and space
spending precious days bickering with each travel which has led him to build a giant model
other and waiting for rescue that never comes, Individual Book ISBN 9780545214919 $5.99
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they must cooperate to survive. The question
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Stargirl
So B. It Level T 900L
An African-American share- Jerry Spinelli
Sarah Weeks cropper in the19th-century
South is struggling to feed Level V 590L
Level 860L his family. Every night his son Stargirl. From the day she arrives
and great coon dog, Sounder at quiet Mica High in a burst of
From acclaimed author return to the cabin empty-handed. One morn- color and sound, the hallways
Sarah Weeks comes a touching ing, almost like a miracle, a sweet-smelling ham hum with the murmur of "Star-
coming-of-age story about a is cooking in the kitchen. That night, a sheriff girl, Stargirl." She captures Leo
young girl who goes on a cross- comes to arrest the father for stealing a hog. Borlock’s heart with just one smile. She sparks
country journey to discover the truth about her During the arrest, Sounder is shot and disap- a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer.
parents. She doesn’t know when her birthday pears. The sharecropper’s son is devastated The students of Mica High are enchanted. At
is or who her father is. In fact, everything about and misses both his father and dog. The even- first. Then they turn on her. Stargirl is suddenly
Heidi and her mentally disabled mother’s past is tual return of an emaciated Sounder doesn’t shunned for everything that makes her differ-
a mystery. When a strange word in her mother’s change the fact that the son must do a man’s ent, and Leo, panicked and desperate with
vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on work to support the family. His transition to love, urges her to become the very thing that
a cross-country journey in search of the secrets manhood involves convicts as he searches for can destroy her: normal. In this celebration of
of her past. Far away from home, pieces of her nonconformity, Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli
puzzling history come together. But it isn’t until his father, then finds peace. Realistic Fiction weaves a tense, emotional tale about the perils
she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly of popularity and the thrill and inspiration of first
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So Far from the Bamboo Grove Robert Newton Peck Stormbreaker

Yoko Kawashima Watkins Level Q 740L Anthony Horowitz
Rural Vermont during the
Level V 730L 1920’s is the setting for this Level Z 670L
Though Japanese, eleven- nostalgic account of episodes They told him his uncle died in a
year-old Yoko has lived with in the lives of young Robert car accident. Fourteen-year-old
her family in northern Korea all Peck and his pal, Soup. Alex knows that’s a lie, and the
her life. But when the Second bullet holes in his uncle’s wind-
World War comes to an end, Realistic Fiction shield confirm his suspicions.
Japanese on the Korean penin- But nothing prepares him for the news that the
sula are suddenly in terrible danger; the Korean Individual Book ISBN 9780679892618 $5.99 uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy
people want to punish the Japanese, who have Group Set ISBN 9781502031143 $109.34 for MI6—Britain’s top secret intelligence agency.
occupied their nation for many years. Yoko is Class Set ISBN 9781502023148 $201.25 Recruited to find his uncle’s killers and complete
forced to flee her home with her mother and Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561371112 $12.99 his final mission, Alex suddenly finds himself
sister, leaving her brother who is working for caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
the Japanese army and her father who works in
Manchuria. This is the story of their exodus, and Fantasy
their success at avoiding the Korean army and
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Stranded Summer of the Monkeys Swallowing Stones

Ben Mikaelsen Wilson Rawls Joyce McDonald

Level Q 610L Level V 810L Level 820L
“Monster” is what the prosecu- Monkeys out in the middle of
tor called 16-year-old Steve nowhere, staring at him! A tree When Michael fires his new rifle
Harmon for his supposed full of monkeys is the last thing into the air on his seventeenth
role in the fatal shooting of a fourteen-year-old Jay Berry birthday, he never imagines
convenience-store owner. But Lee expects to find on one of that the bullet will end up kill-
was Steve really the lookout his treks through Oklahoma’s ing someone. But it does—and
who gave the “all clear” to the murderer, or was Cherokee Ozarks. Jay learns from his grand- Michael’s world is changed forever. Desperate,
he just in the wrong place at the wrong time? To father that the monkeys have escaped from a he wrestles with his guilt and keeps silent as his
calm his nerves as he sits in the courtroom, aspir- circus and there’s a big reward for the person life begins to fall apart. When Jenna’s father is
ing filmmaker Steve chronicles the proceedings who finds them. Jay knows how much his family killed in a freak Fourth of July accident, she’s
in movie script format. Interspersed throughout needs the money, and he’s determined to catch devastated. As she grieves, she tries to under-
his screenplay are journal writings that provide the monkeys. It’s a summer of thrills and danger stand why she no longer feels comfortable with
insight into Steve’s life before the murder and his her boyfriend, Jason, and why a guy named
feelings about being held in prison during the no one will ever forget. Fantasy Michael keeps appearing in her dreams...

trial. Realistic Fiction Individual Book ISBN 9780440415800 $7.99 Realistic Fiction

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The Summer of the Swans
Streams to the River, Taking Sides
River to the Sea Betsy Byars
Gary Soto
Scott O’Dell Level U 830L
Sara is an awkward teen who Level S 750L
Level X 740L feels self-conscious about Fourteen-year-old Lincoln
A young Indian woman, ac- her physical appearance and Mendoza, comes to terms
companied by her infant and her inability to interact in a with his divided loyalties when
her cruel husband, experiences meaningful way with the two he moves from the Hispanic
joy and heartbreak when she most important women (read: inner city to a white suburban
joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a role models) in her life—her older sister and her neighborhood. Lincoln is in a jam when he faces
Aunt Willie, who is raising her. Sara has lots of his old team from the barrio. How can he play
way to the Pacific. Historical Fiction reasons to be angry: her mother is dead, her against his friends? No matter who wins, it looks
father has left her to be raised by her aunt, her like it will be lose-lose for Lincoln. To make mat-
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Group Set ISBN 9781502031303 $139.34 mentally retarded. Sara’s life has always flowed Lincoln and his former school. He manages to
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in a whole new way. Realistic Fiction ity. Realistic Fiction

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Through entries made in a Student Packet ISBN 9781561378319 $13.99 Student Packet ISBN 9781581307757 $13.99
diary that Leigh (now 14 years
old) room, tells of the dog Surviving the Applewhites Tangerine
that he and his friend find
abandoned on the beach. The Stephanie S. Tolan Edward Bloor
boys agree to joint custody
of the pet, which they name Strider. But it soon Level U 820L Level U 680L
becomes evident that it is Strider that has Word has it that Jake Semple Seventh grader, Paul Fisher,
rescued Leigh from apathy. Leigh’s relationship burned down his old school his older brother and parents
with his pet helps him deal with what seem to and then was kicked out of are moving from Texas to
be difficult problems: his parents’ separation, every other school in his state. Tangerine, Florida. Although
his dad’s imperfections and even his attraction Now there’s only one place legally blind, Paul is an excel-
to a girl at school. Strider changes Leigh, as he left for him—a home school lent soccer goalie. He wears
finally begins to accept his parents’ divorce and run by the most outrageous thick glasses to protect his eyes that were dam-
gets to know a girl he’s been admiring. family. Each Applewhite is an artist—except aged when he looked at a solar eclipse without
E.D., the smart girl with a longing for order protective eyewear. Or so his parents and
Realistic Fiction and predictability. E.D. and Jake are paired in his brother have told him. Paul resists being
an experiment in “cooperative education.” A labeled “legally blind” because he sees more
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Realistic Fiction how Paul lost his vision. Realistic Fiction

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72 888.650.4224

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The Teacher’s Funeral Things Not Seen Tiger Eyes NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Richard Peck Andrew Clements Judy Blume

Level V 750L Level V 690L Level W 590L
If your teacher has to die, Bobby Phillips is an aver- What does it take to recover
August isn’t a bad time of age fifteen-year-old boy. from tragedy? Davey Wexler
year for it," begins Richard Until the morning he wakes has never felt so alone.
Peck’s novel, a book full of his up and can’t see himself in Her father has just been
signature wit and sass. Russell the mirror. Not blind, not killed—shot in a holdup at the
Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he’s raring to leave dreaming—Bobby is just plain invisible. Even 7-Eleven near their home. And now her mother
his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of his Dad, the physicist can’t figure it out. For has transplanted her and her little brother,
the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. Jason, to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to stay with
but a chain holding him back from his dreams. He’s a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. family and recover. But Davey is withdrawn, full
Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, She’s blind, and Bobby can’t resist talking to of rage and fear and loneliness. Then one day,
they’ll shut the school down entirely and leave her, trusting her because she can accept him as while exploring a canyon, she meets an older
him free to roam. No such luck. Russell has a he is. But people are starting to wonder where boy who calls himself Wolf. Wolf is the only one
particularly eventful season of schooling ahead Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could who understands her—the only one who can
of him, led by a teacher he never could have have dangerous consequences for his family read her sad eyes. And he is the one who helps
predicted-perhaps the only teacher equipped her realize that she must find a way to move for-
to control the likes of him and his sister Tansy. and that time is running out. Science Fiction ward with her life. Davey is one of Judy Blume’s
Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more most hauntingly true human beings, capturing
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Student Packet ISBN 9781561370849 $13.99 After Jacob Lansa’s mother
is killed in a jogging accident
There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock in New York his step-father The Tiger Rising
decides that the best place
Jerry Spinelli for fourteen year-old Jacob Kate DiCamillo
is with relatives in Nebraska. But, he prefers to
Level T 520L live with his father in Kenya and is determined Level T 590L
Maisie Potter was disappoint- to find him. It turns out to be the trip of a Following his mother’s recent
ed that she didn’t make the lifetime. Jacob arrives there using survival skills death, twelve-year-old Rob
cheerleading squad, so when he learned from his Hopi father and grandfa- Horton and his father moved
the next season begins, she ther to search for his father, a biologist studying to Florida. The only positive
tries out for wrestling… which elephants in Kenya. During the trip, he meets thing in his life is a girl named
horrifies everyone. Maisie isn’t a young Masai warrior who helps him find Dr. Sistine who is always angry, while Rob is with-
quite sure why she signed up Lansa escaping thieves, poachers, lions and drawn and passive. They are outcasts so they
for wrestling. She’s never been all that interest- become fast friends. One day he is surprised
ed in boys, so it can’t have anything to do with other dangerous animals. Realistic Fiction to see a real-life tiger in a cage in the woods.
Eric Delong, in spite of the disturbing effect Finally, he shows Sistine his discovery—a live
his smile has on her. Her brother’s disgusted Individual Book ISBN 9780786811595 $6.99 tiger in a cage behind the motel where he lives.
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ing teams forfeit rather than wrestle her. But Class Set ISBN 9781502023735 $231.25 the animal escape. But, their plan has tragic
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find a way to heal together. Realistic Fiction
good about herself is. Realistic Fiction
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Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561377367 $12.99 Scott O’Dell

The Thief Lord Level U 680L Timothy of the Cay
This powerful account of the
Cornelia Funke tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Theodore Taylor
Indians in 1877 by the United
Level V 700L States Army is narrated by Level W 860L
Two orphaned brothers, Prosper Chief Joseph’s strong and brave daughter. The story is about two people
and Bo, have run away to Ven- meet while being shipwrecked
ice, where crumbling canals and Historical Fiction for three months during WWII
misty alleyways shelter a secret in the Caribbean. Timothy is
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"family" and life of petty crime. But their cruel arrives on a life raft after his ship is torpedoed.
aunt and a bumbling detective are on their trail. Timothy teaches Phillip how to survive. Unfor-
And posing an even greater threat to the boys’ tunately, Timothy dies before they are rescued.
freedom is something from a forgotten past: a Phillip has an operation that helps him regain
beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin his sight. They both had dreams. One of them
died on the cay. The other was forever changed
time itself. Fantasy
by meeting the first. Historical Fiction

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GRADES 6-8

NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Touching Spirit Bear Treasure Island Tuck Everlasting

Ben Mikaelsen Robert Louis Stevenson Natalie Babbitt

Level Y 670L Level Z 980L Level W 770L
Cole Matthews has been in Young Jim Hawkins and his When ten-year-old Winnie
trouble for years. His attack on mother own an inn in England Foster stumbles upon the Tuck
a classmate has left him with where a guest dies and leaves family’s disturbing secret, she
permanent damage. To most, a map to Treasure Island as is forced to come to terms with
Cole seems beyond hope. But, payment for his room. Trea- her conflicting emotions. She
he’s offered a sentencing alternative called sure Island is where the pirate booty is buried. feels drawn to the loving, gentle and rather
Circle Justice, based on Native American tradi- Jim and local gentry start an expedition on the eccentric Tucks, but what they tell her is incred-
tion. He is banished to a remote Alaskan island, ship, Hispanola. But soon a mutiny begins lead ible. Doomed to—or blessed with—eternal life
where he attacks the Spirit Bear of Native by Long John Silver, one moment a one-legged after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck
American legend—and the clumsy assault ends sea-cook…the next a pirate leader! On the family tries to make Winnie understand that the
with Cole mauled nearly to death, desperately island, there are fights among the pirates and terrible magic of the forest spring can never be
clinging to the life he tried hard to waste. Res- Jim is taken hostage. Soon, Jim returns safely revealed. The consequences to the world could
cuers save Cole’s life, but this attack is the start home with the treasure. Jim and each gentry prove to be disastrous! But then an unexpected
of Cole’s journey to accepting responsibility to man finds appropriate uses for their treasure, complication arises when Winnie is followed by a
but Jim suffers from his time on the island. stranger who wants to sell the spring water and
save his soul. Realistic Fiction
Fantasy make a fortune. Realistic Fiction
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Traitor: The Case of The Trouble with Tuck Tunes for Bears to Dance To
Benedict Arnold
Theodore Taylor Robert Cormier
Jean Fritz

Level X 1020L Level R 880L Level U 840L
A study of the life and charac- Helen adored her dog, Friar After his brother’s death, Henry,
ter of the Revolutionary War Tuck. He faithfully slept on with his parents, moves to a
general who deserted to the the rug beside her bed and new town, where he meets and
British for money. Benedict guarded her against strangers. befriends Mr. Levine, an elderly
Arnold always carried things too far. As a So when Tuck aged and began survivor of the Holocaust who
boy he did crazy things like climbing atop a to lose his sight, Helen fought to be his eyes. spends his days carving a rep-
burning roof and picking a fight with the town She wouldn’t let his blindness end his life. “No lica of his childhood village. En-
constable. As a soldier, he was even more reck- one can definitely say when Friar Tuck began to ter Mr. Hairston, who holds power over Henry’s
less. He was obsessed with being a leader and go blind. But the light probably began to fail for life. He is a man of glittering promises, but he
the hero in every battle, and he never wanted him long before any of us suspected it, and of exacts a terrible price from Henry, involving the
to surrender. He even killed his own horse once course, he couldn’t talk about it. After desper- boy’s friendship with Mr. Levine.
rather than give it to the enemy. The biography ately speaking with vets and medical research-
provides details about him and the era in his- ers, the family found Lady Daisy, a retired Seeing Historical Fiction
Eye dog who could help train Tuck and be his
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The Twenty-One Balloons
Travel Team The True Confessions
of Charlotte Doyle William Pene du Bois
Mike Lupica
Avi Level V 1070L
Level X 930L rofessor William Waterman
Twelve-year-old Danny Walker Level V 740L Sherman decided to retire
may be the smallest kid on The story is about a “proper” from teaching and travel by
the basketball court — but young girl who is returning home hot-air balloon for a year. So,
don’t tell him that. Because no from England to her American he decides to spend it crossing
one plays with more heart or family. From the beginning of the voyage, the Pacific Ocean in a balloon
court sense. But none of that matters when he nothing goes well. The chaperones don’t show called The Globe. Immediately
is cut from his local travel team, the very same up. Charlotte is warned not to board the ship, he had trouble. Sea gulls started fighting over
team his father led to national prominence as a but she doesn’t heed the warnings. The crew food on top of his balloon, punctured it and
boy. Danny’s father, still smarting from his own mutinies, Charlotte sides at first with the captain. he landed on Krakatoa Island. It was a world of
troubles, knows Danny isn’t the only kid who But, she learns that he is cruel and later joins unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and
was cut for the wrong reason, and together, this the crew. During the voyage she is charged with unbelievable balloon inventions. He is found
washed-up former player and a bunch of never- murder and sentenced to hang. But, she ends after three weeks floating in the Atlantic among
say-die kids prove that the heart simply cannot up taking over the ship and brings it into port. the wreckage of twenty hot-air balloons. How
Of course, her family refuses to believe her story. did he end up with so many balloons…in the
be measured. Realistic Fiction
Eventually she returns to the sea. Realistic wrong ocean? Fantasy
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Under the Blood-Red Sun The Voyage of the Frog War Comes To Willy Freeman NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Graham Salisbury Gary Paulsen James Collier

Level W 640L Level S 1020L Level U 800L
Tomi was born in Hawaii. His David thought he was alone, that Willy Freeman’s life changes
grandfather and parents were the ocean around him was all forever when she witnesses
born in Japan, and came to there was of the world. The wind screamed, the her father’s death at the
America to escape poverty. waves towered, and his boat, the twenty-two hands of the Redcoats and
World War II seems far away foot fiberglass FROG, skidded and bucked and, returns home to find that the
from Tomi and his friends, each moment, filled deeper and grew heavier British have taken her mother
who are too busy playing ball with sea water. David thought surely he was as a prisoner to New York
on their eighth-grade team, the Rats. But then dead at fourteen. His uncle Owen, who had City. Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long
Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and taught him about sailing safely, would be so search for her mother and luckily finds a haven
the United States declares war on Japan. Japa- angry. Owen had died only days ago, his last at the famous Fraunces Tavern. But even with
nese men are rounded up, and Tomi’s father wish for David was to take the FROG out on his the help of Sam Fraunces and her fellow worker,
and grandfather are arrested. It’s a terrifying own, and sail her beyond sight of the coast, and Horace, Willy knows that to be black, female,
time to be Japanese in America. But one thing once there scatter Owen’s ashes. David had and free leaves her open to danger at every
doesn’t change: the loyalty of Tomi’s buddies, done this the evening before, but he hadn’t turn. What will tomorrow bring?
thought of a storm roaring across the Pacific,
the Rats. Historical Fiction or of the terror of being alone later in the dark, Historical Fiction
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The Upstairs Room The War with Grandpa
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Johanna Reiss Robert Kimmel Smith

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forced to share a room with his
Annie de Leeuw was eight Walk Two Moons grandfather. Peter is thrilled that
years old in 1940 when the Grandpa is coming to live with
Germans attacked Holland Sharon Creech his family. That is, until Grandpa moves right
and marched into the town of into Peter’s room, forcing him upstairs. Peter
Winterswijk where she lived. Level W 770L loves his grandpa but wants his room back. He
Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish After her mother leaves home sud- has no choice but to declare war. With the help
and in danger of being captured, she and her denly, thirteen-year-old Salamanca of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans
sister Sini had to leave their family to go into Tree Hiddle and her Native American grandpar- to make Grandpa surrender the room. But
hiding in the upstairs room of a remote farm- ents take a car trip retracing her mother’s route. Grandpa is tougher than he looks. Rather than
house owned by the Oostervelds. For two years Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her give in, Grandpa plans to get even. They used
they hid Annie and her sister in the cramped friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. Phoebe to be such great pals. Has their war gone too
room of their farmhouse. Most people thought received a secret message after her mother’s
the war wouldn’t last long. But for Annie and disappearance which read, “Don’t judge a man far? Realistic Fiction
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The View from Saturday Christopher Paul Curtis

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Level U 870L Watsons, an African American
Mrs. Olinski returns to teaching The Wanderer family living in Flint, Michigan,
ten years after being paralyzed are drastically changed after
in an automobile accident. She Sharon Creech they go to visit Grandma in
needs to select four students Alabama in the summer of
to represent their sixth-grade Level V 830L
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Weasel When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit When Zachary Beaver
Came to Town
Cynthia C. DeFelice Judith Kerr
Kimberly Willis Holt
Level U 870L Level X 940L
Set in 1839 in Ohio, Nathan Anna was only nine years old Level Y 700L
Fowler, 11, is captured by the in 1933, too busy with friends The red words painted on the
renegade killer Weasel, but to take much notice of Adolf trailer caused quite a buzz around town and
escaped. Children whisper that Hitler’s face glaring out of before an hour was up, half of Antler was stand-
he is part man and part animal. But he knows posters. But then one day ing in line with two dollars clutched in hand to
that Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter her father was unaccountably, see the fattest boy in the world. Toby Wilson
the government sent to drive off the Indians. frighteningly missing. Soon is having the toughest summer of his life. It’s
But, the Shawnees are dead and Weasel has after, she and her brother, Max, were se- the summer his mother leaves for good; the
turned on the settlers. Like his namesake, he cretly hurried out of Germany by their mother. summer his best friend’s brother returns from
hunts by night and sleeps by day, and he kills Reunited in Switzerland, Anna and her family Vietnam in a coffin. And the summer that Zach-
for the sport of it...After Nathan escaped, he embark on an adventure, in several different ary Beaver, the fattest boy in the world, arrives
swore revenge because he knows could hurt his countries. They learn many new languages, how in their sleepy Texas town. While it’s a summer
family. His father wants him to wait for the law to cope with confusions, and how to be poor. filled with heartache of every kind, it’s also a
to take care of Weasel. But Nathan is impatient. Anna soon discovers that there are special skills summer of new friendships gained and old
to being a refugee. And as long as the family friendships renewed. And it’s Zachary Beaver
Mystery/Short Stories stayed together, that was all that really mat- who turns the town of Antler upside down and
leaves everyone, especially Toby, changed
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Gary D. Schmidt Linda Sue Park
Where the Lilies Bloom
Level X 990L Level Y 610L
In this Newbery Honor-winning Sun-hee and her older brother, Vera Cleaver
novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers Tae-yul, live in Korea with their
an unforgettable antihero. The parents. Because Korea is Level Y 920L
Wednesday Wars is a won- under Japanese occupation, Mary Call has promised her dying
derfully witty and compelling story about a the children study Japanese father to keep her brother and
teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over and speak it at school. Their sisters together on the mountain,
the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long own language, their flag, the and never take any help from
Island, New York. Meet Holling Hoodhood, a folktales Uncle tells them—even their names— strangers. At first, she is sure she can manage.
seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High, who are all part of the Korean culture that is now Romey, Ima Dean, and Devola help gather herbs
must spend Wednesday afternoons with his forbidden. When World War II comes to Korea, to sell in town; the riches of the mountains will
teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class Sun-hee is surprised that the Japanese expect surely keep the family clothed and fed. But then
has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like their Korean subjects to fight on their side. But winter comes and Mary Call has to learn that
Holling—he’s sure of it. Why else would she the greatest shock of all comes when Tae-yul the land where the lilies bloom is an unforgiv-
make him read the plays of William Shake- enlists in the Japanese army in an attempt ing place. She needs to protect them from nosy
to protect Uncle, who is suspected of aiding townspeople and a greedy landlord seeking
speare outside class? Realistic Fiction the Korean resistance. Sun-hee stays behind,
entrusted with the life-and-death secrets of a Devola’s hand in marriage. Realistic Fiction
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The Westing Game
When You Reach Me Wilson Rawls
Ellen Raskin
Rebecca Stead
Level V 750L Level X 700L
The mysterious death of an Level W 750L Billy has long dreamt of own-
eccentric millionaire, Samuel Shortly after a fall-out with her ing not one, but two, dogs. So
W. Westing, brings together an best friend, sixth grader Miranda when he’s finally able to save
unlikely assortment of sixteen starts receiving mysterious up enough money for two
heirs who must uncover the circumstances of notes, and she doesn’t know pups to call his own—Old Dan
his death before they can claim their inheri- what to do. The notes tell her and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic.
tance. They could become millionaires-it all that she must write a letter—a true story, and It doesn’t matter that times
depends on how they play the tricky and that she can’t share her mission with anyone. It are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the
dangerous Westing game, a game involv- would be easy to ignore the strange messages, Ozarks. Soon Billy and his hounds become the
ing blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! The except that whoever is leaving them has an finest hunting team in the valley. Stories of their
characters are entangled in a puzzle-knotted, uncanny ability to predict the future. If that is the great achievements spread throughout the
word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, case, then Miranda has a big problem—because region, and the combination of Old Dan’s brawn,
the notes tell her that someone is going to die, Little Ann’s brains, and Billy’s sheer will seems
and suspense. Mystery
and she might be too late to stop it. Mystery unbeatable. Realistic Fiction
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Which Way Freedom? The White Mountains The Wind in the Willows NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Joyce Hansen John Christopher Kenneth Grahame

Level T 700L Level V 890L Level T 1140L
Obi had never forgotten the On an Earth where the When Mole decides he has had
sounds of his mother’s screams Tripods—huge, three-legged enough tiresome spring-cleaning
on the day he was sold away machines—have ruled for as for one day, the scrappy nonesuch
from her. Making plans to run long as anyone can remember, throws down his broom and bolts out of his
away to find her was a secret thirteen-year-old Will fears house looking for fun and adventure. He
game he played with friend Buka, an old Afri- about the Capping ceremony he will soon un- quickly finds it in the form of the Water Rat,
can who lived at the edge of the farm. When dergo. Capping marks the transition from child- who takes the wide-eyed Mole boating and
the Civil War began, Obi knew it was time to hood into adulthood, but it has a more sinister introduces him to the mysteries of life on the
run—or be sold again. If he was caught, he’d meaning: The Tripods attach metal headpieces river and in the Wild Wood. Mole also meets
be killed...or worse. But if he stayed, he might to people’s skulls, and once Capped, a person Ratty’s good friends: the kindly, solid Badger
never know freedom. Obi escapes from slavery is forever a slave to them. He realizes that he and the irrepressible Toad. Soon, the quartet’s
and joins a black Union regiment, and soon must escape while his mind is still his own. With escapades—including car crashes, a sojourn
becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort two companions, he begins a journey across in jail, and a battle with the weasels who try to
Europe to find the stronghold of the last free take over Toad Hall—become the talk of the
Pillow, Tennessee. Historical Fiction people in the world—in the White Mountains of
animal kingdom. Animal Fantasy
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White Fang
Who Really Killed Cock Robin? Winterdance
Jack London
Jean Craighead George Gary Paulsen
Level Y
This is the story of a wild wolf- Level U 830L Level W 1140L
dog’s journey in the Canadian Eighth-grader Tony Isidoro Fueled by an all-consuming
territory of Yukon during the follows a trail of environmen- passion for running dogs, Gary
Klondike Gold Rush. Orphaned tal clues to try and figure out Paulsen entered the grueling
White Fang relies on his instincts what ecological imbalances 1,180-mile Iditarod race across
as well as his inborn strength and courage to sur- might have caused the death Alaska in dangerous ignorance
vive in the wilderness despite both animal and of the town of Saddleboro’s and with fierce determination. For seventeen
human predators. White Fang lives in a camp of mascot, Cock Robin. The days, Paulsen and his team of fifteen dogs ran
Amerindians until he is sold to Beauty Smith who citizens are proud to say that theirs is the through breathtaking and treacherous Arctic
uses him to make money by fighting dogs. They cleanest town around. So they can’t ignore the terrain. They crossed the barren, moonlike
starve him and he lives a rough life. But, finally, a mysterious death of the bird. So, Tony threads landscape of the Alaskan interior and witnessed
gold hunter, Weedon buys him, treats him kindly, his way through a maze of clues: the town sunrises that cast a golden blaze over the vast
and teaches him to trust humans. White Fang park is overrun with trillions of ants; nights are waters of the Bering Sea. They endured blinding
learns loyalty and love for Weedon and a young quiet because there are no frogs singing; the wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose
nearby river contains a dangerous amount of an attacks, sleeplessness, hallucinations - and the
helper, Matt. Historical Fiction unknown chemical; and the town dump is emit- relentless push to go on. He crossed the finish
ting strange fumes, among others. What does it line, but it wasn’t enough: Paulsen was obsessed
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Use During and After Reading COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM BASED LESSON PLANS

(Character Analysis) Wo n d e r

Character Web R. J. Palacio

Directions: Consider what makes up a person’s character. For each quality shown below, list STUDENT PACKET
Directions: Fill in information about Auggie in the chart below. Cite evidence from the story as three characters who demonstrate it in the novel. You may use characters more than once, but do GRADES 6-8
you fill in information.
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His Statements His Behavior His Fears
READ, WRITE, THINK, DISCUSS AND CONNECT
honesty loyalty

wisdom

strong character

His Thoughts Auggie concern for others generosity
How He Looks
Others’ Actions
Toward Him
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG The Witch of Blackbird Pond Woodsong A Wrinkle in Time

Elizabeth George Speare Gary Paulsen Madeleine L'Engle

Level W 850L Level S 1030L Level W 740L
Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is Gary Paulsen, is no stranger One stormy night a strange
marked by suspicion and disap- to adventure. He has flown visitor comes to the Murry house
proval from the moment she off the back of a dogsled and and beckons Meg, her brother,
arrives on the unfamiliar shores down a frozen waterfall to Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe
of colonial Connecticut in 1687. near disaster, and waited for on a most dangerous and fantastic journey, a
Alone and desperate, she has a giant bear to seal his fate with one slap of a journey that will threaten their lives and our uni-
been forced to leave her beloved home on the claw. He has led a team of sled dogs toward verse. They travel through the galaxy by means
island of Barbados and join a family she has the Alaskan Mountain Range in an Iditarod—a of tesseracts to Camazotz, an alien planet inside
never met. Torn between her quest for belong- 1,180-mile dogsled race—hallucinating from the “Black Thing.” They become involved with
ing and her desire to be true to herself, Kit lack of sleep, but determined to finish. For unearthly strangers and a search for Meg’s father,
struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in who disappeared while engaged in secret work.
it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred northern Minnesota is a wild experience involv- The earth’s galaxy is in danger of being covered
spirit. But Kit’s friendship with Hannah Tupper, ing wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make black cloud. They manage to escape IT a disem-
believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves bodied brain and free their father, flee the planet
more taboo than she could have imagined and their way of life possible. Biography
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Wolf Rider Level T 870L A Year Down Yonder
Spring semester at the Lab
Avi School in Hyde Park finds Richard Peck
Petra and Calder drawn
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The phone rang three times be- unexplainable accidents Because the Great Depression
fore Andy picked it up. "Hello?" and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on has affected her parents’ finances,
he said. A voice replied, "I just Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House, and it's up 15-year-old Mary Alice must leave
killed someone. I killed...Nina." Andy Zadinski to the two junior sleuths to piece together the her home and spend a year in a small town with
is convinced that the man who calls himself clues. Stir in the return of Calder's friend Tommy Grandma Dowdel. Although Mary Alice is not
“Zeke” is serious. But no one will listen to (which creates a tense triangle), H.G. Wells's The accepted into the school community quickly,
Andy—not the police, not his friends, not even Invisible Man, 3-D pentominoes, and the hunt she and Grandma Dowdel have many adven-
his father. They all say he’s crying wolf, even for a coded message left behind by Wright, and tures such as trapping animals for fur; collecting
when Andy discovers that there really is a Nina the kids become tangled in a dangerous web in pecans and pumpkins from the neighbors at
Klemmer. Even when he spots her at the local which life and art intermingle with death, decep- midnight; baking pies and cherry tarts; surviving
college and sees that she fits Zeke’s descrip- a tornado; and outwitting the local boys playing
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can remember, he’s dreaded It is 1945, and courageous ten-
Wonder the day he turns ten—the day year-old Sookan and her family
he’ll be a wringer. “Wring- must endure the cruelties of the
R. J. Palacio ers,” are boys who wring Japanese military occupying
the necks of wounded pigeons at the annual Korea. Police captain Narita does his best to
Level V 790L Pigeon Day shoot. But Palmer doesn’t want to destroy everything of value to the family, but he
The book that inspired the be a wringer. It’s the biggest thing he’s hidden. cannot break their spirit. Sookan's father is with
Choose Kind movement. "I In town, being a wringer is an honor, a tradi- the resistance movement in Manchuria and her
won’t describe what I look like. tion passed down from father to son. Palmer older brothers have been sent away to labor
Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse." can’t stop himself from being a wringer just camps. Her mother is forced to supervise a sock
August Pullman was born with a facial difference like he can’t stop himself from growing one factory and Sookan herself must wear a uniform
that, up until now, has prevented him from go- year older—right? He must either accept the and attend a Japanese school. Then the war
ing to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade violence of being a wringer or find the courage ends. Out come the colorful Korean silks and
at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than bags of white rice. But Communist Russian
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The Yearling Z for Zachariah Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s NOVEL UNITS CATALOG
Life in Sarajevo
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Robert C. O'Brien
Zlata Filipovic
Level X 750L Level Z 820L
This is a classic story of the Ann Burden is sixteen years old Level X 640L
Baxter family and their wild, and completely alone. The world The book begins as the day-to-
hard, and satisfying life in remote as she once knew it is gone, day record of the life of a typical
central Florida. Their son, Jody ravaged by a nuclear war that eleven-year-old girl, preoccu-
lives with his parents in the has taken everyone from her. pied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But
animal-filled Florida backwoods. He adopts a For the past year, she has lived in a remote valley as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovi´c becomes
fawn, whom he names Flag, that becomes his with no evidence of any survivors. But the smoke a witness to food shortages and the deaths of
constant companion over the year. Unfortunately, from a distant campfire shatters Ann’s solitude. friends and learns to wait out bombardments in
the deer begins to mature and kill the crops that Someone else is alive and making his way toward a neighbor’s cellar. Yet throughout she remains
are the family’s livelihood. Jody is forced to make the valley. Who is he? What does he want? Can he courageous and observant. It is a personal diary
a difficult decision about the fate of a fawn he be trusted? Both excited and terrified, Ann soon of the author’s written between September 1991
realizes there may be worse things than being the and October 1993. It is filled with bomb, snipers,
has lovingly raised as a pet. Realistic Fiction last person on Earth. Soon she realizes that he is a shortages, the death of a close friend, and how
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Carol Fenner

Level V 710L Vocabulary Activities
Yolanda is smarter than anyone
in the fifth grade. Her mother, a 1. Choose the words from several chapters to create a comprehensive map of the language of
legal professional and a widow, the book. Choose categories for the words. Here is a possibility.
is concerned about crime in
her school. She moves them to Words peculiar to slavery Ways to move:
a smaller town. Her first-grade brother, Andrew, or the 19th Century:
who never talks much, is having trouble learn-
ing to read. What he loves to do is play on the Which Way
harmonica his father gave him as a baby. He can Freedom?
imitate any sound he hears. Yolanda understands
that that’s the way he “talks.” She is convinced FEATURED TITLE Physical characteristics Ways to feel:
Andrew is a true genius. But no one else believes of the land:
it. Her plans crystallize on a visit to Chicago to
enjoy the blues festival with her Aunt Tiny. 2. Use two or more of the vocabulary words in a couplet. (A couplet is a two line verse which
may or may not rhyme.)
Realistic Fiction
3. Map some of the words (particularly good for nouns).

What is it not like? Word for What is it?
_______________________________________ mapping: ______________________________________

_______________________________________ ______________________________________

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Student Packet ISBN 9781581305302 $13.99 Using PreDdefiicntitiioonn sBeine: tIthisepNlaoyevdellikUe na istpeAllpinpgrboeaecbhut players must name the word from
definitions read orally by the leader. To prepare students, write definitions on 3x5 cards.

Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze We all make predictions as we ebrneePgsacpaiiodvmesu—escprwriafloigiogterteretdldaetdsn:tgittaSmouttleoueipssdrtstweheeodsiennfitacpswsbt.l,opoottulro,adtywmswhitnahoikcapehtgasewdierteinsltpl,sahaioiblransltpenewpeggierlulnivethoisnenselesgpxastytfa,hi.lslhePtioanhdwiereoyfwuainrrhceisotoaeindoncfnsltaiehcnttehogwefnuaoiolelvtsehsle.trhaenmswoestrinwgo.rdDsefininiation-
be resolved, which details will
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis character. Students should be

As students wthoerkwoanysthtoeirprperdeidcitc?BtiWionnghsoa,t:thiSsettushedeedpnisrtcosucpsesusiostnodfeqafuinessoittpiioohnnissstiiccnaanttehbdeeirreusasqdeudeart’rsoetsgh,uicniodkivenegtrhinaengmd:uWp hdaetfinitions as words are read
are some of

predicting? What clues does an author give to help us make predictions? Why are some predictions

more likely to be accurate than others?

Level W 890L © Novel Units, Inc. All rights reserved
When Young Fu arrives with Create a chart for recording predictions. This could be either an individual or5class activity. As each
his mother in bustling 1920s subsequent chapter is discussed, students can review and correct their previous predictions about plot
Chungking, all he has seen of and characters as necessary.
the world is the rural farming
village where he has grown up. Use the facts and ideas the
He knows nothing of city life. author gives.
But the city, with its wonders
and dangers, fascinates the Use your own
13-year-old boy, and he sets out to make the prior knowledge.
best of what it has to offer him. First published in
1932,Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze was one of Apply any new information (i.e., from class
the earliest Newbery Medal winners. Although discussion) that may cause you to change your mind.
China has changed since that time, Young Fu's
experiences are universal: making friends, mak- Predictions:
ing mistakes, and making one's way in the world. ______________________________________________________________________________
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG 1984 The Acorn People The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

George Orwell Ron Jones Mark Twain

Level Z+ 1090L Level Z+ 720L Level Z
The United Kingdom is thrown Ron expected that his time as Tom Sawyer, a mischievous
into a civil war that results in the a counselor at Camp Wiggin blond orphan taken in by his
nation of Oceana, a totalitarian would be filled with sunny days Aunt Polly, goes through a
government. There is a sup- spent hiking, swimming, and series of adventures involving
posed leader named Big Brother boating. But when he arrives on his friends, Joe Harper and
and there are signs saying: “Big Brother is day one, his illusions are quickly Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer’s
Watching You.” The story centers around the shattered. He knew that the kids would be main doings are racing bugs,
affair of the Ministry of Truth bureaucrat, Winston "handicapped," but he didn't anticipate having impressing girls with fights and stunts in the
Smith and his (illicit) sexual relationship with Julia to care for children who can barely walk or see or schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pi-
along with their intellectual rebellion against The retain the use of their limbs. At first, the severity rates on the Mississippi River. When not trying to
Party. They are captured and imprisoned, inter- of the campers' disabilities seems too much to win his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, Tom is either
rogated, tortured, and finally re-educated to love bear. But everything changes once Ron gets to getting into mischief or going on an adventure.
know his group--kids who call themselves "the Despite his mischief, Tom has a good heart and
only Big Brother and The Party... Classics Acorn People." The campers teach him that, a strong moral conscience and seriously takes on
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Diary of a Part-Time
Indian The Adventures of Alas, Babylon
Huckleberry Finn
Sherman Alexie Pat Frank
Mark Twain

Level Z+ 600L Level Z Level Z 870L
Randy Bragg is a man who
The story of Junior, a budding cartoonist Huck is the neglected son of lives a life with little purpose.
growing up on the Spokane Indian Reserva- the town drunk and is given a This changes when his brother,
tion. Determined to take his future into his home with spinsters. They want Colonel Mark Bragg, sends
own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school to "civilize" him above the him a telegram with the code
on the reservation to attend an all-white farm level of poor white trash which means bathing words “Alas, Babylon”—their private code for
town high school where the only other Indian regularly, going to school. Huck decides to run disaster. Mark, who is on the Air Intelligence
is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, away and take a runaway slave, Jim with him. staff of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), is
and beautifully written, The Absolutely True They ride down the Mississippi River on a raft. certain war between the United States and the
Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on Jim not as interested in freedom as much as he Soviet Union is imminent. He sends his wife
the author's own experiences, coupled with is in taking care of his family. Huck is conflicted Helen and children Ben Franklin and Peyton to
poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect because he's stealing an old woman's property. stay with Randy in Fort Repose, Florida. Randy
the character's art, chronicles the contemporary In the end, the woman dies, giving Jim his free- and his houseguests are awakened by shaking.
adolescence of one Native American boy as dom and Huck's father dies, so he no longer “The Day” has begun. When the Air Force
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FEATURED TITLE In group discussion about the student attribute webs for specific characters, the teacher can
ask for supportive evidence from the story.
STUDENT PACKET
GRADES 9-12 Attribute webs need not be confined to characters. They can also be used to organize
information about a concept, object, or place.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare Attribute webs are a kind of semantic mapping. Students can move on from attribute webs to

TEACHER GUIDE other creative kinds of mapping. They can be encouraged to modify attribute webs—use sub-
GRADES 9-12
divisions, add divisions, change connections—in whatever ways are useful to them personally.
COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM BASED LESSON PLANS
It is important to emphasize that attribute webs are just a graphic way to record ideas. They Hamlet
Hamlet provide students with a tool for helping them generate ideas and think aNbaomuet_r_e_l_a_t_io_n__s_h_i_p_s________________ Activity #13: Critical Thinking/Writing

William Shakespeare among them. Use After Reading

READ, WRITE, THINK, DISCUSS AND CONNECT Directions

In literature, a foil is a person that through strong contrast underscores or enhances the

Sample framework for an Attribute Web for Hamlet: distinctive characteristics of another. Critics maintain that Horatio, Laertes, and

Fortinbras—and even the Players—are foils for Hamlet. Write an essay supporting the

thesis that one or more of the above are foils for Hamlet. As a prewriting exercise,

complete the Venn Diagram below by filling in the blanks with words or phrases that

describe each character. Characteristics shared by two or more characters should be

Acts pthlaecmedaringFienthseealsanrdeadsrawwhearrerotwhos steocinhdaricaactteeryso’ ucirrcinlefsoromveartliaopn. You may want to write in
for the smallest areas.

Looks Hamlet Others’ Attitudes Horatio
Says _____________
_____________
_____________
_____________

Fortinbras Laertes
_____________ _____________
_____________ _____________
_____________ _____________
Students can use this framework or create their own for other characters in the p_la_y__o__r_f_o_r__a__ _____________

central idea such as deception or family relationships, or to keep track of the setting and

action of important scenes.

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The Alchemist Angela's Ashes Antigone NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Paulo Coelho Frank McCourt Sophocles

Level Z+ 910L Level Z+ 1110L Level V 1090L
The Alchemist has become a A Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New Oedipus, the former ruler of
modern classic, selling millions York Times bestseller, Angela's Thebes, has died. Now, when his
of copies around the world and Ashes is Frank McCourt's mas- young daughter Antigone defies
transforming the lives of count- terful memoir of his childhood her uncle, Creon, the new ruler,
less readers across generations. in Ireland. "When I look back on because he has prohibited the
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical sto- my childhood I wonder how I burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a
ry of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a mis- primal conflict between young and old, woman
yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. erable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly and man, individual and ruler, family and state,
His quest will lead him to riches far different- worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miser- courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for
-and far more satisfying--than he ever imagined. able childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving
Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic allegiance to the gods of the sky. How the gods
wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recogniz- childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of take their revenge on Creon provides the grip-
ing opportunity and learning to read the omens Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn ping denouement to this compelling tragedy.
strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums
Mythology
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All Quiet on the Western Front Animal Dreams Around the World in 80 Days

Erich Remarque Barbara Kingsolver Jules Verne

Level X 830L Level Z+ 790L Level V
Remarque, Erich "I am young, I “Animals dream about the A wealthy gentleman, Phileas
am twenty years old; yet I know things they do in the day time Fogg lives his life on a schedule.
nothing of life but despair, just like people do. If you want When his man servant fails to
death, fear, and fatuous superfi- sweet dreams, you’ve got to live bring him his shaving water at the
ciality cast over an abyss of sor- a sweet life.” So says Loyd Per- right temperature, he replaces
row...." This is the testament of egrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter- him with Jean Passepartout, a
Paul Baumer, who enlists with his day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast
classmates in the German army of World War I. to her hometown, Loyd’s advice is painfully out of and fireman. That same day he visits his club and
They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, makes a bet that he can travel around the world
But the world of work, duty, culture, and progress Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront in eighty days. Fogg and Passepartout set off
they had been taught breaks into pieces under her past and face her ailing, distant father. What immediately, determined to win this race against
the first bombardment in the trenches. Through she finds is a town threatened by a silent environ- time. Little do they know they aren’t making the
years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single mental catastrophe, startling clues to her identity, journey alone. Fogg has been fingered as the
vow: to fight against the principle of hate that and a man whose view of the world could change culprit in a bank robbery, and a detective in hot
meaninglessly pits young men of the same pursuit is trailing them as they cross every conti-
generation but different uniforms against each her life. Realistic Fiction
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Student Packet ISBN 9781561376209 $13.99 Animal Farm As I Lay Dying

George Orwell William Faulkner

All the Pretty Horses Level Z 1170L Level Z+ 870L
The animals of Manor Farm over- As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s har-
Cormac McCarthy throw their drunken human owner/ rowing account of the Bundren
farmer and take over managing the family’s odyssey across the
Level Z 940L farm. All the animals agree to work Mississippi countryside to bury
All the Pretty Horses tells the overtime, productivity increases, Addie, their wife and mother.
story of young John Grady Cole, and for one brief season, the farm Narrated in turn by each of the family members—
the last of a long line of Texas is successful. The animals’ Seven Commandment including Addie herself—as well as others, the
ranchers. Across the border credo is painted on the barn. No animal shall novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the
Mexico beckons—beautiful and drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influ-
desolate, rugged and cruelly civi- four-footed creature. Those that walk on two-legs ential novels in American fiction in structure, style,
lized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyl- are the enemy. Very soon, however, the pigs are and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG As You Like It Bad Boy: A Memoir Billy Budd

William Shakespeare Walter Dean Myers Herman Melville

Level Z+ Level Y 970L Level Z 1430L
Frederick has usurped the In his own words... As a boy, On a British navy ship a
Duchy and exiled his older Walter Dean Myers was quick- small battle is being fought
brother. The Duke’s daughter tempered and physically strong, between two men. Jealous of
Rosalind has been permitted always ready for a fight. He also Billy Budd, the “Handsome
to remain at court as a friend read voraciously-he would check out books Sailor,” the envious Master-At-
of Frederick’s only child, Celia. from the library and carry them home, hidden Arms Claggart torments the
Orlando has fallen in love with in brown paper bags in order to avoid other young man until his false accusations lead to a
Rosalind. When Frederick becomes angry and boys' teasing. He aspired to be a writer. But charge of treason against Billy. Claggart brings
banishes Rosalind from court, Celia and Rosalind growing up in a poor family in Harlem, his hope the charge to Captain Vere, Billy is unable to
flee together dressed as men. Rosalind, also in for a successful future diminished as he came defend himself due to a speech impediment.
love with Orlando, meets him as Ganymede and to realize fully the class and racial struggles that Vere recommends a court martial and due
pretends to counsel him to cure him of being surrounded him. In a memoir that is gripping, to a mutiny law recommends that the panel
in love. Ganymede says he will take Rosalind’s funny, and ultimately unforgettable, Walter Dean convict Billy to death despite the fact that he
place and he and Orlando can act out their Myers travels back to his roots in the magical thinks Billy is innocent. Vere blames the lack
relationship. In the final scene, everyone is mar- world of Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. of discipline on the ship and the weakness of
ried and Frederick repents his faults restoring his Here is the story of one of the strongest voices in the officers. Billy’s final words are, “God Bless
legitimate brother to the dukedom..
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The Autobiography of The Bean Trees Black Boy
Miss Jane Pittman
Barbara Kingsolver Richard Wright
Ernest J. Gaines
Level Z 900L Level Z+ 950L
Richard Wright grew up in the
Level Z+ 710L Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor woods of Mississippi. He lived
This is a novel in the guise of Greer grew up poor in rural amid poverty, hunger, and ha-
the tape-recorded recollections Kentucky with the goals of avoid- tred. He lied, stole, and raged
of a black woman who has lived ing pregnancy and getting away. But when at those around him; at six he
110 years, who has been both a she heads west with high hopes and a barely was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns.
slave and a witness to the black militancy of the functional car, she meets the human condition Surly, brutal, suspicious, and self-pitying, he
1960's. In this woman Ernest Gaines has created head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, was surrounded on one side by whites who
a legendary figure, a woman equipped to stand Arizona, she has acquired a completely unex- were either indifferent to him and on the other
beside William Faulkner's Dilsey in The Sound pected child; a three-year-old American Indian by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise
And The Fury." Miss Jane Pittman, like Dilsey, girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to above the common lot. This is an account of his
has endured, has seen almost everything and terms with both motherhood and the necessity journey from innocence to experience in the
for putting down roots. Hers is a story about Jim Crow South told from the perspective of
foretold the rest. Historical Fiction love and friendship, abandonment and belong- the adult Wright, who was still trying to come
ing, and the discovery of surprising resources in to grips with the humiliations of his childhood.
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Kate Chopin Beowulf

Level Z 960L Burton Raffel Bless Me, Ultima
Edna Pontellier, the wife of
a business man and mother Level Z NP Rudolfo Anaya
of two, vacations with her Long ago there was a Scan-
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She meets Robert Lebrun. three evils so powerful they Antonio Marez is six years old
Suddenly, Edna realizes that could destroy whole kingdoms. when Ultima enters his life. She
she has suppressed a lot throughout her life. Standing head and shoulders is a curandera, one who heals
When the vacation ends, she frees herself from above his comrades, Beowulf with herbs and magic. ’We
the trappings of her former life, including her single-handedly saves the land of the Danes cannot let her live her last days
social position, her role as a mother, and wife. from a merciless ogre named Grendel and then in loneliness,’ says Antonio’s mother. And so Ul-
She moves to a cottage and has an affair with from his sea-hag mother. But it is his third ter- tima comes to live with Antonio’s family in New
Alcée Arobin. Later, she tries to reconnect with rible battle, with the death-dragon of the deep, Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold
Robert, but he is unable to come to grips with in which he truly meets his match. Lovers of of manhood. She graces him with the courage
her newfound freedom. Depressed, Edna returns heroes, monsters, and the drama of battle will to face childhood bigotry, the moral collapse
to the resort and swims out as far as she can and, find this retelling as enthralling as it is tragic. of his brother, and other tragedies. Under her
wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties
exhausted, drowns Realistic Fiction Poetry that bind him, and a mythic legacy equally as
palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in
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The Bluest Eye The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Buried Onions NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Toni Morrison John Boyne Gary Soto

Level Z+ 920L Level Z+ 1080L Level Z+ 850L
Eleven-year-old Pecola 9780385751537 Boy in the A junior college dropout,
Breedlove is a black girl who is Striped Pajamas, The 19-year-old Eddie is trying to
ridiculed by friends and family Boyne, John Berlin, 1942: support himself in this story
for her looks. She prays to be When Bruno returns home from set in the barrio of Fresno,
a white girl with blue eyes: so school one day, he discovers California. For Eddie there isn't
that she will be beautiful. This that his belongings are being much to do in his rundown neighborhood but
is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her packed in crates. His father has eat, sleep, watch out for drive-bys, and just try to
yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Mocked received a promotion and the family must move get through each day. His father, two uncles, and
by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and to a new house far, far away, where there is no his best friend are all dead, and it's a struggle
brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence not to end up the same way. The violence makes
normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him Fresno wallow in tears, as if a huge onion with its
she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her off from the strange people in the distance. But ubiquitous vapors were buried beneath the city.
dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that Making an effort to walk a straight line despite
to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. there must be more to this desolate new place constant temptations and frustrations, Eddie
than meets the eye. While exploring his new en- searches for answers after the death of his cousin
Historical Fiction vironment, he meets another boy whose life and and discovers that his closest friends may be his
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Carol Plum-Ucci Cannery Row

Level Z 720L Brave New World John Steinbeck
Chris Creed grew up as the class
freak—the bullies’ punching Aldous Huxley Level Z+ 930L
bag. After he vanished, the Unburdened by the material
weirdness that had once sur- Level Z+ 870L necessities of the more unfortu-
rounded him began spreading. This is a utopian world: humanity nate, the denizens of Cannery
It was as if darkness reached out is carefree, healthy and techno- Row discover rewards unknown
of a void to grab at the most normal, happy peo- logically advanced. Warfare and in more traditional society. Henry,
ple—like some twisted joke or demented form poverty have been eliminated the painter sorts through junk lots of wood to
of justice. It tore the town apart. Sixteen-year-old and everyone is permanently incorporate into the boat he is building, while the
Torey Adams’s search for answers opens his eyes happy due to government-provided stimulation. girls from Dora Flood’s bordello venture out now
to the lies, the pain, and the need to blame when The irony is that everything humans consider es- and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong
tragedy strikes, and his once-safe world comes sential has been eliminated. It is also a hedonistic stocks his grocery with almost anything a man
society, especially the use of soma, a powerful could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist
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through hallucinatory fantasies. A caste system unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just
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Set during World War II in Student Packet ISBN 9781561374465 $13.99 The Canterbury Tales
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Catch-22 The Chocolate War Cold Mountain

Joseph Heller Robert Cormier Charles Frazier

Level Z+ 1140L Level Z+ 820L Level Z+ 1140L
Set in Italy during World In Robert Cormier's unforget- This extraordinary tale of a
War II, this is the story of the table novels, an individual often soldier's perilous journey back
incomparable, malingering stands alone, fighting for what is to his beloved at the end of
bombardier, Yossarian, a hero right--or just to survive--against the Civil War is at once an
who is furious because thou- powerful, sinister, and sometimes evil people. enthralling adventure, a stir-
sands of people he has never His twisty, gripping stories explore some of the ring love story, and a luminous evocation of a
met are trying to kill him. But his real problem darker corners of the human psyche but always
is not the enemy--it is his own army, which with a moral focus and a probing intelligence vanished land. Historical Fiction
keeps increasing the number of missions the that compels readers to examine their own feel-
men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Individual Book ISBN 9780802126757 $17.00
Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself ings and ethical beliefs. Realistic Fiction Group Set ISBN 9781502026057 $274.49
from the perilous missions he's assigned, he'll Class Set ISBN 9781502018052 $540.11
be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister Individual Book ISBN 9780375829871 $9.99 Teacher Guide ISBN 9781561370504 $12.99
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Olive Ann Burns

Class Set ISBN 9781502017789 $570.11 The Chosen Level Z 930L
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that word gets around - fast.
The Catcher in the Rye Level Z+ 970L When Grandpa E. Rucker
Blakeslee announces one July
J. D. Salinger It is the now-classic story of two morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the
fathers and two sons and the pres- young and freckled milliner, Miss Love Simpson
Level Z 790L sures on all of them to pursue the - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee
The story takes place at Pencey religion they share in the way that has gone to her reward - the news is served
Prep in Pennsylvania. Holden is best suited to each. As the boys grow into up all over town with that afternoon's dinner.
Caufield has been expelled and young men, they discover in the other a lost And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself
will return home to Manhattan in spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the
four days. He has a physical fight world that neither had ever considered before. sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous
with a dormitory neighbor over Jane Gallagher, a In effect, they exchange places, and find the of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless
girl Holden has a crush on. He leaves the school peace that neither will ever retreat from again. approves of this match and follows its progress.
a few days early and checks into a Manhattan As the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator,
hotel without telling his parents. Each encounter Realistic Fiction and confidant, Will is privy to his one-armed,
is a frustrating misinterpretation with sexual renegade grandfather's second adolescence;
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Student Packet ISBN 9781561374502 $13.99 9781400034710 Chronicle of
a Death Foretold The Color of Water
Chinese Cinderella Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
A man returns to the town James McBride
Adeline Yen Mah where a baffling murder took
place 27 years earlier, deter- Level Z+ 1140L
Level Z+ 960L mined to get to the bottom of This is a story of Ruth McBride
In her own courageous voice, the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah
Adeline Yen Mah returns to Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Shilsky, the daughter of an
her roots to tell the story of Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her par- angry, failed Orthodox Jewish
her painful childhood and ents. Her distraught family forced her to name rabbi in the South, her son
her ultimate triumph in the her first lover; and her twin brothers announced James writes of the inner con-
face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for fusions he felt as a black child of a white mother
family considers her bad luck after her mother dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the and of the love and faith with which his mother
dies giving birth to her, and life does not get murder was going to happen, why did no one surrounded their large family. His mother, born
any easier when her father remarries. Adeline intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, in Poland, fled to Harlem, married a black man,
and her siblings are subjected to the disdain the less is understood, and as the story races to founded a church, and put twelve children
of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not through college. The result is a powerful portrait
stepsister are spoiled with gifts and attention. just a pair of murderers--is put on trial. of growing up, and a poignant, beautifully
Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they
are not enough to compensate for what she Mystery crafted hymn from a son to his mother. Memoir
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Alice Walker Alexandre Dumas Arthur Miller

Level Z+ HL670L Level W Level Z NP
Celie is a poor black woman Set during the post-Napoleonic
whose letters tell the story of 20 era, it recounts the swashbuck- Miller’s drama is a searing portrait
years of her life, beginning at ling adventures of Edmond of a community engulfed by
age 14 when she is being abused Dantes, a young sailor falsely hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of
by her father and attempting accused of treason. Edmund Salem, rumors that women are
to protect her sister from the meets an elderly priest in prison practicing witchcraft galvanize
same fate, and continuing over the course of her who educates him. Together the town’s most basic fears and suspicions; and
marriage to “Mister,” a brutal man who terrorizes they dig a tunnel. But, the priest dies before it is when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of
her. Celie eventually learns that her husband has completed. However, he tells Edmund about a being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and
been keeping her sister’s letters from her and the treasure on the Island of Monte Cristo. He uses townspeople insist she be brought to trial. The
rage she feels, combined with the independence the treasure to reinvent himself as a wealthy ruthlessness of the prosecutors and eagerness
provided by her friend Shug, and pushes her Count. The story of his long imprisonment, of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly
finally toward an awakening of her loving self. dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge illuminate the destructive power of socially sanc-
offers up a vision of France that has become tioned violence. Written in 1953, this is a mirror
Realistic Fiction immortal along with the theme of justice, mercy Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria
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Sharon M. Draper
Alan Paton
Level Z+ 820L Crime and Punishment
Stolen from her village, sold to Level Z 860L
the highest bidder, fifteen-year- Fyodor Dostoevsky A black pastor, Stephen Kumalo
old Amari has only one thing goes to Johannesburg to help
left of her own -- hope. Amari's Level Z his sister, Gertrude and to find
life was once perfect. Engaged The poverty-stricken student, his son, Absalom. When he
to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by Raskolnikov devises a theory gets to the city, Kumalo learns
her family, and living in a beautiful village, she about extraordinary men being that Gertrude is a prostitute
could not have imagined everything could be above the law, since in their and alcoholic. He learns that
taken away from her in an instant. But when slave brilliance they think “new Absalom has been arrested for the murder of
traders invade her village and brutally murder her thoughts” and so contribute to Arthur Jarvis, a white fighter for racial justice and
entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to society. He then sets out to prove his theory by son of his neighbor, James. Through reading his
a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she murdering a cynical old pawnbroker and her sister. son’s essays, James decides to take up his son’s
is bought by a plantation owner and given to his The act brings Raskolnikov into contact with his work on behalf of South Africa’s blacks. Absalom
son as a birthday present. Survival seems all that own buried conscience and with two characters— is sentenced to death for the murder of Arthur
Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimagi- the deeply religious Sonia, who has endured great
nable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to suffering, and Porfiry, the discerning official who is Jarvis. Historical Fiction
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of the Dog in the
Night-Time Sharon M. Draper Arthur Miller

Mark Haddon Level Z+ 670L Level Z+ NP
Still recovering from the Arthur Miller’s 1949 play is viewed
Level U 1180L suicide of her ex-boyfriend, by many as an attack on the
Christopher John Francis 18 year-old Keisha's thrilled to “American Dream” of achiev-
Boone knows all the countries have someone treat her like ing wealth and success without
of the world and their capitals and every prime a woman rather than a girl. regard for principle. It revolves around the last
number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals Twenty-three year old Jona- days of Willy Loman, a salesman, who cannot
but has no understanding of human emotions. than Hathaway makes her feel understand how he failed to win success and
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the color yellow. This improbable story of Chris- dreams and the cure to all her nightmares. Gifts of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons,
topher's quest to investigate the suspicious wrapped with silver ribbons begin to mysteri- and his business associates, we discover how his
death of a neighborhood dog makes for one ously appear on her doorstep, and Keisha is quest for success kept him blind to the people
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Edmond Rostand David Copperfield Robb White

Level Z+ Charles Dickens Level Z+ 990L
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XIII, Cyrano de Bergerac, one of Level Z+ Arthur Miller’s 1949 play is viewed
the most beloved heroes of the by many as an attack on the
stage, is a magnificent wit who, David Copperfield is the story “American Dream” of achiev-
despite his many gifts, feels that of a young man’s adventures ing wealth and success without
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because of his enormous nose. He adores the and impoverished childhood days of Willy Loman, a salesman, who cannot
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Christian woos the fair lady by providing him Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons,
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Roxanne is smitten—but is it Christian she loves Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey quest for success kept him blind to the people
Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous who truly loved him. It shows how character flaws
or Cyrano? Classics Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and and bad judgment caused his life to slip out of
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died of a brain tumor. During life invite all of us to examine our own lives and
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Downriver Edgar Allan Poe: A Fahrenheit 451 NOVEL UNITS CATALOG
Collection of Stories
Will Hobbs Ray Bradbury
Edgar Allen Poe
Level Z 760L Level Z+ 890L
No adults, no permit, no river Level Z+ Guy Montag is a fireman. In his
map. After fifteen-year-old Jes- Creator of the modern world, where television rules
sie gets sent to Discovery Un- detective story, and innovative and literature is on the brink of
limited, an outdoor education architect of the horror genre, extinction, firemen start fires
program, she and six compan- Edgar Allan Poe remains one rather than put them out. His
ions "borrow" the company's rafting gear and of America’s most popular and job is to destroy the most illegal
take off down the Colorado River through the influential writers. His tales and poems brim with of commodities, the printed book, along with the
Grand Canyon on their own. Floating beneath psychological depth, intensity, and unexpected houses in which they are hidden. Montag never
sheer red walls, camping on white sand beaches, flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology questions the destruction and ruin his actions
and exploring caves and waterfalls, Jessie and offers an exceptionally generous selection of produce, returning each day to his bland life and
the others are having the time of their lives--at short stories. It includes “The Murders in the wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her televi-
first. But when they're pursued by helicopters, Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter.” Also sion "family." But then he meets an eccentric
they boldly push on into the black-walled inner included are some of Poe’s poems such as “An- young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to
gorge, the heart of the Grand Canyon, only nabel Lee,” nightmare phantasmagorias such as a past where people didn't live in fear and to a
to encounter huge rapids, bone-chilling rain, “The Raven,” and his grand experiment in trans- present where one sees the world through the
injuries, and conflict within the group. What will ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of
be the consequences of their reckless adventure? lating sound into words, “The Bells.” Classics television. When Mildred attempts suicide and
Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Paul Zindel
Fallen Angels
Robert Louis Stevenson
Walter Dean Myers
Level Y Level Z+ NP
Mr. Utterson hears about a The old, converted vegetable Level Z+ 650L
violent man named Hyde. He shop where Tillie lives is more A coming-of-age tale for young
is disturbed that a friend, Dr. like a madhouse than a home. adults set in the trenches of
Jekyll, has made a will leaving his Tillie’s mother, Beatrice, is bitter the Vietnam War in the late
property to the same Mr. Hyde. and cruel, yet desperate for her 1960s. This is the story of
Utterson decides to investigate daughters’ love. Her sister, Ruth, Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the
Hyde. Then Jekyll isolates himself suffers epileptic fits and sneaks service when his dream of attending college falls
in his laboratory. Another friend of Utterson’s, Dr. cigarettes every chance she gets. Tillie struggles through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his
Hastie Lanyon, suddenly dies with which Jekyll to keep her focus and dreams alive. Tillie—true platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and
seems to be connected. One night, Jekyll’s butler believer in life, hope, and the effect of gamma the real horror of warfare. But violence and death
asks Utterson for help to deal with a stranger who aren't the only hardships. As Perry struggles
has killed Jekyll. They discover that the stranger rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds. Play to find virtue in himself and his comrades, he
is Hyde, who is dead and Jekyll is missing. After- questions why black troops are given the most
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This is the tragic tale of a man,
Dracula bound to the demands of his A Farewell to Arms
farm and his tyrannical, sickly
Bram Stoker wife Zeena, and driven by his Ernest Hemingway
star-crossed love for Zeena’s
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travels to Transylvania to do Ethan considers leaving his wife, but he lacks ambulance driver, Frederic Henry
business with a client, Count the confidence to rebel against the morals of his on the Italian front and his pas-
Dracula. After showing his true community. On the day of Mattie’s departure, sion for a beautiful English nurse,
and terrifying colors, Dracula they decide to take a final sled ride into a bulky Catherine Barkley. Their relation-
boards a ship for England in tree, so it will kill them instantly. The accident, ship grows while they he recuperates in Milan
search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters however, fails to kill them but paralyzes Mattie over the summer. By the time he is healed, Cath-
begin to occur in the streets of London before permanently and leaves Ethan barely able to erine is three months pregnant. Henry returns to
the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to walk. In the end, Zeena looks after them both. his unit, but not long after, he is captured, but
rest. The story continues with a group of hunt- escapes by jumping into a river. Catherine and
ers determined to end his existence before he Classics Henry flee to Switzerland where they live quietly
destroys a young woman’s soul. Told in a series of until she goes into labor. After a long and painful
news reports from eyewitness observers that has Individual Book ISBN 9780142437803 $10.00 labor, their son is dies. Catherine begins to hem-
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG The Fellowship of the Ring Flowers for Algernon A Gathering of Old Men

J. R. R. Tolkien Daniel Keyes Ernest J. Gaines

Level Z 860L Level Z 910L Level Z+ 650L
Sauron, the Dark Lord, has This is the beloved, classic Set on a Louisiana sugarcane
gathered to him all the Rings story of a mentally disabled plantation in the 1970s, A Gath-
of Power except one—the man whose experimental quest ering of Old Men is a powerful
One Ring that rules them all— for intelligence mirrors that depiction of racial tensions
which has fallen into the hands of Algernon, an extraordinary arising over the death of a Cajun
of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie farmer at the hands of a black
Young Frodo Baggins finds tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and
himself faced with an immense task when Bilbo changes his life. As the experimental procedure man. Realistic Fiction
entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must make takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until
a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered Individual Book ISBN 9780679738909 $15.00
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foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Fantasy importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581306866 $12.99
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August Wilson Set in New York at the turn of
the century, the story centers
Level Z+ NP Forged By Fire on a young couple and the sacrifices each
The protagonist of Fences, must make in order to buy the other a gift. It’s
Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a Sharon M. Draper Christmas Eve and Della has only $1.85 to buy
hard man. He has had to be-to her beloved husband a Christmas present. She
survive. For Troy Maxson has Level Z 780L has nothing to sell except her only treasure, her
gone through life in an America When his loving aunt dies, long, glorious hair. This warm story of love, sac-
where to be proud and black was to face pres- Gerald suddenly is thrust into a rifice, and generosity illustrate the true meaning
sures that could crush a man, body and soul. But new home filled with anger and
now the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of abuse. A brutal stepfather with a of the holiday. Short Stories
liberation in the 1960s... a spirit that is changing flaming temper and an evil secret makes Gerald
the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with miserable, and the only light in his grim life is Individual Book ISBN 9780486270616 $3.00
the only way he can...a spirit that is making him Angel, his young stepsister. Gerald and Angel Group Set ISBN 9781502027313 $64.49
a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never grow close as he strives to protect her from Class Set ISBN 9781502019318 $111.55
knew and to a wife and son he understands less Jordan, his abusive stepfather, and from their Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581309041 $12.99
substance-addicted mother. But Gerald learns, Student Packet ISBN 9781581309058 $13.99
and less Historical Fiction painfully, that his post can't be extinguished,
and that he must be strong enough to face The Glass Menagerie
Individual Book ISBN 9780452264014 $14.00 Jordan in a final confrontation, once and for all.
Group Set ISBN 9781502026972 $229.49 Tennessee Williams
Realistic Fiction
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Teacher Guide ISBN 9781605390123 $12.99 Amanda Wingfield always
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her a date. Tom invites Jim O’Connor home for
Mitch Albom Frankenstein dinner. Amanda does every thing to make Laura
look attractive. Laura realizes that Jim is the
Level Z+ 780L Mary Shelley same person she had a crush on in high school
Eddie is an old man who has and she doesn’t want to meet him. But, Laura is
lived an uninspired life. His job Level Z able to impress Jim with her quiet charm. When
is fixing rides at an amuse- Swiss medical student Victor they kiss, it looks as if Amanda’s plans might
ment park. On his 83rd birthday, he is killed as Frankenstein discovers the
he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. secret of life. He then puts come true. Classics
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nating the mysteries of his “meaningless” life, brother, and framing the family maid, the
and revealing the secret behind the question: creature tells his (admittedly) sad tale to Victor,
his “father”, and then demands a mate. Victor,
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The Good Earth The Great Gatsby Hamlet NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Pearl S. Buck F. Scott Fitzgerald William Shakespeare

Level Z+ 1530L Level Z 1070L Level Z+
Set in the pre-revolutionary Many consider The Great Prince Hamlet’s father, the king,
1920’s Wang Lung, rising from Gatsby the closest thing to the captured Fortinbras and his land.
humble Chinese farmer to Great American Novel ever Now that Hamlet’s father is dead,
wealthy landowner, gloried in written. It is the story of Jay Young Fortinbras wants his land
the soil he worked. He held it Gatsby and his love for Daisy back and is willing to take it by
above his family, even above Buchanan. Gatsby lives in the force. While Prince Hamlet is grieving, he is visited
his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the New York suburb of West Egg, where those with by his father’s ghost and gains an interesting in-
kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and “new money” reside. Gatsby’s mansion is right sight into his death. The king explains that he has
drought, pestilence and revolution ...Through this across the bay from the home of his wartime love, been a victim of a “murder most foul”; it appears
one Chinese peasant, his wife, and his children, Daisy Buchanan, pictured always in white. Gatsby his mother and uncle murdered him. Soon after
Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck traces the seeks to keep his illusion of Daisy as perfect. He the funeral they get married which angers Hamlet.
whole cycle of life, its terrors, its passion, irony, its uses his money, gained through illegal means, to The story is about Hamlet’s vacillating as to what
persistent ambitions and its rewards. Her brilliant do so, and uses his neighbor, Nick Carroway, to try to do about his father’s murder. However he does
novel—beloved by millions of readers through- to reach Daisy. The love of money as the root of surprise many with his persistence and insight.
out the world—is a universal tale of the destiny of
evil is a pervading theme. Classics Classic Shakespeare
men. Historical Fiction
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The Grapes of Wrath Grendel The Handmaid‘s Tale

John Steinbeck John Gardner Margaret Atwood

Level Z+ 680L Level Z+ 920L Level Z+ 750L
A portrait of the conflict The first and most terrifying In the world of the near future,
between the powerful and the monster in English literature, who will control women's
powerless, of one man’s fierce from the great early epic Be- bodies? Offred is a Handmaid
reaction to injustice, and of one owulf, tells his own side of the in the Republic of Gilead. She
woman’s stoical strength, the story in this frequently banned may leave the home of the
novel captures the horrors of the Great Depres- book. This  classic and much lauded retelling of Commander and his wife once a day to walk
sion and probes into the very nature of equality Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns to food markets whose signs are now pictures
and justice in America. This Pulitzer Prize-winning about humans and fights the war at the center instead of words because women are no longer
epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a
Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story month and pray that the Commander makes her
of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven Classic Adaptation pregnant, because in an age of declining births,
from their homestead by the “land companies” Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued
and forced to travel west to the promised land of Individual Book ISBN 9780679723110 $13.95 if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember
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Charles Dickens of Lemuel Gulliver, principally The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
to four marvelous realms:
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Pip is an orphan, alone in the Brobdingnag, a land inhabited by giants; Laputa,
world. Then his path crosses a wondrous flying island; and a country where Level Z+ 760L
with that of an escaped convict, the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses, The focus of the work is on John
and his life is never the same are served by savage humanoid creatures called Singer, a deaf-mute in a Georgia
again. From the decaying man- Yahoos. Beneath the surface of this enchanting mill town during the 1930s, and
sion of Miss Havisham and her fantasy lurks a devastating critique of human on his effect on the people who
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sensibility placed it squarely within the Southern
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Heart of Darkness; The Hound of the Baskervilles The House on Mango Street
The Secret Sharer
Arthur Conan Doyle Sandra Cisneros
Joseph Conrad
Level Z Level W 870L
Level Z+ Could the sudden death of Sir Cisneros, Sandra The House on
In Conrad’s haunting tale, Charles Baskerville have been Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Marlow, a seaman and wan- caused by the gigantic ghostly has been recognized by critics,
derer, recounts his physical hound which is said to have professors, and readers alike as
and psychological journey in haunted his family for genera- one of most important contribu-
search of the enigmatic Kurtz. tions? Arch-rationalist Sherlock tions to modern literature. This
Travelling to the heart of the African continent, Holmes characteristically landmark story collection relates the triumphant
he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position dismisses the theory as nonsense. Claiming to coming-of-age of young Esperanza Cordero
of power and influence over the local people. be immersed in another case, he sends Watson who finds her own voice and inner potential to
Marlow’s struggle to fathom his experience to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and to overcome the impediments of poverty, gender,
involves him in a radical questioning of not only and her Chicana-American heritage.
his own nature and values but the nature and observe the suspects at close hand. Mystery
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The House of the Scorpion
Hedda Gabler How the Garcia Girls
Nancy Farmer Lost Their Accents
Henrik Ibsen
Level Z+ 660L Julia Alvarez
Level Z+ NP Matteo Alacran was not Born;
Ibsen’s great social drama of a He was Harvested. His DNA Level Z+ 950L
caged woman in the late 19th came from El Patron, Lord of a It’s a long way from Santo
century explores her tormented country called Opium—a strip Domingo to the Bronx, but if
desire for escape and her yearn- of poppy fields lying between anyone can go the distance,
ing for individual and spiritual the United States and what was it’s the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunged
freedom. Hedda is an intelligent, spirited, and once called Mexico. Matt’s was from a pampered life of privilege on an island
self-absorbed woman with a dull but devoted first a cell split and divided inside a petri dish. compound into the big-city chaos of New York;
husband, an ardent ex-lover, and a lecherous Many consider him a monster. El Patron loves they rebel against Mami and Papi’s old-world
old judge hanging around her. Her manipula- Matt because Matt is himself. As Matt struggles discipline and embrace all that America has to
tions, instigated largely to spark her uninspiring to understand his existence, he is threatened
existence, result in a tragically un-tragic shooting by sinister characters, including El Patron’s offer. Realistic Fiction
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Victor Hugo
John R. Hersey
The House of the Seven Gables Level Z
Level Z+ 1190L This extraordinary historical
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima Nathaniel Hawthorn novel set in Medieval Paris
was destroyed by the first atom under the twin towers of its
bomb ever dropped on a city. Level Z+ greatest structure and supreme
This book, John Hersey's jour- Puritan Colonel Pyncheon symbol, the cathedral of
nalistic masterpiece, tells what steals prime real estate from Notre-Dame, is the haunting
happened on that day. Told Matthew Maule in the 17th drama shaped by a profound
through the memories of survivors, this timeless, century. Before his execution, sense of tragic irony. Feared and hated by all,
powerful and compassionate document has Maule cursed the Colonel and Quasimodo is looked after by Dom Claude
become a classic that stirs the conscience of his descendents. So after the Frollo, a stern, cold priest who ignores the poor
Colonel builds his house with hunchback in the face of his frequent public
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The Hunger Games The Iliad Inherit the Wind NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Suzanne Collins Homer Jerome Lawrence

Level Z 810L Level Z+ Level Z+ 850L
In the ruins of a place once Insulted by his king, the proud The accused was a slight,
known as North America Achilles decides to stand by as frightened man who had  de-
lies the nation of Panem, a his comrades are annihilated, liberately broken the law. His
shining Capitol surrounded but circumstances finally spur trial was a Roman circus. The
by 12 outlying districts. The the warrior to wreak savage chief gladiators were two great
Capitol keeps the districts retribution upon Troy. The battle legal giants of the century. Like
in line by forcing them all to between the Trojans and Achaeans stirs vendet- two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they
send one boy and one girl tas among the gods of Olympus. Soon, they too bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse.
between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in enter the fray which leads to an attempt to betray The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat
the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death Zeus himself. Woven among the battle scenes with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain
are the stories of the men and women caught themselves. At stake was the freedom of every
on live TV. Fantasy in the war: the Trojan prince Hector, who is torn
between duty and love for his wife and son; American. Play
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Lois Duncan Jon Krakauer

Level Z+ 760L In Cold Blood Level Z+ 1270L
Four teenagers who have Immediately after graduating
desperately tried to conceal Truman Capote from college in 1991, Christo-
their responsibility for a hit- pher McCandless had roamed
and-run accident are pursued Level Z+ 1040L through the West and Southwest
by a mystery figure seeking On November 15, 1959, in the on a quest like those made
small town of Holcomb, Kansas, by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In
revenge. Mystery four members of the Clutter fam- the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car,
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Individual Book ISBN 9780316098991 $10.99 blasts from a shotgun held a few of his cash. He would give himself a new name,
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and the investigation that led to the capture, presented. Craving a blank spot on the map,
I Know Why the trial, and execution of the killers, he generates McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leav-
Caged Bird Sings both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing ing behind his desperate parents and sister, he
empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends
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the brute insult of bigotry, Invisible Man
and the wonder of words that can make the world The Inferno
right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern Ralph Ellison
American classic beloved worldwide. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow Level Z 950L
Autobiography The nameless narrator of the
Level Z+ 1120L novel describes growing up in a
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nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Ironman Jane Eyre The Joy Luck Club

Chris Crutcher Charlotte Bronte Amy Tan

Level Z+ 980L Level Z Level Z+ 930L
Bo Brewster has been at war begins life as a lonely orphan In 1949 four Chinese women-
with his father for as long in the household of her hateful drawn together by the shadow
as he can remember. Angry aunt. Despite the oppression of their past-begin meeting
outbursts at school have she endures at home, and in San Francisco to play Mah
moved him dangerously close the later torture of boarding Jong, invest in stocks, eat dim
to expulsion from school so he turns to the only school, Jane manages to emerge with her spirit sum, and “say” stories. They call their gathering
adult he believes will listen: Larry King. In his and integrity unbroken. She becomes a govern- the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one
letters to Larry, he describes his quest for excel- ess at Thornfield Hall, where she finds herself of the members has died, and her daughter
lence on his terms. I’m going to be a triathlete, falling in love with her employer—the dark, has come to take her place, only to learn of
an Iron man. Relegated to Mr. Nak’s before- impassioned Mr. Rochester. But an explosive her mother’s lifelong wish-and the tragic way
school Anger Management group, Bo meets secret tears apart their relationship, forcing in which it has come true. The revelation of this
a hard-edged, pack of survivors like himself. It Jane to face poverty and isolation once again. secret unleashes an urgent need among the
is here he meets and falls in love with Shelly, women to reach back and remember.
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Julius Caesar
TEACHER GUIDE
GRADES 9-12 William Shakespeare

FEATURED TITLE COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM BASED LESSON PLANS Level Z+
Julius Caesar is murdered
ASTTUGrDReEANeDTEGSP9Ar-C1oK2wETs in Brooklyn early, so the play is really
about the conspirators and
Betty Smith the supporters of Caesar
and the struggle for power
A Tree Grows in that comes after his assas-
Brooklyn sination. The persuasion
of language (Marc Antony and his speech,
Betty Smith “Friends, Romans, Countryman/Lend me your
ears”) and the fickle nature of society are only
READ, WRITE, THINK, DISCUSS AND CONNECT a few of the themes that Shakespeare explores.
When Brutus and Antony each address the
Name ________________________________ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn crowd following Caesar’s death, Shakespeare
Activity #12 • Character Analysis demonstrates a universal truth that people can
be persuaded by words and are susceptible to
Use During and After Reading
a good propagandist. Classic Shakespeare
READ, WRITE, THINK, DISCUSS AND CONNECT

Characters With Character

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the name of one character from the novel who has this trait, and the name of a character
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considers The Jungle
consequences of
Upton Sinclair
actions

sacrifices for
others

listens to others Level Z 1170L
without pre- The Jungle centers on Jurgis
judging them Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant
working in Chicago’s infamous
is a good Characterization Packingtown. Instead of finding
person the American Dream, Rudkus
and his family inhabit a brutal,
Directions: In each oval, write an adjective that describes Francie’s personality. Then fill in soul-crushing urban jungle dominated by greedy
eachis dkiontdted rectangle with a detail about Francie that illustrates that part of her personality. bosses, pitiless con-men, and corrupt politicians.
It remains today a relevant portrait of capitalism
and caring at its worst. While Sinclair’s target was the indus-
try’s labor conditions, the public was most out-
ABrToroekelyGnrows in All rights reserved raged by the disgusting filth and contamination
in American food that his novel exposed. As a
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Kaffir Boy The Last of the Mohicans Life of Pi NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Mark Mathabane James Fenimore Cooper Yann Martel

Level Z+ 970L Level Z Level Z 830L
The classic story of life in Set against the French and The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel
Apartheid South Africa. Mark Indian siege of Fort William has an encyclopedic knowl-
Mathabane was weaned on dev- Henry in 1757, The Last of the edge of animal behavior and a
astating poverty and schooled in Mohicans recounts the story fervent love of stories. When Pi
the cruel streets of South Africa's of two sisters, Cora and Alice is sixteen, his family emigrates
most desperate ghetto, where Munro, daughters of the English from India to North America aboard a Japanese
bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were commander, who are struggling cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound
his rites of passage. Like every other child born in to be reunited with their father. They are aided for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself
the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to mea- in their perilous journey by Hawk-eye, a frontier alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena,
sure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Matha- scout and his companions Chingachgook and an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard
bane, armed only with the courage of his family Uncas, the only survivors of the Mohican tribe. Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger
and a hard-won education, raised himself up from But their lives are endangered by the Mangua, has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge,
the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to the savage Indian traitor who captures the sisters, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard
an American university. This extraordinary memoir wanting Cora to be his squaw. Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they
of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker
spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. Historical Fiction flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The
For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to
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Victor Hugo

Student Packet ISBN 9781561373826 $13.99 Level Z+
Les Misérables tells the story of
King Lear the peasant Jean Valjean—unjustly Like Water for Chocolate
imprisoned, baffled by destiny,
William Shakespeare and hounded by his nemesis, the Laura Esquivel
magnificently realized, am-
Level Z+ biguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Level Z+ 1030L
The King decides to break up Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust The classic love story takes
his kingdom between his 3 into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its place on the De la Garza ranch,
daughters based on how they poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel as the tyrannical owner, Mama
can show they love him. But tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of Elena, chops onions at the
his favorite daughter, Cordelia, hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, kitchen table in her final days
refuses so he banishes her. She igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in of pregnancy. While still in her
goes on to marry the King of France. So, his two mother's womb, her daughter
daughters, Goneril and Regan divide the land. France. Classics to be weeps so violently she causes an early
Later, Lear realizes that his two daughters who labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices
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die in the process. Classic Shakespeare throughout the story. Historical Fiction

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The Kite Runner A young man who returns to The Little Prince
1940s Cajun country to teach,
Khaled Hosseini visits a black youth on death row Antoine de Saint-Exupery
for a crime he didn't commit. To-
Level Z+ 840L gether they come to understand Level X 710L
This powerful first novel tells The narrator is a downed pilot in
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that are presented in The Kite Runner, are only a death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of
my pocket.” And so begins their dialogue, which
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Lord of the Flies Malcolm X: By Any Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
Means Necessary
William Golding Art Spiegelman
Walter Dean Myers
Level Z+ 770L Level Z+ NP
This is a story about a group Level Z+ 1050L A brutally moving work of art-
of English schoolboys plane- In this well-balanced and -widely hailed as the greatest
wrecked on a coral island. thorough biography, Myers graphic novel ever written-
At first, it seems as though it presents Malcolm X's violent -Maus recounts the chilling
is going to be fun; but then fight against racism within a historical context. experiences of the author's
life on the island turns into a There is a very useful chronology, with Malcolm father during the Holocaust,
nightmare of panic and death. X's lifetime on one side and events of the era on with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis
As they try to impose rules to maintain order, as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within
the group begins to break into two groups of the other. Biography a tale, weaving the author's account of his
savages. One group begins to follow Ralph and tortured relationship with his aging father into an
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collapses with them—the world of cricket, Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581308822 $12.99
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Level X 990L Thomas Hardy
John and Jenny had just begun
Macbeth their life together. They were Level Z+
young and in love, with a perfect little house A drunken hay-trusser, Michael
William Shakespeare and not a care in the world. Then they brought Henchard, sells his wife and
home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. daughter for five guineas to a
Level Z sailor. Henchard is overcome
Riding home from battle, Mac- Life would never be the same. Memoir by guilt and swears he will not
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out. After the awful deed’s been done, Macbeth Student Packet ISBN 9781608781171 $13.99 child return and suddenly, his fortunes decline.
goes mad, although he is also granted the title In the end, his rival Farfrae has his business,
’King.’ Evil and madness soon holds sway over The Martian Chronicles his house, and he even becomes the mayor.
both Macbeth and his lady’s will, and the king-
dom falls apart. The play chronicles Macbeth’s Ray Bradbury Henchard eventually dies. Realistic Fiction
seizing the Scottish throne and his subsequent
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empty cities of a vanished, devastated civiliza- The Merchant of Venice
Madame Bovary tion. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are
conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of William Shakespeare
Gustave Flaubert comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the
lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious Level V
Level Z+ 1030L native race. In this classic work of fiction, Brad- In The Merchant of Venice, the
Published in 1857, the novel bury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and penniless but attractive Bas-
tells the story of Emma Bovary, ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world sanio seeks, and finally wins,
a farmer’s daughter who, with the hand of the fabulously
girlhood dreams fueled by where man does not belong. Fantasy wealthy Portia. But even as the
sensational novels, marries a play provokes laughter, it also
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passion and excitement, but is unable to achieve Teacher Guide ISBN 9781581307924 $12.99 lender—the focus of anti-Semitic sentiment,
the splendid life for which she yearns. Instead, Student Packet ISBN 9781581307931 $13.99 and yet strangely sympathetic of Shakespeare’s
she finds herself trapped in a downward spiral characters, whose actions are still debated to
that inexorably leads to ruin and self-destruction.
Flaubert’s realistic portrayal of Emma’s marriage this day. Classic Shakespeare
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The Metamorphosis The Moves Make the Man My Antonia NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Franz Kafka Bruce Brooks Willa Cather

Level Z+ 1340L Level Z 1150L Level Z
“When Gregor Samsa woke Jerome Foxworthy -- the Jayfox Antonia Shimerda’s family
up one morning from unset- to his friends -- likes to think he moved to the prairie to have a
tling dreams, he found himself can handle anything. He handled better life and acquire wealth.
changed in his bed into a growing up without a father. He Antonia’s father asked Jim to
monstrous vermin.” With this handled being the first black kid teach her English and it started
startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly in school. The first time he saw Bix a life-long friendship and unspo-
funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, he was impressed watching him playing shortstop ken love. Jim never met anyone with the warmth
The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man at a baseball game. Bix Rivers was mysterious and of Antonia. Unfortunately, her father could not
who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle moody, but a great athlete. So Jerome decided face extreme poverty and tragically committed
like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his to teach Bix his game. But, it really started the day suicide. In order to support the family, Antonia
family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessen- when Jerome was playing hoops in the woods and left school to care for the farm. She was forced to
tially alienated man. It shows how Samsa doesn’t getting his moves down, when Bix showed up. perform farm labor and adapt to a hard existence
want to be burden to anyone and how he loves Jerome taught him all he knew. All he's got to do on the prairies. Enduring poverty, teenage seduc-
his sister. A harrowing—though absurdly comic— tion, and tragedy, she becomes a wife and mother.
meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, is learn the right moves. Realistic Fiction
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Student Packet ISBN 9781581307450 $13.99 Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare My Brother Sam Is Dead

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Level Z James Lincoln Collier

William Shakespeare Don Pedro’s army returns from a Level Y 770L
victory to Messina. Leonato, Mes- All his life, Tim Meeker has
Level V sina’s governor, agrees to let Don looked up to his brother Sam.
Demetrius and Lysander both Pedro’s army stay in his town for a Sam's smart and brave -- and
want Hermia but she only has week. Claudio, a young warrior who is now a part of the American
eyes for Lysander. Bad news is performed valiantly in the war, falls in love with Revolution. Not everyone in
Hermia’s father wants Demetrius Leonato’s daughter, Hero. While Claudio tries to town wants to be a part of the
for a son-in-law. On the outside win the heart of Hero, a warring couple, Benedick rebellion. Most are supporters of the British
is Helena, whose unreturned love and Beatrice, engage in a clash of wit. They both -- including Tim and Sam's father. With the war
burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia swear never to marry and persistently hate each soon raging, Tim know he'll have to make a
and Lysander plan to flee from the city under other. Claudio, with the help of Don Pedro, wins choice -- between the Revolutionaries and the
cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Hero and they are set to marry. Don Pedro comes Redcoats . . . and between his brother and his
Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enrap- up with the idea of trying to get Beatrice and
tured Helena). In the forest, Oberon and Titania Benedick to fall in love with each other. father. Historical Fiction
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Edith Hamilton
Agatha Christie
Student Packet ISBN 9781561375196 $13.99 Level Z+ 1040L
In the early nineteenth century,
Monster Level Z+ 640L an English nobleman embarked
Agatha Christie, the acknowl- on a tour of the sites of ancient
Walter Dean Myers edged mistress of suspense Greece. He brought as his guide
creator of indomitable sleuth a primer on Greek myths written
Level Z 670L Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian by his friend Lady Hestia Evans,
“Monster” is what the prosecu- detective Hercule Poirot, and so a devotee of Lord Byron. Lady Hestia’s book was
tor called 16-year-old Steve many other unforgettable char- illustrated with crafts and novelties, including a
Harmon for his supposed acters brings her entire oeuvre game featuring Olympians, an oak-leaf Zeus, a
role in the fatal shooting of a of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, Pandora’s box, the tale of Odysseus, a piece of
convenience-store owner. But and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks the Golden Fleece, a gold coin for the ferry on
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place at the wrong time? To calm his nerves as he brilliant detective hunting for a killer aboard one
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Native Son October Sky Of Mice and Men

Richard Wright Homer Hickam John Steinbeck

Level Z+ 700L Level Z+ 900L Level Z 630L
Widely acclaimed as one of the It was 1957, the year Sputnik tempered; slow witted Lennie
finest books written on race raced across the Appalachian is his opposite—an immense
and class divisions in America, sky, and the small town of man, strong but naturally docile,
this novel reflects the forces Coalwood, West Virginia, a giant with the mind of a
of poverty and hopelessness was slowly dying. Faced with child. Despite their difference,
that continue to shape our society. The main an uncertain future, Homer George and Lennie are bound
character, Bigger Thomas needs a job to support Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into by a vision: their own small farm, where they’ll
his family. He gets one as a driver for the Dal- outer space. The introspective son of the mine's raise cows, pigs, chickens, and rabbits. When
tons, a liberal, rich white family. He accidentally superintendent with a mother determined to they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas
kills the Dalton’s daughter, Mary in a moment get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell Valley, the dream at last seems within reach.
of passion and tries to frame her communist in with a group of misfits who learned not only But their hopes, like “the best-laid schemes of
fiancé for the murder and collect a ransom. But, how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated mice and men,” begin to go awry. The story
Bigger is brought to trial and convicted for the rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town unfolds with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy,
murder. It was the first time that a novel showed that swallowed its men alive. As the boys began as Lennie commits an accidental murder, and
the unvarnished truth of American social classes. to light up the tarry skies with their flaming pro- George must do what he can to make things
jectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the
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Hickams, would never be the same. Memoir
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Night The Odyssey The Old Man and the Sea
Homer
Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway

Level Z 570L Level Z+ Level Z+ 940L
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s The greatest adventure story A novella, The Old Man and
memoir Night, a scholarly, of all time, Homer’s Ancient Sea tells the story of an old Cu-
pious teenager is wracked Greek epic poem chronicles ban fisherman, Santiago, and
with guilt at having survived Odysseus’s return after the fall his long lusty struggle isn’t so
the horror of the Holocaust of Troy from the Trojan War much over one fish, but the act
and the genocidal campaign that consumed and the trials he endures on his journey home. of living—living fully, actively,
his family. His memories of the nightmare It is filled with magic, mystery, and an assort- robustly. It tells the story of an old Cuban fisher-
world of the death camps present him with an ment of gods & goddesses who meddle freely man and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, ago-
intolerable question: how can the God he once in the affairs of men. It is a sweeping story of a nizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the
so fervently believed in have allowed these great warrior who wanders the world, but also Gulf Stream. In the end, his prized catch is liter-
monstrous events to occur? There are no easy an intensely domestic tale of a loving husband’s ally eaten away by circling sharks. Hemingway is
answers in this harrowing book, which probes struggle to protect an enduring union with his known to write stories of courage, strength and
life’s essential riddles with the lucid anguish endurance in the face physical and emotional
only great literature achieves. It marks the faithful wife Poetry
crucial first step in Wiesel’s lifelong, passionate pain. Realistic Fiction
dedication to ensuring that the world never Individual Book ISBN 9780374525743 $14.00
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Sophocles
Charles Dickens
Student Packet ISBN 9781561378050 $13.99 Level Z+ 1010L
The tragedy of Oedipus, who
No Promises in the Wind unknowingly slays his father Level Y 320L
and marries his mother, is one Oliver Twist is the story of a
Irene Hunt of the mythical cornerstones of young orphan who dares to
Western civilization. Oedipus say, “Please, sir, I want some
Level Z 930L was the son of Laius and Jocasta. After an more.” After escaping from the
In 1932, 15 year-old Josh and oracle predicts that his son will kill him, Laius dismal workhouse where he
his younger brother, Joey Gran- arranges for his son to be left in the woods was born, Oliver finds himself
dowski are trying to cope with for dead. But a shepard finds him and he is on the mean streets of Victorian-era London
living during the depression. brought up by the King and Queen of a neigh- and is recruited into a gang of urchins. In this
The boys decide to leave their boring court. On a trip to Thebes to discover band of thieves Oliver encounters extraordinary
abusive and hunger-stricken his real parents he unknowingly argues with characters: the loathsome Fagin, the beautiful
home and hitch rides on trains. his father, the king, and kills him. After solving Nancy, the crafty Artful Dodger, and the greatest
They struggle to survive by trading work for the riddle of the Sphinx he is rewarded with villain of all time—Bill Sikes Rife. Though he is
food. With the help of Lonnie, a friendly truck his father’s kingdom and marries his mother. treated with cruelty his innocence leads him to
driver, Josh and Joey manage to find jobs and a
place to stay. Josh learns lessons about the im- Traditional Literature the discovery of his true identity. Classics
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The Once and Future King Othello Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

T. H. White William Shakespeare Victor Martinez

Level Z+ 1080L Level Z Level Z 1000L
The first part deals with the boy‘s Othello was written in 1603 about Dad believed people were
training to be king by Merlin the Moorish general of Venice, like money. You could be a
the Magician. The next chapter who earns the enmity of his ensign thousand-dollar person or a
shows him as the commander of Iago by passing him over for a hundred-dollar person-- five-,
the famous Knights of the Round promotion. Iago plots to convince one-, or even a penny person.
Table where Arthur formulates a Othello that Desdemona, his wife, has been Fourteen-year-old Manny
code of ethics; there is a section unfaithful to him. Iago attempts to break up the Hernandez wants to be more
dealing with his love of Guinevere and his disap- marriage and their lives by playing on their weak- than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme,
pointment in learning of her affair with Lancelot. nesses and the fact that Othello is of a different a guy people respect. But that's not easy when
He faces the irony and pain when he needs to racial background. Othello tragically smothers your father is abusive and your brother can't hold
use his own laws of justice to prosecute her. The Desdemona. Iago and Othello are both captured a job. In Manny's neighborhood, the way to get
last chapter culminates in the greatest tragedy. by the guards, but when Othello finds out that it respect is to be in a gang. But Manny's not sure
has been a lie started by Iago, he commits suicide. that is the solution. It's his life and he wants to
Fantasy decide what happens to it. We witness Manuel
Classic Shakespeare Hernandez's coming of age and his awakening
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Thornton Wilder
Ken Kesey
Level Y NP Peace Like a River
Level Z+ 1040L
The story of an Oregon mental It is a story focusing on George Leif Enger
hospital, focusing on the tyran- Gibbs, a doctor’s son, and Emily
nical Nurse Ratched and Randle Webb, the daughter of a newspa- Level Z+ 900L
Patrick McMurphy, the patient per editor in a small New Hamp- Young Reuben Land has little
who opposes her. McMurphy shire town. George and Emily meet in school doubt that miracles happen all
is a sane man who opted at his and marry. The last-minute apprehension Emily around us, suspecting that his
trial to be committed rather than do hard labor. and George feel about their marriage represents own father is touched by God.
He challenges Ratched’s authority and we see a universal theme of young people wanting to When his older brother flees a
it through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the mute grow up quickly while still craving childhood’s controversial murder charge, Reuben, along with
half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy’s relative certainty and security. Later, Emily dies his older sister and father, set off on a journey
attempt to resist the powers that keep them of childbirth and there is a dramatic graveyard that will take them to the Badlands and through
imprisoned. It shows the hopelessness of the pa- scene at the funeral where the dead observe the a landscape more extraordinary than they could
tients. The message is about the treatment of the have anticipated. Enger's novel is at once a heroic
mentally ill and that man controls his own destiny, living. Classics quest and a haunting meditation on the possibility
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Student Packet ISBN 9781581308402 $13.99 The Outsiders
Student Packet ISBN 9781608781195 $13.99
S. E. Hinton
Ordinary People
Level Z+ 750L The Pearl
Judith Guest In Ponyboy's world there are
two types of people. There are John Steinbeck
Level Z+ 600L the Socs, the rich society kids or
The Jarrets are a typical Ameri- greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't Level Z 1010L
can family. Calvin is a deter- so lucky. At least he knows what Kino, Juana and their infant son,
mined, successful provider and to expect-until the night things Coyotito, live in a house by the
Beth an organized, efficient wife. go too far. Ponyboy and his brothers struggle sea. One morning a scorpion
They had two sons, Conrad and to stay together after their parents' death, as drops bites little Coyotito. While
Buck, but now they have one. In this memorable, they search for an identity among the conflicting Juana cares for Coyotito, Kino
moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into values of their adolescent society in which they are takes their "treasured" canoe
their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain... "outsiders." Ponyboy has been proud of being a out pearl diving and finds a valuable, large pearl.
"greaser," until his friend Johnny kills a soc. The They suffer through an attempted robbery of the
and ultimate healing. Realistic Fiction murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his pearl, pearl buyers try to "bargain" with Kino,
world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels witnessing all kinds of greed. They have trouble
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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Persepolis : The Story The Poisonwood Bible The Princes Bride
of a Childhood
Barbara Kingsolver William Goldman
Marjane Satrapi
Level Z+ 960L Level Z+ 870L
Level Z+ 380L The Poisonwood Bible is a A tale of true love and high
Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis story told by the wife and four adventure, pirates, princesses,
is Marjane Satrapi's graphic daughters of Nathan Price, a giants, miracles, fencing, and a
memoir of growing up in Iran fierce, evangelical Baptist who frightening assortment of wild
during the Islamic Revolution. takes his family and mission beasts--The Princess Bride is
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with a modern storytelling classic. As Florin and
Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from them everything they believe they will need Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant
ages six to fourteen, years that saw the over- from home, but soon find that all of it -- from Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss
throw of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously of her true love, kidnapped by a mercenary
Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects transformed on African soil. What follows is a and his henchman, rescued by a pirate, forced
of war with Iraq. Persepolis is at once a story of suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undo- to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued
growing up and a reminder of the human cost ing and remarkable reconstruction over the once again by the very crew who absconded
of war and political repression. It shows how course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. with her in the first place. In the course of this
we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face dazzling adventure, she'll meet Vizzini--the
of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an Historical Fiction criminal philosopher who'll do anything for a
irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help bag of gold; Fezzik--the gentle giant; Inigo--the
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and school is a chore. They real character? Or has Elizabeth’s pride gotten awarded the New York Drama
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Rebecca The Red Pony Romeo and Juliet NOVEL UNITS CATALOG

Daphne Du Maurier John Steinbeck William Shakespeare

Level Z+ 880L Level Z+ 810L Level Z+
The second Mrs. de Winter ea- Raised on a ranch in northern
gerly accepts Maxim de Winter’s California, 10 year-old Jody is Romeo Montague and Juliet
offer of matrimony. The widower well-schooled in the hard work Capulet fall in love at a masquer-
sweeps her off her feet. The new and demands of a rancher's life. ade party. However, Juliet has been
bride accompanies her seeming- He is used to the way of horses, engaged to Paris, a nobleman.
ly devoted husband to Mander- too; but nothing has prepared With the help of Franciscan Friar Lawrence, Juliet
ley, his isolated home on the Cornish coast. From him for the special connection he and Romeo are secretly married. A fight and duel
the first, the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his break out among cousins of the feuding families
frightens the new bride with her chilling devotion father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, involving Romeo. Romeo escapes. Juliet fakes
to the dead first Mrs. de Winter, Rebecca. And, all Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly antici- her death using poison with the help of Friar
too soon, the second Mrs. de Winter realizes that pating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's Lawrence. But, Romeo believes it and swallows
Maxim married her for her youth, hoping to use saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers poison himself at her gravesite. Juliet awakens
her as a shield against Rebecca’s malignant pres- there are still lessons he must learn about the and kills herself when she sees Romeo has dead.
ence – an evil that threatens to destroy them from ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man. The families’ agree to recon ciliate after the loss
of their children.
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The Red Badge of Courage The Road Romiette and Julio

Stephen Crane Cormac McCarthy Sharon M. Draper

Level V Level Z 670L Level Z+ 610L
Bored with farm life Henry Flem- The searing, post-apocalyptic nov- Romiette is African American;
ing sets off to join the Union el about a father and son's fight to Julio is Hispanic. Ironically, Julio's
troops fighting the Civil War. An survive. A father and his son walk family relocated to escape gangs
inexperienced fighter, he is anx- alone through burned America. in his old high school in Texas only
ious to get into battle to prove Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the to find Cincinnati has them also.
his patriotism and courage. When ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, The two meet on the Internet and
suddenly thrust into the slaughter and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. go off to a private chat room before they realize
he is overcome with fear and runs from the battle. Their destination is the coast, although they don't they are students at the same school. With names
He is ashamed when he is wounded, for he has know what, if anything, awaits them there. They like these you feel they must have an ill-fated
not earned their “red badge of courage” and have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves ending. In keeping with the Shakespearean tale,
becomes enraged when he witnesses the death against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the they are destined to be together while peers and
of his friend. In an effort to redeem himself, he clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged family try to persuade them to part. But they never
begins to fight frantically, and automatically seizes food--and each other. The Road is the profoundly expect that the scented candle and tube of dream
the regiment’s colors in a daring charge that moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a ointment will live up to their promises and merge
proves him truly courageous. future in which no hope remains, but in which the Romiette's destiny with that of Julio Montague, a
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Somewhere in the Darkness
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character do? spinner using the circle below. Now play the following game with a classmate. (It is a good
idea to have a dictionary and thesaurus handy.) Place the papers in a small container. The
first player draws a word from the container. The player then spins the spinner and follows
the direction where the pointer lands. For example, if the player draws the word “enamel”
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accepts the answer as correct, the first player scores one point and play passes to the second
player. If the player’s partner challenges the answer, the first player uses a dictionary or
thesaurus to prove the answer is correct. If the player can prove the answer is correct, the
player earns two points. If the player cannot prove the answer is correct, the opposing player
earns two points. Play continues until all the words have been used. The player with the most
points wins.

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NOVEL UNITS CATALOG Rosencrantz & Running Out of Time Scorpions
Guildenstern are
Dead Margaret Peterson Haddix Walter Dean Myers

Tom Stoppard Level W 730L Level Z 610L
Jessie lives with her family in Jamal is a twelve year-old
Level Z+ NP the frontier village of Clifton, boy who lives in the inner city
Rosencrantz and Guil- Indiana, in 1840 — or so she ghetto. His father visits him
denstern are two minor believes. When diphtheria occasionally and his mother
characters from William strikes the village and the works all the time. Jamal feels
Shakespeare’s Hamlet who children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother like everyone is expecting
are friends of the Prince. The two characters reveals a shocking secret — it's actually 1996, things from him, his teachers, the kids at school,
appear on stage in this play while they are off- and they are living in a reconstructed village that even his dad. When his brother, Randy, is sen-
stage in Shakespeare’s play, with the exception serves as a tourist site under unseen observa- tenced to jail, his friend, Crazy Mack wants Ja-
of a few short scenes in which the dramatic tion by heartless scientists. In the world outside, mal to take over as leader of the Scorpion gang
events of both plays coincide. Hamlet, however, medicine exists and Jessie's mother is sending and run crack. Jamal doesn't care for drugs,
mocks them derisively and outwits them, so her on a mission to bring back help. But beyond but it will help save up money for Randy's
that they, rather than he, are killed in the end. the walls of Clifton, Jessie discovers a world even appeal. Jamal's life changes when he acquires
Thus, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’s more threatening than she could have imagined. a gun. Though he survives the experience, it's
perspective, the action in Hamlet is largely Now it's up to Jessie to save the lives of the dy- not without sacrificing his innocence and best

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Student Packet ISBN 9781581309157 $13.99 The Sea Wolf

Rules of the Road The Scarlet Letter Jack London

Joan Bauer Nathaniel Hawthorne Level Z+ 1020L
Humphrey Van Weydon's ferry-
Level Z 850L Level Z+ steamer, The Martinez, is res-
The trip of a lifetime. Jenna Roger Chillingworth arrives in cued by Wolf Larsen, captain
Boller can sell anybody New England to find his wife, of the seal-hunter, The Ghost.
anything. She's the best Hester on trial for adultery. For Larsen refuses to take him
employee at her branch of refusing to reveal her lover’s ashore. After being bullied,
Gladstone's Shoes. But her identity, she is condemned to Van Weydon does everything he's told from
family problems are harder wear a letter ’A’ sewn onto her clothes. With her that point on, including aiding and abetting
to handle, and there are baby, Hester faces the scorn of the town. Hester the Captain as he mistreats his crew. Larsen is
times when Jenna wishes she could just take supports herself as a seamstress and is helped a brilliant bully who invents sick games. Larsen
a break. So when Madeline Gladstone, the by Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister. Chillingworth reads Shakespeare, Robert Browning and John
elderly president of Gladstone Shoe Stores, notices that he is wasting away under his guilt Milton. Van Weydon is a rich coward. It turns
hires Jenna as her chauffeur for the summer, and that he is Pearl’s father. In this love triangle, out there is much to admire about Wolf Larsen.
Jenna leaps right into the driver's seat. And Roger torments Dimmesdale but Hester can say He fights off a mutiny. He tries to understand
that begins a cross-country adventure, where nothing because of her promise to Chilling- by reading. Van Weydon must battle a savage
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Rumble Fish The Scarlet Pimpernel The Secret Life
of Bees
S. E. Hinton Emmuska Orczy
Sue Monk Kidd
Level Z+ 680L Level Z
Rusty-James is the number one Sir Percy and Lady Marguerite Level X 840L
tough guy among the junior Blakeney are the darlings of Living on a peach farm in
high kids who hang out and 1792 British society—he is South Carolina with her harsh,
shoot pool at Benny's. He's one of the wealthiest men in unyielding father, Lily Owens
proud of his reputation, but England and a dimwit; she has shaped her entire life
what he wants most of all is to be just like his is French, a stunning former around one devastating, blurred memory—the
older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. Whenever actress, and “the cleverest woman in Europe”— afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily
Rusty-James gets in over his head, the Motor- and at the center of a deadly political intrigue. was four. Since then, her only real companion
cycle Boy has always been there to bail him out. The Reign of Terror controls France, and every has been the fierce-hearted, black woman
Then one day Rusty-James' world comes apart, day aristocrats in Paris fall victim to Madame la Rosaleen, who acts as her “stand-in mother.”
and the Motorcycle boy isn't around to pick up Guillotine. Only one man can rescue them—the When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest rac-
Scarlet Pimpernel—a master of disguises who ists in town, they take off toward a town called
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