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Help students explore their own identity through fiction, biographies, and autobiographies; and learn about different racial, ethnic, and cultural traditions through contemporary realistic fiction and historical fiction.

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Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to study individual states.

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Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to study individual states.

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Gary Paulsen, a three-time Newbery Honor winner, has written over 175 books for young adults and adults for over twenty years.

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A little angel has to think carefully and work hard as he tries to lead Dinah to understanding the values of generosity and honesty.

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Reproducible activity sheets based on quality children's books are designed as take-home assignments for children. Each sheet includes a book summary, discussion questions, and a list of engaging learning activities for adults and children that increase discussion, reading skills, and comprehension.

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Joan Bauer is one of the most popular young adult novelists today. Following an introduction to Bauer's work, and a biographical chapter, this volume examines each novel by breaking it down into sections on plot, characterization, setting, and themes.

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Laughter is an egg

with a crick-crack face

that can hide in the heart

of the human race.

Tummy tickling, rib-cracking and even wee-yourself laughs can all be found in the pages of this eggstraordinary collection of poems, riddles, jokes and ballads from the wonderful John Agard.

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The Little Angel of Honesty hopes to understand why Celine continually twists the truth so that she can help her and earn her wings.

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A new children's play that opened at the UK's Hampstead Theatre in December 2003.

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In this companion book to Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers, Ammon and Sherman describe 40 exciting, contemporary titles (20 for middle school, 20 for high school) written by outstanding authors.

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Presenting poetry as a source of pleasure and wisdom that cannot be found in prose, this book embraces student-centered, integrated teaching and learning.

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Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day, Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens.

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Private Peacefulby Michael Morpurgo,Aladdin and the Enchanted Lampby Philip Pullman,The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Darkby Jill Tomlinson, all adapted by Simon Reade.Three rites-of-passage plays for the young person in all of us, brilliantly adapted from the books of three best-selling authors.

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This book provides summaries of children's literature and nonfiction books related to rain, wind, snow, and sunshine. Discussion starters and student activities extend learning with books that range from simple picture books to full-length chapter books.

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Deliciously ghostly, startling, and downright scary scripts will make you and your students listen, ponder, shiver, chuckle, or even jump! Based on 30 folktales, myths, ghost stories, and legends, these reproducible scripts have been evaluated using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale and range from second to fifth grade levels.

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Part of a series that is designed to meet the needs of students encountering young adult literature for perhaps the first time, whether it be for a school assignment or just for more information about a favorite book and insight into its author.

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A collection of poems.

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A follow-up title to the best-selling "So Gross!", this is a collection of seven funny and revolting stories. Aimed at ages 7-14, it is intended for fans of cockroaches, vomit, boogies and turds.

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This book guides readers through these and other important Steinbeck works, particularly those that are most often taught, including The Pearl (1945), The Red Pony (1933), and significant short fiction.

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The book reflects many moods and emotions so that every reader will find something to their taste and discover the new and excitingly familiar as well as the classic half-remembered favourite.This outstanding collection includes work by renowned poets such as William Blake, Charles Causley, Percy Shelley, W.H.