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  • Number the Stars Book Activities
    $3.00

    Lois Lowry’s Newberry Award winning book, Number the Stars, is a classic and a wonderful book to use to ‘delve deeper.’ This resource of book activities has been designed to do just that!

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  • By the Shores of Silver Lake Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder published in 1939, the fifth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, “The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods“. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1940.

    Interest Level: Grades 4 – 7 Reading Level: Grades 4 -6
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  • Fudge-a-Mania Book Unit – Judy Blume
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Peter Hatcher’s summer is not looking good. First of all, Peter’s brother Fudge—the five-year-old human hurricane–has a plan: to marry Peter’s sworn enemy, Sheila Tubman. Disgusting! Could anything be worse? Yes! Because Peter’s parents have decided to rent a summer house next door to the Tubman’s. Which means Peter will be stuck with Fudge and Sheila the Cootie Queen for three whole weeks!

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  • Little House in the Big Woods Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Little House in the Big Woods was Laura Ingall’s Wilder’s first book published and it inaugurated her Little House series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s.

    Interest: Grades 4 – 8 Reading Level: Grades 4 – 5

     

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  • Double Fudge Book Unit – Judy Blume
    $1.25

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Any fan of Fudge knows that he never does anything halfway. And so it should come as no surprise that when he discovers the value of money, he goes whole hog, making his own “Fudge Bucks,” and thumbing through catalogs to choose his birthday presents years in advance. His older brother Peter, who’s just starting 7th grade, finds it all highly embarrassing, as usual. A wild and wacky beginning to a new school year.

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  • The Giver (1994) Book Unit
    $2.00

    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

    About the book (Not included):
    The Giver is a 1993  novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. The society has taken away pain and strife by converting to “Sameness”, a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the community’s decision making. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him: whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is even possible to have one without the other. The Community lacks any color, memory, climate, or terrain, all in an effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 3 – 8
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  • Ramona the Brave Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    For a girl as enthusiastic about life as Ramona, starting the first grade should be easy! But with a teacher who doesn’t understand her, a tattletale classmate, and a scary dog who follows her on the walk home from school, Ramona has a hard time acting like the big girl everyone expects her to be. But when she shows up to school with a missing shoe, Ramona gets a fresh grip on her courage in order to make it through a mortifying situation.

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  • Superfudge Book Unit – Judy Blume
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    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Nothing is easy for 11 year old, Peter Hatcher. It’s hard enough to have an impossible little brother like Fudge, but now there’s a new baby coming. And if this baby is anything like Fudge, that’s it – Peter is moving out! Just when he thinks it can’t get any worse, Peter finds out that Fudge will be in kindergarten at the same school where he’ll be in 6th grade!

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  • On the Banks of Plum Creek Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, “The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods“. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938.

    Interest Level:
    Grades 3 – 7    		 Reading Level:
    Grades 4 – 5
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  • These Happy Golden Years Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    These Happy Golden Years written by Laura Ingalls Wilder is the eighth of nine books in her Little House series – although it originally ended it. It is based on her later adolescence near De Smet, South Dakota, featuring her short time as a teacher, beginning at age 15, and her courtship with Almanzo Wilder. It spans the time period from 1882 to 1885, when they marry. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1944

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 4 – 6

     

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  • Ralph S. Mouse Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Ralph’s pesky cousins are wrecking his motorcycle, and his janitor friend, Matt, is in trouble because there seem to be mice in the hotel. All in all things are not going well at the Mountain View Inn. So Ralph persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school. Ralph is an instant hit with Ryan’s classmates. But he doesn’t like being forced to run through a maze or the threat of an exterminator coming to the school. Worst of all, Ryan gets into a fight with a classmate, and Ralph’s precious motorcycle is broken. Is Ralph S. Mouse smart enough to steer this sad situation to a happy ending?

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  • Farmer Boy Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Farmer Boy written by Laura Ingalls Wilder was the second-published one in the Little House series. The novel is based on the childhood of Wilder’s husband, Almanzo Wilder, who grew up in the 1860s near the town of Malone, New York. It covers roughly one year of his life, beginning just before his ninth birthday and describes a full year of farming. Itescribes in detail the endless chores involved in running the Wilder family farm, all without powered vehicles or electricity. Young as he is, he rises before 5am every day to milk cows and feed stock. In the growing season, he plants and tends crops; in winter, he hauls logs, helps fill the ice house, trains a team of young oxen, and sometimes—when his father can spare him—goes to school. The novel includes stories of his brother, Royal, and sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 4 – 6
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  • Muggie Maggie Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    A curse on cursive! Maggie doesn’t really mean it when she vows never to read and write those wiggly, squiggly, roller-coaster letters. After all, she uses the computer. But everybody seems to be taking her revolt very, very seriously.

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  • Freckle Juice Book Unit – Judy Blume
    $1.25

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Nicky has freckles — they cover his face, his ears, and the whole back of his neck. Once, sitting behind him in class, Andrew counted eighty-six of them, and that was just a start! If Andrew had freckles like Nicky, his mother would never know if his neck was dirty.

     

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  • Dear Mr. Henshaw Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book
    Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw.

    After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever.

    From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

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  • The Long Winter Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    The Long Winter     is a historical fiction children’s novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1940, the sixth of nine books in her Little House series. It is set in southeastern Dakota Territory during the severe winter of 1880–1881, when she turned 14 years old. The novel was one runner-up for the Newbery Medal in 1941 (Newberry Honor Book).

    Interest Level:
    Grades     4 – 8    		 Reading Level:
    Grades     3 – 6
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  • Otherwise known as Sheila the Great – Judy Blume
    $1.25

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Is Sheila Tubman the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great? Or is she the secret Sheila, afraid of the dark, dogs, and swimming? Maybe this summer she’ll find out the truth.

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  • Little House on the Prairie Book Literature Unit | Laura Ingalls Wilder
    $1.50

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Little House on the Prairie was the third novel published in the Little House series, continuing the story of the first, Little House in the Big Woods (1932), but not related to the second. Thus, it is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of “the Laura Years”.

    Interest Level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading Level:
    Grades 4 – 5
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  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume
    $1.25

    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Fourth grader Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem – his little brother Fudge! The first in a very funny five book series.

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