Category: 6th-8th

  • 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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  • Holes (1999) Book Unit
    $2.00

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

    About the book (Not included):
    Holes is a 1998 novel written by Louis Sachar. It won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year’s “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children”. The story centers on an unlucky teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile corrections facility in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley’s life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as racism, homelessness, illiteracy, and arranged marriage.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 3 – 8
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