Category: Literature

  • Among the Farmyard People
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book. (88 pages)
    About the book: Introduces young children to the animals of the farmyard through a series of engaging stories about the sheep, chickens, cows, and horses that live there. With new animals arriving regularly, we make the acquaintance also of a pig and a peacock, as well as some ducks and guinea fowls. Each story closes with a gentle moral, inspiring children to right behavior.  Suitable to read to children ages 5 and up.

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  • Helen Keller Autobiography | The World I Live In
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book. (55 pages)
    About the book: Out of print for over a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller’s most personal and intellectually adventurous work—one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the pro-vocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of the works of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature.

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  • The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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    About the book: Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

    About the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.

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  • Memoir of Jane Austen
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    About the book: A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen’s many relatives.

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  • The Story of Glass
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book. (89 pages)
    About the book: Sara Ware Bassett (1872–1968) was a prolific American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels primarily deal with New England characters, and most of them are set in two fictional Cape Cod villages she created, Belleport and Wilton. This short fiction story cleverly tells the history of glass-making throughout the centuries via a group of fictional characters.

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  • Flower Fables | Louisa May Alcott
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    About the book: Flower fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 4, 1849. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written seven years earlier for Ellen Emerson.

    About the Author: Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys.

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  • Mark Twain – Literary Companion
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  • A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
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    Dickens’ best-known work of historical fiction, with over 200 million copies sold A Tale of Two Cities is regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

    • Interest Level: Grade 5 – Grade 12  ·
    • Reading Level: Grade 9
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  • The Deerslayer (Cooper)
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: This book was the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel’s setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking Tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the series. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking Tales.

    About the Author: James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of frontier and American Indian life in the early American days which created a unique form of American literature.

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  • The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat (Burgess)
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    This is a free downloadable book.
    Please note: This book has no illustrations.

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  • Life Cycle of a Ladybug - Beetle
    Life Cycle of a Ladybug | Science Learning for Young Students
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    This cross-curricular (Science / Literacy – Writing ) product will have students creating their very own mini-books detailing the life cycle of a ladybug!

    Knowledge students will learn: The book will begin by identifying a ladybug as a beetle. The students will then learn that the mother ladybug lays tiny yellow eggs in clusters under a leaf and continues as the larva hatches and begins to eat. What do ladybugs eat? Students will find out! They will also learn what the ladybug pupa looks like before attaching itself to a leaf for changes to begin. Finally, an adult ladybug will emerge!

    Students will:— read the text — draw a picture — write (copy) the written text

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  • Biographical Memoir of Alexander Graham Bell
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book. (30 pages)
    Excerpt from the book: Alexander Graham Bell – teacher, scientist, inventor, gentleman – was one whose life was devoted to the benefit of mankind with unusual success. Known throughout the world as the inventor of the telephone, he also made other inventions and scientific discovers of first importance, greatly advanced the methods and practices for teach the deaf and came to be admired and loved throughout the world for his accuracy of thought and expression.

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  • The Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Carroll)
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    About the book: A poem typically categorized as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll’s earlier poem “Jabberwocky” in his children’s novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

    About the Author: Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. (Lewis Carroll is a pen name – Given name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

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  • Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
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    About the book: The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty’s life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell’s detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behavior lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.

    About the Author:  Anna Sewell was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, which is now considered one of the top ten bestselling novels for children ever written, although it was intended at the time for an adult audience.

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  • Arthur Miller – Biography and Literary Analysis
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    Biography & Literary Analysis – Arthur Miller
    517 pages

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  • The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting)
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: The Story of Doctor Dolittle, (Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts) (1920), written and illustrated by the British author Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children’s novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the film Doctor Dolittle.

    About the Author: Hugh John Lofting was an English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children’s character of Doctor Dolittle. Dolittle first appeared in Lofting’s illustrated letters to his children, written from the British Army trenches in World War I. He travelled widely as a civil engineer, before enlisting in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army to serve in the First World War. Not wishing to write to his children about the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters which later became the foundation of the successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children.

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  • Daniel Boone – The Pioneer of Kentucky
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    Daniel Boone is regarded as the first real American folk hero. Without his cunning bravery, settlement west of the Appalachians may not have been made possible for years. Boone’s Wilderness Road, which is still used today, helped bridge the Cumberland Gap, granting access to the state of Kentucky from Pennsylvania.

    Thanks to the writing of John S. C. Abbot, the life and genius of Boone can truly be appreciated through Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky. Find out just how Boone crafted his Wilderness Trail, what he did to make it happen, and how he overcame the struggles of life in late eighteenth century America.

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  • Winter Reading and Writing Unit for 1st & 2nd Grades
    $4.00

    This Winter Reading and Writing resource (with a “Read it! Draw it! Write it!” section) has a variety of pages (and a variety of skills) that you can use in reading and writing centers, as mini-lessons, seat work for early finishers or as homework. Perfect to use in December, January, February and into March!

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  • The Odyssey – Homer
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer’s life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary.

    About the Author: Homer is the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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  • Fox in Socks (Dr. Seuss) Resource
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    4 page resource to be used alongside the book, Fox in Socks, by Dr. Seuss.

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