Guided Reading
November 25, 2007
| Level O |
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Fritz, Jean. What's the big idea, Ben Franklin? A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
92 Geh
Van Riper, Guernsey. Lou Gehrig: Boy of the sand lots. A biography of the Yankee player voted "the greatest first baseman of all time" by the Baseball Writer's Association.
92 Hou
Borland, Kathryn Kilby. Harry Houdini, young magician. A biography of Harry Houdini concentrating on his earlier years and the training that made him a master magician and escape artist.
92 Jef
Barrett, Marvin. Meet Thomas Jefferson.
92 Lin
Cary, Barbara. Meet Abraham Lincoln. Highlights the life of the man who was President during the Civil War.
92 McC
Stevenson, Augusta. Molly Pitcher; girl patriot. The girlhood of the Revolutionary War heroine who carried water to the fighting men and then, when her husband was overcome by the heat, took his place and fought in the Battle of Monmouth.
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Bulla, Clyde Robert. Squanto, friend of the white men. A biography of the Indian who went to London with some of the first English explorers, was sold into slavery in Spain, and finally returned to America where he befriended the Pilgrims when they landed.
508.315 Gib
Gibbons, Gail. Deserts. An introduction to the characteristics of deserts and the plants and animals that inhabit them.
523.7 Vog
Vogt, Gregory. Sun. Discusses the rotation, interior, surface features, atmosphere, and exploration of the Sun, including solar wind and the Sun's place in the solar system.
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Aliki. Fossils tell of long ago. Explains how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past.
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Holmes, Kevin J. Butterflies. An introduction to butterflies' physical characteristics, habits, behavior, and relationships to humans.
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Holmes, Kevin J. Zebras. An introduction to zebras, covering their physical characteristics, habits, food, and relationship to humans.
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Holmes, Kevin J. Rhinos. Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and endangered status of the rhino.
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Older, Jules. Cow. A light-hearted, informative look at cows: different breeds, what they eat, how they make milk, and an assortment of other facts.
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Brill, Marlene Targ. Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad. Recounts how Allen Jay, a young Quaker boy living in Ohio during the 1840s, helped a fleeing slave escape his master and make it to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
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De Paola, Tomie. The legend of the bluebonnet : an old tale of Texas. A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl's sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.
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Marshall, James. Rats on the roof and other stories. An illustrated collection of seven stories about various animals, including a frog with magnificent legs, a hungry brontosaurus, and a mouse who gets married.
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McKissack, Pat. Flossie & the fox. A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.
E Pat
Paterson, Katherine. The king's equal. In order to wear the crown of the kingdom, an arrogant young prince must find an equal in his bride. Instead, he finds someone far better than he.
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Rylant, Cynthia. Henry and Mudge : the first book of their adventures. Henry, feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and love in a big dog named Mudge.
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Rylant, Cynthia. An angel for Solomon Singer. A lonely New York City resident finds companionship and good cheer at the Westway Cafe where dreams come true.
E Van
Van Leeuwen, Jean. Going West. Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
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Yolen, Jane. Owl moon. On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
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Byars, Betsy Cromer. Tornado. As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
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Byars, Betsy Cromer. The not-just-anybody family. With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems.
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Cleary, Beverly. Beezus and Ramona. Four-year-old Ramona has an imagination that makes her a menace to everyone around her, particularly her older sister, Beezus.
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Cleary, Beverly. Henry Huggins. Henry Huggins picks up a stray dog, names him Ribsy and sets out on numerous adventures with him, including breeding hundreds of fish and collecting over a thousand worms.
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Cleary, Beverly. Henry and the clubhouse. Henry Huggins and his friends have problems when they hang a "no girls allowed" sign on their clubhouse.
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Cleary, Beverly. Henry and Ribsy. Before he can go fishing with his father, Henry must keep his dog Ribsy out of trouble for a month.
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Cleary, Beverly. Henry and Beezus. Henry Huggins, his dog Ribsy, and his friend Beezus, busy themselves with trying to earn enough money for Henry to buy a bicycle.
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Cleary, Beverly. Socks. The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household.
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Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the pest. Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.
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Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the brave. Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher.
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Cleary, Beverly. Ramona and her mother. Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family.
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Cleary, Beverly. Ramona and her father. The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
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Cleary, Beverly. The mouse and the motorcycle. A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.
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Cleary, Beverly. Ramona forever. Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.
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Cleary, Beverly. Ramona Quimby, age 8. The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.
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Cleary, Beverly. Muggie Maggie. Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her.
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Cleary, Beverly. Mitch and Amy. Nine-year-old twins Mitch and Amy quarrel and make up frequently during their year in fourth grade.
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Cleary, Beverly. Runaway Ralph. Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp.
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Cleary, Beverly. Henry and the paper route. When Henry wants to start a paper route, he receives unexpected help from his little sister, Ramona.
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Cleary, Beverly. Ralph S. Mouse. Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
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Dalgliesh, Alice. The courage of Sarah Noble. Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.
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Delton, Judy. Angel's mother's boyfriend. Ten-year-old Angel finds plenty to worry about when she learns that her mother's new boyfriend is a clown.
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Estes, Eleanor. The hundred dresses. In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
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Graeber, Charlotte Towner. Fudge. Chad's parents agree to let him take the puppy, Fudge, on a trial basis if he takes care of her.
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Hurwitz, Johanna. Class clown. Lucas Cott, the most obstreperous boy in the third grade, finds it very hard to turn over a new leaf when he decides to become the perfect student.
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Hurwitz, Johanna. The hot & cold summer. Two inseparable ten-year-old boys discover there is room in their friendship for another person and it really doesn't matter that she is a girl.
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Hurwitz, Johanna. A llama in the family. Because Adam hopes that the "big surprise" awaiting him at home has two wheels and pedals, he is unprepared for the unusual addition to his Vermont family.
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Lindgren, Astrid. Pippi Longstocking. Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.
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MacDonald, Betty Bard. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps mothers by curing the bad habits of sloppy, lazy, and precocious children.
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MacDonald, Betty Bard. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children, both good and bad. She never scolds, but has positive cures for children with special problems such as answering back or never wanting to go to bed.
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MacDonald, Betty Bard. Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby. The eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
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MacDonald, Betty Bard. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's farm. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it.".
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MacLachlan, Patricia. Seven kisses in a row. Emma learns to accept "different strokes for different folks" when her aunt and uncle come to take care of her and her brother.
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Park, Barbara. The kid in the red jacket. When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl in a nearby house.
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Park, Barbara. My mother got married : and other disasters, Twelve-year-old Charles experiences many difficulties in adjusting to a new stepfather, stepsister, and stepbrother.
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Thomas, Jane Resh. The comeback dog. Daniel, a Midwestern farm boy, finds a battered dog in a ditch and nurses it back to health, but is disappointed when the dog doesn't immediately respond to his gestures of affection.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The Camp out Mystery. While on a camping trip with their grandfather, the Alden children try to find out about the loud music and missing food that threatens to scare away other campers.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Blue Bay mystery. The Alden children find an unusual mystery when they spend a vacation on a supposedly deserted South Seas Island.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The mystery girl. While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The lighthouse mystery. In this story of the boxcar children, the Aldens get involved in questions about a boy's unusual behavior after they rent a lighthouse.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Snowbound mystery. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny become trapped in a cabin by an unexpected snowstorm, which turns into an even greater adventure when they help their neighbors, a baker and his family, recover an old family secret.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Schoolhouse mystery.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Surprise island. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny share a mysterious island for the summer with their grandfather.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Mountain top mystery. The Alden children solve a mystery and find long-lost treasure which belongs to an old Indian woman.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Mystery in the sand. A friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand are ingredients for the Aldens' latest mystery.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Bus station mystery. The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The deserted library mystery. At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The woodshed mystery. The boxcar children uncover a double mystery involving an old friend of Aunt Jane's.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Mystery behind the wall. A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Mike's mystery. Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Alden's uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged. The four youngsters must solve the mystery.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The haunted cabin mystery. The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The lighthouse mystery. In this story of the boxcar children, the Aldens get involved in questions about a boy's unusual behavior after they rent a lighthouse.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The Mystery at the Inn. While staying at an eighteenth-century inn in Vermont, the Boxcar children become curious about the mysterious "accidents" that keep plaguing the owners.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The mystery of the hidden beach. While visiting the Florida Keys, the Aldens encounter suspicious characters, strange incidents at night, and a plot to steal valuable coral.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The mystery bookstore. When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it up and discover that several people seem to be obsessed with the store and its contents.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The mystery of the missing cat. The mysterious disappearance of a reclusive neighbor's cat involves the Boxcar children in some complicated detective work.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The mystery of the stolen boxcar. The Alden children plan to ride in their boxcar at the Greenfield Founders' Day Parade, but the newly refurbished boxcar is stolen a couple of days before the big event.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Mystery in the cave. While exploring the caves around Dragon's Mouth Cavern, a series of unusual and somewhat frightening events convinces the Alden children that someone does not want them around.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The mystery cruise. While on a cruise with their grandfather, the Alden children help discover who is behind the mysterious troubles of the ship--disconnected phone lines, engine trouble, a man overboard--and still have fun sightseeing, eating, and swimming.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The disappearing friend mystery. At the same time that the Alden children's efforts to raise money for a new hospital wing are being sabotaged by nasty tricks, they find their attempts to befriend the new girl, Beth, frustrated by her strange behavior.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The pizza mystery. When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler, The mystery horse. When their grandfather arranges for them to spend two week at Sunny Oaks, the four Alden children enjoy settling into the routines of farm life but become suspicious about a mysterious horse locked in the stables.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Benny uncovers a mystery. Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The animal shelter mystery. The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The amusement park mystery. The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The mystery of the mixed-up zoo. The Alden children investigate various mix-ups at a zoo run by their grandfather's friend in an effort to save it not only from pranksters but also from the town council.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The yellow house mystery. The Boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. They untangle the mystery of the two houses.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Mystery ranch. Eccentric Aunt Jane needs help on her ranch so the Aldens, affectionately known as the boxcar children, get help from a private detective.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Bus station mystery. The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Caboose mystery. Describes the adventures of the Alden family as they ride across country in a caboose that has a strange history--or is it a mystery?.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. Snowbound mystery. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny become trapped in a cabin by an unexpected snowstorm, which turns into an even greater adventure when they help their neighbors, a baker and his family, recover an old family secret.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The boxcar children. Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar.
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Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The canoe trip mystery. While canoeing and backpacking near Timberwolf Lake, the Aldens receive strange warnings to stay away from the area and stumble upon clues to a missing cache of stolen coins.
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