Guided Reading
November 25, 2007
| Level R |
92 Bar
Stevenson, Augusta. Clara Barton : founder of the American Red Cross. A biography focusing on the youth of the nurse who organized the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., in 1881.
92 Mit
Mitchell, Barbara. Shoes for everyone : a story about Jan Matzeliger. A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe industry in the late nineteenth century.
92 Ros
Wallner, Alexandra. Betsy Ross. An introduction to the life of the Philadelphia seamstress credited with sewing the first American flag.
92 Ros
Weil, Ann. Betsy Ross, girl of old Philadelphia. A biography of the woman who, at the request of General Washington, made our first flag.
92 Rut
Van Riper, Guernsey. Babe Ruth, baseball boy. A biography focusing on the childhood of the first great home run hitter in baseball history.
393 Ali
Aliki. Mummies made in Egypt. Describes the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.
551.6 Gib
Gibbons, Gail. Weather words and what they mean. Introduces basic weather terms and concepts.
597.959 Wel
Welsbacher, Anne. Komodo dragons. Describes the physical characteristics, habits, habitats, and hunting methods of this giant lizard.
598.944 Dea
Deady, Kathleen W. Hawks. Describes hawks, their habits, where they live, their hunting methods, and how they exist in the world of people.
623.7 Swe
Sweetman, Bill. Strike fighters: the F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. Introduces the F-18 Super Hornets, their missions, equipment, weapons and use in the military.
623.7 Swe
Sweetman, Bill. Combat rescue helicopters: the MH-53 Pave Lows.
Discusses the design and equipment of the specialized Sikorsky helicopter known as Pave Low and its use by the Air Force in military missions.
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Sweetman, Bill. Radar jammers: the EA-6B Prowlers. Introduces the EA-6B Prowlers, their missions, equipment, and use in the military as radar jamming escorts to other aircraft.
623.7 Swe
Sweetman, Bill. Jump jets: the AV-8B Harriers. Discusses the AV-8B Harrier, its uses, engine, weapons, and future in the U.S. Marine Corps.
629.13 Bur
Burleigh, Robert. Flight : the journey of Charles Lindbergh. Describes how Charles Lindbergh achieved the remarkable feat of flying nonstop and solo from New York to Paris in 1927.
813 And
Anderson, William. Pioneer girl : the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Recounts the life story of the author of the "Little House" books, from her childhood in Wisconsin to her old age at Rocky Ridge Farm.
932 Sab
Sabuda, Robert. Tutankhamen's gift. A brief biography of Tutankhamen, who became the pharaoh of Egypt at the age of ten.
978.02 Sul
Sullivan, George. Lewis and Clark. Recounts the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness, placing it in its historical context.
E Che
Cherry, Lynne. The great kapok tree : a tale of the Amazon rain forest The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.
E McK
McKissack, Pat. Mirandy and Brother Wind. To win first prize in the junior cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.
Fic Ban
Banks, Lynne Reid. The mystery of the cupboard. The longhouse -- Pouring the lead -- Tom -- The jewel case -- A funeral. After the family moves to a house in the country, recently inherited by his mother, Omri finds many secrets revealed to him when he accidently discovers the link between the house and the magic cupboard.
Fic Ban
Banks, Lynne Reid. The Indian in the cupboard. A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
Fic Bir
Birdseye, Tom. Just call me stupid. Terrified of failing and believing that he is stupid, a fifth grader who has never learned to read begins to believe in himself with the help of an outgoing new girl next door.
Fic Bri
Brink, Carol Ryrie. Caddie Woodlawn. The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
Fic Bun
Bunting, Eve. Nasty stinky sneakers. Will ten-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest?.
Fic Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer. The 18th emergency. When the toughest boy in school swears to kill him, twelve-year-old Mouse finds little help from friends and must prepare for this emergency alone.
Fic Cle
Cleary, Beverly. Strider. In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
Fic Cle
Clements, Andrew. Frindle. When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Fic Cle
Clements, Andrew. The Landry News : a brand new school story. A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
Fic Dah
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the chocolate factory. Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
Fic Dah
Dahl, Roald. The witches. A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Fic DeC
DeClements, Barthe. Nothing's fair in fifth grade. A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.
Fic DeF
DeFelice, Cynthia C. Devil's bridge. Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard.
Fic Dic
DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Fic Fle
Fleischman, Sid. Mr. Mysterious & Company. The adventures of a family of magicians traveling across the western deserts and plains in the 1880s.
Fic Fle
Fleischman, Sid. The whipping boy. A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
Fic Fle
Fletcher, Ralph J. Spider Boy. After moving to another state, seventh grader Bobby deals with the change by telling people at school made-up stories and then retreating into his world of pet spiders and books about spiders.
Fic Fle
Fletcher, Ralph J. Fig pudding. Cliff describes the excitement, conflict, and sudden tragedy experienced by his large and boisterous family during his eleventh year.
Fic Fri
Fritz, Jean. The cabin faced west. Ten-year-old Ann Hamilton finds herself to be the only girl and is lonesome but learns to appreciate her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania.
Fic Ham
Hamilton, Virginia. Zeely. Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.
Fic Hen
Henkes, Kevin. Sun & Spoon. After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
FIc Hen
Henry, Marguerite. Brighty of the Grand Canyon. A little burro roams the Grand Canyon, hobnobbing with geologists, artists, and map makers.
Fic Hen
Henry, Marguerite. Justin Morgan had a horse. An unusual work horse raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub" becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner, Justin Morgan.
Fic Hen
Henry, Marguerite. King of the Wind. Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
Fic Hen
Henry, Marguerite. Misty of Chincoteague. Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.
Fic Hen
Henry, Marguerite. Sea Star, orphan of Chincoteague. Many of the characters from Misty of Chincoteague appear in this story of a little orphan colt.
Fic Hen
Henry, Marguerite. Stormy, Misty's foal. A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her famous mother help raise money to repair the storm damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies on Assateague Island.
Fic How
Howe, James. The celery stalks at midnight. Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood.
Fic How
Howe, James. Nighty-nightmare. When scary strangers appear at the Monroes' overnight campsite, Chester the cat tries to convince the family's two dogs that foul play is intended.
Fic Hur
Birthday surprises : ten great stories to unwrap. Don't be an Uncle Max / David A. Adler -- Birthday box / Jane Yolen -- The special powers of Blossom Culp / Richard Peck -- What the princess discarded / Barbara Ann Porte -- Hattie's birthday box / Johanna Hurwitz -- Victor / James Howe -- Promises / Ellen Conford. A collection of stories about birthdays.
Fic Low
Lowry, Lois. Switcharound. Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.
Fic Low
Lowry, Lois. Your move, J.P.! Lovestruck J.P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control.
Fic Mac
MacBride, Roger Lea. Little farm in the Ozarks. Laura and Almanzo Wilder and their eight-year-old daughter Rose continue to work to make Rocky Ridge farm in Missouri their new home.
Fic Mac
MacBride, Roger Lea. Little town in the Ozarks. When drought and fire afflict Rocky Ridge Farm, eleven-year-old Rose Wilder and her parents temporarily move to Mansfield and try to adjust to a new life in town.
Fic Mac
MacBride, Roger Lea. Little house on Rocky Ridge. In 1894 Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, and her seven-year-old daughter Rose leave the Ingalls family in Dakota and make the long and difficult journey to Missouri to start a new life.
Fic Mac
MacLachlan, Patricia. Skylark. When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Fic Mac
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, plain and tall. When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.
Fic Mac
MacLachlan, Patricia. Arthur, for the Very Last Time. Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently.
Fic McK
McKissack, Pat. The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural. A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.
Fic McS
McSwigan, Marie. Snow treasure. The fictionalized story of the group of Norwegian children who helped Norway move its gold reserves to the U.S. during the German occupation by carrying bullion to the sea on their sleds.
Fic Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet. After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. The river. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet.".
Fic Pau HS
Paulsen, Gary. Brian's winter. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Fic Rob
Roberts, Willo Davis. Megan's island. First, eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.
Fic Roc
Rockwell, Thomas. How to eat fried worms. Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.
Fic Rod
Rodgers, Mary. Freaky Friday. A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.
Fic Sor
Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen. Miracles on Maple Hill. Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.
Fic Spi
Spinelli, Jerry. The library card. Mongoose -- Brenda -- Sonseray -- April Mendez. Collection of four stories in which the lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.
Fic Uch
Uchida, Yoshiko. A jar of dreams. A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
Fic Wal
Wallace, Bill. A dog called Kitty. Afraid of dogs since he was attacked by one that was rabid, Ricky resists taking in a homeless pup that shows up at the farm.
Fic Wal
Wallace, Bill. The Christmas spurs. Nick is changed by his younger brother Jimmy's slow death from leukemia, but a small private miracle at Christmastime helps him accept Jimmy's fate and go forward with renewed faith.
Fic Wal
Wallace, Bill. The backward bird dog. After having his nose scratched by a cat, pecked by a bird, bitten by a dog, and stung by a bee, J.C. the bird dog develops his own method for pointing quail that protects his delicate sniffer.
Fic Whi
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks). Charlotte's web. Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Fic Whi
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks). The trumpet of the swan. Knowing how to read and write is not enough for Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter Swan; his determination to learn to play a stolen trumpet takes him far from his wilderness home.
Fic Whi
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks). Stuart Little. The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.
Fic Wil
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The first four years. During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
