Guided Reading
November 25, 2007
| Level S |
92 Bra
Freedman, Russell. Out of darkness : the story of Louis Braille. A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
92 Wil
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. On the way home : the diary of a trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894. Describes the sights and events a frontier family encounters travelling from South Dakota to the Ozarks.
398.2 Mar
Martin, Rafe. The rough-face girl. In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being.
633.6 Las
Lasky, Kathryn. Sugaring time. Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
793.7 Sac
Sachar, Louis. Sideways arithmetic from Wayside School. Contains over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.
798 Pau
Paulsen, Gary. Puppies, dogs, and blue northers : reflections on being raised by a pack of sled dogs. Minnesota author and dog musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth of his sled dogs as he and his animals discover the world around them.
799.2 Mar
Martin, Michael. Pheasant hunting. Describes the activity of pheasant hunting, its equipment, skills, and safety guidelines.
813 Pau
Paulsen, Gary. My life in dog years. The author describes how dogs have impacted his life from childhood through the present day, recounting the stories of his first dog, Snowball, in the Philippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
917 Mae
Maestro, Betsy. The discovery of the Americas. Discusses both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to America by the Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the Vikings, and such later European navigators as Columbus, Cabot, and Magellan.
975.3 Wat
Waters, Kate. The story of the White House. Text and photographs depict the history and trivia of the White House and its tenants.
977.1 Har
Harness, Cheryl. The amazing impossible Erie Canal. Describes the history and building of the Erie Canal in the early 1800s, and explains the effects of the canal on the developing nation.
E Bun
Bunting, Eve. How many days to America? : a Thanksgiving story. Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.
E Edw
Edwards, Pamela Duncan. Barefoot : escape on the underground railroad. In the forest, a group of animals help a runaway slave escape his pursuers.
E You
Young, Ed. Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China. Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.
Fic Avi
Avi. Poppy and Rye. When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
Fic Avi
Avi. Poppy. Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
Fic Bab
Babbitt, Natalie. Kneeknock Rise. Everyone else in the village is afraid of the creature who supposedly dwells at the top of Kneeknock Rise but young Egan investigates for himself.
Fic Bau
Bauer, Marion Dane. On my honor. When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Fic Ber
Berry, James. Ajeemah and his son. A father and his eighteen-year-old son are each affected differently by their experiences as slaves in Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.
Fic Bro
Brooks, Bruce. What hearts. After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
Fic Bru
Bruchac, Joseph. Eagle song. After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.
Fic Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer . Disappearing acts. Herculeah stumbles onto the trail of her friend Meat's long-lost father while she and Meat are investigating the disappearance of a dead body from the men's room of a comedy club.
Fic Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer. Dead letter. Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a second-hand coat.
Fic Bya
Byars, Betsy Cromer. Trouble River. When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
Fic Bya HS
Byars, Betsy Cromer. The pinballs. Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
Fic Dah
Dahl, Roald. Matilda. Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Fic Dor
Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl. Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
Fic Eas
Easley, MaryAnn. I am the ice worm. While traveling to visit her mother in the Arctic a California girl learns the meaning of hardship and survival when she is taken in by an Inuit family.
Fic Est
Estes, Eleanor. Ginger Pye. The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Fic Fle
Fleischman, Paul. Seedfolks. One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Fic Fle
Fletcher, Ralph J. Flying solo. Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.
Fic Fox
Fox, Paula. One-eyed cat : a novel. An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, and eventually assumes responsibility for it.
Fic Gau
Gauch, Patricia Lee. Thunder at Gettysburg. Fourteen-year-old Tillie becomes involved in the tragic battle of July 1-3, 1863.
Fic Gif
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily's crossing. During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Fic Hah
Hahn, Mary Downing. Time for Andrew : a ghost story. When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diphtheria.
Fic Hes
Hesse, Karen. Letters from Rifka. In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Fic Jam
James, Will. Smoky the cowhorse. Recounts the experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
Fic Jam
James, Will. Smoky, the cow horse. The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth on the range, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
Fic Kon
Konigsburg, E. L. From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.
Fic Lis
Lisle, Janet Taylor. Afternoon of the elves. As Hillary works in the miniature village, allegedly built by elves, in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother.
Fic Mac
MacLachlan, Patricia. Journey. Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.
Fic McA
McArthur, Nancy. The plant that ate dirty socks. Norman is always fighting to keep his half of the bedroom spotless and free from the mess on Michael's half. Then the appearance of two giant plants that eat litter solves the problem for a short while.
Fic Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Boys against girls. The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue.
Fic Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The boys start the war, and, the girlsget even. Wally and his three brothers declare war on the three girls who move into the house across the river. The three Malloy sisters try to get even with the four Hatford brothers.
Fic Nay
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. The Grand Escape. After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful, but dangerous outside world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries.
Fic Pat
Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
Fic Pat
Paterson, Katherine. The great Gilly Hopkins. An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
Fic Pat
Paterson, Katherine. Jacob have I loved. 1st ed. Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.
Fic Pau
Paulsen, Gary. The cookcamp. During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
Fic Pau HS
Paulsen, Gary. The voyage of the Frog. When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
Fic Ser
Seredy, Kate. The good master. Two cousins spend an adventurous summer on a ranch on the Hungarian plains.
Fic Slo
Slote, Alfred. Finding Buck McHenry. Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world.
Fic Spe
Speare, Elizabeth George. Calico captive. An Englishwoman, Miriam Willard, becomes a captive during the French and Indian War in 1754. After a harrowing march north to Montreal she discovers a city filled with the intrigue of war.
Fic Woo
Woodruff, Elvira. The orphan of Ellis Island : a time-travel adventure. During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.
Fic Wri
Wright, Betty Ren. The dollhouse murders. A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago.
