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Age Range
8 - 12
Genre
historical fiction
Copyright Year
1995-01-01
Page Count
32
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Grade Level
3rd - 6th
ISBN
9780785780366
Lexile
860L

Letting Swift River Go

Written by Jane Yolen & Barbara Cooney
This book relates Sally Jane's experience of changing times in rural America, as she lives through the drowning of the Swift River towns in western Massachusetts to form the Quabbin Reservoir.
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Letting Swift River Go: After Reading Activity

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Letting Swift River Go: Discussion Guide

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Letting Swift River Go: Frayer Model

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Letting Swift River Go: Memory Match

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Letting Swift River Go: Word Search

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Letting Swift River Go: Criss Cross

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Age Range
8 - 12
Genre
historical fiction
Copyright Year
1995-01-01
Page Count
32
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Grade Level
3rd - 6th
ISBN
9780785780366
Lexile
860L
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