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The Tyrell Show

The Tyrell Show: Season One

Written by Miles Grose and Illustrated by Shaz Enrico Lym
RIF Summer Camp: Artistic Avenues Badge. Tyrell is convinced that sixth grade is going to be the greatest year of his life, but between a best friend acting strange, harder schoolwork, and a terrifying school show, things are not going according to plan.
3rd - 7th

The Banana-Leaf Ball: Guide for Families (Español)

The Banana-Leaf Ball: How Play Can Change the World printable Guide for Families provides hands-on...

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Wild River

Written by Rodman Philbrick
RIF Summer Camp: Reading Explorers Badge. One moment Daniel Redmayne is fast asleep, and the next, a failed dam is sending a wall of water straight toward his campsite. With their counselors gone and five kids completely alone in the Montana wilderness, survival becomes the only thing that matters.
4th - 8th
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The Banana-Leaf Ball: How Play Can Change the World

Written and Illustrated by Katie Smith Milway

Separated from his family when they were forced to flee their home, a young East African boy named...

3rd - 7th
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Greetings from Witness Protection!

Written by Jake Burt

The marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother, father, and son on the run from the...

4th - 6th
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition)

Written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer and Illustrated by Anna Hymas
RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When a devastating drought wiped out every crop his family had, fourteen year old William Kamkwamba refused to give up. Armed with nothing but curiosity and a stack of science books from his village library, he came up with an idea so bold that his neighbors thought he had lost his mind.
5th - 9th

The Crossover: Anticipation Guide

Use this Anticipation Guide before reading to activate students’ prior knowledge, build curiosity about the topic, and set a purpose for reading.

The Crossover: Frayer Model

Use this graphic organizer to deepen vocabulary knowledge.
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Maya and the Robot

Written by Eve L. Ewing
RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. What would you do if the perfect science fair project suddenly came to life? In this illustrated novel, a lonely fifth grader named Maya discovers a forgotten homemade robot just when she needs a friend the most. With her best friends in a different class for the first time, Maya is on her own, and this unexpected robot companion might change everything. Could a robot be exactly the friend she never knew she needed?
3rd - 7th
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Emmy In The Key Of Code

Written by Aimee Lucido
RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. Have you ever felt like you just don't fit in somewhere new? In this story, twelve-year-old Emmy moves to a new city and school, where she feels totally lost, until a coding class leads her to something unexpected.
4th - 7th
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Hello, Universe

Written by Erin Entrada Kelly
RIF Summer Camp: Reading Explorers Badge. Four very different kids wake up on what seems like an ordinary day, never expecting that by the end of it, their lives will be completely tangled together. When a cruel prank leaves Virgil trapped at the bottom of a well, the clock starts ticking, and the others must find the courage and determination they never knew they had.
3rd - 7th
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Solving for M

Written by Jennifer Swender
RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When Mika starts fifth grade, her perfectly ordered world gets messy fast, especially when her quirky math teacher assigns a journal that mixes numbers with art.
3rd - 7th
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Amari and the Night Brothers

Written by B. B. Alston

Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the...

3rd - 7th
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Baseball Saved Us

Written by Ken Mochizuki and Illustrated by Dom Lee

For a young Japanese-American boy sent to an internment camp during World War II, baseball becomes a...

K - 6th
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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

Written by Jean Fritz
"If only you'd been a boy," said Lizzie Cady's father when she won a prize for Latin. But Lizzie...
3rd - 7th

Hope in the Holler: Criss Cross

Answer clues based on the content and vocabulary words from Checked. Look for hints in the Word Bank...

Hope in the Holler: Word Search (Easy)

Look for vocabulary words from Checked. Circle or click on words across or down. You can print the...

Hope in the Holler: Word Search (Hard)

Look for vocabulary words from Checked. Circle or click on words across, down, or diagonally. You...

Hope in the Holler: Word Search (Medium)

Look for vocabulary words from Checked. Circle or click on words across or down. You can print the...
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Hope in the Holler

Written by Lisa Lewis Tyre

Right before Wavie's mother died, she gave Wavie a list of instructions to help her find her way in...

5th - 8th

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind (Young Readers Edition): Word Search

Look for vocabulary words from The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. Circle or click on words across, down or diagonally.
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The Crossover

Written by Kwame Alexander
RIF's 60th Anniversary Highlighted Book for 2015. "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I’m delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell.
5th - 7th
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Eat Your Vegetables! Drink Your Milk!

Written by Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, & Laura Silverstein Nunn

This book describes the components of a healthful diet and explains why eating these foods is...

3rd - 6th
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A Wrinkle In Time: The Graphic Novel

Written and Illustrated by Hope Larson
RIF Summer Camp: STEM Stars Badge. When three mysterious creatures sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin across space and time to rescue her missing father, they discover a darkness on the planet Camazotz that threatens the entire universe. characters.
5th - 9th

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