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The Wednesday Wars

Written by Gray D Schmidt

Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts...

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When Mischief Came to Town

When Inge Maria Jensen’s mother dies, the ten-year-old girl in braids is sent from Copenhagen to...

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball

Written by Jeff Kinney

Once the walls come down, all sorts of problems start to crop up. Rotten wood, toxic mold, unwelcome...

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My Father's Dragon

Written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and Illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett

When Elmer Elevator tells a stray cat about his dream of being able to fly, he learns of a captive...

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Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain

Written by Cheryl Bardoe and Illustrated by Barbara McClintock

The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to...

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Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom

Written by Teresa Robeson and Illustrated by Rebecca Huang

Meet Wu Chien Shiung, famous physicist who overcame prejudice to prove that she could be anything...

K - 3rd

A Ray of Light: Guide for Educators

A Ray of Light printable Guide for Educators provides suggestions for activating student thinking...

A Ray of Light: Guide for Families

A Ray of Light printable Guide for Families provides hands-on activities and ideas for extension...

A Ray of Light: Extension Activities for Educators

A Ray of Light printable Extension Activities for Educators provides interdisciplinary, extension...

A Ray of Light: Vocabulary Scaffold

A Ray of Light printable Vocabulary Scaffold pairs 9 challenge words from the book with short...

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What If You Could Sniff Like a Shark?

Written by Sandra Markle

If you could have any ocean animal's superpower, whose would you choose?

 

What if you woke up one...

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What Linnaeus Saw

Written by Karen Magnuson Beil

In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus’s life and career in readable...

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Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Written by Marc Aronson

On June 23rd, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the...

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Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary

Written by Rachel Swaby

In 1967, a girl known as Mighty Moe broke the women’s world marathon record at a small race in...

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Rowley Jeffersons Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories

Written by Jeff Kinney

Scare yourself silly with Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, the #1...

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Eye that Never Sleeps

Written by Marissa Moss

From award-winning author Marissa Moss comes the first children’s book about Allan Pinkerton, one of...

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The Eighty-Dollar Champion

On a bleak winter afternoon, Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman between the...

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Three Stars in the Night Sky

A 2018 Junior Library Guild selection At the age of 12, Gerda Katz fled Nazi Germany and came to...

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Black Hole Chasers

In Black Hole Chasers, award-winning investigative journalist Anna Crowley Redding presents the...

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Cy Young

Cy Young was one of the hardest-throwing pitchers of all time. He recorded three no-hitters...

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Magellan

On September 6, 1522, a horribly battered ship manned by eighteen malnourished, scurvy-ridden...

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Sports Illustrated Kids STATS!: The Greatest Number in Sports

Count up the most fascinating numbers behind sports' greatest moments in STATS! The Biggest Numbers...

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Bedtime Math: A Fun Excuse to Stay Up Late

We all know it's wonderful to read bedtime stories to kids, but what about doing math? Many...

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Proud

The inspiring and critically acclaimed all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and...

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