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Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends

Written by David Holt & Bill Mooney
Have you ever heard the silly story about the woman whose beehive hairdo was sprayed so stiff that tiny creatures decided it would make a perfect home? Everyone seems to know someone who knows someone it happened to—though the details always get a little mixed up. That’s the magic of urban legends. They’re modern folktales, passed along as “totally true,” even though they always happened to a “friend of a friend.”
6th - 9th
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Ready-To-Tell Tales: Sure-Fire Stories From America's Favorite Storytellers (American Storytelling)

Written by David Holt & Bill Mooney (Editors)
Anyone who has ever watched a great storyteller hold a whole room spellbound—without costumes, sets, or music—has probably wondered how they do it. This collection explains the secret: it all starts with a really good story. And the 40 storytellers in this book know exactly what that means. They’re some of the most beloved tellers in the country, each sharing a tale that’s been tested on even the squirmiest, most hard‑to‑please audiences.
7th - 12th
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Ghost Stories from the American South (American Storytelling)

Written by W. K. McNeil (Compiler, Editor)
This collection of supernatural tales stands apart from most ghost-story anthologies: every narrative comes directly from the folk traditions of the American South. While many of the stories were gathered over the past twenty‑five years, their settings stretch from the days of the Revolutionary War to modern times. Most have never appeared in print before, preserved instead through generations of oral storytelling.
4th - 9th
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Walking on a Moonbeam...And Other Views from the Creek Bank

Written by Bill McDonald

Walking on a Moonbeam is a collection of poems written during the author's career as an engineer...

8th - 12th

Essay Graphic Organizer for High School

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Calvin: A Novel: Criss Cross

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Presenting Buffalo Bill The Man Who Invented the Wild West

Written by Candace Fleming
Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't...
5th - 9th

Day the President Was Shot: Memory Matching (Easy)

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Hitler's Last Days The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator

Written by O'Reilly and Bill
By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by...
9th - 12th
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Last Days of Jesus His Life and Times (Revised)

Written by O'Reilly and Bill and Illustrated by Low
Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked across Galilee; everywhere he traveled he gained followers. His...
4th - 9th
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The Day the President Was Shot: The Secret Service the FBI a Would-Be Killer and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan

Written by O'Reilly and Bill

Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing Reagan, with characteristically gripping...

9th - 12th
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Calvin: A Novel

Written by Martine Leavitt
Seventeen-year-old Calvin has always known his fate is linked to the comic book character from...
7th - 12th

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