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"I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught."
-Winston Churchill

"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the mind of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail."
-Taylor Caldwell


"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
-Albert Einstein


Sunday, September 9, 2012

2012-2013 Reading

Eddie's Independent Reads:

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
Living Color by Steve Jenkins
The Girl Who Spun Gold by Virginia Hamilton
Some of Secrets of a Civil War Submarine by Sally M. Walker
DK Eyewitness Books Civil War by John Stanchak
Strange but True Civil War Stories by Nancy Clayton
GIC version of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
What Can You Do with Money? by Jennifer S. Larson
A World of Food: France by Kathy Elgin
Stranger Danger by Peggy Pancella
Monster Hunt: Exploring Mysterious Creatures by Jim Arnosky
There's a Frog in my Throat by Loreen Leedy & Pat Street
Sea Jellies: From Corals to Jellyfish by Sharon Sharth

Andrew's Independent Reads:

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
DK Eyewitness Books Civil War by John Stanchak
Strange but True Civil War Stories by Nancy Clayton
I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 by Lauren Tarshis
GIC version of The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
How Artists Use Color by Paul Flux
Forces Make Things Move by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart J. Murphy
Stand Tall Abe Lincoln by Judith St. George
It's Probably Penny by Loreen Leedy
From Eye to Potato by Ellen Weiss
A Puffin's Year by Katherine Zecca
Can Science Solve The Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster? by Holly Wallace
Maple Syrup Season by Ann Purmell
Electricians by Cecilia Minden

Read Alouds:

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Bartholomew Biddle and the Very Big Wind by Gary Ross
The Robber and Me by Josef Holub
I've Lost My Hippopotamus by Jack Prelutsky
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell


History Read Alouds:

At Her Majesty's Request: An Africa Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers
Shipwrecked: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg
The Life and Times of Giuseppe Verdi by Jim Whiting
The Union and the Civil War in American History by Mary E. Hull
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad by Marlene Targ Brill
Freedom's Gift: A Juneteenth Story by Valerie Wesley
When Harriet Met Sojourner by Catherine Clinton
Abraham Lincoln by Amy L. Cohn & Suzy Schmidt
Thomas A. Edison by Anna Sproule
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon by Paul Erickson
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Russian Revolution, October 25, 1917 by Paul Dowswell

Science/Health/Safety Read Alouds:

Fireboy to the Rescue by Edward Miller
Got Geography! Poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Book Club Books:

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Percy Jackson and The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan


Holiday Books:

When Mindy Saved Hanukkah by Barbara McClintock
The Hanukkah Mice  by Michelle Shapiro
Engineer Ari and the Hanukkah Mishap by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky
Hanukkah around the World  by Tami Lehman-Wilzig
Snowed Under and Other Christmas Confusions by Serge Bloch
The Berenstain Bears and the Joy of Giving by Jan & Mike Berenstain
Jake by Audrey Couloumbis
A Bad Kitty Christmas by Nick Bruel
Angel Pig & The Hidden Christmas by Jan L. Waldron
Elmer's Christmas by David McKee
The Christmas Giant by Steve Light
The Magical Christmas Horse by Mary Higgins Clark
Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer

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