Reinforces both math and reading skills, stimulates critical thinking, and provides students with an understanding of how fractions can be used outside of the classroom.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 7 November 2011
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The Slave Dancer
Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him. He was to play music so the slaves could "dance" to keep their muscles strong, their bodies profitable. Jessie was sickened by the thought of taking part in the business of trading rum and tobacco for blacks and then selling the ones who survived the frightful sea voyage from Africa. Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up
This lively narrative shows all the fun things that young children can do at a park, including playground rides, riding bicycles, flying kites, playing with a ball and watching ducks in the pond. Readers is a multi-level learning-to-read program combining this publisher's highly visual style with appealing stories at four graduated levels. Stunning photographs and engaging, age-appropriate stories are guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.39 | Kids, Fiction literature | 6 November 2011
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The Borrowers
Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished Book--has stolen the hearts of thousands of readers since its 1953 publication. Mary Norton (1903-1993) creates a make-believe world in which tiny people live hidden from humankind beneath the floorboards of a quiet country house in England. Pod, Homily, and daughter Arrietty of the diminutive Clock family outfit their subterranean quarters with the tidbits and trinkets they've "borrowed" from "human beans.
