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The Five Themes of Geography
1. Location: Where is it? A. Absolute location: the point where 2 lines intersect (latitude & longitude, streets, addresses)
B. Relative location: where it is in relation to something else (north of.., across from.. etc.)
2. Place: What’s it like there? A. Physical characteristics (landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil, natural vegetation, animal life)
B. Human characteristics (population density, language patterns, religion, culture, political systems)
3. Human/Environment Interaction: What is the relationship between humans and their environment? A. How humans depend on the environment (basic needs: food, shelter, clothing)
B. How humans modify the environment (construct dams, plow & irrigate fields, dig mines, build houses, schools, and shipping centers)
C. How humans adapt to the environment (air conditioning in the southwestern U.S.)
4. Movement: How and why are places connected with one another? A. Transportation and communications systems (highways, rivers, air & ship routes, telephone lines)
B. People (ideas, food, language)
C. Physical Systems (wind, rain, weather)
QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. 5. Regions: How and why is one area similar to, or different from, another area? A. Physical characteristics: climate, landforms (the desert southwest, the peaks and valleys of the Rocky Mountains)
B. Human characteristics: economic & political systems, social & cultural concerns (Quebec, the South, Scandinavia)
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Browne, Vee. Monster Slayer. 1995. 0-87358-626-3 Two brothers go in search of monsters who haunt their people’s village. Navajo legend.
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QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. Bruchac, Joseph. Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear. 1993. 0-8167-3027-X. A collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various Indian nations.
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QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. Franklin, Kristine. The Shepherd Boy. 1994. As a young Navajo boy brings his family’s sheep home one evening, he discovers one is missing and sets out to rescue it before nightfall. 0-89-31809-X
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Garaway, Margaret. Dezbah and the Dancing Tumbleweeds. 1990. Dezbah’s dream is to become the first Navajo girl to win an Olympic Gold Medal but she is hit by a truck and finds that she is unable to walk. 0-9638851-2-X
The Old Hogan. 1985. 0-944936-00-8
Garcia, Santiago and Teresa Mayoral. Emiliano Zapata. 84-241-5391-X.
George, Jean Craighead. One Day in the Desert. 1983. Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert’s merciless heat.0-690-04341-4
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QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. Henry, Marguerite. Brighty of the Grand Canyon. 1953.
Hobbs, Will. Downriver. 1991. Jessie and her new companions are having the time of their lives floating beneath sheer red walls, exploring unknown caves and dangerous waterfalls, and plunging through the Grand Canyon’s roaring rapids. 0-44--22673-2.
Kokopelli’s Flute. 1995. 0-689-31974-6. Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American magic.
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Irbinskas, Heather.. How Jackrabbit got his Very Long Ears. 1994. Arizona author. Because he doesn’t listen carefully to what the Great Spirit tells him about each of the animals, he is supposed to lead to their desert homes, Jackrabbit causes much unhappiness with his careless answers to the animals’ questions. 0-87358-566-6
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QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. Kjelgaard, Jim. Desert Dog. 1956. 0-553-15491-5.
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QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. Soleri, Paolo. Arcology: The City in the Image of Man. 1973.
Soto, Gary. The Skirt. 1992. 0-44015-924-1. A light, engaging narrative that successfully combines information on Hispanic culture with familiar and recognizable childhood themes.
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Vick, Helen Hughes. Walker’s Journey Home. 1995. 1-5140-000-1 Still trapped in ancient times, fifteen- year-old Walker reluctantly accepts the responsibility of leading a group of Indians on a difficult and dangerous journey across the high desert country of northern Arizona to a new home on the Hopi mesas.
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QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. Geography Picture Trade Books Regions of the United States
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Borden, Louise. Just in Time for Christmas. 0590453556 A young boy, living in rural Kentucky, looks forward to the annual Christmas festivities, especially the traditional family cream candy; but, when his.favorite dog disappears, he comes to realize that tradition and family have a deeper meaning.
Costello, Emily. Realm of the Panther: A Story of South Florida’s Forests. 1568998481 In Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve, two hungry panther kittens go in search of food and succeed in their first hunt without their mother.
Giovanni, Nikki. Knoxville, Tennessee. 0590470744 Describes the joys of summer spent with family in Knoxville: eating vegetables right from the garden, going to church picnics, and walking in the mountains.
Hershey, Kathleen. Cotton Mill Town. 0525449663 A visit to Grandmama provides lyrical moments of peace and pleasure, picking huckleberries or catching tadpoles in the goldfish pond.
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys. 0689800762 In the post-Civil War South, a young African American girl is determined to prove that she can go to school just like her older brothers.
LeTord, Bijou. Picking & Weaving.
Littlesugar, Amy. Freedom School, Yes! 0399230068 When their house is attacked because her mother volunteered to take in the young white woman who has come to teach black children at the Freedom School, Jolie is afraid, but she overcomes her fear after learning the value of education.
McKissack, Patricia. Mirandy and Brother Wind. 0440840732
Rylant, Cynthia. Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds. 0440846854 When I was Young in the Mountains. 0525441980 The story of a very special Appalachian childhood, illumined with perceptively happy painting, evokes the love of a place, of a family, and above all, of a way of life.
San Souci, Robert D. The Boy and the Ghost. 0440843189.
Taulbert, Clifton. Little Cliff and the Porch People. 0803721749 Sent to buy special b utter for Mama Pearl’s candied sweet potatoes and told to get back lickety-split, Little Cliff is delayed by all his neighbors when they want to contribute their own ingredients.
Turner, Ann. Nettie’s Trip South. 0590427210.
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Albert, Richard. Alejandro’s Gift. 0590988638.
Anzaldua, Gloria. Prietita and the Ghost Woman. 0892391367 Prietta, a young Mexican-American girl, becomes lost in her search for an herb to cure her mother and is aided by the legendary ghost woman. (Eng./Span.)
Chandler, Mitzi. I See Something Grand. 0938216503.
Coles, Robert. The Story of Ruby Bridges. 0590439685.
Cordova, Amy. Abuelita’s Heart. 0689801815 Before returning to the city with her parents, a young girl walks with her grandmother, learning about the special feelings, places, and plants that are part of her heritage and the Southwestern desert where Abuelita lives.
Hayes. Joe. A Spoon for Every Bite. 0531094995 A poor husband and wife ask their rich neighbor to be godfather of their child, and once they are compadres, prey upon his pride and extravagance to trick him out of his fortune.
James, Betsy. The Mud Family. 0399225498 A drought threatens to force Sosi’s family to move from their canyon, unless she can bring rain with her dancing.
McLerran, Alice. Roxaboxen. 0590468235
Roessel, Monty. Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave. 0822597128
Webb, Denise. The Same Sun was in the Sky. 0873586026 A boy and his grandfather go hiking in the Arizona desert, where they observe the many rock carvings and imagine the lives of the Hohokam people who lived there in ancient times.
NORTHEAST
Bartone, Elisa, Peppe The Lamplighter. 0590205900 Peppe’s father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood.
De Angeli, Marguerite. Yoni Wonderrnose. 0440842867
Cherry, Lynne. A River Ran Wild. 044083385X
Cooney, Barbara. Island Boy. 0440840392
Demas, Corinne. The Disappearing Island. 06890539X To celebrate her ninth birthday, Carrie’s grandmother takes her boat to Billingsgate Island off Cape Cod, an island that is visible only during low tides.
QuickTime™ and a QuickDraw decompressor are needed to see this picture. Dionetti, Michelle. Coal Mine Peaches. 0531059480 Beginning with her grandfather’s boyhood in Italy, a young girl describes his arrival in the United States and the life he lived with her grandmother and their children and grandchildren.
Dodd, Anne Wescott. The Story of the Sea Glass 082724161 When Nicole finds a beautiful piece of red sea glass on the beach, her grandmother Nana tells her a story from her own childhood of a broken red vase, which may have been the origin of this seaglass. Includes information about sea glass and instructions for making a sea glass sun-catcher.
Holling, Clancy. Seabird. 0440841151.
Howard, Elizabeth. What’s in Aunt Mary’s Room? 0395698456 While visiting their Great-Aunt Flossie, two sisters get a chance to see what family treasures are stored in a locked room there.
Howard, Ginger. William’s House. 0761316744 Arriving in New England in 1637, William is determined to recreate his home in England but realizes that climate requires modification to it.
Lakin, Patricia. Hurricane. 0761316167 A girl and her father prepare their beach cottage for the coming hurricane, which topples their swing tree and washes away their stairs. Includes section of hurricane facts.
Lasky, Kathryn. Sugaring Time. 068971081X Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
Levinson, Riki. I go with My Family to Grandma’s. 044084218
Littlesugar, Amy. Tree of Hope. 0399233008 Florrie’s daddy used to be a stage actor in Harlem before the Depression forced the Lafayette Theater to close, but he gets a chance to act again when Orson Wells reopens the theater to stage an all-black version of Macbeth.
Locker, Thomas. Family Farm. 0803704895 A farm family nearly loses their home until they hit on the idea of growing and selling pumpkins and flowers to supplement their corn and milk sales (Not sure if this is Northeast?)
Maestro, Betsy & Giulio. Ferryboat. 0690945190 A family crosses a river on a ferryboat and observes how the ferry operates.
McCloskey, Robert. Blueberries for Sal. 670050024 Burt Dow Deep-Water Man. 0440840279 One Morning in Maine. 0140501745
McCully, Emily Arnold. The Bobbin Girl. A ten-year old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830’s, must make a difficult decision—will she participate in the strike? Myers, Walter Dean. Harlem. 0590543407
Provensen, Alice and Martin. Shaker Lane. 0670815683 When the town decides to build a reservoir on their land, the residents of Shaker Lane decide to move away rather than fight to keep their homes.
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Turkle, Brinton. Thy Friend, Obadiah. 0440848946
Uhlberg, Myron. Flying Over Brooklyn. 1561451940 Lifted by the wind, a boy flies over snow-covered Brooklyn and admires its winter beauty. Includes information about the 1947 Brooklyn snowstorm, the greatest in its history.
Wakefield, Pat and Larry Carrara. A Moose for Jessica. 0440845378
Waters, Kate and Madeline Slovenz-Low. Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan’s Chinese New Year. 05590430475
WEST
Bunting, Eve. Cheyenne Again. 0396703646 In the late 1880’s, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken to a boarding school to learn the white man’s ways.
Gifaldi, David. Ben, King of the River. 0807506354 Chad experiences a range of emotions when he goes camping with his parents and his fie-year old mentally disabled brother Ben, who has many developmental problems.
Hirschi, Ron. Seya’s Song. 0912365625 Using some traditional Clallam words, a young Indian describes the natural surroundings and activities of the Clallam, or S’Klallam, people through the seasons of the year. Includes glossary.
Lucas, Barbara. Snowed In. 0027614654 Snowed in for the winter at their Wyoming frontier home ion the early twentieth century and unable to attend school, Grace and Luke keep busy reading, studying, singing, and sharing stories.
Paulsen, Gary. Dogteam. 0440910617
Politi, Leo. Song of the Swallows. 0689711409
Scott, Ann Herbert. Cowboy Country. 0395575613 An “old buckaroo” tells how he became a cowboy, what the work was like in the past, and how this life has changed.
Stanley, Fay. The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka’iulani of Hawai’i. 0027867854 Recounts the story of Hawaii’s last heir to the throne, who was denied her right to rule when the monarchy was abolished.
Vaughan, Richard Lee. Eagle Boy. 1570611718 An Indian boy’s friendship with eagles ultimately saves his village in the Pacific Northwest from starvation.
Williams, Sherley Anne. Working Cotton. 0152996249 A young black girl relates the daily events of her family’s migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
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Goble, Paul. Death of the Iron Horse. 0689716869 In an act of bravery and defiance against the white men encroaching on their territory in 1867, a group of young Cheyenne braves derail and raid a freight train.
Moore, Yvette. A Prairie Alphabet. 0887763235
Polacco, Patricia. My Ol’ Man. 0590897500
Rounds, Glen. Sod Houses on the Great Plains. 823411621
Sanders, Scott. Here Comes the Mystery Man. 0027781453 The Goodwin family’s pioneer home is visited by the traveling peddler, who brings wondrous things and amazing tales from far away.
Sorensen, Henri. New Hope. 068813256
Stewart, Sarah. The Journey. 0374339058 A Young Amish girl tells her “silent friend,” her diary, about all the wondrous experiences she has on her first trip to the city.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Dance at Grandpa’s. 006023878X A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents’ house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Prairie Day. 0060259051 A little girl and her pioneer family travel westward to find a new home on the prairie.
Williams, Vera B. Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe. 0688803075 Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe.
Wittman, Patricia. Buffalo Thunder. 0761450017 When young Karl Isaac heads west with his family in a prairie schooner, he experiences many things but longs to see buffalo.
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