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CURRENT LIST OF SECONDARY (6-12) LANGUAGE ARTS RESOURCES USED Northfield Public Schools September 26, 2011 Grade 6 Language Arts READING READING (continued) READING (continued) Novels: Novels (continued): Text/Anthologies: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Phoenix Rising (Have to look up the name.) A Long Way From Chicago Pinballs A Wrinkle in Time Rascal Across Five Aprils Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Teacher Resources: Banner in the Sky Running Out of Time (*5th) Trade Book Teacher Edition Birchbark House Sarah, Plain and Tall Resource Books – Novel Guides Bridge to Terabithia (*5th) Shades of Gray Chasing Vermeer Shane Cricket in Times Square (Amis.) Sherlock Holmes Mysteries WRITING Daniel’s Story Shiloh Dear Mr. Henshaw Sign of the Beaver Text: Dicey’s Song Soldier’s Heart Write Source Dog Song Sounder Rebecca Sitton Spelling Everything on a Waffle Summer of Swans Esperanza Rising (Amistades) The Breadwinner Grammar: Farewell to Manzanar The Cay Write Source Freak the Mighty The Giver Rebecca Sitton Friedrich True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Friendship and Gold Cadillac Tuck Everlasting Spelling: Gathering Blue Walk Two Moons th 6-8 List of Priority Spelling Words in Hank the Cowdog (*5 ) Westing Game Write Source Hatchet When the Tripods Came Rebecca Sitton Spelling How to Eat Fried Worms Wishgiver Incredible Journey Woodsong Lion’s Paw Island Far from Home Vocabulary: Island of Blue Dolphins Journey to Johannesburg Plays: Julie of the Wolves Teacher Resources: Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles Rebecca Sitton Spelling Little House on the Prairie Write Source Maniac Magee Short Stories: Max the Mighty Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Mud City Poetry: SPEAKING, LISTENING, AND My Side of the Mountain A Joyful Noise VIEWING Nimh (*5th) Poetry Out Loud Number the Stars Heritage Readers (Johnstone) Text: Olive’s Ocean On My Honor Painting the Dakota Nonfiction: Video/Audio Parvana’s Journey Core Texts: (Do not use at other grade levels.) Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES Biographies That Are Not Boring (Book Set): 1. Boy: Tales of Childhood 2. Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini 3. The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler 4. Life in Prison 5. Lincoln: A Photobiography 6. Restless Spirit: The Life and Word of Dorothea Lange 7. Within Reach 8. Zlata’s Diary Overcoming Adversity (Book Set): 1. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2. Crash 3. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie 4. Habibi 5. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 6. Maniac Magee 7. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind 8. The Silent Boy 9. Speak War Stories (Book Set): 1. Dateline: Troy 2. Dawn of Fear 3. Escape from Warsaw 4. Johnny Tremain 5. My Brother Sam is Dead 6. Parvana’s Journey 7. Rifles for Watie 8. The Secret of Sarah Revere 9. Soldier’s Heart 10. When My Name Was Keoko 11. Code Talker The Great Depression (Book Set): 1. Children of the Great Depression 2. Esperanza Rising 3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The New Deal President 4. Bud Not Buddy 5. A Long Way from Chicago 6. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 School Library Journal Best Books (Book Set): 1. Criss Cross 2. Heartbeat 3. I, Coriander 4. Ida B…And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, And (Possibly) Save the World 5. The King of Attolia 6. The Lightening Thief 7. The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Classroom Library for Grade 6/Page 2 GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES 8. The Sea of Trolls 9. To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel ALA Best Books (Book Set): 1. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 3. Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America 4. The Greatest: Muhammad Ali 5. Bodies from the Ash 6. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science 7. Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship of Essex 8. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World ALA Best Books – Fiction (Book Set): 1. Bucking the Sarge 2. Eagle Strike 3. Hoot 4. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 5. Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman 6. Surviving the Applewhites 7. The Teacher’s Funeral: A comedy in Three Parts Paired Texts – Environmental Studies (Book Set): 1. California Blue 2. Down to Earth Guide to Global Warning 3. Flush 4. An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming 5. The Race to Save the Lord God Bird 6. I Want to Be an Environmentalist Short Stories for Teens (Book Set): 1. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul 2 2. The Color of Absence: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope 3. Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy 4. The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain 5. Local News 6. Lost and Found: Award-Winning Authors Sharing Real-Life Experiences Through Fiction 7. My Dad’s a Punk: 12 Stories About Boys and Their Fathers 8. Odds are Good 9. The Scary Story Reader for Sleepovers, Campfires, Car and Bus Trips 10. Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird 11. Thirteen: 12 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror Book Source Singles: 1. Eleanor Roosevelt (Kem Knapp Sawyer) 2. My Life in Dog Years (Gary Paulson) 3. Martin Luther King Jr. (Amy Pastan) 4. Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable Journey (Mawi Asgedom) 5. The Man Without a Face (Isabelle Holland) 6. Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow (Susan Campbell Bartoletti) Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Classroom Library for Grade 6/Page 3 GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES 7. The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts (Richard Peck) 8. Surviving the Applewhites (Stephanie Tolan) 9. Rules (Cynthia Lord) 10. Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan) Miscellaneous/Other Reading: 1. Poems for Two Voices (Paul Fleischman) Miscellaneous Singles: 1. Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse) Booksource – Picture Serafine (Chris Van AllsburgCollections): 1. Bad Day at Riverbend 2. Jumanji 3. Just a Dream 4. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick 5. The Polar Express 6. The Stranger 7. The Sweetest Fig 8. The Widow’s Broom 9. The Wretched Stone 10. Zathura Booksource – Picture/Serafini: 1. Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak) 2. Caps for Sale (Esphyr Slobodkina) 3. Grandfather’s Journey (Allen Say) 4. The Eleventh Hour (Graeme Base) 5. Seven Blind Mice (Ed Young) 6. The Straight Line Wonder (Mem Fox) 7. Owl Moon (Jane Yolen) 8. Mean Soup (Betsy Everitt) 9. Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups 10. The Stinky Cheesman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Jon Scieszka) 11. Snowflake Bentley (Jacqueline Briggs Martin) 12. The Table Where Rich People Sit (Byrd Baylor) 13. Voices in the Park (Anthony Browne) 14. Tuesday (David Wiesner) 15. The Snowman (Raymond Briggs) 16. Black and White (David Macaulay) 17. There’s a Nightmare in My Closet (Mercer Mayer) 18. Cinder Elly (Frances Minters) 19. Yen-Shen (Ai-Ling Louie) 20. The Rough-Faced Girl (Rafe Martin) 21. Mufano’s Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe) 22. The Egyptian Cinderella (Shirley Climo) 23. The Three Questions (Jon Muth) 24. The Other Side (Jacqueline Woodson) 25. Scranimals (Jack Prelutsky) Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Classroom Library for Grade 6/Page 4 GRADE 6 CLASSROOM LIBRARY TITLES Miscellaneous Picture/Serafini: 1. I’m as Quick as a Cricket (Audrey Wood) 2. The Three Pigs (David Wiesner) 3. Yo! Yes? (Chris Rashka) 4. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (Jon Scieszka) 5. Elmer (David McKee) 6. Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse (Kevin Henkes) 7. Fly Away Home (Eve Bunting) 8. The Big Orange Splot (Daniel Poinkwater) 9. The Discovery of Dragons (Graeme Base) 10. Home of the Brave (Allen Say) Leveled Books: 1. Level Y (6-pack) Fiction Best Seller Collection 2. Level Y (6-pack) Nonfiction Best Seller Collection 3. Level U (6-pack) Fiction Best Seller Collection 4. Level U (6-pack) Nonfiction Best Seller Collection Benchmark Education: 1. Fractured Classics Set 2. Folktales, Myths, and Legends (Set B) The following titles were part of your classroom library list, but were cancelled and are not currently in print: 1. The Great Depression (part of the Great Depression Book Set) 2. Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash in 1929 (part of the Great Depression Book Set) 3. Gutsy Girls (part of the ALA Best Books Book Set) 4. China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution (part of Book Source Singles section) 5. Horace and Morris, but Mostly Dolores (part of Booksource/Picture/Serafini book group) 6. Changes by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 7. Bub, or the Very Best Thing by Natalie Babbitt (Serafini) 8. Zoo by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 9. Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti (Serafini) 10. Piggy Book by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 11. How Dogs Really Work by Alan Snow (Serafini) 12. Table Manners by Chris Rashka (Serafini) 13. Willy’s Pictures by Anthony Browne (Serafini) 14. Why the Chicken Crossed the Road by David Macaulay (Serafini) 15. Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch by Nancy Willard (Serafini) 16. Bright and Early Thursday Evening by Audrey Wood (Serafini) 17. Dinorella by Pamela Edwards (Serafini) Northfield Public Schools Updated 9/26/2011 Language Arts Teacher Resource Crates Grade 6 Resource 1. Guided Comprehension: A Teaching Model for Grades 3-8 (Maureen McLaughlin/Mary Beth Allen) 2. Guided Comprehension: Lessons for Grades 3-8 (Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen) 3. The Reading Workshop (Frank Serafini) 4. Lessons in Comprehension (Frank Serafini) 5. Around the Reading Workshop in 180 Days (Frank Serafini) 6. More (Advanced) Lessons in Comprehension (Frank Serafini) 7.