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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt

Adler, David A. .


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 138 pg. A portrait of the man who grew from a sickly child into a passionate conservationist, skilled outdoors man, and Nobel Peace Prize-winning mediator, as well as one of the U.S.'s most colorful and energetic presidents. 2015 NCSS. Interest level: 5-8. Reading level: 5.2.
Date Published:2014

Freefall

Gordon, Roderick.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 599 pg. As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
Date Published:2010

Neville

Juster, Norton, 1929-


books: trade/library, Primary - Intermediate, unpaged . When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
Date Published:2011

Rain forest

Macdonald, Fiona.


Originally published: Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1994, in series: New view. books: trade/library, Intermediate, 32 pg . Portrays all the various parts of the rain forest and its animal and human inhabitants.
Date Published:2000

Love, Aubrey

LaFleur, Suzanne M.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 262 pg. While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Date Published:2009

Fly high, fly guy!

Arnold, Tedd,


books: trade/library, Primary, 30 pg. When Buzz, his parents, and his pet fly go on a road trip and get lost, Fly Guy comes to the rescue to help them find their way home.
Date Published:2008

Othello

Appignanesi, Richard.


books: graphic novels, Junior High - Senior High, 207 pg, Paperback . When Othello's fellow soldier Iago starts filling his head with rumors of his wife Desdemona's infidelity, Othello begins down the path of his own destruction. Presented in comic book format.
Date Published:2009

5th grade, financial literacy set


Study Kits / Multi-Media, Intermediate. Iowa schools are expected to implement the revised financial literacy standards as approved as both 21st Century Skills and Social Studies skills in 2017. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach worked with Iowa classroom teachers to develop, pilot test and publish lesson plans with accompanying storybooks and have provided these materials to AEAs to circulate out to Iowa schools for grades K - 5. Contains: 1-Lesson plan booklet, 4-books: Gabriel gets a great deal; Uncle Willie and the soup kitchen; Protecting personal information; My rows and piles of coins.
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Study Kits / Multi-Media, Intermediate. Iowa schools are expected to implement the revised financial literacy standards as approved as both 21st Century Skills and Social Studies skills in 2017. Iowa State University Extension and Outreach worked with Iowa classroom teachers to develop, pilot test and publish lesson plans with accompanying storybooks and have provided these materials to AEAs to circulate out to Iowa schools for grades K - 5. Contains: 1-Lesson plan booklet, 4-books: Gabriel gets a great deal; Uncle Willie and the soup kitchen; Protecting personal information; My rows and piles of coins.

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Curious George in the snow

Rey, H.A. .


books: trade/library, Primary, 24 pg. A curious monkey causes quite a commotion on the ski slopes.
Date Published:1998

Mao's last dancer

Li, Cunxin, 1961-


"First published in Australia in 2003 by Penguin Books Australia." books: trade/library, Junior High - Senior High, 290 pg . Kirkus Review, July 2008. Library Media Connection, August 2008. Multicultural Review, September 2008. School Library Journal, September 2008. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2008. Li Cunxin, a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet and Australian Ballet, explains how his childhood of poverty in rural China changed when he was selected by Madame Mao to attend the dance academy in Beijing, tells how his devotion to Communist philosophy was shaken during his first visit to the U.S. as part of an exchange program with the Houston Ballet, and discusses his eventual defection to the West.
Date Published:2008

"First published in Australia in 2003 by Penguin Books Australia." books: trade/library, Junior High - Senior High, 290 pg . Kirkus Review, July 2008. Library Media Connection, August 2008. Multicultural Review, September 2008. School Library Journal, September 2008. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2008. Li Cunxin, a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet and Australian Ballet, explains how his childhood of poverty in rural China changed when he was selected by Madame Mao to attend the dance academy in Beijing, tells how his devotion to Communist philosophy was shaken during his first visit to the U.S. as part of an exchange program with the Houston Ballet, and discusses his eventual defection to the West.

Date Published:2008

Rapunzel's revenge

Hale, Shannon.


books: graphic novels, Intermediate - Junior High, 144 pg . Booklist, September 2008. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2008. Kirkus Review, August 2008. Publisher's Weekly, August 2008. School Library Journal Starred, September 2008. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2008. Rapunzel, having grown up in a lovely castle with the woman she thought was her mother, is placed in a very tall hollow tree as punishment after her curiousity prompts her to climb the castle wall and look at the ruin of the world beyond her home, but she is able to escape and with the help of Jack, embarks on a plan to free the land from the grip of the witch.
Date Published:2008

books: graphic novels, Intermediate - Junior High, 144 pg . Booklist, September 2008. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2008. Kirkus Review, August 2008. Publisher's Weekly, August 2008. School Library Journal Starred, September 2008. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2008. Rapunzel, having grown up in a lovely castle with the woman she thought was her mother, is placed in a very tall hollow tree as punishment after her curiousity prompts her to climb the castle wall and look at the ruin of the world beyond her home, but she is able to escape and with the help of Jack, embarks on a plan to free the land from the grip of the witch.

Date Published:2008

County fair : adapted from the Little house books /

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.


Text adapted from Farmer boy. books: trade/library, Primary, unpaged. Young Almanzo Wilder and his family attend a county fair in upstate New York.
Date Published:1997

Ice bears

Guiberson, Brenda Z.


books: trade/library, Primary, unpaged. Follows two polar bear cubs and their mother from birth as they live through the different seasons in the Arctic.
Date Published:2008

What makes a Van Gogh a Van Gogh?

Muhlberger, Richard.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Senior High, 48 pg . Explores such art topics as style, composition, color, and subject matter as they relate to twelve works by Van Gogh.
Date Published:1993

Animals on the farm

Morgan, Sally.


Includes index. books: trade/library, Primary, 32 pg. Discusses the roles and duties of various animals on a farm, including sheepherding and gundogs, water buffalo that help plow wet fields, and sheep and goats used for their wool.
Date Published:1999

Apocalypse taco

Hale, Nathan, 1976-,


Twins Axl and Ivan, with Sid as their driver, make a late-night fast-food run for a high school theater crew but return to discover that goo monsters are copying--and mutating--everything in sight.
Date Published:2020

Code of honor

Gratz, Alan, 1972-,


books: trade/library, J,S,A, 278 pg . Iranian-American Kamran Smith learns that his big brother, Darius, has been labelled a terrorist, he sets out to save his brother's life and his country from a deadly terrorist attack.
Date Published:2015

The Battle of Gettysburg

Carter, Alden R.


books: trade/library, Intermediate - Junior High, 64 pg . Elem. School Library Collection. School Library Journal. Wilson's Junior High School. Describes the Confederate army's northern campaign, its defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg, and the subsequent effect on the course of the Civil War.
Date Published:1990

Fighting fires

Simon, Seymour.


Level 1, grades P-1. books: trade/library, Primary, 32 pg. Presents information about the vehicles and equipment used to fight fires from the ground, sea, and sky.
Date Published:2002

New girl in town

DeVillers, Julia.


books: trade/library, Primary - Intermediate, 190 pg. Nine-year-old Liberty Porter, daughter of the President of the United States, starts at a new school and tries to be an exemplary First Daughter.
Date Published:2010