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Endangered Animals

David Orme (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613845752

Some scientists say there could be 200 million different types of living things in the world. Actually, nobody really knows. But there is a problem. Many of these different types of things are becoming extinct. Find out why. Find out which animals are in danger and what we can do to save them. Then read Where The Forest Ended. It's a story that shows that sometimes answers aren't easy.

California Condor: Flying Free

Bonnie Graves (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613847084

Provides factual information about the natural history of the California condor through the fictional story of a young boy's discovery of a young bird in trouble.

The War Between Bosses and Workers

Diana Star Helmer (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622993970

This book contains a fictional story and factual information about labor problems, child welfare issues, women's suffrage, and rural and urban life in 1893. Reading Essentials in Social Studies.

The Winter of the Stone Woman

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990078

Having finished his education at Blackstone School, Red Fox writes letters to his friend, Ellen, who is traveling in Europe, as he prepares to return to his family on the Nebraska plains.

The Long Journey to Freedom

Susan Grohmann (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849699

Rifle barrels pointed at the family as they stepped into the open. Tilly cowered behind her father. "We're headed for St. Augustine," Kwaku explained. The men lowered their guns. "Where are you from?" one of them asked. "Are you runaways?" "Please let us go on our way," Catbird begged. "Get in the wagon," the man said. "These men are armed," Kwaku said quietly. "We must do as we are told." When everyone was aboard, the wagon rumbled on down the road. They were headed away from St. Augustine and their chance for freedom.

The Secret Room

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849842

This book tells a story of best friends that get split up during World War II as they struggle to stay out of the Nazi concentration camps.

The Message, the Promise, and How Pigs Figure In

M.J. Cosson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849705

Fourteen-year-old Jonathan receives a message from a fish while diving in Hawaii and becomes concerned about ocean pollution.

The Truth Test

Lori Pollard-Johnson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990023

Searching for a way to get revenge against school bullies, overweight Jared Springer develops a truth test that ultimately teaches him the truth about friendship

To Rainbow Valley

Irene Bennett Brown (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849996

The Baldwin family decides that they could make a better life for themselves in Oregon. This is the story of their journey to Rainbow Valley. Thirteen-year-old Cotton becomes responsible for seeing his family safely across country to Oregon where they will join his father.

United in Freedom

Marcia Lynch (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990047

African American twin brothers, one a slave on a Virginia plantation and one a free man in Pennsylvania, are reunited after years of separation when they accompany soldiers on opposing sides of the Civil War.

The King Christian Club

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849644

In a series of journal entries, a boy in Denmark recounts the role he and his friends played in the Resistance and reflects on being Jewish during World War II

Time Trap: Martin Luther King Jr.

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849972

While working together on a school report about the 1960s, Aleesa and Kenneth are transported to March 1968, where they suddenly realize that the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. is only days away.

Top Fin: Dolphin Dives

Addie Meyer Sanders (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990009

Kelly, one of a group of students with special needs chosen to participate in Dolphin Dives, finds her voice again after not speaking for three years when one of the animals is threatened by a very angry boy.

Twins

Marcia Lynch (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781622990030

After Byron receives a whipping for stealing a ham for his pregnant wife and she dies giving birth to twins, Byron decides to escape slavery via the Underground Railroad.

The Rattlesnake Necklace

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849781

Fern learns why the Native Americans are forcing people from their farms and does what she can to help.

Rocky Mountain Summer

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849835

Fern and Roy must leave their mother in Denver to spend the summer with their Gran and Paw in the Rocky Mountains.

The Fire Carrier

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849477

A young Indian boy attends a school for Native Americans and is caught between the traditions of his people and the new ways of the white man. He is determined to get an education in order to return home and help his Native American people.

The Freedom Tree

Cynthia Mercati (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849514

Caroline learns the meaning of freedom while struggling to maintain the family cotton plantation during the Civil War.

Summer Friends

Jane Porter Meier (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849910

Cassie, who is spending the summer with her aunt while her parents go through a divorce, becomes friends with Joey, a boy in a wheelchair who lives nearby with his grandmother.

Sosa's Homers

Caroline E. Walsh (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849897

After Carlos and his family move from the Dominican Republic to Chicago, Carlos finds himself missing his old friends and country, but a meeting with his hero, Sammy Sosa, changes his life forever.

Tall Shadow: A Navajo Boy

Bonnie Highsmith Taylor (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849965

Tall-Shadow, a young Navajo boy, faces adverse dangers when he confronts the Big Cat, a lion who is feared by the tribe. Tall Shadow also struggles with his desire to adopt the white man's ways and his father's wish to maintain their culture.

River of Ice

Linda Baxter (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849828

As Stalin's purges and arrests increase, Sasha and his mother plan to leave Russia to join his father and older sister who have emigrated to Riga, Latvia.

Summer of Secrets

Kimberly Klier (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849927

Young Sam Clemens and his friend Tom Blankenship suspect Tom's brother, Bence, has found their secret buried treasure and is involved in stealing slaves.

Shatter with Words: Langston Hughes

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849866

Transported accidentally back in time to a college campus in the South in 1931, Kenneth and Aleesa meet the young Langston Hughes on his poetry-reading tour and confront racism and threats to Hughes first-hand. What do they discover about the real power behind his words?

Nothing Is for Free

Margo Sorenson (author)

Publisher: Perfection Learning ISBN: 9781613849743

The Great Depression forces a brother and sister to live with their hated cousins on a farm in North Dakota when their father loses his job.