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Reading Aloud for Pleasure and Proficiency
Listed here are exciting, moving, funny books middle schoolers will love to hear you read aloud.Books are listed alphabetically by author. Click on curriculum areas to find more books on that topic. Post your comments on the books here.  Print Friendly Format |
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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis 1999 Motherless Buddy, living in Michigan during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and journeys to find the man he believes to be his father, bandleader H.E. Calloway. Subjects: Great Depression |
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 1995 Humorous and realistic portrait of the life of an African American family who encounters life in Michigan and Alabama in the 1960s. Subjects: African American History | Civil Rights Movement |
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Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman 1996 Lucy Whipple tells how to deal with life when you are transplanted from a civilized Massachusetts town to the coarse and unpredictable world of California during the gold rush. Subjects: American History | Women's History |
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Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman 2000 [JF Cus] Colorful world of medieval England comes to life as the pious and self-centered Matilda learns compassion and humility as assistant to Red Peg, the village bonesetter. Suggested for ages 9 - 14 Subjects: Character Education | England | Fiction | Medicine | Medieval | Middle Ages | World History Average rating: 
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The Longitude Prize by Joan Dash 2000 A portrait of John Harrison, village carpenter, who spent almost his entire working life-nearly 60 years-building four increasingly accurate clocks in order to solve the mystery of longitude and win an extraordinary prize Subjects: Character Education | Physical Science |
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Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo 2000 A warm novel about the redemptive power of friendship and memory. Ten-year- old India Opal Buloni adopts a large stray dog whose grinning affability helps her reach out to other people in her new town. Suggested for ages 8 - 12 Subjects: Dogs | Fathers and Daughters | Fiction | Florida | Friendship | Newbery Honor |
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer 1994 Humor and science fiction combine in this richly imagined story set in 2194 in Zimbabwe. Three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for General Matsika's three children who are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine. Subjects: Character Education | Folktales | Science Fiction |
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Readers Theatre for American History by Anthony D. Fredericks 2000 Scripts for readers theater productions about events in American history. Subjects: Professional Resource |
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