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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.

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Frantic Frogs and Other Frankly Fractured Folktales for Readers Theatre
by Anthony D. Fredericks
1993
Scripts for readers theater productions based on fairy tales.

Subjects: Professional Resource





Eleanor Roosevelt; a life of discovery
by Russell Freedman
1993
A photo biography which reveals the life of a first lady who had a public life and an influence on American history.

Subjects: American History | Civil Rights Movement | Decades | Women's History





Give Me Liberty!: The Story of the Declaration of Independence
by Russell Freedman
2000
Using a narrative style, the author describes the people and events that led to the Declaration of Independence. Illustrated with well-chosen paintings and historic documents.

Subjects: American History | Civics





Nory Ryan's Song
by Patricia Reilly Giff
2000
When the potato blight attacks Ireland's crop in 1845, 12-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity to help her family and neighbors survive.

Subjects: Immigration





Close Encounters with Deadly Dangers; Riveting reads and classroom ideas
by Kendall Haven
1999
Short 'true' stories about predators and their prey in various ecosystems.

Subjects: Natural Science | Professional Resource





Amazing American Women; 40 Fascinating 5-Minute Reads
by Kendall Haven
1995
Short selections about notable women in the fields of sports, politics, science, civil rights and others

Subjects: American History | Professional Resource | Women's History





The Maze
by Will Hobbs
1998
Foster child Rick, escapes from a juvenile detention facility and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist trying to reintroduce condors to the wild.

Subjects: Adventure Stories | Ecology





Torn Thread
by Anne Isaacs
2000
Two sisters sent to work in a German textile factory in Czechoslovakia in the closing days of World War II discover that there are many ways to define courage.

Subjects: American History | Holocaust | World War II



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