Orca Currents Resource Guide
Orca Currents Resource Guide

Author: Kate Hill

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1554693756

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Orca Soundings are teen novels for reluctant readers. Orca Currents are middle-school novels for reluctant readers. Written at a grade 2.0 to grade 4.5 reading level, these compelling contemporary novels have proven incredibly popular with teachers and librarians looking for material that will engage their most reluctant of readers. Orca has always provided professionally written teachers guides to accompany these books. Now we offer a complete resource guide to enable classroom integration of these popular titles. Including sections on reading levels, book discussion groups, literacy circles, assessment and follow-up activities, this resource guide enables a teacher to implement the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit.

Speaking Our Truth
Speaking Our Truth

Author: Monique Gray Smith

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 145981584X

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Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.

Maxed Out
Maxed Out

Author: Daphne Greer

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1554699843

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Key Selling Points This book was nominated for Best Quick Read by the American Library Association. Maxed Out is the first of two books that feature brothers Duncan and Max. The second, Camped Out, won the Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award. Enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.

Living Rough
Living Rough

Author: Cristy Watson

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1554698901

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In most ways, Poe is like the other kids in his school. He thinks about girls and tries to avoid too much contact with teachers. He has a loving father who helps him with his homework. But Poe has a secret, and almost every day some small act threatens to expose him. He doesn't have a phone number to give to friends. He doesn't have an address. Poe and his father are living in a tent on city land. When the city clears the land to build housing, Poe worries that they might not be able to find another site near his school. Will Poe have to expose his secret to get help for himself and his father? This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read!

Benched
Benched

Author: Cristy Watson

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1554699622

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When Cody and his friends accept a challenge from a local gang to steal a park bench, their main concern is keeping themselves on the gang's good side. Cody learns that the stolen bench had been dedicated to the father of the English teacher who sponsors the school newspaper—the paper that Cody has just started writing for—and he's worried about the consequences. As the gang applies pressure for more from Cody and his friends, he realizes they've crossed a line, and now he has to figure out how to make it right.

Flower Power
Flower Power

Author: Ann Walsh

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2005-09-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1554696216

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Key Selling Points This is a story full of humor and heart with a cast of multigenerational women working together for change. Flower Power was shortlisted for the Chocolate Lily Book Award. Enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.

Shatterproof
Shatterproof

Author: Jocelyn Shipley

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 1459813634

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Thirteen-year-old Nate needs a break from looking after his newly disabled mom. One day when Nate's mom thinks he's at a cross-country meet, he goes to the mall with a friend he's forbidden to have contact with. At the skate shop he sees a new board he can't afford but has to have, and Nate gets talked into running a scam. It turns out Nate looks a lot like a teen TV star filming in the area. So he and his buddy get girls to pay cash to be extras on set. It's all fine until Nate meets a girl he really likes. Nate knows he has to tell her the truth, but he's not sure he has what it takes to come clean. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Stolen
Stolen

Author: John Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781459803763

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Fifteen-year-old Sam solves a mystery while treasure-hunting on the Australian coast.

Orca Currents Resource Guide
Orca Currents Resource Guide

Author: Susan Greye

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2009-09

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 1551439565

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A teacher's resource for Orca Currents, high-interest low-vocab novels for middle school readers.

Farmed Out
Farmed Out

Author: Christy Goerzen

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1554699134

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Maddie has big-city dreams, and this summer she's found her chance to visit New York. An art magazine is holding a portrait painting contest, and the first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip to the Big Apple. Maddie plans to win, but her mother has different plans for her: a mother-daughter adventure in organic farming. Maddie is furious. How will she find an inspiring subject for her portrait amid the goat poop and chickens? And worse, her new-age mother's attempts at pig reiki are an embarrassment. But Maddie befriends the farmer's daughter, Anna, and between dodging her mother and doing her chores, she finds the perfect subject for the portrait contest.