A Sea of Troubles

A Sea of Troubles

Author: Elizabeth James

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-04-19

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1475857527

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Sea of Troubles has been designed for classroom teachers struggling to address the overwhelming issues facing our world today. By embracing the Common Core’s emphasis on the inclusion of more nonfiction, informational texts, the authors have demonstrated how to incorporate meaningful informational texts into their favorite units of literature. Sea of Troubles shows teachers how literature and informational texts can work together, to enhance each other, and, by extension, enhance student’s abilities to critically think and respond to the sea of troubles that pervades society.


The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

Author: Jane B. Mason

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2004-08-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780439574242

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Retells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves in an Indian jungle.


The Class Trip from the Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon Adventures #1)

The Class Trip from the Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon Adventures #1)

Author: Mike Thaler

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 0545667798

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These fun-filled chapter books mix school, monsters, and common kid problems with hilarious results. You'll scream with laughter! Oh, no! It's the class trip from the Black Lagoon. The kids have no idea where they're going but they imagine a day full of ferocious animals, maniacal monsters, and scary aerial acrobatics. And their teacher, mean Mrs. Green, is going to quiz them on everything! When the kids stop letting their imaginations run wild they soon realize that they're going to a very cool zoo. But that won't change the fact that there's never a dull moment in the Black Lagoon!


Among the Hidden

Among the Hidden

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-06-12

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0689848072

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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows—does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?


Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780395404300

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A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.


Brand-new Pencils, Brand-new Books

Brand-new Pencils, Brand-new Books

Author: Diane Degroat

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2005-07

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 006072613X

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Gilbert's excitement over starting first grade turns to worry that the teacher will be mean, the work too hard, and his classmates too unfriendly, but throughout the day there are pleasant surprises.


Kaa’s Hunting (The First Jungle Book)

Kaa’s Hunting (The First Jungle Book)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2021-01-08

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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During the time Mowgli was with the wolf pack, he is abducted by the Bandar-log monkeys to the ruined city. Baloo and Bagheera set out to rescue him with Kaa the python. Kaa defeats the Bandar-log, frees Mowgli, and hypnotises the monkeys and the other animals with his dance. Mowgli rescues Baloo and Bagheera from the spell. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. Famous stories of The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling: Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Tiger! Tiger!, The White Seal, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Toomai of the Elephants, Her Majesty’s Servants.