Island of the Blue Dolphins (ENHANCED ebook)

Island of the Blue Dolphins (ENHANCED ebook)

Author: Carmela M. Krueser

Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press

Published: 1989-09-01

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1429108622

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Exploring Literature is a complete teaching unit designed to give you everything needed to help students understand and appreciate fine literature. This exciting approach includes classroom-tested activities sure to save you hours of valuable preparation time.


Island of the Blue Dolphins

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0395069629

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Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.


Sing Down the Moon

Sing Down the Moon

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0547349653

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Newbery Honor Book In this powerful novel based on historical events, the Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort Sumner is dramatically and courageously narrated by young Bright Morning. Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.


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.


Black Star, Bright Dawn

Black Star, Bright Dawn

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0547053193

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Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured. Soon she realizes that the race and her life depend on how much she can rely on her lead dog, Black Star.


The King's Fifth

The King's Fifth

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006-09-04

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0547349688

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Newbery Honor Book: A “stunning” historical novel of a teenager’s journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews). Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused of withholding the king’s fifth—and of murder. As he waits for his trial to begin, he recalls the experience of his journey: the men he sailed with, the young Native American girl who guided him—and the ways that it changed him—in this remarkable novel about Spanish colonialism by the author of such classics as Island of the Blue Dolphins.


The Write Answer (ENHANCED eBook)

The Write Answer (ENHANCED eBook)

Author: Kathy Tuszynski

Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press

Published: 2003-03-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1429112603

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Got questions about how to link your writing activities to rich and relevant literature? How to improve your students' writing skills and test scores? You need The Write Answer! This book contains student worksheets, resource lists, teacher pages, samples and activities for individuals and groups. These practical activities direct students to apply skills learned on the reproducible pages to their work in class.


Dolphin Diaries

Dolphin Diaries

Author: Denise L. Herzing

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-07-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1429987448

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Dr. Denise Herzing began her research with a pod of spotted dolphins in the 1980s. Now, almost three decades later, she has forged strong ties with many of these individuals, has witnessed and recorded them feeding, playing, fighting, mating, giving birth and communicating. Dolphin Diaries is an account of Herzing's research and her surprising findings on wild dolphin behavior, interaction, and communication. Readers will be drawn into the highs and lows—the births and deaths, the discovery of unique and personalized behaviors, the threats dolphins face from environmental changes, and the many funny and wonderful encounters Denise painstakingly documented over many years. This is the perfect book for anyone who loves these incredibly versatile and intelligent creatures and wants to find out more than the dolphin show at the zoo can offer. Herzing is a true pioneer in her field and deserves a place in the pantheon of naturalists and scientists next to Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall.


The Road to Damietta

The Road to Damietta

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004-10-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0547562047

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The Newbury Award-winning author delivers “what may be his finest novel” in this young adult narrative of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fifth Crusade (Publishers Weekly). Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers a fascinating new perspective on the man who became Saint Francis of Assisi: the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. Thirteen-year-old Ricca di Montanaro, who secretly loves the young Francis, watches in awe as he disavows his rich father and declares himself a servant of Christ. Following him on his journey, Ricca recounts Francis’s attempt to bring peace amidst the bloodshed of the Fifth Crusade. “Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace,” he said. “Where there is hatred, let me sow love, where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.” And so he set off on the road to Damietta…


Sarah Bishop

Sarah Bishop

Author: Scott O'Dell

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780590446518

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Grade Level 6.2, Book# 385, Points 7.