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American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain
This biography of Sam Clemens focuses primarily on his childhood. Readers will see many parallels between young Sam's adventures and those of his famous characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
| Author: Brown, Don |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Birches
On each page Ed Young illustrates trees and forests and the countryside, in browns and sepia tones, and presents them along with several lines of Robert Frost's well-known poem, "Birches." The poem is printed in its entirety again on the last two pages.
| Author: Frost, Robert |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Cycle of the Werewolf
Short mystery/horror story depicting the sequence of events as a werewolf terrorizes a small town in Maine over the course of a year. A ten year old parapalegic uncovers the mystery and slays the beast with the help of his fun loving uncle. Short chapte
| Author: King, Stephen |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Emily
This book tells the story of a young girl's encounter with the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson and of her friendship with the author. Although the picture book is a fictional account, Cooney's oil paintings and the afterword with biographical information
| Author: Bedard, Michael |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World
This introduction to Emily Dickinson's best-known poems also contains biographical information in a fictional narration by her sister Lavinia.
| Author: Winter, Jeanette |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Great Stone Face, The
The author retells a famous Hawthorne story about how a New England village interprets a mountain's "face" over the years as fulfilling the prophecy of revealing the noblest person of the time.
| Author: Schmidt, Gary/Hawthorne Nathaniel |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Henry David's House
These seamlessly woven excerpts from Thoreau's Walden and the beautiful watercolor illustrations together describe constructing and living in the house at Walden Pond.
| Author: Schnur, Steven (ed.) |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Into the Deep Forest: With Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's journal entries have been placed into a broader context and are accompanied by stunning paintings and pencil drawings in this 39-page book. The use of present tense verb form may be off putting for some readers.
| Author: Murphy, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Paul Revere's Ride
Longfellow's famous poem tells the story of Revere's call to arms to his countryfolk in 1775.
| Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate
Noted author Nikki Giovanni has selected and comments on poems by some of the greatest African-American writers of this century.
| Author: Giovanni, Nikki |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Song of Hiawatha, The
Excerpts from the long poem have been selected to tell the story of Hiawatha. Detailed illustrations accompany each excerpt.
| Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Words with Wings
This riveting collection of paintings, prints, and sculpture by African-American artists enrich poems by outstanding African-American poets. The book includes a beautifully written introduction about the role of art and poetry and brief biographies of th
| Author: Rochelle, Belinda ed. |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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