A Tanzanian schoolboy growing up in a small village longs to be somebody important.

Hurry the crossing

Venable, Alan

Lippincott

Although they have different ways of going about things, the carpenter and the tinker work out a way of doing things together.

The checker players

As a scientist and peanutrician, Dr. Peanut leads a rich and nutty life. But daily he and his young peanut patients face the dangers of being eaten.  This chapter book introduces and follows the intrepid doctor as he employs science and common sense to befriend threatening giants, find companionship with a neighboring snail, ward off ferocious beasts, and mobilize the talking peanuts to make theirs a safer, more harmonious world.  Excellent early elementary grade reading with engaging illustrations.  Readers will learn to critique some delightful science.  They will also pick up some basic vocabulary from the language of the talking peanuts.  Of the first story in this volume, reviewers have said: "A charming story of friendship" (Children's Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review).  "Delightfully nonsensical" (Small Press Review).  Dr. Peanuts comes from the author of The Checker Players:  "Intelligence and humor.  It has that rare substance" (New York Times Book Review).  "A story that will delight young children" (School Library Journal).

Don't Eat Dr. Peanut: Six Nutty Tales

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

One Monkey Books

This book takes a biographical approach to explain how theories of evolution arose in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries based on Charles Darwin's concept of evolution through natural selection. Written at ability level grades 4-5, interest grade level 5-12, with a with a Lexile Level of 810, and a Guided Reading Level at S in three formats, Computer Book, Audio Book and Paperback Book.

Charles Darwin: The Man Who Looked at Life (World Around Us)

Don Johnston

Product DetailsLexile Measure: 590L (What's this?)Series: Start-to-finish booksUnknown Binding: 112 pagesPublisher: Don Johnston, Inc (2001)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1587023660ISBN-13: 978-1587023668Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5 x 0.3 inchesShipping Weight: 4.2 ouncesAverage Customer Review: Be the first to review this itemAmazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,136,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Hurricane!: By Alan Venable (Start-to-finish books)

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Don Johnston, Inc.

Wilt Chamberlain: NBA giant (Start-to-finish books)

Flo Jo: The story of Florence Griffith Joyner (Start-to-finish books)

Ali: The Greatest, The world's most famous athlete, heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, an Olympic champion at age 18. Written at ability level grades 1-3, interest grade level 5-12, with a with a Lexile Level of 470, Guided Reading Level at L, in three formats, Computer Book, Audio Book and Paperback Book.

Ali: The greatest (Start-to-finish books)

Spring 1965. In the wake of Selma, a bill is finally wending through Congress to end the rigged literacy tests and other devices in place since Reconstruction to keep southern blacks out of voting and government. At the same time, Dr. King's non-violent "wild man" Hosea Williams is laying the groundwork for hundreds of students to canvass the south in a summer voting rights project called SCOPE. Two dozen sign up at Brandeis, a vibrant young Boston area college, to work in South Carolina. Late June. The Voting Rights Bill still hung up in Congress, the Brandeis SCOPErs arrive in urban Richland County, soon spreading out to hinterlands in adjoining Kershaw and Calhoun Counties. In each place they confront a powerful mix of intimidation, persisting sanctioned segregation and astonishing poverty. Sheltered in black homes, they place themselves in the service of local leaders in a century's struggle for equal rights. To the kids from Boston, it will be scary, surprising, inspiring, complex; above all rewarding.

Hope's Kids: A Voting Rights Summer

History

Americas

A great home or classroom "thinking win-win" experience at a middle-elementary reading level. "The perfect book for children of all ages. If ever a book promoted tolerance and fair play, this is it." (Mary Fessenden &amp; Ruth Rath, retired middle-elementary teachers) "Intelligence and humor...It has that rare substance." (New York Times Book Review) "Charm and Sense." (New York Magazine) "Will delight young children." (School Library Journal) "Barton's sketches nicely capture the humor in this elementary lesson that two can do better than one." (Publisher's Weekly)

The Checker Players (3rd Edition)

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