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"Kristina Applegate Lutes, Kids Share Workshops, Inc., Mrs. Kelley's 5th grade class at Union Elementary School in Montpelier, Vermont, Mr. Costello's 3rd and 4th grade class at Thatcher Brook Primary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and the kids at the Tibetan SOS Children's Village in Bylakuppe, India, all helped to create Kids Share: Tibetan and Vermont Children's Narratives. The children wrote their own narratives, shared their hopes and dreams,...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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English
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Presents a study showing how a child's lack of connection to nature can cause obesity, distraction, and depression, and offers suggestions on how nature can be used to enhance problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
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Kurn Hattin Homes
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English
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On August 13th, 1894, the Articles of Association were signed for New England Kurn Hattin Homes, and the Reverend Charles A. Dickinson, native of Westminster, Vermont, and then pastor of Boston's Berkeley Temple, had succeeded in creating a haven for boys who needed a secure place to live, go to school, learn self-reliance and become generally prepared to live productive and satisfying lives. Reverend Dickinson's dream began with two boys, a man and...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from above, a story emerges... Joey's "bird's eye" drawings...
12) Bob
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
14) Just so stories
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Nine short stories, which must always be told "just so," in order that the sleepy child listening will not have to put back missing sentences. The stories are about animals, and many explain possible origins of their features, as How the Leopard Got His Spots.
16) Henry Huggins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Henry Huggins picks up a stray dog, names him Ribsy and sets out on numerous adventures with him, incliding breeding hundreds of fish and collecting over a thousand worms.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Lucy and Edmond, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the magic land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
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