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- Reading 3 (low intermediate)
- Albert Einstein: Young Thinker (Childhood of Famous
Americans Series), by Marie Hammontree: about Einstein's youth.
Great book and very fun and easy!
- La Causa: The Migrant Farmworkers' Story, by Dana
Catharine De Ruiz: about Cesar Chavez. Difficult book discussing interesting
issues of immigration in the USA.
- Freedom Side, by Marcie M. Stadelhofen: easy and
small book about slavery.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Megan Stine (?), and Sarah
Plain and Tal, by by Patricia MacLachlanl: two books about
women pioneers in the West.
- Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream. Easy book about
Martin Luther King's life.
- Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry: wonderful and easy
to read true story about Denmark and the Jews during WWII
- Text about Denmark
- Text about WWII
- Webpage
with activities and other teaching ideas
- Questions and vocabulary
- test 1 (also about names
of country, people, and languages)
- test 2 (also about names
of country, people, and languages)
- test 3 (also about names
of country, people, and languages)
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by
Eleanor Coerr: small and easy true story of a young Japanese girl facing
death.
- Reading 5 (low advanced)
- October Sky (a.k.a. Rocket Boys), by Homer Hickam:
the wonderful true story from which the film was made.
- Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom: an amazing true
story of the Netherlands during WWII. Relatively easy to read.
- They All Laughed . . . from Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating
Stories behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives,
by Ira Flatow. Difficult to read but interesting and organized in short
chapters.
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: story of four Chinese
immigrant families.
- Reading 4 (high intermediate)
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry: intriguing and extraordinary
story of a "perfect world."
- My Left Foot, by Christy Brown: true story of an
Irish boy who can only write and paint with his left foot. Very touching.
- Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, by Barbara Cohen,
Bahija Lovejoy, Amy Cohn (Editor): fun and culturally
very rich story of an Arabic man who had seven daughters.
- Song of the Buffalo Boy, by Sherry Garland: the touching
story of the Vietnamese daughter of an American soldier.
- December Stillness, by Mary Downing Hahn: a book
that goes well with Song of the Buffalo Boy, telling the story of a
young girl whose dad faught in the Vietnam War.
- Freedom Train, by Dorothy Sterling: the true story
of Harriet Tubman .
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