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The Standing Rock Sioux Challenge the Dakota Access Pipeline: Criss Cross

This printable and interactive Criss Cross puzzle aligns with The Standing Rock Sioux Challenge the...

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The Standing Rock Sioux Challenge the Dakota Access Pipeline (Taking a Stand)

Written by Clara MacCarald

Explores the history, events, and aftermath of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribes protest of the Dakota...

5th - 10th

National Museum of African American History & Culture Resources

The National Museum of African American History & Culture (Smithsonian Institution) has a variety of...
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Something Like Home

Written by Andrea Beatriz Arango

Titi Silvia leaves me by myself to unpack,
but it’s not like I brought a bunch of stuff.
How do you...

5th - 9th
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It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

Written by Chelsea Clinton

With an eye toward empowering and inspiring kids, Chelsea Clinton explores some of the biggest...

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Be Kind: You Can Make the World a Happier Place!

Written by Naomi Shulman and Illustrated by Hsinping Pan

In a world where people spend more time engaging through screens than in real-life interaction...

K - 12th
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What Can I Say?

Written by Catherine Newman

Middle school is an essential time to learn and practice social skills, including how to get along...

5th - 12th

Slider: Amazon Book Talk

A Book Talk is a short introduction of a book to students to activate prior knowledge, build...

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Slider

Written by Pete Hautman

David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad...

5th - 9th

Somebody to Love: Memory Match

After reading Somebody to Love: The Story of Valerie June's Sweet Little Baby Banjolele, use this...

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What Linnaeus Saw

Written by Karen Magnuson Beil

In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus’s life and career in readable...

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Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Written by Marc Aronson

On June 23rd, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the...

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It's the End of the World as I Know It

Written by Matthew Landis

Ever since his mother was killed in the line of duty in Iraq, Derrick has been absolutely certain...

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My Brigadista Year

Written by Katherine Paterson

When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro’s army of young...

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Red Fox Road

Written by Frances Greenslade

Francie and her parents are on a spring road trip: driving from British Columbia, Canada, to hike in...

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Orphan Band of Springdale

Written by Anne Nesbet

t’s 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe...

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Game of Fox and Squirrels

Written by Jenn Reese

After an incident shatters their family, eleven-year old Samantha and her older sister Caitlin are...

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Scarlet Ibis

Written by Gill Lewis

Twelve-year-old Scarlet doesn’t have an easy life. She’s never known her dad, her mom suffers from...

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Love to Everyone

Written by Hilary McKay

Clarry Penrose finds the good in everyone. Even in her father, who isn’t fond of children, and...

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Ostriches (S20)

Written by Rachel Poliquin

This third installment in the hilarious and highly-illustrated full-color Superpower Field Guide...

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Wild Blues

Written by Beth Kephart

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie’s favorite place in the world is her uncle’s cabin. Uncle Davy’s renovated...

5th - 9th
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Amber and Clay

Written by Laura Amy Schlitz

Welcome to ancient Greece, as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike...

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The Thing I'm Most Afraid Of

Written by Kristin Levine

Most twelve-year-olds would be excited to fly to Austria to see their dad for the summer but then...

5th - 9th
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Magellan

On September 6, 1522, a horribly battered ship manned by eighteen malnourished, scurvy-ridden...

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