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Teacher's guide, based on Anne Frank's The diary of a young girl, includes essay and multiple choice questions, activities, glossary, and answer key.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Belle and Sarah both want to become the ringer of the new Batoche church bell. They enter an embroidery contest to win the position. Then General Middleton's forces advance on Batoche in the 1885 Riel Rebellion, and Bell...

When Albert and his buddies have a "no girls" baseball game, Frances and her sister organize a "Best Friends Outing -- No Boys."

The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year.

A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother.

Four orphans take shelter in an old boxcar during a storm, and, determined to make it their own, they turn it into a safe, cozy home.

Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal--until to her surprise--her parents grant her wish.

Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest...

Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and...

Hoping to ditch his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants. Will Anthony's "plan" satisfy his hunger for revenge? And more importantly, will he ev...

Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.

A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.

In this sequel to Cowboys Don't Cry, Shane, with the help of a neighbouring friend, Casey, leaves his ranch in Alberta to search for his alcoholic father. Following his father's planned route through Montana, Shane encou...

In the fourth book of the "Dinosaur Adventure series," Daniel finds himself back in the one place he vowed never to return to the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago). At the start of the book, the Paleontological tou...

Daniel loves nothing more than fossil hunting. He even dreams about dinosaurs. Then, at his secret hideout, a hollowed-out cave in a hillside, Daniel makes an exciting find. A fossil never before seen in the area.

Daniel Bingham once again travels back to the time of dinosaurs to learn more about the prehistoric creatures he loves.

A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.

Eleven-year-old Peter, uncommunicative and tough, winds up in an institution for delinquent boys. Pursued by a constant fear of an unnamed evil, he escapes the institution, running deep into the forests of British Columb...

"Tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters. Where in The Rez Sisters the focus was on seven "Wasy" women and the game of...

A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed.

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

"Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teacher's guide includes innovative teaching techniques that will engage, empower, and enlighten"--Back cover.

When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930's, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right.

Brother Peter and Fudge must spend the summer with the dreaded Sheila the Great. Peter Hatcher describes his family's Maine vacation highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn en...

After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim -- but he finds that surviving ...

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Lawrence just has to make it through his final year of residential school and then he will never have to set foot in this horrible place again. But despite his best efforts to stay out of trouble, he finds himself in a f...

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homes...

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.

The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

Ogilvie Kidd rides freestyle bike and writes poetry. Tony Jones, the world's best freestyler, is coming to town. What's he going to think about a bike freak who's also a poet?

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divor...

A biography of the blind and deaf woman who rose above her physical disabilities to international renown and who helped other handicapped persons to live fuller lives.

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a tr...

In northern Ontario are many isolated Native communities. Some had been trrading posts attracting Indians from different reserves. This is the story of one community where a 10 yr. girl called The Owl writes seasonal dia...

A little boy is excited at the prospect of spending the night at his friend's house but worries how he'll get along without his teddy bear.

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary ...

When Jacob Two-Two's father brings him back a small lizard from Kenya, it grows to enormous proportions, and to protect his now identifiable Diplodocus from frightened grown-ups, Jacob runs away with him to British Colum...

When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.

While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Come with Tom, the brave captain, and the fearless crew of the Volantix as they sail for the roof of the world, fighting snow-goblins and ice trolls. Will Grandfather Frost come to their rescue? Will the legend of the as...

In this Common Core State Standards-aligned Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After...

In this State Standards-aligned Literature Kit™, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You R...

Literature guide that discusses the dramatic and fascinating story of friendship between Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke.

In this Common Core State Standards-aligned Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After...

Awasin, a Cree Indian boy, and Jamie, a Canadian orphan living with his uncle, the trapper Angus Macnair, are enchanted by the magic of the great Arctic wastes. They set out on an adventure that proves longer and more da...

In this State Standards-aligned Literature Kit®, we divide the play by acts and scenes and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every section, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions...

Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe go to Florida to visit a manatee rescue center, where they learn about these endangered marine mammals.

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

For Melanie Bluelake, a ten-year-old Cree girl, it's difficult starting at a new school when she must cope with moving from the northern woods and her grandmother to a strange city.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy's attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.

This vast, magnificent tapestry set against the background of post-Napoleonic France is a potent social document of the poverty, ignorance, and brutality of man. "Les Miserables" is also a rousing adventure from the lead...

The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and make them win at least one game.

When their teacher has to go away for a week, the kids in room 207 plan to "really act up".

The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute.

"Acclaimed Inuit storyteller Michael Kusugak shares stories of Arctic life in counting book format. Beginning readers are introduced to Arctic animals - from polar bears to caribou - as well as the landscape and people" ...

Nicholas spends a rainy day in the library. He learns that books are made not just for making forts but are filled with adventure and mystery.

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a ...

Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer.

Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."

The story of two owls named Wol and Weeps who live with a family in Canada.

A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man.

Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.

Stormy Sprague and other misfits call "the Dregs of the Detention Dungeon" form a floor hockey team and they even have the nerve to compete against the unbeatable Screaming Eagles.

A toy bear who wants a pocket for himself searches for one in a laundromat.

Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.

Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher.

Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.

Discusses the writing, characters, plot, and themes of this 1961 Newbery award-winning book. Includes discussion questions and activities.

Tired of losing at Bingo, a group of seven sisters band together to beat the system and secure their financial future. Evoking the harsh realities and impossible dreams that come to life on Canada's Native reserves, The ...

Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more abo...

A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.

Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp.

When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Mary Lennox is an orphan who is sent to live with her uncle at gloomy Misselthwaite Manor. Neglected and lonely, she begins to explore her new home and learns of a secret garden that her uncle has forbidden anyone to ent...

Twelve-year-old Emily is facing not only the loss of her grandmother but her grandmother's farm, as well. She retreats to her favourite spot, a rock ledge overlooking the prairie, where, to her surprise, she finds a girl...

Emily, whose story begins in The secret of Sentinal Rock, takes an heirloom mirror with her on a trip to Scotland with her Dad. With the help of the image in the mirror, Emily begins to understand the secrets of the pas...

As Emily struggles to accept the breakup of her parents' marriage, her beloved grandmother dies and her mother, Kate, says they can no longer afford to keep her beautiful stone farmhouse built when the family first came ...

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

"Set in northwestern Ontario in the 1960s, Silent Words tells the story of a young Native boy and his journey of self-discovery. Danny's life is a daily struggle for survival. He runs away from his violent and abusive ...

The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird that stayed for a few days in his family's garden.

Sheltering an escaped German prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a 12-year-old Jewish girl in Arkansas.

Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.

Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem.

A young boy recounts his efforts to adjust to the accidental death of his friend.

The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.

After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island wher...

Shakespeare's great tragedy tells of the lord Macbeth, who plots to assume the throne of Scotland by murdering the king. This edition includes the play's source material from Holinshed, along with critical essays on the ...

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Andrea's second thrilling adventure ... back in the tunnels of time! Now she and her brother are in trouble with a gang of thieves. How can they get safely back to the present.

Two slave girls escape from a plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and steal toward Canada on the Underground Railroad.

After Julilly is taken from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, she can only dream of a land where it's possible to be free. So when workers from the underground railway offer to help her and her friend Liza escape, t...

Underground to Canada is the historical story of freedom and survival told through the eyes of two young girls. The story surrounds Julilly and Liza, who with their friends, Lester and Adam, escape from a life of slavery...

After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to Sideways...

Nancy Antoine is a Shuswap Indian high school senior determined to escape the bleakness and chaos of the small BC town she lives in, and she sees the school as her way out, no matter what she has to endure. But Nancy's r...

A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.

Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, the wolf cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories...

In the desolate, frozen wilds of north-west Canada, a wolf-cub soon finds himself the sole survivor of the litter. Son of Kiche -- half-wolf, half-dog -- and the ageing wolf One Eye, he is thrust into a savage world wher...

While 15-year-old Lizzie explores Rain Island, she finds the ruins of a cabin and an old pair of spectacles. Lizzie finds that when she puts on the glasses she can see ghosts who seem to be trying to tell her about her t...