eighty-four contemporary ready-to-read farm-nineteen

books:

Albert Einstein: Genius of the Twentieth Century (Ready-to-read Stories of Famous Americans)

1 review
Patricia Lakin

Aladdin, 2005

Great easy to read biography
For kids who are not quite sure biographies are cool, this will lead them into Einstein's life with ease. Reading level is about third-grade, illustrations are great (I love one with him sticking out his tongue), glossary, bibliography, timeline, website referrals at the back will help kids who are doing research. Part of a series that also includes Wright Brothers, Teddy Roosevelt, other ...

Over in the Meadow

The Wright Group, 1995

Big Book

Amelia Earhart : More Than a Flier (level 3)

2 reviews
Patricia Lakin

Aladdin, 2003

Amelia Earhart
I bought this to use in my 6th grade reading classroom. It is excellent to use to teach reading skills such as main idea, author's purpose, or summarizing. I put it in a center and students have 10 minutes to use the book for an assignment. Since it is at a lower reading level, students have success in building skills to use in higher level texts. This book is a good addition to the grade 1-6 ...

Munsch More! A Robert Munsch Collection
Robert Munsch

Scholastic, 2004

Contains: Alligator Baby Andrew's Loose Tooth Ribbon Rescue Get Out of Bed! Mmm, Cookies! Special bonus story: Deep Snow About the Author and Illustrators

Aaron's Hair
Robert Munsch

Scholastic Inc., 2000

Aaron is having a BAD HAIR DAY. But when he gets mad and yells at his hair, he ends up with an even bigger problem - his hair runs away from home! How is Aaron going to get his hair back on his head?

Graham Swift (Contemporary British Novelists)

1 review
Daniel Lea

Manchester University Press, 2006

Made me (finally) see the point of Graham Swift
Swift is one of those authors that 'everyone' name-drops but few people seem actually to have read. I'd given 'Waterland' a try a while ago, and didn't feel I'd got anywhere. Reading this book by Daniel Lea made me think 'WOW!', there's something in Graham Swift beyond the existential angst-ing and melancholia. In the wake of this epiphany, I went back to 'Waterland' and also read 'Last Orders', ...

Aaron's Hair [STUDENT EDITION]

44 reviews
Robert Munsch

Scholastic Canada, Limited, 2000

amazing book
Aaron's Hair is the funniest book I haved ever read. When the hair is on the statue. My favorite character is Aaron because he is funny. I think the pictures were realy cool. This story makes me remember of my baby sister shelby when they cut all her hair.

George Orwell: Animal Farm-Nineteen Eighty-Four

23 reviews

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Worthy literature that transcends the genre of political fable
This is a handsome republication of Orwell's two most renowned works, Animal Farm and 1984. Even if you're just looking for 1984, this edition is to be commended; it comes with a fine introduction by today's leading Orwell enthusiast, Christopher Hitchens, and the reward of including Animal Farm requires very little in the way of additional effort or expense on your part. At 80-odd pages, you ...

Aaron's Hair
Robert Munsch

Scholastic Inc., 2000

Father's Old Gray Whiskers

The Wright Group, The Song Book, 1993

Sixteen pages of a cute story about how father's whiskers get in the way. The story can be sung as well to a song printed on the last page.

Get Out of Bed!

3 reviews
Robert N. Munsch

Cartwheel Books, 1998

Get Out of Bed kept us laughing during storytime for weeks!
This book was a hit at my house. My boy wanted it read every other night for weeks. It was funny and showed silly consequences of not going to bed. Kids won't want to end up like this child and at school in there bed!

Roundup at the Palace (Northern Lights Books for Children)

1 review
Kathleen Cook Waldron

Red Deer Press, 2006

Highly recommended for all young readers, particularly those with an interest in the farm and bulls and adventure
Enhanced with illustrations by Alan and Lea Daniel, Roundup At The Palace by Kathleen Cook Waldron is the fun and creative and colorful picturebook story of Zack and Buster the Bull in their mutual pursuit of the winning at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. A blizzard brings Buster storming out of the trailer into the Brown Palace Hotel where a confrontation with the young Alice leads ...

Cloak of the Wind (Voyages in Time)
Alan Daniel, Lea Daniel, ...

The Wright Group, 1998

An adventure story geared in plot & vocabulary to the 9-12 year old age group. This story is set in Viking days and deals with the Viking explorations of North America. Many details of Viking life are brought into the story, for instance, the Viking alphabet the runes are both mentioned in the text and illustrated.

Dream Collector, The

2 reviews
Troon Harrison

Kids Can Press, Ltd., 2001

Vivid, pleasing yarn
Vivid illustrations keep pace with the tale of young Zachary who encounters a couple of zebras and a shaggy sheepdog at the birdbath early one morning. Then he notices an old man working rather frantically on a broken-down truck, and so he meets the Dream Collector, a bigger than life taskmaster charged with gathering everyone's dreams each morning to keep them from becoming real. Zachary ...

Best Figure Skater in the Whole Wide World, The

2 reviews
Linda Bailey

Kids Can Press, Ltd., 2003

My 2nd grader's bedtime favorite
I found this book to be thoughtfully written and illustrated. It tells the story of a girl who tries hard, practices diligently and dreams big to be an champion figure skater. But when her class puts on the show of Snow White on ice, she is cast as a tree. The illustrations do a beautiful job of capturing her bitter disappointment. In the end she makes the best of the situation and has a victory ...

My Home Bay
Anne Laurel Carter

Red Deer Press, 2003

Alberta Children's Book of the Year Nominee (2004) Alberta Book Illustration of the Year Award Nominee (2004) Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection (2004) Gwyn's family has traveled from Vancouver to Nova Scotia, where they plan to make their new home in Mahone Bay. Gwyn doesn't care for the idea at all and, in fact, has sulked from the west coast to the east, unlike her little sister, Linden, who's caught up in the ...

Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-war and Contemporary British Literature (Genus 3)

Rodopi, 2003

The essays collected in Posting the Male examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of writers as diverse as John Osborne, Joe Orton, James Kelman, Ian Rankin, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Jackie Kay. The collection seeks to capture the current historical moment of `crisis', at which masculinity loses its universal transparency and becomes ...

Round-up at the Palace
Kathleen Cook Waldron

Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2008

Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007 Buster the Bull makes his getaway in a blizzard, and it's up to Zack to save the Brown Palace Hotel gift shop - and his new friend Alice Zack wrapped his arms around the huge bull's neck. "Don't worry," Zack said, swallowing hard. "No busy city or world famous Stock Show can scare us. Right?" Zack is looking forward to taking Buster the bull to the National Western Stock Show ...

And the Sidewalk Went All Around
Cricket Rohman

Wright Group Publishing Inc, 1993

Produced by Harris and Rohman Enterprises Inc

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