Lexile: 420. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992, unpaged. ISBN: 0395633133

Awards include: 1992 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year; 1992 Parent’s Choice Gold Award for Picture Books; ALA Notable Book for Children.

Teacher Resources:
http://www.libraryvideo.com/guides/J1048.pdf
http://www.theatreworksusa.org/uploads/studyguide/studyguide_589.pdf

Lexile: 870. New York: Atheneum for Young Readers, 1996, 163 pp. ISBN: 068980993X

Awards include: 1997 ALA Newbery Medal; 1997 ALA Notable Children's Book; 1996 School Library Journal Best Books of the Year.

Teacher Resources:
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/view/viewtg.html
http://www.planetbookclub.com/teachers/viewsat.html
http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-view.html

Wallace Wallace believes in telling the truth—even in book reports. When his report on “Old Shep, My Pal” gets him kicked off the football team and into detention attending rehearsals of the school play, he changes the play... and a whole lot more!

Lexile: 610. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2000, 180 pp. ISBN: 0786816015, 9780786816019

Awards include: 2003 Pacific Northwest Library Assoc. Reader's Choice Award Winner; numerous state and regional book awards.

Teacher Resources:
http://www.multcolib.org/talk/guides-nomore.html
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/korman_no.htm
http://www.myssyra.org/archive/03-04activities/curr6-8.pdf

Summer Reading 2008

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