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District List: BCPS Core Text Lists – Grade 2
Description: Baltimore City Public Schools Core Text List for students in 2nd Grade. Contains books from Modules: A Season of Change, The American West, Civil Rights Heroes, and Good Eating. #bcps
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The Story of Ruby Bridges
by Robert ColesThe inspirational true story of Ruby Bridges.The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse to send their children to school with her. Told with Robert Coles' powerful narrative and dramatically illustrated by George Ford, Ruby's story of courage, faith, and hope continues to resonate more than 60 years later.
The Vegetables We Eat
by Gail GibbonsGlossy red peppers, lush leafy greens, plump orange pumpkins, and delectable little peas: vegetables come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Leaf. . .root. . .stem. . . . These are three of the eight groups of vegetables. From how they are planted to how they get to stores, here is a wealth of information about them, including how to plant and tend your own vegetable garden.
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Why Do Leaves Change Color?
by Betsy MaestroExplains how leaves change their colors in autumn and then separate from the tree as the tree prepares for winter.