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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading Grade 4 (NIMAC)

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3, 2, 1 … Bungee! The Science Behind the Jump

by Claire Golding

NIMAC-sourced textbook. It's Scary Up There … A high bridge. A deep gorge. A long fall. It might sound like a recipe for disaster—but thanks to science it's just a thrilling way to spend an afternoon.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Bear Named Winnie

by J. C. Kane and Josh Brunet

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Small Bear, Big Forest. A bear cub wanders alone in a forest. But then something happens that changes her life and eventually changes the lives of many children around the world.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Different Kind of Baseball

by Sunita Apte

NIMAC-sourced textbook. OUT TO THE BALL GAME. Discover a different kind of baseball game, one in which the players wear blindfolds. Sound impossible? As it turns out, nothing is impossible—not even blind baseball—if the players are determined to succeed.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Floating School

by Kim Hanken

NIMAC-sourced textbook. A School on Water. Every year, millions of children can't go to school in Bangladesh because of storms and floods. One man had an idea to solve this problem. He used the water to bring the school to the children.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Fungus Among Us

by Riley Roam and Lisa Adams and Eugene Smith

NIMAC-sourced textbook. TROUBLE ON SPACE STATION 6. Jannali has a big problem on her hands. And it keeps growing. Then it speaks and its message is shocking!

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Laughing Matter

by Neil Fairbairn

NIMAC-sourced textbook. A Good Laugh. Laughter seems to offer more than a good feeling—it can actually improve our physical and mental health. That's right, laughter is easy, free, fun, and good for your health.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Night on Mount Entoto

by Suki Aidoo and Joe Cepeda

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Arha's Problem. When Arha's master challenges him to spend the night on a freezing mountain in return for a house and land, Arha, a poor servant, turns to a wise man for advice.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Time to Remember

by Dana Catharine

NIMAC-sourced textbook. A Family Fiesta. In Mexico, families honor and remember departed loved ones by celebrating their lives. It's a party—at the cemetery!

Date Added: 04/02/2020


A Village on Stilts / Growing Up in the Amazon

by Jacqueline Adams

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Alone on the Ocean

by Catherine Friend and Scott Plumbe

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Stranded! Fisherman Ernie Hazard found himself all alone on the ocean in the middle of a gigantic storm. There was no one to help him survive, so he had to help himself.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Althea Gibson, the Tiger of Tennis

by Alice Cary and Jani Orban

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Changing the Face of Tennis. Althea Gibson spent her childhood getting into trouble on the streets of Harlem, New York. She grew up to change the world of championship tennis forever.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Asha and the Jewel Thief

by Hg Yin and Marcos Calo

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Robbed! Asha knew she could solve the crime. But then, unexpectedly, there were too many suspects.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Bags Full of Ashes

by Sondra Siegel and Joe Cepeda

NIMAC-sourced textbook. FOOLS' GOLD. Get-rich schemes rarely pay off. This old tale tells how two girls got caught up in that dream—and how one of them somehow found gold treasure in a surprising way.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Ban All Cars!

by Noelle Child

NIMAC-sourced textbook. GET RID OF THEM! If you can't imagine life without cars, you're not alone … but what if that's exactly what the world needs?

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Banana Blade

by Will Lipsett

NIMAC-sourced textbook. A BROKEN STICK. What would you do if your hockey stick broke just as you skated onto the ice to play? Stan Mikita, a pro hockey player, decided to use his broken stick anyway. His decision changed the game of hockey forever.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Bathrooms to Remember

by Scott O’Malley

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Peeing in Style. Most bathrooms are pretty boring … unless you've seen one of the unusual restrooms in this book.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Bats in the City

by Martha Pickerill

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Meet the Neighbors. People in Austin, Texas, share their fast-growing city with exciting neighbors: more than a million Mexican free-tailed bats.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Beaver Alert!

by Catherine Friend

NIMAC-sourced textbook. TROUBLEMAKER OR SUPERHERO? Beavers are cute. They're hardworking. And they don't mean to cause any trouble.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Before He Was Babe

by Catherine Lordi and Josh Brunet

NIMAC-sourced textbook. A Kid in Trouble. He was the kid who was always getting into trouble, but George Ruth found out he wasn't such a bad kid after all.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Big and Bold Art

by Joanna Cruz

NIMAC-sourced textbook. MAKE ROOM. Most art fits on a wall or inside a room. But not this art. Take a look at art that's so huge, it fills up space the size of soccer fields.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Big Bertha's Big Trip

by Alice Cary

NIMAC-sourced textbook. BIG PLANS FOR A BIG CRUISER. The huge red machine was called the Snow Cruiser, and no one had ever seen anything like it. It was built to travel over ice in Antarctica. But how would it get to the bottom of the world?

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Big Wheel, Big Worries

by Claire Golding and Loïc Derrien

NIMAC-sourced textbook. BIG QUESTIONS. It was going to be the biggest wheel ever built. It was going to carry people up to see views they'd never seen before. It was going to amaze the entire world. But could something that big stay upright? And would it turn? Even the man who dreamed it up didn't know for sure.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Blue Ribbons

by Jennifer McKerley and Monica Auriemma

NIMAC-sourced textbook. Whew! Sheridan has told a lie. The only thing worse than being found out by a newspaper reporter is being found out by his gran.

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Books, Beasts, and Blood

by Nikki Loftin and Marcos Calo

NIMAC-sourced textbook. PREMONITIONS … AND PANIC. Logan, a mild-mannered library helper, discovers clue after clue that tell him something terrible is about to happen at the school. Can he save Assistant Principal Smithers? And does he need to?

Date Added: 04/02/2020


Bored in Space

by Riley Roam and Lisa Adams and Eugene Smith

NIMAC-sourced textbook. News from Outer Space. Marv just won't believe that Jannali is on a space station. Can she convince him … without getting hurt?

Date Added: 04/02/2020



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