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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading Grade 5 (NIMAC)
Description: The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom Guided Reading Collection will allow teachers to build a rich collection over time with engaging original texts to advance students' ability to process increasingly challenging books with fluency and comprehension. #teachers
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The Power of Style
by Brian McGrathNIMAC-sourced textbook. EGYPT UFELE was bullied in school because she was different. At first, learning to sew was a way of forgetting her pain and loneliness. But within a few years, she went from making clothes for her dolls to designing chic outfits for herself. When she was invited to show her clothing collection at New York City Fashion Week, this tween fashionista realized her talent and effort had won out over the bullies.
Plunged into Darkness: Understanding a Total Solar Eclipse
by Elizabeth Rusch and Isabelle RuschNIMAC-sourced textbook
The Painting
by Monica Auriemma and Susan BerlinerNIMAC-sourced textbook. Why? One minute ago, June was in a museum with her class. Now she's a housemaid in an old-fashioned boardinghouse! Why is she there? She won't get back until she figures out the answer.
Number One: Uncanny Uses of Urine / Number Two: From Waste to Wonder
by Gemma RymerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Not-So-Believable Stories: A Book of Urban Legends
by Pat Kinsella and Barb DwierNIMAC-sourced textbook
The Neighbor
by John Lee and Patrick JonesNIMAC-sourced textbook. Rap, Rap, RAP! Dontrel doesn't like the grouchy neighbor who raps his cane on the apartment wall. And then, one day, something happens to change his mind.
Mystery Play CSI
by Katherine Catmull and Gavin ReeceNIMAC-sourced textbook. Who Did It? Someone has written a play and distributed it to the drama club. But who? And why doesn't he— or she!—want anyone to know?
The Mystery of Tickling
by Tom CostaNIMAC-sourced textbook. Love It or Hate It. We can't help laughing when we're tickled… but why? Is being tickled enjoyable, or is it torture? Scientists have their tickling theories, but they are still trying to track down the answers to this odd human mystery.
The Mysterious Fossa
by Jacqueline AdamsNIMAC-sourced textbook. An Elusive Predator. What animal is as big as a dog, as agile as a squirrel, and as deadly as a crocodile? It's the fossa — the fiercest predator you've never seen!
My First Story
by William McCay and Gavin ReeceNIMAC-sourced textbook. Mystery Man. Cass is a star reporter on the trail of a prizewinning story. But she can't write it unless she can track down a mysterious man. Will she find him? What if she doesn't?
A Much Better Billy
by David Neilsen and Yaniv ShimonyA Brilliant Idea Billy is a genius. He builds a robot "brother" who can do homework, mow the lawn, and do all the boring things he doesn't want to do. At first, everything goes just great. But then … NIMAC-sourced textbook
Motorcycle Queen: The Story of Bessie Stringfield
by Jonathan Bartlett and Joan NicholsNIMAC-sourced textbook. Vrrroooommmm! Meet Bessie Stringfield, the pioneering black female motorcyclist who paved the way for all women to ride.
Morbid Medicine and Miracle Cures
by Christine StevensNIMAC-sourced textbook. Searching for Cures. Flesh-eating maggots. Saliva from the vampire bat. Powder from the rhino horn. And a parasite that fights cancer. Sick people will try anything if it offers a chance at survival. Modern science helps us evaluate some bizarre medical practices from the past and present to determine which cures work—and why.