Special Collections
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
- Table View
- List View
Hurricane Hunters
by Katy DuffieldNIMAC-sourced textbook. Can You Imagine? What would it be like to ride a huge roller coaster in 150-mph (240-kph) winds in the middle of a rainstorm? And you're also 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) in the air. Sound scary? Welcome to hurricane hunting!
Tire Pressure / Swim, Bike, Run: A Day in the Life of a Triathlete
by Shane Johnson and Greg SmithNIMAC-sourced textbook
The Call that Started It All
by Suzanne SladeThe Day Everything Changed It's getting dark and you need a ride. If it's 1973, you go to a pay phone, drop in some change, and call home. Today you make a call on a phone you carry with you and all you need to worry about is a dead battery. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Inspiring Insects
by Noelle ChildNIMAC-sourced textbook. Nature's Tiny Marvels. The technology of the future is coming as scientists and engineers get new ideas from nature's tiniest technological marvels: bugs!
The Great Harry Houdini
by Claire GoldingImpossible! He let people handcuff him and dump him in deep water. He was tied and hung upside down one hundred feet (thirty meters) above the ground. He risked injury or death nearly every day for forty years. Why in the world did he do it? NIMAC-sourced textbook
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 Adventures of Sir Gareth: A King Arthur Tale
by Richard Cohen and Ario MurtiCan He Win? The young Sir Gareth must fight the Knight of the Red Lands, who lures other knights to his castle for the sheer pleasure of killing. Can Gareth win? The life of his lady hangs in the balance. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Superheroes of the Ancient World
by Owen Brozman and Joan NicholsSuperheroes! They're super brave, super strong, and they risk their lives to help others. They're also forgetful, boastful, and bad tempered. Well, nobody's perfect! NIMAC-sourced textbook
Made You Laugh: Stand-Up Comedy for Kids
by Kate DopirakNIMAC-sourced textbook. FUNNY BUSINESS. Avery Lender has always been funny. But being funny is no laughing matter to her. This young comedian hopes her job someday will be to make people laugh.
Fairies in the Garden
by J. C. Kane and Fabio LeoneNIMAC-sourced textbook. A Very Long Joke. Many years ago, two girls played a joke. They thought their prank would last just a few hours. But they ended up fooling some people for almost 70 years.
The Rose of Inis Raic
by Kathryn Rogers and Maurice PierseNIMAC-sourced textbook. SUDDEN CAPTAIN. Ciarán has worked for years on his cousin's passenger ferry, traveling to and from the tiny island of Inis Raic. When a disastrous accident occurs aboard the boat, he faces the hardest challenge of his life. Will he and the passengers survive?
Intern to a Monster
by Jackie Parker and Eoin CoveneyNIMAC-sourced textbook. A DREAM IN DANGER. Rudi's job as junior intern on a movie set is his first step toward the life of his dreams—being a screenwriter himself. But the star of the movie is threatening to stop Rudi's career dead in its tracks—before it even gets started.
Comets: The Quest to Solve a Space Mystery
by Elizabeth Rusch and Isabelle RuschMYSTERIOUS VISITORS They hang in the sky for weeks and then disappear. They're bright like stars, but they have tails. What are they? And where do they come from? Even after hundreds of years of study, we're still tracking down answers. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth: The Great Debate
by Tina KafkaTURNING BACK TIME The woolly mammoth, with its long curved tusks and shaggy coat, became extinct thousands of years ago. Now some scientists want to turn back time and bring the woolly mammoth back to life, but others are strongly opposed. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Turn Down the Volume: Solving the Problem of Noise Pollution / The Dark Side of Light: Solving the Problem of Light Pollution
by Isaac BorromeoNIMAC-sourced textbook
Air That Kills: India's Pollution Problem
by Susan StubbsTOXIC AIR In some Indian cities, people hurry through the streets, gasping for air. They have trouble breathing because of the air pollution, which is so bad that it can cause illness, and even death. NIMAC-sourced textbook
Dancing Through Darkness: The Story of Alicia Alonso
by Joseph Taylor and Jani OrbanGREAT CHALLENGES It takes a strong body and countless hours of practice to become a ballet dancer. For Alicia Alonso, it took something more. Just when her dancing career was starting to take off, she faced an unexpected challenge NIMAC-sourced textbook
Fearless Felix
by Sara Latta and Tony ShasteenNIMAC-sourced textbook. Free Fall to Earth. Felix Baumgartner has spent his whole life preparing for one big moment. If it turns out right, he'll skydive to Earth farther and faster than anyone in history.
Cruel to Be Kind
by Katherine Catmull and Gavin ReeceTo Be or Not to Be (Nice) The Drama Club has a big sci-fi play in the works, and the stakes are high. With just a couple days to go, Henry has left in a huff, leaving Taylor, the director, to handle all the tech and some of the work of building the props and set. But worst of all, Taylor still hasn't told one of the actors, Aleks, that her acting needs work—a lot of work. Will Taylor work up her nerve and do the right thing? Or will she … be "nice"? NIMAC-sourced textbook
The Last Wild Horses
by Jacqueline AdamsNIMAC-sourced textbook. Disappearing Horses. The last wild horses disappeared from the wild in 1969. But there was still hope to save what seemed lost.
Artist by Accident: The Story of Frida Kahlo
by Joan NicholsTHE PATH TO ART How does someone grow up to become a great artist? Some artists might say it's destiny. Some might say it requires genius. For Frida Kahlo, it happened by accident. NIMAC-sourced textbook
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.