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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom, Guided Reading Grade 5 (NIMAC)
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Just Desserts
by Jackie Parker and Chris CoadyNIMAC-sourced textbook. Standing Up to Alice. Elizabeth puts up with giving her own food to Alice, the Head Girl at the orphan school, but she can't stand watching the other girls starve. Alice is big, strong, and mean—and she carries a switch for beating. How can Elizabeth stand up to her?
The Last Dare
by Jill Rubalcaba and Chris KingNIMAC-sourced textbook. Dead Man's Drop. Luca accepts any dare that comes along. But this one may be too much, even for her.
The Last Mission
by William McCay and Eoin CoveneyNIMAC-sourced textbook. DO OR DIE. Secret agent Stone has been given a mission. If he completes it, millions of lives could be lost. If he refuses, his own life will be in peril. Which path should he take? To do … or to die?
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.
Leeches, Maggots, and Skulls: Curious Cures from History
by Lynda Jones and Dave SmithNIMAC-sourced textbook. EW! Imagine eating bedbugs to cure a cold. Or swallowing leeches to heal your swollen tonsils. History is full of odd cures like these. Travel back in time to learn about the sometimes-horrid history of healing.
Listening to Space: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life / Alien Invasion: Believe It Or Not
by John SwansonNIMAC-sourced textbook
Look Who's Talking: The Art of Ventriloquism
by Amanda YskampNIMAC-sourced textbook. A Ventriloquist's Secrets Revealed. Watching a ventriloquism act is like watching a person perform a magical feat with a puppet as a partner. The audience laughs in wonder at the puppet's funny jokes as the puppet's sidekick—a real person—manipulates its mouth and body parts. Some puppets sing, some tell jokes, and others try to do magic tricks. They seem so lifelike the audience wonders how on earth the puppets can talk. Find out the secrets from a real ventriloquist, Rey Ortega, and share a good laugh with his entertaining puppets.
Louis Armstrong's Horn
by J. C. Kane and Charly PalmerNIMAC-sourced textbook. A LUCKY BREAK. Louis Armstrong was eleven years old when he was sent to live in a home for troubled boys. He thought it was the worst thing that had ever happened to him. But it turned out to be the best.
Lucky Star
by Katherine Catmull and Gavin ReeceNIMAC-sourced textbook. Will Quinn's lucky star keep shining? Quinn surprises his twin brother, his parents, and the whole Drama Club when he applies to a school for the performing ar ts—20 miles away. Is he ready to go from being a big fish in a little pond to being a little fish in a big pond? Will his twin brother, Henry, feel abandoned?
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.
Malala the Brave
by Brian Deines and Joan NicholsNIMAC-sourced textbook. A HERO. Most people run away from danger when they are scared. Malala did not. That made her a hero.
Mama's Cafe
by Amanda Yskamp and Gavin ReeceNIMAC-sourced textbook. Helping Out. Lupe, an immigrant from Mexico, has to spend her weekends working at her parents' restaurant—and she would rather other kids not know anything about it.
Margaret's Machine
by Catherine Friend and Ron MazellanNIMAC-sourced textbook. Inventing the Paper Bag. Paper bags are boring, right? Not if you know the story behind their invention.
Matthew, The Printer's Apprentice
by Casie Hermansson and Chris CoadyNIMAC-sourced textbook. Clumsy Fool. Matthew hates it when his master calls him "clumsy fool." Why should he stay and work when he's treated so badly?
Maybe, Just Maybe
by Amanda Yskamp and Michael MorrisNIMAC-sourced textbook. Jenny's Dilemma. Jenny was an accomplished competitive runner until she was injured in a terrible car accident. She can't imagine ever competing again … until her old coach presents her with an interesting idea.
The Medium's Daughter
by Ann Hodgman and Odessa SawyerNIMAC-sourced textbook. Spirits of the Dead. Effie doesn't mind helping her mother with her fortune-telling tricks. But now her mother is trying something new—raising the spirits of the dead.
Meteor Showers: Nature's Fireworks
by Elizabeth Rusch and Isabelle RuschNIMAC-sourced textbook. A Light Show for Every Season. Love fireworks? There's no need to wait a whole year between shows—you can find nighttime entertainment in the sky in winter, spring, summer, and fall, if you know when and where to look. And nature puts it all on for free!
Modern-Day Cave Dwellers: Life in the Kandovan Caves
by Kim PhanNIMAC-sourced textbook. CAVE HOMES. Humans inhabited caves for thousands of years, and most have left by now … but not the residents of Kandovan, Iran. These modern-day cave dwellers give new meaning to the expression "living under a rock."
Monsters of the Deep
by Mary ReidNIMAC-sourced textbook. Searching for a Legend. For thousands of years, seafarers told stories of a gruesome monster that lurked in the oceans’ depths and occasionally ate people whole. In the twenty-first century, scientists were finally able to catch the monster on video.
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.
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.
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
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?
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!