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Titanic

Grace Enriquez, April 2, 2012 | Classroom & Curricular Ideas, Nonfiction Chapter Books, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books



Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson Scholastic Press, 2012 IBSN 978-0-545-11674-9 Grades 5-8 Book Review Rhoda Abbott. Olaus Jorgensen Abelseth. Lawrence Beesley. Frank Goldsmith. Charles Lightoller. Mother of two. Swedish immigrant turned South Dakota farmer. Science teacher. Nine year-old. Second officer on the RMS Titanic. All survivors of the disaster, and some of […]

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Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story

Mary Ann Cappiello, April 25, 2011 | Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books



Written and Illustrated by Thomas F. Yezerski Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2011 ISBN 978-0-374-34913-4 Grades 3-8  Book Review There are wetlands, and there are wetlands. For many adults, the Meadowlands of New Jersey can rouse certain images: chemical factories belching out smoke, Tony Soprano, the massive convergence of crowded highways leading in and out […]

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Night Flight and Amelia Lost

Mary Ann Cappiello, April 4, 2011 | Biography & Memoirs, Nonfiction Chapter Books, Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books



This week, The Classroom Bookshelf reviews two new biographies about Amelia Earhart that we felt deserved attention in today’s classrooms. This is our first experiment blogging about two related books concurrently, Night Flight, a picture book, and Amelia Lost, a chapter book. There are two separate reviews; our Teaching Invitations for the primary and intermediate […]

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