Contents: The man from Alabama -- Growing up in the South -- Slavery and the South -- War in America, and after -- Learning -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- Big trouble in Little Rock -- A new start? -- From Birmingham to Washington -- 'This country is sick!' -- 'I'm Black and I'm proud!' -- 'Black and white, unite and fight!' -- Death in Memphis -- Still dreaming.
Basic Skills-- Reading -- Level 5 --323.4092 K53yMm 2008

Contents:
Part 1. Birth and childhood -- Part 2. Challenge and adventure -- Part 3. Love and marriage -- Part 4. Death and inheritance.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 5 -- 398.2 S839w

During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept winning and suddenly, the ordinary working man became an icon who carried the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders. Eventually, he rose through the ranks and went on to fight the heavyweight champ, the unstoppable Max Baer.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level5 -- 813.5 C411c abridged 2006

India Opal Buloni was sent to the store one day for macaroni and cheese, white rice and two tomatoes, and she came back with a dog. Winn-Dixie was a big dog, with bald patches and ribs showing through his fur. But he could smile just like a person, and he could make friends with nearly anyone. Luckily, Winn-Dixie is a Less Fortunate, and Opal's daddy has a soft spot for the Less Fortunate, even when they smell as bad as this one. Opal is ten, and she doesn't know much about her mama who packed up and left them when Opal was just three. Without saying a word, Winn-Dixie convinces Opal to ask her daddy for ten facts about her mama, one for every year she's been alive. Winn-Dixie is awfully good at bringing people together.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 5 -- 813.5 D545b 2001

One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 5 -- 813.5 F596s 2004

Basic Skills Collection Reading 5

Little David Copperfield is happy. The only two people in his life are his kind and gentle mother and Peggotty, who is always sweet and good. Life is fine until David's mother decides to marry again. Mr. Murdstone is cruel, and he quickly takes control of David and his mother. David is sent away to school. The school is not a nice place, but David makes some good friends there. Then David is told that his mother has died. Mr. Murdstone is not interested in paying for David's education, so David must leave school and go to London to find work. By being kind and good, David manages to find friends and win over bad circumstances. It's a hard life, but in the end, happiness returns.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 5 -- 823.8 D548p abridged 1999

A young English boy describes his relationship with his father and the special adventure they share together.
Basic Skills -- Reading --Level 5 -- 823.9 D131d 2007

" 'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds."
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 5 -- 973.0468 J61yJc 1998

" 'La frontera'...I heard it for the first time back in the late 1940s when Papa and Mama told me and Roberto, my older brother, that someday we would take a long trip north, cross la frontera, enter California, and leave our poverty behind." So begins this honest and powerful account of a family's journey to the fields of California -- to a life of constant moving, from strawberry fields to cotton fields, from tent cities to one-room shacks, from picking grapes to topping carrots and thinning lettuce. Seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for an education and the right to call one palce home, this is a story of survival, faith, and hope. It is a journey that will open readers' hearts and minds."
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 5 -- 973.0468 J61yJc 1997

"From paragraph to essay," including prewriting, structure, writing and editing, and journal assignment.
Basic Skills -- Teacher Resources -- 808.042 S739w v.3