The United States Constitution by Jonathan Hennessey; Aaron McConnell (Illustrator)Call Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 --320.973 H515u 2008
ISBN: 9780809094707
Publication Date: 2008-10-14
Contents:
Introduction -- Preamble -- Article i -- Article ii -- Article iii -- Article iv -- Article v -- Article vi -- Article vii -- Ratification: federalists vs. anti-federalists -- The bill of rights : amendments 1-10 -- Amendments 11-27.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 --320.973 H515u 2008
29 copies in Basic Skills.
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26 copies in Basic Skills.
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College Reading 1 by Cheryl Benz; Myra M. MedinaCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 428.64 C697 2006 v.1
ISBN: 0618230203
Publication Date: 2004-12-22
1. Low intermediate / Cheryl Benz with Myra M. Medina -- 2. Intermediate / Linda Robinson Fellag -- 3. High intermediate / John D. Avery, Linda Robinson Fellag -- 4. Advanced / Cheryl Benz, Cynthia M. Schuemann.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 428.64 C697 2006 v.1
29 copies.
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Great American Stories 3 by C. G. DraperCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 428.64 D765g 2003 v.3
ISBN: 0130619418
Publication Date: 2002-08-01
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Wives of the Dead," two young women are informed of their husbands' deaths. One, a soldier, has died in war. The other, a sailor, has died at sea. The two women comfort each other. Though they have very different tempers -- Mary is mild and quiet, Margaret is more passionate and lively -- they are the only company they can bear right now. Late that night, they finally are able to sleep when first Margaret and then Mary is awakened by knocks on the door. Visitors bring unexpected news. But how can you share the joy and relief of hearing your husband is still alive when your dear sister-in-law is still grieving for the loss of hers? Hawthorne's story of love and compassion is also something of a mystery: are the women sleeping and dreaming, or are they truly awake?
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 428.64 D765g 2003 v.3
24 copies.
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30 copies.
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Sounder by William H. Armstrong; James Barkley (Illustrator)Call Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 A739s
ISBN: 0064400204
Sounder is the name of hunting dog that belongs to an African American sharecropper family. It's the 19th Century, deep in the American South, and racism rules the country. Poor and struggling to keep his family fed, the father of the family takes Sounder out hunting, but night after night they return with nothing to put on the table. Finally, one night, a ham appears on the family table. But before they can even finish eating the ham, deputies come to arrest the father for stealing. They shoot Sounder on their way out. In the end, both Sounder and the father survive, and return to the family. But being black in America has cost them dearly, and not all hurts are on the outside.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 A739s
23 copies of 1969 ed.; 10 copies of 2002 ed.
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Snow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 G983s abridged 1999
ISBN: 058241928X
In 1954, in a small fishing village off the Pacific Northwest coast, Kabuo Miyamoto is accused of murder. Carle Heine is dead, and someone is responsible. Tension is still high in this town, leftover from World War II and the internment camps that destroyed the lives of so many Japanese-Americans. Kabuo's own family lost their strawberry farm when they were deported to the camps, and now that land belongs to Carl Heine who seems unwilling to sell the land back to Kabuo. Is that motive enough for murder? The story is told in a local newspaper, written by a white man, Ishmael, who once had loved and lost Kabuo's wife. Racial discrimination kept them apart then, and it seems likely to condemn Kabuo to prison now.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 G983s abridged 1999
30 copies.
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Letters from Rifka by Karen HesseCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 H587l 1993
ISBN: 0140363912
The year is 1919. Rifka and her family live in Ukraine, but because they are Jewish, Russian soldiers treat them very poorly. They are only allowed to have two changes of clothes. They cannot travel. They do not feel safe. Finally, when Rifka's two brothers are about to be taken away by the Russian army, her father announces that they are leaving, that night, for America. It is a dangerous journey from Ukraine to Poland, and then by ship to America. But then it is discovered that Rifka has ringworm. She is not allowed to travel on with her family; she must go instead to Belgium where she can be treated. In her time in Belgium, and then on the ship to America, Rifka is treated kindly, as an equal, even though she is a Jew, and she learns what it means to be truly brave.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 H587l 1993
30 copies of 1993 ed. and 28 copies of 2009 ed. in Basic Skills.
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29 copies.
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How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'ConnorCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 O18h 2009
ISBN: 9780312561123
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 O18h 2009
31 copies.
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The Foxman by Gary PaulsenCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 P332f 1990
ISBN: 0140343113
The nameless narrator, a boy of 15, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on a farm in Minnesota. The boy's parents are alcoholics and dangerous, and so the boy has done most of his growing up on his own. In Minnesota, the boy and his cousin, Carl, frequently go hunting in the forest around the uncle's farm. Once, they get lost in the woods, and they find a small shack where they find shelter for the night. The shack was built by a man they call the Foxman. His face is horribly scarred from war. They begin an unlikely friendship, and the Foxman teaches the boy about nature, about life, and about family.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 P332f 1990
26 copies.
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Monsoon Summer by Mitali PerkinsCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 P449m 2006
ISBN: 0440238404
Jasmine Carol Gardner, "Jazz," is a pretty typical American teenager. At 15 she's discovered both lattes and love, but now her family is going to India for the summer, and she has to say goodbye to Steve, her best friend and secret crush. But in India, Jazz begins to learn a lot about herself. She is capable and smart and she has a lot to offer, if only she has the confidence to try. Danita, the young girl who is the family's cook in India, is an orphan. Poor and with little hope of adoption, Danita can cook and dance and sing and teach the younger children, and she is happy and kind. Jazz takes strength from her friend's example, and together they survive the madness of a monsoon summer.
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.5 P449m 2006
31 copies.
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Saving Zasha by Randi BarrowCall Number: Basic Skills-- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.6 B278s 2011
ISBN: 9780545206327
In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.
Basic Skills-- Reading -- Level 6 -- 813.6 B278s 2011
28 copies.
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An Elephant in the Garden by Michael MorpurgoCall Number: Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 823.9 M871e 2011
ISBN: 9780312593698
1944. Elizabeth's mother works at Dresden Zoo, where her favorite animal is an elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her. And then the bombs start to fall ...
Basic Skills -- Reading -- Level 6 -- 823.9 M871e 2011
31 copies.
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28 copies.
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