Book+Suggestions

Here are some books that you may want to use in your curriculum areas

General Books: //Succesful Strategies for Reading in the Content Area// Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12 by George Hillcocks, Jr.

Inquire: A Guide to 21st Century Learning

6th Grade: //History News: The Egyptian New//s by Scott Steedman //History News: The Greek News// by Anton Powell //History News: The Roman News// by Andrew Langley //Detectives in Togas// by Henry Winterfield //History News: Revolution News// by Christopher Maynard //Medieval Messenger (Newspaper Histories)// by Paul Dowswell //Crispin// by Avi Adam of the Road //Daniel's Story// by Carol Mead Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy //Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaus//t by Eve Bunting Usborne Book of Inventors From Da Vinci to Bir 0-590-62175-0 Industrial Revolution by Mary Collins 0-516-27036-2 Revolution News: Power to the People by Candlewick Press 978-0-7636-1295-5 Leonardo Da Vinci by Diane Stanley 0-439-12059-4 Learning About the American Revolutions with Graphic Organizers by Linda Wirkner 1-4042-5055-7 Discovering Ancient Civilizations by Rebecca L Johnson 978-0-7922-8885-5 Law and Order in the Ancient World by Carol Ellis 1-4007-4464-4 Number the Stars Behind the Bedroom Wall Snow Treasures [|Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from the Medieval Village]

7th Grade: //It Happened in Utah// by Gayen Wharton //The Great Brain// by John Dennis Fitzgerald //Mormon Mother// by Annie Clark Tanner //Journey to Topaz// by Yushiko Uchida

8th Grade: //April Morning// by Howard Fast //Night John// by Gary Paulsen //We Were There, Too// by Phillip Hoose //The House of Dies Drear// by Virginia Hamilton //Across Five Aprils// by Irene Hunt //Bull Run// by P. Fleischmann //Soldier's Heart// by Gary Paulsen //Killer Angels// by Michael Sharra //Hard Tack and Coffee// by John D. Billings //Warriors Don't Cry// by Melva Beals //Chains// by Laurie Halse Anderson //Forge// by Laurie Halse Anderson Lies My Teacher Told Me by [|What they fought for 1861-8165]by James Mcpherson (uses civil journals and letters to explain why they fought)