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Fretz, Mary |
Two brothers who answered God's call to missions--in two different ways! The true story in this children's book has a delightful surprise ending. |
Read-alouds 43 ⋅ Beginning Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Primary |
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Polacco, Patricia |
During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom. In the tradition of "Pink and Say, " Polacco once again dips into her own family's history to reveal her Aunt Monique's true story of… |
Beginning Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Primary ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Hoover, Susan Bame |
Faith the Cow is the true story of Dan West and how he and a group of farmers worked together to create peace in the world. As the old saying goes, "Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day; teach a man to fish, and you… |
Beginning Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Pathway Publishers |
Pathway reader for Grade 8. Workbook and teacher's manual of same title available separately. |
Read-alouds 34 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 ⋅ Living History Level 34 ⋅ Pathway ⋅ Curriculum ⋅ Living History Level 43 |
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Pathway Publishers |
Reader for Pathway reading series, Grade 7. Workbook and teacher's manual of same title available separately. |
Read-alouds 34 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 ⋅ Living History Level 34 ⋅ Pathway ⋅ Curriculum ⋅ Living History Level 43 |
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Curriculum ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Living History Threads ⋅ Student Materials 43 |
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Curriculum ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Living History Threads |
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Dave and Neta Jackson |
Timeless lessons for families from great Christians of the past. Drawn from the lives of fifteen key Christian heroes, Hero Tales, Vol. II is a beautifully illustrated treasury of forty-five exciting and educational readings designed to help foster Christian character qualities in families with elementary-age children. This inspiring collection presents… |
History ⋅ Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Martin, Mildred |
Experience thrilling adventure as the Christian missionaries on these pages meet witch doctors, disease, drought, hate-filled guerillas, a Bible thief, and killer cats. Each story is based on actual happenings from the lives of real people. |
Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 21 ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 21 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bauer, Susan Wise |
Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages--From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance |
Intermediate ⋅ Living History Level 34 ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Read-alouds 34 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Rockford Map Gallery |
Each student will need access to a world map and a USA map for geography study. |
Living History Level 34 ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Student Materials 34 ⋅ Student Materials 43 |
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Acapella version of the Geography Songs cd. |
Living History Level 34 ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 34 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bauman, Elizabeth |
A children's classic since 1954, Coals of Fire offers seventeen true stories about returning love for hate, good for evil, taken from various cultures and time periods, that will challenge readers, regardless of their age. (All Ages) 128 pages. |
Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 34 ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 34 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Jackson, Dave |
Here is a book about people who acted in faith and by their witness moved mountains and changed the world. They are heroes of faith who, like Abraham, became great because they loved God above everything else, including Christianity. |
Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 34 ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 34 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Troxel, Larry |
A 72-page illustrated workbook with maps, lyrics, and famous landmarks; and a 25"x 36" world map to label and color. Includes the audio CD. |
Living History Level 34 ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 34 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Summerer, Eric Michael |
Learn about Bach, one of the most prolific composers of the eighteenth, or any other, century. Includes full-color photographs, timeline, glossary, primary source listing, index and web sites. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Kalman, Bobbie |
Spotlight on Canada introduces children to Canada's multicultural people, its varied landscapes and climates, its exciting cities, and its joyful celebrations. A huge country with only one neighbor, the United States, Canada is divided into provinces and territories. French and English are its two official languages, and its rich… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Adler, David A. |
A chronicle of the life of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, who kept a diary during her family's attempts to hide from the Nazis in the 1940s. Important dates in the life of Anne Frank and notes from the author are included. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Kalman, Bobbie |
The second-largest country on Earth, Canada possesses a tremendous variety of natural wonders. This new second revision to Canada the Land takes students on a fascinating tour of the country's rugged coasts, frozen northern regions, vast prairies, and majestic mountain ranges. 32 pages. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Nichols, Catherine |
Learn Leonardo's life story through his drawings and paintings. Includes full-color photographs and illustrations, sidebars, timeline, glossary, primary source listing, index and web sites. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Various Artists |
1. Ave Maria (ARR. Gounod) |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Farris, Christine King |
"Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bert, Ruth J. |
This engaging children's book tells the life story of Sarah Bert, who served at a Chicago mission in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Sarah's story demonstrates how even the smallest among us can answer some of the biggest calls through a determined faith in God. She was… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Twenty true stories about people who followed Jesus' way when going the other way would have been much easier. With God's help, the main characters of these stories return good for evil, risk their lives to help others, or become peacemakers when conflict erupts. Written by Mary Clemens… |
Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Mitchell, Barbara |
Eli Whitney's love of inventing and pondering new ideas made him one of America's greatest inventors. Best known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the most important American inventions of the century, he changed cotton production forever. A few years later, Whitney invented machines to make muskets… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Simonetta Carr |
John Newton’s life was full of adventure, danger, travels, exotic places, and romance. Young readers will encounter each of these things in Simonetta Carr’s carefully narrated and charmingly illustrated book. But more importantly, readers will come to appreciate the way Newton’s life was changed for good, even… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Adler, David A. |
An introduction to the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment and who invented the phonograph, light bulb, movie camera, and numerous other items. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Sandler, Martin W. |
This selection in the acclaimed Library of Congress series details the Civil War with rich illustrations of over 100 vintage photographs, posters, and paintings from the Library's archives, offering young readers a captivating glimpse into American history. 96 pages. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Steele, Philip |
Galileo made the first effective use of the refracting telescope to discover important new facts about astronomy. His observations led him to support Copernicus's claim that Earth and the other planets circled the sun. This conflicted with the teachings of the Catholic Church, and brought Galileo before the judges… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Stanley, Diane |
In this reissue of her acclaimed picture-book biographies, Stanley captures the fabulous world of tsarist Russia and the greatness of its larger-than-life leader whose spirit, impatience and vision brought Russia into the modern world. Full-color illustrations. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Kroll, Steven |
From Kroll (Lewis and Clark, 1994, etc.), a handsomely illustrated biography that introduces a fascinating historical figure and will make readers yearn for more information. The facts are covered, including Fulton's stints as sign painter, air-gun inventor, and apprentice jeweler; Kroll states clearly which details cannot be pinned down, and… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bean, Esther |
A workbook to guide students in researching and presenting the history of their community. Accompanies Level 4/3 of Living History Threads. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Read-alouds 43 ⋅ Student Materials 43 |
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Sharp, John E. |
Here are stories about David Toews, Annie Funk and the Titanic, Orie Miller, Emma Richards and Marilyn Miller, Peter Dyck, Mesach Krisetya, a new search for Clayton Kratz, and more. |
Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Fleming, Alice |
Narrates the saga of how the Mennonites left Prussia to avoid military service, went to southern Russia where they learned to raise Turkey Red wheat, and ultimately came to the United States where they helped make Kansas famous for its wheat. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Jean F. Blashfield |
Try your luck, and search for your fortune in California! Follow the joy and heartbreak of the '49ers during the California Gold Rush. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Adler, David A. |
The moving story of a young girl who learns of her grandfather's experience in Auschwitz and then helps him overcome his sensitivity about the number on his arm, this award-winning picture book gives young children "just enough" information about the Holocaust without overwhelming them. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Kalman, Bobbie |
In this new second revised edition of Canada the People, candid photos feature Canadian families and how they live. Updated facts and statistics support this fascinating portrayal of a nation built on immigration. Important issues that must be resolved with the Native peoples are sensitively portrayed. 32 pages. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Smucker, Barbara |
Through the eyes of a young Mennonite boy, Peter, you see life for Mennonites in the Russian Ukrainian villages just before Lenin came to power, and the great immigrations after he started his rule. |
Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Coles, Robert |
The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse to… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Stoll, Joseph |
In The Drummer's Wife, twelve stories from the Martyrs Mirror are retold in modern language and in simpler form. Among the stories are retellings of some well-known accounts, such as Ellert Jans and Dirk Willems. |
Intermediate ⋅ Intermediate Readers ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bridges, Ruby |
Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a 6-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. An icon of the Civil Rights movement, Ruby chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bean, Esther |
Revival swept through North America and Europe in the 1700s and 1800s. The lives of men and women involved in the revival and missions movement are inspiring for us today. Accompanies Level 4/3 of Living History Threads. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Read-alouds 43 ⋅ Student Materials 43 |
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Eitzen, Ruth |
A Quaker family living in Ohio in the early 1800's makes peace with a Shawnee Indian tribe during a very troubled time. From the example of his father, young Abe learns the power of love to overcome hate. This edition published by special arrangement with Herald Press, Harrisonburg, VA. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bean, Esther |
First section tells the story of the Mennonite movement in the Netherlands. The second section tells the story of Mennonite migration through Prussia to Russia and eventually to North and South America. Used with Level 4/3 of Living History Threads. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Student Materials 43 |
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In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in America. More than two hundred years later, African-American slaves continued to suffer under the cruelest and harshest conditions in the South. Slaves tried to escape, but it was difficult. However, during the mid-1800s, the Underground Railroada secret network of people and escape… |
Read-alouds 43 ⋅ Living History Level 43 |
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Faith Builders Resource Group |
These 11 x 17 inch maps are laminated for classroom use. |
Teacher Materials 43 ⋅ Living History Level 43 |
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Stanley, Diane |
When it was first published, "Good Queen Bess" won many honors for its thoroughly researched narrative and superb illustrations. In this reissue, a celebrated author paints an impressive portrait of the remarkable queen who loved her people and ruled them so well. Full color. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Bauer, Susan Wise |
Story of the World, Volume 4: The Modern Age--From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR |
Intermediate ⋅ Living History Level 43 ⋅ PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Mitchell, Barbara |
Henry Ford loved mechanical things: springs and gears and cogs and wheels, things that clicked and ticked and turned. One hot summer day in 1876, Henry and his father were riding to Detroit in the farm wagon when suddenly there was a huffing and puffing monster heading straight toward them. It… |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |
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Adler, David |
Full-color illustrations tell the life story of the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Living History Level 43 ⋅ Read-alouds 43 |