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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Authors: Carlo Collodi (Lorenzini)

For Students 1st - 8th
This site features the author Carlo Collodi (Lorenzini) including a biography and the full text of the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Little Flower Seekers by Rosa M. Gilbert

For Students 2nd - 4th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Little Flower Seekers: Being Adventures of Trot and Daisy in a Wonderful Garden by Moonlight by Rosa M. Gilbert (c1885), an illustrated children's story about...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Charley's Lessons About Animals by Petter & Galpin Cassell

For Students 4th - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Charley's Lessons about Animals by Petter & Galpin Cassell (1864). This book includes the titled novella about the uses for domestic animals and the "Story of...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Fugitives or the Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by Ballantyne

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's historical fiction The Fugitives or The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R.M. Ballantyne (1887).
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy Travellers: South America by Thomas W. Knox

For Students 4th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Boy Travellers: South America by Thomas W. Knox (c1885). A fictional account of the adventures of two youths in a journey through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil,...
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Midnight's Children

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides information on the novel by native Indian Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children. Includes summary, hyperlinked terms, and external links.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Lois Lowry

For Students 6th - 8th
Carol Hurst provides an interesting biographical sketch of Lois Lowry with information about several of her novels.
Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," Vocabulary: Prologue Chapter 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of 40 words from the Prologue t hroughChapter 4 of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a young adult fantasy novel written by Ransom Riggs. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to...
Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," Vocabulary From Chapters 5 6

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of 40 words from Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a young adult fantasy novel written by Ransom Riggs. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to...
Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," Vocabulary From Chapters 7 9

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of 40 words from Chapters 7-9 of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a young adult fantasy novel written by Ransom Riggs. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to reinforce the...
Unit Plan
Vocabulary.com

"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," Vocabulary From Chapters 10 11

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a list of 40 words from Chapter 10 and Chapter 11 of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a young adult fantasy novel written by Ransom Riggs. Teachers can digitally assign this list to their students to...
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: The Basket Woman: A Book of Fanciful Tales for Children

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Mary Austin's The Basket Woman: A Book Of Fanciful Tales For Children has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Unit Plan
Other

Caring for Cambodia: Children of the River

For Students 6th - 8th
This website provides guidelines for a "Learning Quest on Cambodia." Read Linda Crew's novel, "Children of the River," and study Cambodia's history, culture, and environment, through Internet research, critical questions, and a magazine...
Lesson Plan
Other

Cygnet Publishing Group Inc.: The Weeping Chamber Study Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The Weeping Chamber" by Sigmund Brouwer is set in Jerusalem in the last days of Christ's life. It can be interpreted as an historical or a religious novel. This is an extensive study guide for the novel. It has many blackline masters...
Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Belle of Batoche Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 7th
This is a teacher's guide for the historical novel Belle of Batoche, written by Jacqueline Guest, which looks at the friendship between two girls during the 1885 Riel Rebellion. The guide includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the...
Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: The Big Snapper Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 6th
The novel The Big Snapper, written by Katherine Holubitsky, looks at the idea of tall tales helping a young boy as he struggles with the difficult issues in his life - an absent father, a beloved grandfather who falls ill, and struggling...
Unit Plan
Other

Penguin Group Canada: Our Canadian Girl: Rachel Book One (Teacher Guide) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
This teacher's guide accompanies 'Rachel Book One: A Mighty Big Imagining', one in the Our Canadian Girl series. The novel looks at the experiences of early black Canadian pioneers.
Unit Plan
Other

Penguin Group Canada: Our Canadian Girl: Rachel Book Two (Teacher Guide) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
This teacher's guide accompanies 'Rachel Book Two: The Maybe House', one in the Our Canadian Girl series. The novel looks at the experiences of early black Canadian pioneers.
Unit Plan
Other

Penguin Group Canada: Our Canadian Girl: Emily (Teacher Guide) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
This teacher's guide accompanies 'Emily: Across the James Bay Bridge', one in the Our Canadian Girl series. The novel looks at the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the early 1900s.
eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text of the Louisa May Alcott novel, Jack and Jill, is available here, formatted for online reading.
Primary
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Very Little Tales for Very Little Children

For Students K - 1st
This ebook version of Unknown author's Very Little Tales For Very Little Children has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Primary
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Useful Annie and Other Verses for Children

For Students 1st - 3rd
This ebook version of Unknown author's Useful Annie And Other Verses For Children has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Activity
Other

Eric Wilson

For Students 2nd - 8th
Information about Canadian novelist Eric Wilson and his fiction are included along with the first chapter from each of his mystery novels.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Madeline, a Story of the Early Spring Time by Jacob Abbott

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Madeline, A Story of the Early Spring-time by Jacob Abbott [1870], a Christian novel for children.