Survival in the Sahara Desert by Kathy Kinsner

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Book: Survival in the Sahara Desert
Author: Kathy Kinsner
ISBN: 978-0-02-202937-1

Introduction

1. Which desert is over 3,500,000 square miles?
2. What desert is about the same size of the United States?
3. Over how many countries does the Sahara Desert stretch?
4. Deserts begin as rocks.  True or False

Chapter 1: Plants: Surviving in a Dry Climate

5. What is the name of the plant that has adapted to survive in the desert?
6. Where do Date Palms grow?
7. What do humans use the fruit from a Date Palm for?
8. What do humans use the seeds from a Date Palm for?
9. What do humans use the wood and leaves for?
10. What do humans use the sap from a Date Palm for?

Chapter 2: Animals: Surviving in Extreme Heat

11. They sleep in burrow underground
12. Answers will vary
13. A small rodent
14. 22 miles per hour
15. 10 feet into the air
16. it is a lizard
17. up to 5 feet
18. up to 3 miles
19. They are endanger because people hunt them for their skins and they are losing their land due to farming.
20. They have a pedometer
21.   A) It stores body fat for food, (B) It has long legs to keep its body away from the high heat, (C) its nostrils close during a sandstorm

Chapter 3: People: Surviving in the Desert

22. A nomad is someone who moves from place to place looking for food and water.
23. They are nomadic people who live in the Sahara.
24. It means “people of the veil.”
25. The “Blue Men of the Desert.”
26. The Tuareg
27. They are underground tunnels that carry water.

A Change of Weather by Kirsten Anderson

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Book: A Change of Weather
Author: Kirsten Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-02-202343-0

Chapter 1: Lonely Town

1. They live in Everton, Washington.
2. Seattle
3. Washington
4. Mark and Alicia just moved from Miami or Florida.
5. They were Tracy, Becca, and Phoebe.
6. Tumble

Chapter 2: Weather Trouble

7. Piper Elementary
8. Mr. Harris
9. Ms. Graham
10. They are going to do their project on an important invention or discovery.
11. Julie, Natalie, and Madeline
12. There was a storm that created flooding that closed roads to the library.

Chapter 3: Making the Best of Things

13.  She picked up a book about a dog that switched places with a little girl.
14. Julie
15. They both like basketball and golf.
16. He gave the little girl a pen and paper for her to draw.  He made a bird from paper and showed the young boy how to make a paper airplane.

Chapter 4: Library Party

17.  The librarians
18. they ate popcorn, bananas, peanut butter, jelly, crackers, and cookies.
19. No, they weren’t.

Sleeping Beauty and the Prince of Andequesta by Rebecca Motil

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Book: Sleeping Beauty and the Prince of Andequesta
Author: Rebecca Motil
ISBN: 978-0-02-202897-8

Scene 1: After School

1. Pauline got the Sleeping Beauty part in the play.
2. They are going to celebrate at Michiko’s house.
3. Rafael
4. Rafael
5. Rafael
6. Lita
7. Michiko

Scene 2: The Soccer Game

8. Rafael
9. french

Scene 3: The Phone Call

10. answers will vary
11. Rafael’s father is king of Andequesta.
12. South America

Scene 4: The Rehearsal

13. Martine
14. 15 minutes

Scene 5: The Next Day

15.  Yes, she did.

Dorothea Lange, The Eye of a Photographer by June Avignone

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Book: Dorothea Lange, The Eye of a Photographer
Author: June Avignone
ISBN: 978-0-02-203058-2

Chapter 1: Looking Closely at the World

1. Dorothea Lange was born in 1895.
2. Dorothea was born in Hoboken, New Jersey.
3. She contracted polio.
4. Polio left her with a bad limp on her right foot.
5. They both moved to New York City.
6. Columbia University was the university that Lange attended.
7. The name of her professor was Clarence H. White.

Chapter 2: Portraits by a Young Artist

8. At age 22, Lange moved to San Francisco, California.
9. Dorothea Lange
10. The name of her husband was Maynard Dixon.
11. They had 2 boys.
12. Daniel and John were the names of the boys.
13. “Dixon made his living painting western scenes.
14. The stock market crashed.
15. There were 15 million people out of work.
16. They had to sell their home.
17. It is known as “The Great Depression.”
18. She was known as the “White Angel.”

Chapter 3: Capturing the Great Depression

19.  Unemployment Benefits began by the New Deal Program.
20. Lange’s second husband’s name was Paul Taylor.
21. The Dust Bowl took place in the 1930s.
22. During the Dust Bowl, farms in the Midwest were hit by drought.  The soil turned to dust.  Farmers then headed west for work.
23. John Steinbeck wrote about this experience on his novel, “The Grapes of Wrath.”
24. False
25. Lange’s work is often called documentary photography because it records a time in history.



Chapter 4: World War II and Beyond

26. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
27. He gave the army the power to arrest over 100,000 Japanese-Americans.
28. She died on October 1, 1965.

Extreme Weather by Susan Ring

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Book: Extreme Weather
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202544-1

Introduction

1. They use computers and satellites

Chapter 1: Rain

2. Rain is liquid precipitation that falls in drops from the clouds.
3. Water vapor is evaporated water that turned to gas.
4. The atmosphere is a wide blanket of air that goes all around Earth.
5. The lower 6 miles of the atmosphere is called the troposphere.
6. The troposphere is always moving and changing.  It s creating all of the weather around the globe.
7. Floods are created when there is too much rain and the streams and rivers overflow.
8. Thunderstorms are powerful, violent rainstorms.
9. Bolts of lightning are created when water droplets are blown together.  Then they create an electric charge.
10. 100 million
11. false
12. false
13. Thunder is the expansion of air from the heat produced by the lightning flash.
14. A supercell is a strong thunderstorm.
15. A supercell lasts for hours and spread over hundreds of miles.  Thunderstorms don’t last a long time.  A thunderstorm doesn’t carry strong winds while a supercell carries winds of 100 miles per hour.
16. Mist is raindrops that don’t fall to the ground and stay in the air.
17. True
18. Fog is the mist when it forms near the ground.
19. A monsoon is powerful winds that  carry plenty of moisture that produce heavy rains to areas that have not seen rain for  6 months.
20. The continent of Asia.
21. The continent of Asia.

Chapter 2: Ice and Snow

22. An ice storm is when raindrops fall but the air high above ground is warm.  As the raindrops get closer to the ground, they freeze by the cold air at ground level.  This causes the raindrops to turn to ice and snow.
23. Sleet is rain droplets that fall in a frozen state.
24. The coldest temperature recorded in the U.S. was -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C).
25. It was recorded in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska, in 1971.
26. Snowflakes are tiny crystals of ice.
27. Snowflakes have 6 sides.
28. It is created when you have powerful winds and a heavy snowfall.
29. The winds in a blizzard can average 35 miles per hour.
30. No, it is very hard to see during a blizzard.
31. A whiteout is the extreme condition of the blizzard that prevents people from seeing outside.
32. It gets 10-20 inches of snow.
33. They are chunks of ice that form inside powerful storm clouds.
34. This region is called Hail Alley.
35. North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas.
36. Hailstorms last for 15 minutes.
Hail sounds like millions of table-tennis balls dropping

The Goldsmith's Apprentice by Kirsten Anderson

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Book: The Goldsmith’s Apprentice
Author: Kirsten Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-02-202981-4

Chapter 1: A Glorious Day in Florence

1. Signor Agnolo is the owner of the goldsmith shop.
2. Piero
3. Benvenuto Cellini
4. He was going to deliver some sketches.
5. Signor Agnolo had 6 apprentices

Chapter 2: A Promise to Keep

6. The Duke of Cosimo
7. They all went to watch the parade of the wedding party.
8. He tossed coins to them.
9. They bought oranges.
10. They decided to practice their sketching.
11. They encountered a royal party taking a stroll along the River Arno.
12. She was visiting from Florence.

Chapter 3: Working Undercover

13. A servant of Principessa Maria.
14. He wanted to give Cellini a bag of jewels.
15. They lived in the attic.
16. Signor Agnolo caught them.
17. She paid him 10 crowns.
18. He gave Signor Agnolo 6 crowns.
19. Piero only received 1 crown.

Back to School by Sunita Apte

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Book: Back to School
Author: Sunita Apte
ISBN: 978-0-02-202432-1

Chapter 1: Coming Home

1. They were heading to Claryville.
2. They were in space for a few weeks.
3. Rae Chen
4. Velez
5. She is a member of the Lotus Space Mission.
6. She became a member in part of a school project.
7. 2050
8. One student was picked for this mission.
9. Commander Assad and Pilot Velez
10. They had to pass many tests.

Chapter 2: The Landing

11. Her first reaction was to open the capsule.
12. She tried to open Commander Assad’s capsule.
13. The spaceship landed outside of town.
14. That she is looking for the way to downtown Claryville.
15. He said to go straight down this road.
16. He told her to ask the policewoman for a ride.
17. The man was dressed in silver pants with a matching shirt and boots.
18. green

Chapter 3: A Strange School

19.  She took her to school.
20. No she didn’t.
21. She was taken to “The Laura Parker School.”
22. Answers will vary

Chapter 4: Everything Is Explained

23.  The classrooms didn’t have numbers, they had names.
24. Plumbers, Architects…
25. They weren’t wearing jeans and shoes.
26. They were wearing jumpsuits.
27. They were wearing blue jumpsuits.
28. They were wearing yellow jumpers.
29. He was wearing a green jumpsuit.
30. The boy’s name is Max Quinn.
31. She belongs in the Astronauts Classroom.
32. Because Astronauts wear white.
33. They have to test into classrooms/careers
34. February 16, 2056
35. 2099
36. 43 yrs later
37. 5 years
38. The computer decides
39. They get assigned to sort paper clips.

Chapter 5: Going Home Again

40. He took her to the Principal’s office.
41. Her name was Mrs. Sanders.
42. They were taken there by car driven by the Principal.
43. Yes
44. The rule is that no one is allowed to time travel, or stay in the future or in the past.
45. No
46. She is going to fight against the tests.
47. She had a feeling that she will meet Max again.

Jin by Bob McCall

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Book: Jin
Author: Bob McCall
ISBN: 978-0-02-202750-6

Chapter 1: Free

1. A barrack
2. They were located at Angel Island.
3. Li Mei
4. Jin
5. The ghostly sounds of foghorns.
6. No, they weren’t allowed.

Chapter 2: Gateway to the Pacific

7. Jin
8. They had to be interview to prove that they were the children of their father.
9. A boycott is when people refuse to buy something form someone.
10. She thought that boycotts sometimes made people change the laws.
11. Li Mei
12. Big Kwan

Chapter 3: The Cook, the Poet, and the Letter

13. They were allowed out for exercise.
14. He gave them a letter from their father.
15. She ran into a man.
16. He was carving a poem on the wall.
17. To give hope to the next man that takes his place on the island.
18. He didn’t have paper and a pen.
19. It said a government official visited him.  He answered all questions truthfully.  That there are boycotts in China and maybe they will be together soon.
20. (A) Mrs. Schwarz
21. She was in charge of the women and children on the island.

Chapter 4: The Test

22. Answers will vary
23. The unions were afraid of workers coming from China.  They were afraid that Chinese people would take their jobs.
24. The government wanted to make sure that Li Mei’s family was real.
25. A “paper daughter” is someone who pretended to be a citizen’s daughter.
26. 3 men questioned Li Mei.
27. They asked her to describe her house, if there were steps up to the front door, and how many windows it had.
28. She said he was an old farmer.
29. She said that she didn’t know.  She said he has been alone all the time she has known him.
30. That there was no well in her village.
31. She said the well is located outside the village.
32. Her job is to carry water from the well to the village.
33. She felt she failed.
34. Germany
35. Mrs. Schwarz

Fighting for Rights by Ann M. Rossi

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Book: Fighting for Rights
Author: Ann M. Rossi
ISBN: 978-0-02-202941-8

Introduction

1. They could work in factories or teach.
2. They couldn’t be lawyers or doctors.
3. no
4. No, women earned less.
5. The husband got to keep all her property.
6. No, she didn’t have control and her husband decided if she gets spending money.
7. The husband stayed with the children if they divorced.
8. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Chapter 1: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

9. 1815
10. He studied law.
11. politics
12. He let her read his law books.
13. 10
14. no
15. The name of her cousin was Gerrit Smith.
16. Henry Stanton
17. The word “obey” was included in most wedding vows.
18. They were to take care of their homes, children, and obey their husbands.
19. London
20. She met Lucretia Mott
21. The seed was that women needed to fight for the right to vote.
22. Lucretia Mott was a Quaker minister and a well-known abolitionist.  She started the Philadelphia Female Antislavery Society.
23. 1840
24. 1848
25. 8 years
26. Answers will vary
27. Compare and contrast yourself to Lucretia Mott or Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  Answers will vary
28. They wrote a Declaration of Sentiments.
29. 5, Elizabeth, Mott, and 3 others.
30. It listed ideas about women’s rights.
31. The right for women to vote.
32. Imagine if once you reached 18years old, you couldn’t vote.  Compare and contrast how your life would change and stay the same.
33. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
34. It was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
35. The newspapers were against the goals of the convention.

Chapter 2: Susan B. Anthony

36. “The Quakers believed that all people should be useful to the world.  They also believed that men and women were equals.”
37. Yes it was, we had slavery back then, and women didn’t have rights.
38. 1820
39. Susan learned to read by the age of 4.
40. He decided to start his own school.
41. She went to Pennsylvania for boarding school.
42. He owned a small cotton mill.
43. She became a teacher.
44. She taught at the Canajoharie Academy in New York.
45. She joined a temperance group.
46. It is a group that tried to control or stop the use of alcohol.
47. What was the Underground Railroad?
48. The slaves that escaped through the Underground Railroad went to the country of Canada.  Why did they go to this country?  They went to Canada because slavery wasn’t allowed.
49. Frederick Douglass
50. 1851
51. They met at an antislavery convention.
52. Give one fact for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here:___________________________________________________________________________________
53. Give one opinion for chapter 1, write and quote the sentence here: _________________________________________________________________________________________
54. She went to a temperance convention and was not allowed to speak.

Chapter 3: Working Together
55. Compare and contrast the two women, Susan and Elizabeth, on page 15.
56. The 1854 petition was for the rights of married women to own property in New York.
57. The Civil War
58. In 1863, Elizabeth and Susan helped form a group called the Women’s National Loyal League.  This group collected signatures of people who supported an end to slavery.
59. They helped convince lawmakers to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
60. The amendment freed all enslaved people.
61. The issue was to have African American men have the right to vote before women.
62. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
63. They wanted a constitutional amendment that gave women the vote.
64. Men couldn’t join
65. They were supporting for African American men to get the vote first then women.
66. Answers will vary
67. 1890
68. 21 years (1890-1869= 21)
69. They merged in 1890.
70. The National American Women Suffrage Association
71. The 19th Amendment
72. 3 quarters
73. It was passed in 1919
74. 1902
75. 1906
76. 17 years after (1919-1902=17)
77. 13 years after (1919-1906=13)
78. Carrie Chapman Catt started the league of Women Voters.
79. In 1920
80. It was her belief that informed citizens make wiser decisions
81. This organization was designed to help  women become educated about political issues.
82. It encouraged them to become active in local politics.

The Wood Sprite by Rebecca Motil

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Book: The Wood Sprite
Author: Rebecca Motil
ISBN: 978-0-02-203068-1

Chapter 1: The Caterpillars

1. She had a feeling that something good was going to happen.
2. Her favorite place was the backyard.
3. In the backyard of her home.
4. Her goal was to stay outside the whole day.
5. The request was not to fall asleep under a tree.
6. She placed a lunch and a book in her backpack.
7. She lived in the country.
8. She used dandelions and green clovers in her bouquet.
9. Ducks and geese swam in the pond.
10. The water felt wonderful on her toes.
11. Yes
12. She fell asleep under a cherry tree.
13. She was thinking about how healthy her cherry tree is.
14. A line of caterpillars wrote the word.
15. A deer walked across the path.
16. They walked in the following order
a. A deer, she fed it an apple
b. A squirrel, she gave it walnuts
c. Two bluebirds, she gave them breadcrumbs and a little piece of apple

Chapter 2: The Bear

17. The bag of caterpillars.
18. She ran into a bear.
19. (A) A deer saved Stella from the bear.
20. The deer said, “Because you shared your apple with me, you may continue on the path.”

Chapter 3: The Net

21. Answers will vary
22. While walking on the path, Stella got caught on a net.  Then squirrels came to her rescue by chewing on the net.  After one squirrel gave Stella a little bow, it said, “Because you shared your walnuts with me.  You are fee to continue on the path.”

Chapter 4: The Fork in the Path

23. Two bluebirds led the way she should go
24. She took the left path.
25. She encountered deer, squirrels, and sprites.
26. They turned to sprites.

Chapter 5: The Queen of the Sprites

27. The Sprite Queen (B)
28. The Queen gave her wings ( C)
29. Stella got the wings for passing 3 tests.
30. The Queen of the Sprites made Stella a “Special Wood Sprite.”
31. Her responsibility is to protect the woods and the creatures that live in them.
32. Use text clues from the story to support your answer.

The Fisherman and the Well, This Friend, That Friend by Frances Ruffin

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Book: The Fisherman and the Well/ This Friend, That Friend
             A Tale from The Arabian Nights
Author: Frances Ruffin
ISBN: 978-0-02-202361-4, 978-0-02-202640-0

Introduction

1. It is a group of tales.
2. They come from India, Persia, and the Arab world.
3. The storytellers changed the facts to make them more exciting and fun.
4. The stories became fantasies.
5. They often describe lives of rich people who ruled common people.

Chapter 1: The Sultan’s Plan/ An Impossible Task

6. The Sultan wanted the fisherman’s land.  He just wanted his land to be richer.
7. The policy will be a rule of the kingdom that gives the Sultan permission to just take the land.
8. The Sultan ordered the fisherman to the palace.
9. The task was to “make a carpet that covers the floor of the hall.  The carpet must be from a single thread.”
10. If the fisherman doesn’t complete the tasks, he will then go to jail.
11. He ran home and told his wife what had just happen.

Chapter 2: Help From a Friend/A Helpful Friend

12. The well was in their garden.
13. It was near a crooked tree.
14. The well gives the fisherman a spindle.
15. She tells him to pound a nail into one end of the palace hall floor.  Tie one end of thread to that nail.  Then hold the spindle and walk to the other end.
16. Everyone was surprised of the beautiful carpet that appeared.
17. The fisherman’s next task is to find a baby boy that is less then 8 days old.
18. The fisherman had 3 days for the first task.
19. The fisherman had 8 days for the second task.
20. He looked surprised.
21. He fell to his knees.
22. Answers will vary.

Chapter 3: A Baby’s Story

23.  The fisherman returned the spindle.
24. The fisherman’s wife told him to thank the well, then ask the well to borrow a baby boy who can talk.
25. A baby boy appeared from the well.
26. The fisherman is to ask for 3 cushions and sit the baby between the cushions.
27. The baby said, “Greetings, Sultan.”
28. The Sultan asked the baby to tell him a story that is full of lies.
29. In the baby’s tale, he bought a pumpkin.  After cutting it open, what did the baby boy see inside?  He saw a tiny city.
30. A donkey gave him a cake.
31. Inside the cake he saw the Sultan and his advisor whispering plots.
32. Yes, he was getting upset.  He yelled, that “these are all lies.”
33. Answers will vary
34. He revealed that the Sultan and the advisor were plotting to take the fisherman’s land.
35. The crowd became angry.
36. The fisherman and his wife lived peaceful lives after this incident.
37. Answers will vary
38. Answers will vary

Kids Work by Laura Shallop

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Book: Kids Work
Author: Laura Shallop
ISBN: 978-0-02-202654-7

Introduction

1. No
2. An employee is someone who works for someone else.
3. An entrepreneur is both an owner and employee.
4. A trait of an entrepreneur is someone who takes risks to create a new product or start a new business.
5. Yes
6. Benefits or being your own boss or being self-employed
a. You can make the rules
b. Create your own hours
c. Choose your place of work

Chapter 1: A Hobby Grows into a Business

7. His hobby was woodworking
8. Ken’s Pens
9. He was 8 years old
10. 13 years old
11. She started a flower service business.
12. She attended a business camp.
13. BizCamp
14. The National Foundation of Teaching Entrepreneurs (NFTE)
15. She learned to make candy.
16. At 10 years old Elise was selling homemade chocolate to her neighbors.
17. 1998
18. Before
19. 10,000
20. yes, he was because the website was launch and visitors increased
21. $1 million
22. The Chocolate Farm
23. 2001
24. 3 years later

Chapter 2: Kid Entrepreneurs have Great Ideas

25.  She started her business by asking the owners of a pasta shop if she could sell their pastas at a farmers market.  They made money their first weekend, then a business was born.
26. Top 10 Kid businesses
      a. Computer hardware and software
      b. Infotainment (information and entertainment)
      c. E-commerce (Internet)
      d. Food
      e. Computer design
      f. Home and office services
      g. Sports
      h. Arts and crafts
      i. Agriculture
      j. Practical products

27. Answers will vary
28. He was 15 years old
29. Marketing is telling customers about your business and selling your products.
30. The Chamber of Commerce is an organization that helps local businesses.

Chapter 3: Kid Entrepreneurs Love Their Work

31.  Think Computer
32. He was 15 years old.
33. It is better because people will focus on his work instead of his age.
34. He started by fixing and taking apart his father’s old computers.
35. The name of his business is Pankaj Arora Software.
36. He discovered that if you love what you do, it doesn’t feel like work.
37. Pankaj turned down a job that was going to pay him $100,000.
38. The Think Computer Foundation
39. Answers will vary
40. Answers will vary
41. Answers will vary
42. Answers will vary
43. Answers will vary
44. Answers will vary
45. Answers will vary
46. Her name is Kelsey Deaton.
47. She asked her friends and neighbors if they would visit her maze and how much they would pay.
48. The name of his business is T.K. Worm Factory.
49. He was 12 years old.
50. He raises and sells earthworms.
51. Answers will vary
52. Answers will vary

Chapter 4: Kid Entrepreneurs Make a Difference

53. Answers will vary
54. “Do Something” is a nationwide group of young people who help with advice and support.
55. Megan raised $3,100 (on page 18) and Bryan raised $1,320, so Megan is more successful.
56.  “Kids Saving the Rainforest” (KSTR) was started by Janine Licare and  Aislin Livingstone.
57. It was started by 2 girls selling painted rocks at a roadside table.
58. It is located in Costa Rica.

Force and Motion in Sports by Glen Phelan

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Book: Force and Motion in Sports
Author: Glen Phelan
ISBN: 978-0-02-202568-7

Introduction

1. Baseball or softball

Chapter 1: A World of Motion

2. Motion is any change in an object’s position over time.
3. It represents two types of motion, circular and straight line.
4. Humming represents a quick back and forth motion.
5. Velocity is the speed and direction of the object.
6. Acceleration is the rate at which velocity changes.

Chapter 2: Forces Make It Go

7.  Force is a push or a pull.
8. Muscles often work in pairs to allow body movement.  True
9. When one muscle relaxes, the other muscle pulls on bones to move your body.  True

Chapter 3: Invisible Forces

10.  Gravity pulls all objects at the same rate.  True
11. Any two objects that fall from the same height at the same time will hit the ground at the same time.   True
12. Gravity is a force that pulls any two objects together.
13. An object that is thrown that has a combination of a forward push and the downward pull of gravity.  Gravity causes the object to follow a curved path.
14. Friction is a force that two objects exert on each other when they touch.
15. Friction makes you go fast.  False, friction slows you down.
16. Yes, it does.
17. Air resistance

Conclusion

18. Answers will vary

Wilma Rudolph, A True Winner by Terre Lintner

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Book: Wilma Rudolph: A True Winner
Author: Terre Lintner
ISBN: 978-0-02-203176-3

Introduction

1. Rome, Italy
2. The Olympics
3. 1960
4. Wilma Rudolph
5. 3 gold medals

Chapter 1: A Sickly Childhood

6. 1940
7. Tennessee
8. 21
9. She contracted polio
10. They had to travel 50 miles to a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee
11. At this time there were segregation laws, so the nearest African-American hospital was 50 miles away.
12. True
13. Dr. Jonas Salk
14. By 1979, polio was eliminated from the U.S.

Chapter 2: An Unusual Nickname

15. 12 years old
16. 4 years old
17. 8 years
18. 7th grade
19. Skeeter
20. 10th grade
21. no

Chapter 3: Training with the Tigerbelles

22. Ed Temple was the coach of the 1956 Tennessee State University Girls’ Track Team.
23. The U.S. Olympic Team
24. 1956
25. 16 years old
26. Melbourne, Australia
27. Yes, she won a bronze medal
Chapter 4: The 1960 Olympic Games

28. Rome, Italy
29. 100 meter race
30. 200 meter race
31. 4x100 meter relay race
32. The individual events are the 100-meter race and the 200 meter race.  The team event is the 4x100 meter relay race.
33. It was special because it was the first time in the town’s history that blacks and whites celebrated together.

Chapter 5: Wilma’s Lasting Legacy

34. She created the Wilma Rudolph Foundation.
35. “The foundation provided free sports coaching to boys and girls, as well as academic assistance and support.”
36. She helped them by giving them speeches, telling them to believe in themselves.
37. 1994
38. 1994-1940= 54 years
39. Cancer was the illness that caused her death.
40. They released a 23 cent stamp I her honor.
41. The Wilma Rudolph Courage Award
42. The Women’s Sports Foundation

Miki and the North Wind by Anne Miranda

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Book: Miki and the North Wind
Author: Anne Miranda
ISBN: 978-0-02-202699-8

Chapter 1: Missing

1. In the Inupiac language it means little.
2. He disappeared, he was taken by a creature.
3. Yes
4. No
5. Yes
6. Miki’s mother wrapped Miki in a parka and a pair of warm Mukluks and sent him off to fish.
7. Yes, he did.  Miki caught enough fish for a week.
8. The North Wind took all his fish.
9. Answers will vary.
10. He told the North Wind that he is too young to bother with and to leave him alone.
11. The North Wind blew him home.
12. She found him in the snow.
13. He was half-frozen in the snow.
14. She told Miki he must go to the North Wind and get his father’s hook back.
15. It is a day’s walk from Miki’s house.

Chapter 2: The Special Pot

16. Yes, he did.
17. No, the North Wind did not take those things.
18. He feels that Miki is brave.
19. He gives Miki a special pot.
20. Miki needs to say, “Pot, pot, cook food!”  Then the pot will cook whatever he wants.
21. He stopped at his uncle’s home.
22. Two huge dogs greeted Miki.
23. No
24. Miki said the North Wind gave him all the food they need.
25. Yes
26. He exchanged an old pot for the pot that was given to Miki by the North Wind.
27. They were surprised that it didn’t work.
28. Yes
29. She told Miki to go back to the North Wind and demand that he return the furs.

Chapter 3: The Special Sack

30.  Yes
31. It gave him a special sack.
32. It will make/give him clothes.
33. Miki gave him a parka.
34. He gave the dogs some toasty blankets.
35. The special sack didn’t work.
36. He felt the North Wind tricked him again.

Chapter 4: The Special Stick

37.  He approaches the North Wind by saying he is trying to make peace with it.
38. The North Wind tells Miki he didn’t take anything from him.  He gives Miki a special stick to find out who took his things.
39. He visited his uncle.
40. His uncle tried to take Miki’s stick.
41. The two dogs took Miki’s stick.
42. The dogs turned to Miki’s father and uncle.
43. The false uncle grabbed the stick and ran away.
44. The false uncle turned to a raven.
45. Something or someone who changes from one thing or person to another.
46. The North Wind blew the raven far away.
47. The North Wind guided them home.
48. Compare and contrast yourself to Miki.
49. Quote 3 facts from the story.
50. Quote 3 opinions from the story.
51. Choose an event that happened in the story and explain the cause and the effect of the event.

About The History of the Calendar by A.E. Evenson

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Book: About The History of the Calendar
Author: A.E. Evenson
ISBN: 0-516-08092-X

Chapter 1: Nature’s Calendars

1. Natural Calendars are bushes, trees, or even insects.
2. They used certain trees to tell time.
3. They used certain trees and waited for them to bud.  They also used certain insects, once they appeared, they knew it was harvest time.

Chapter 2: Moon Calendars

4. These changes are called the phases of the moon.
5. It takes the moon about 29 ½ days to go through all its phases.
6. A lunar calendar
7. The first day of the month was called “the first day of the moon.”
8. Januarius, Februarius, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December
9. Lunar months were shorter than our months.  True or False
10. Twelve lunar months were greater than a year.  True or False
11. The 13th month was called Mercedonius.

Chapter 3: The Calendar of Julius Caesar

12. The rulers of Rome decided when to add the extra month.
13. They didn’t add the extra month so that taxes could be collected sooner.
14. They did this to stay in office longer.
15. This caused the calendar to be out of step with the seasons.
16. The calendar was off one season.
17. December was appearing at the end of summer.
18. He made the months agree with the seasons.
19. He added 80 extra days to the year 46 B.C.
20. It had 445 days.
21. The Year of Confusion
22. The months agreed with the seasons.
23. He stopped using the old lunar calendar.
24. He started to use a solar calendar.
25. It was based on the length of time it takes the earth to orbit the sun.
26. A Leap Year
27. 29 days
28. 28 days
29. The Romans called their calendar the Julian Calendar
30. Quintilis
31. The Romans renamed Quintilis to July.
32. Augustus renamed Sextilis to August.  True or False

Chapter 4: Pope Gregory Changes the Calendar

33. 365 days
34. 12 minutes
35. It was off by 10 days.
36. He took 10 days off the calendar.
37. The calendar jumped from Thursday, October 4th to Friday, October 15th.  True or False
38. The Gregorian Calendar
39. England and America
40. 1752
41. No, they did not agree.
42. By 1745 these calendars were 11 days apart.
43. They had to write O.S. (old style)

Chapter 5: How We Got the Week

44. Nones and Ides
45. Kalends
46. We got it by the word Kalends, which means first day of the month.
47. In Asia
48. It was later used by the Hebrews then by the Christians
49. It was added when Christianity became the official religion of Rome.
50. 400 years after Julius Caesar
51. Sun’s day
52. Sol (sun)
53. Moon’s day
54. Luna (moon)
55. Tiw’s day
56. Mars
57. Woden’s day
58. Mercury
59. Thor’s day
60. Jupiter
61. Frigg’s day
62. Venus
63. Seterne’s day
64. Saturn


Chapter 6: A.D. and B.C.

65.  It means Anno Domini
66. In the year of the Lord
67. Denys the Little
68. B.C. means before the birth of Christ

Beautiful or Not Everyday Beauty by Kirsten Anderson

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Book: Beautiful or Not
            Everyday Beauty
Author: Kirsten Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-02-202438-3
            978-0-02-202543-4

Chapter 1: The Perfect Picture

1. She took a picture of a hummingbird.
2. She uploaded the pictures onto her computer.
3. She was disappointed.
4. Her brother plays the drums.
5. Brad
6. She gave her camera to her brother.
7. No
8. She has always been fascinated with cameras and photography.

Chapter 2: A Tip from a Visitor

9. Carly and Brad never helped their parents at their place of business.  True or False
10. They owned a fishing tackle and camping supply store.
11. They went to Charles M Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
12. In the state of Montana.
13. The name of the town is Fort Peck Lake.
14. No
15. Ducks, geese, kingfishers, deer, raccoons, owls, and even foxes.
16. Seattle
17. She wondered what it must be like in Chicago and New York.
18. They were heading to Fort Peck Dam.
19. It was built in the 1930s.
20. The dam blocked off the Missouri River.
21. It created Fort Peck Lake.
22. Margaret Bourke-White
23. It was taken in 1936.

Chapter 3: Learning from the Past

24. No, she was fascinated with the least glamorous.
25. She found a series of pictures of a Cleveland Steel Factory in the late 1920s the most interesting.



Chapter 4: The Perfect Picture, Part II

26. Rusty and Scout
27. Compare and Contrast you and Carly.
28. Compare and Contrast your neighborhood and Carly’s neighborhood.
29. Quote 3 facts
a. _______________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________________________________
30. Quote 3 opinions
a. _______________________________________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________________________________
31. Write down one event that happened in the story.  In a few sentences write the cause and the effect of the event.

Jani and the Leopard by Rebecca Motil

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Book: Jani and the Leopard
Author: Rebecca Motil
ISBN: 978-0-02-202635-6

Chapter 1: Jani Meets a Leopard

1. (A) She spoke to Stripes.
2. She told him that some people still make coats from cat fur.
3. She dreamt about animals that could talk.
4. She woke up at 11:55pm.
5. No
6. She was in a science laboratory.
7. She saw a leopard.
8. (B) The leopard was sad.
9. He was sad because the poachers are going to kill his family.
10. Poachers took the leopard’s family.
11. The leopard is looking for a potion that changes leopard spots into tiger stripes.
12. The scientist is not at the lab and won’t be there for another week.
13. They want tiger stripes because poachers only want leopards skins.
14. The leopard’s name is Asha.
15. Answers will vary
16. They found the formula in the scientist notebook.
17. It was located on a metal table in the lab.
18. It works for 15 minutes.
19. ( C ) village

Chapter 2: A Tiger

20.  They walked through a dark forest with tall, green trees
21. They are in India.
22. It was hot.
23. Poachers were about to attack them.
24. No, she wasn’t scared.  She scornfully asked them a question with confidence.
25. (D) They ran into a tiger.
26. The tiger’s name was Kartik.
27. They were afraid of the tiger because tigers did not like leopards.
28. Kartik guided them to the village.

Chapter 3: Safe!

29.  The cage was located down the road that led to the village.
30. There were 4 leopards in the cage.
31. They were going to walk to the guards.  Then distract them while Asha gives his family the potion.
32. Kartik smiled at the guard.
33. He told him to “go back to the forest.”
34. The guard ran to the forest.
35. Asha grabbed the keys from the guard and unlock the cage.
36. They escaped by going through the marketplace.

Chapter 4: Was It a Dream?

37.  Asha considered Kartik as a friend.
38. No, they didn’t.
39. She returned home by going back to the lab.
40. She was only gone 5 minutes.
41. Answer will vary.
42. Compare and contrast yourself with Jani.

Three Legends by Yoko Mia Hirano

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Book: Three Legends
Author: Yoko Mia Hirano
ISBN: 978-0-02-202837-4

Introduction

1. They live in the northwest coast.
2. They live in a cave in the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.
3. The first story is called “The Creation of the Quileute.”
4. It tells how a pack of wolves became the Quileute people.
5. “The Legend of Thunderbird” is the most famous.
6. It describes how Thunderbird saved the Quileute from hunger.

Chapter 1: The Creation of the Quileute

7. A pack of wolves (A)
8. No, they didn’t have names or homes.  They were unhappy.
9. They had human spirits
10. He fell asleep on a flat rock. (B)
11. The flat rock was different because it had a strange mark that looked like a white arrow.
12. It turned to a mysterious woman ( C )
13. To a human
14. Humans
15. They changed to a small tribe.
16. She said they will now be called the Quileute.

Chapter 2: The Legend of Thunderbird

17.  They lived by the Quillayute River. (D)
18. It is located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
19. They moved because one rainy season the Quillayute River overflowed.
20. The weather became cold.
21. The river turned to ice.
22. No
23. The condition: The rain turned into hail.  The hailstones killed some people.
24. The hailstorm that produced large hailstones that killed people.
25. By them being afraid, that caused them not to be able to search for food.  That contributed to them becoming ill.
26. The Great Chief of the Quileute
27. Answers will vary.
28. The Great Spirit lives above Earth.
29. Answers will vary
30. Answers will vary
31. Answers will vary
32. It responded by sending the legendary Thunderbird.
33. A dark shape came from the ocean.
34. It was a bird.
35. Answers will vary
36. The eyes of the Thunderbird.
37. Sharper than any knife.
38. It had the whale Kwalla in its claws.
39. He gave them the whale Kwalla.
40. The cause was Thunderbird dropping the whale Kwalla on the shore.  The effect was that now the Quileute people had meat.

Chapter 3: The Great Spirit and Thunderbird

41. He ruled the ocean and the mountains.
42. All the people and the animals.
43. Whales
44. To stop hunting whales
45. No
46. The Great Spirit tried to get Thunderbird to crash into a mountain.
47. He went into his cave and began to raise the water level of the ocean to continue hunting whales.
48. He said he wasn’t going to stop hunting whales.
49. The Great Spirit pushed him down into the water until Thunderbird drowned.
50. Many people died by the floods caused by the water rising.
51. They don’t have known relatives because they were all separated during the floods.

White House Dogs,Presidential Pooches by Michael Burgan

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Book: White House Dogs/ Presidential Pooches
Author: Michael Burgan
ISBN: 978-0-02-203169-5   978-0-02-202830-5

Introduction

1. Dogs are the most popular presidential pets.
2. Cows, mice, goats, and birds have been kept as pets in the White House.
3. Yes, when they play with their dogs, it makes the president seem likeable.

Chapter 1: The First Presidential Dogs/ The First Presidential Pooches

4. James Monroe was the first president to take his dog to the White House.
5. (A) His dog was a spaniel.
6. Mrs. Taylor’s dog (President Taylor’s wife) had obedience problems in the White House.
7. The name of the first famous White House dog was Lara.
8. Lara belonged to President James Buchanan.
9. Fido was the first presidential dog to have his photo taken.
10. Fido belonged to President Abraham Lincoln.
11. “Faithful” was the name of President Ulysses S. Grant’s dog.
12. “Veto” was the name of President James A. Garfield’s dog.
13. Veto was his name because President Garfield often vetoed, or rejected, new laws that Congress tried to pass.
14. President Benjamin Harrison built a doghouse for his dog.
15. Dash was the name of President Harrison’s dog.

Chapter 2: White House Dogs, 1900-1950/ Famous First Dogs, 1900-1950

16. President Theodore Roosevelt was believed to have turned the White House into a zoo.
17. President Roosevelt kept horses, guinea pigs, cats, rats, roosters, snakes, and a lizard as pets.
18. President Roosevelt’s most unpopular pet was a dog-named Pete.
19. Roosevelt’s favorite dog’s name was “Skip.”
20. The dog buried behind the White House was named “Blackjack.”
21. Laddie Boy sat in its own hand carved chair.
22. Laddie Boy belonged to President Warren G. Harding.
23. President Calvin Coolidge had many dogs.  Their names were: Prudence Prim, Ruby Rough, Bessie, and Rob Roy.
24. King Tut was President Hoover’s dog’s name.
25. The most famous president dog was named “Fala.”
26. Fala had her own aide to open fan mail.
27. The White House made “Fala” an honorary soldier, so anyone sending a $1 can make their dogs honorary soldiers too.
28. Fala is the dog honored with a statue at the FDR memorial in Washington D.C.

Chapter 3: More Presidential Dogs/ Recent Presidential Dogs

29. President John F. Kennedy’s dog’s name was “Charlie.”
30. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dog’s name was “Yuki.”
31. President George Bush owned the first presidential dog to write a book.
32. President George Bush’s dog’s name was Millie.
33. President Bill Clinton’s dog’s name was Buddy.
34. President George W. Bush’s dog’s name was Spot.
35. Spot is the only dog to have lived in the White House with two owners.
36. Barney is the only dog to have starred in several Internet movies.

The Kicks, Saving the Team by Alex Morgan

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Book: The Kicks, Saving the Team
ISBN: 978-0-545-68911-3

Chapter 1

1. Kara
2. Devin
3. Maisie
4. California
5. Milford Middle School
6. Milford Middle School Cosmos
7. Connecticut
8. Kentville Middle School
9. Her concern was fitting in with the kids at the new school.
10. The first day of soccer tryouts was on her first day of school.
11. California
12. Mrs. Johnson
13. Burke
14. Algebra
15. It was meant for 8th graders
16. She read her book during lunch not to look like a complete loser.
17. She wanted to call Kara.
18. She ended up texting her.
19. She was hanging out with Gina and Vida.
20. She played kickball.
21. She met Jessi.
22. Jessi and Emma asked Devin if she played soccer.
23. Devin’s home city was Milford.
24. The name of the soccer team is Kentville Kangaroos.
25. The coach’s name is Flores.
26. They won 1 game.
27. “The Kicks” was the nickname of the team

Chapter 2

1.  She called Kara.
2. They traded/exchanged socks.
3. Answers will vary
4. Pinewood is a rival school and they are the best team in their league.
5. Mirabelle
6. Her name was Frida.
7. Answers will vary


Chapter 3

1. Jessi used to be besties with Mirabelle.
2. True
3. Mirabelle joined a traveling soccer team right before 6th grade.
4. True
5. Yes, Mirabelle wanted to attend Pinewood.
6. Mirabelle’s parents couldn’t afford the tuition.
7. Jessi wouldn’t trade Emma and Zoe for all the Mirabelle’s on the planet.
8. Jessi placed a picture of both of them together in elementary school in her backpack.
9. All the girls from Pinewood made fun of her.
10. Yes, Mirabelle used to dress dorky.
11. Mirabelle thought Jessi planted the picture to embarrass her on purpose.
12. All the popular eight grade girls.
13. Emma thinks Mirabelle is bossy.
14. Emma thinks the popular kids are friendly to Mirabelle because they’re afraid of her.
15. Emma thinks Mirabelle is rude.
16. Frida is hoping she wouldn’t make the soccer team.
17. Frida yelled because she made the team.
18. Emma told everyone they made the team.
19. 10 eight graders made the team.
20. 9 seventh graders made the team.
21. 11 players are allowed on the field.
22. Coach Flores wants everyone to have a chance to play.

Chapter 4

1. They were laughing because she was the only one at practice.
2. On page 36, a boy says “the guys’ soccer team” This is a clue that it is a boy’s soccer team.
3. Steven was the boy’s name.
4. No, Coach Flores didn’t make Devin run laps.
5. The girls’ soccer team got sloppy seconds after the boys’ soccer team.
6. Brianna is the 4.0 GPA Student.
7. Devin’s mother’s green smoothie.
8. They used bright orange trashcans for goals.
9. Answers will vary
10. Coach Flores acted like a preschool teacher.
11. Devin believed Coach Flores was too nice.
12. They were surprised because the game wasn’t on the schedule.
13. Mirabelle was chosen as captain for the eight grade girls.
14. Devin was chosen captain for the 7th grade girls.


Chapter 5

1. The boys’ soccer team had a pep rally.
2. Coach Valentine asked the girls to move.
3. Anna asked the question.
4. Sarah said we are going to have to win some games.
5. Emma said it was major that the boys were state champions.
6. Jessi watches that tv show.
7. Cody Taylor is team captain.
8. Frida was bored at the pep rally.
9. Trey Bishop is team captain.
10. Jessi has a crush on Cody.
11. Devin has a crush on Steven.

Chapter 6

1. Emma broke the bag open.
2. Jessi was sad because she forgot her notebook on the bus and got a zero in math class.
3. Kentville played Victorton for their first game.
4. Her mother, dad, and Maisie
5. Devin’s dad videotapes all her games.
6. The ritual is how they put their socks on.
7. Jessi was upset.
8. Mirabelle scored the first goal.
9. Jessi scored the second goal.
10. Victorton 5 Kentville 2
11. They were going to have a sleepover.

Chapter 7

1. Emma is a player on the team.
2. Emma is having the sleepover.
3. Yes
4. Kim
5. They were her mom’s friends and some aunts.
6. Korea
7. Devin and Jessi
8. Emma was the foosball queen.
9. Jessi and Zoe
10. Hot Chocolate
11. Neon Nights
12. Outdoors
13. Jessi’s soft snoring

Chapter 8

1. Newton Tigers
2. She started all the 8th graders.
3. No
4. 2-0 Tigers
5. They were going to talk to Coach Flores about good players playing more minutes.
6. She said all the girls agreed that Mirabelle and Devin do the lineups.
7. She had second thoughts about talking to Coach Flores and not speaking up against Mirabelle.  She was also afraid of losing her friends.

Chapter 9

1. Maisie
2. Devin told her dad her problems.
3. To be strong and say something if the girls aren’t getting equal play time.
4. Steven
5. Devin
6. Jessi
7. Frida, she likes acting and could have been at an audition for a nationwide commercial instead of the game.
8. Answers will vary
9. At least 200
10. Yes
11. Emma
12. Devin
13. Yes
14. Anna
15. Frida
16. Emma
17. 6-0 Pinewood
18. 6-1 Pinewood
19. Mirabelle
20. Mirabelle

Chapter 10

1. Emma’s brother
2. Devin
3. Jessi
4. Brianna

Chapter 11

1. Steven asked for Matt
2. Emma
3. Steven
4. Jessi
5. Trey Bishop
6. A group of 8th graders were taking up the booth.
7. Answers will vary

Chapter 12

1. She organized events like frozen-yogurt social and a pizza party.
2. Mirabelle had quit the team.
3. She wrote “Bye, Losers!” on the bathroom mirrors.
4. She transferred to Pinewood.
5. No, her father sent Coach Flores an email.
6. Coach Flores (A)
7. The Coach offered her Girl Scout cookies.
8. They got their name by the arsenal of kicks they use against their opponents on the field.
9. No, she didn’t like it because of all the pressure.
10. She got a funny vibe because Mirabelle always pretended to be someone else while talking to her.
11. Yes
12. Maria Luisa

Chapter 13

1. Grace
2. 2 bags
a. rubber bouncy balls, tennis balls, volleyballs, a basketball, footballs
b. long socks
3. kazoo
4. The one with the socks
5. That they have to listen to their driver

Chapter 14

1. Her idea was for Frida to practice her acting while playing soccer.
2. Sock Hop
3. It was a 1950’s diner
4. Emma
5. 10 minutes
6. 40 scoops
7. Yes

Chapter 15

1. She was punished
2. She told her she was flunking math and Spanish
3. They decided to have Emma as goalie because objects are attracted to her.
4. Yes
5. Zoe
6. Devin
7. 2-2
8. it was a tie
9. 5 straight

Chapter 16

1. Dukes
2. That she can tutor Jessi in algebra.
3. That if Jessi does well in her coming up math test, then Jessi can play.

Chapter 17

1. Yes
2. Coach Valentine and the boys’ soccer team
3. They practiced together to remind them that they are all Kangaroos.  That they are all this together.

Chapter 18

1. Swapping socks with each other
2. Kara
3. Mirabelle
4. Mirabelle
5. 2-0 Panthers
6. Zoe
7. Zoe
8. Zoe
9. Devin
10. 4-2 Kangaroos
11. Grace, Anjali

Preserving Unique Places, Our National Parks by Emily Wortman-Wunder

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Book: Preserving Unique Places, Our National Parks
Author: Emily Wortman-Wunder
ISBN: 978-0-02-202829-9

Chapter 1: Badlands National Park

1. South Dakota
2. red, pink, orange, brown, and gray
3. Florida
4. hiking
5. The Lakota

Chapter 2: Death Valley National Park

6. It is located in the eastern part of California and western Nevada
7. The Shoshone nation
8. 1933
9. True
10. Pupfish

Chapter 3: Everglades National Park

11. At the end of the Ice Age
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. sawgrass
15. Marjory Stoneman Douglas
16. 1947
17. Tequesta, Calusa, Seminole, and Creek
18. Answers will vary

The Trickster Jackal by Suzanne Weyn

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Book: The Trickster Jackal
Author: Suzanne Weyn
ISBN: 978-0-02-202746-9

The Crafty Jackal and the Proud Hyena

1. Eastern South Africa
2. True
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. A prince
7. By marrying a princess
8. Princess Zukisa
9. Jackal
10. Jackal
11. He snid but then let him in
12. True
13. Yes
14. False (it was Hyena)
15. True
16. Yes
17. Yes
18. Yes
19. Answers will vary
20. Yes
21. Yes
22. Yes
23. Because Jackal’s foot ached
24. To show everyone that he didn’t feel pain
25. They started laughing because Jackal was making him look like a fool
26. He was upset about the villagers laughing at him
27. She said Jackal was right about Hyena
28. Jackals

The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal

29. Tiger
30. A cage
31. False
32. False
33. The Brahman
34. To free him
35. Not to eat him if he freed him
36. No, he didn’t
37. True
38. Yes
39. A tree
40. He said nothing is fair
41. Shade and Shelter
42. They tear at his leaves
43. Feed their cattle
44. A buffalo
45. Life isn’t fair
46. They took his milk when he was young and now that he is old they work him.
47. No
48. The road
49. He is not treated well
50. The road
51. He acted confused in understanding the story of what had happened with the Brahman

The Tradition of the Trickster Jackal

52. Short fables that use animals to tell us about human nature
53. Human characteristics
54. Africa and Asia
55. The Canine Family
56. Dogs, wolves, and hyenas
57. In the grassy savannahs and bush country of Africa and Asia
58. The fox
59. Water
60. It will run around a bush several times before running off
61. False
62. False

The Story of San Francisco by Dan Furey

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Book: The Story of San Francisco
Author: Dan Furey
ISBN: 978-0-02-203040-7

Introduction

1. The Golden Gate Bridge

Chapter 1: A Land of Riches

2. The Ohlone nation lived in San Francisco first
3. False
4. 40
5. yes
6. yes
7. yes
8. western people
9. They used wood and reeds
10. Sir Frances Drake
11. England
12. 1579
13. He was making reference maps
14. The White Cliffs of Dover
15. New White Land
16. San Francisco
17. The Spanish were the first explorers to settle San Francisco
18. 1776
19. Mission Dolores
20. They built a Presidio and a fort.
21. False
22. True
23. False
24. True
25. The name “California” comes from a Spanish story about an island filled with mythical animals and gold
26. Alaska
27. Yerba Buena
28. Good Herb
29. Because it had so much sweet-smelling mint growing in the hills
30. A large ranch
31. Wealthy Mexican families owned the ranchos
32. Some were 50 to 60 miles apart
33. little towns

Chapter 2: A Gateway to Gold

34. false
35. true
36. 800 people
37. 25,000 people
38. 1847
39. Wells Fargo
40. The trolley is the symbol of San Francisco
41. Andrew Hallidie
42. true
43. Peter Lester and Mifflin Gibbs
44. Mifflin Gibbs
45. Chinese people
46. 1882
47. Chinese Exclusion Act

Chapter 3: A City of Hope

48. 1906
49. 3 days
50. 50% of the population lost their homes during the earthquake and fires of 1906
51. 1914
52. 1915
53. Joseph Strauss
54. 4 years

The Three Sisters by Louise Orlando

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Book: The Three Sisters
Author: Louise Orlando
ISBN: 978-0-02-203054-4

Chapter 1: Rose, Poppy, and Lily

1. Once upon a time
2. 3
3. on a beautiful old farm
4. Rose, Poppy, and Lily
5. She took care of the goats and sheep
6. They worked on the garden
7. They all baked bread
8. They went on walks collecting flowers
9. They studied them
10. An herbalist
11. A botanist
12. She wanted to marry the neighbor’s son and start a farming business
13. Rose
14. Poppy
15. Lily
16. She smelled the new roses on the mountainside
17. No
18. Poppy
19. An unusual orange flower with paper-thin petals
20. Yes
21. Francis
22. True

Chapter 2: Francis

23.  Yes
24. No, she didn’t
25. Yes, he did
26. 3 brothers
27. black leather boots, a blue knit hat, an old silver key
28. yes
29. take the wearer anywhere he wanted to go
30. The hat would make the wearer invisible
31. Open any lock
32. The youngest brother
33. Yes he did

Chapter 3: The Feather, The Golden Bridle, and The Troll

34. He ended up in front of a stone mansion on a high mountain peak
35. Rose
36. He was turned to an eagle by a troll
37. He was pecked by owner
38. Elliot
39. Rose didn’t want to leave because she fell in love with Elliot
40. He said you have to cut off his hair
41. Next to a magnificent home built into the side of the mountain
42. Thomas
43. He gave him a feather and told him to say, “Feathered friend, I need you.”
44. He gave him his bridle and told him to say, “Grand Stallion, I need you.”
45. In a dark cave
46. The troll was forcing Lily to brush his hair

Chapter 4: The Scissors

47. That she will marry him in 3 days
48. That he must cut off his hair
49. If he cuts his hair, he will no longer be powerful
50. In a jeweled box on the highest mountain
51. He asked his boots to take him there
52. He asked Elliot for help
53. The crow
54. A purple and silver snake
55. He asked Thomas for help
56. In front of a dark cave
57. He turned to a hairy caterpillar
58. They both turned to humans

Changing Earth by Barbara M. Linde

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Book: Changing Earth
Author: Barbara M. Linde
ISBN: 978-0-02-202476-5

Chapter 1: Shifts in the Land

1. When one of the plates shift and move against another.
2. When hot molten rock and gases build up over time and erupt through Earth’s crust.
3. Lava flows out of a volcano.
4. A glacier is a large body of ice.
5. Some glaciers are thousands of years old.
6. True
7. Lakes are formed from hollowed-out bowls.
8. A landslide is the flow of rocks, debris, or soil down a slope.
9. Deposition is the material added to a land form.

Chapter 2: Changes Due to Water

10. Three-quarters of Earth’s surface is covered by water
11. The water cycle is the movement of water above, on, and below the surface of Earth.
12. A wave is the rise and fall of the water’s surface.
13. A tsunami is a series of huge waves.

Chapter 3: Changes Due to Weather

14. There were 6 major hurricanes recorded in 2004.
15. A hurricane is a tropical storm that has very strong winds, thunderstorms, and a lot of rain.
16. June through November is hurricane season.
17. A tornado is a spinning, funnel-shaped column of wind.
18. February to April is tornado season.
19. Weathering is the breaking up of rock, wood, soil, and minerals from contact with the atmosphere.
20. Chemical weathering is the process of water and chemicals in the air that change the minerals in rocks.

Towns of the West, from Boom to Bust by Dan Furey

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Author: Dan Furey
ISBN: 978-0-02-203099-5

Introduction

1. Most of the population lived in the East Coast of the United States.
2. The Louisiana Purchase

Chapter 1: The Boom Begins

3. Forty-niners
4. A prospector is someone who is searching for gold.
5. True
6. A boomtown is a combination of houses, stores and sleeping lodges in close proximity.
7. Supplies were scarce in the Old West.  A shovel might cost $50.  A box of sleep in might cost $100.  A glass of water could cost $50.

Chapter 2: Life in the Boomtowns

8. The Old West had immigrants from all over Europe, Asia, and South America.
9. California was a free state.
10. False
11. The women who came to the west worked on farms that supplied food to miners, they tended to animals, drove stagecoaches and chased bandits.
12. No, they couldn’t.
13. Yes
14. Women were able to make their own money, own land, stores, and hotels.
15. Mexican ranchers and Native Americans were forced out/off their lands.
16. No, Native Americans were not U.S. citizens.

Chapter 3: From Boom to Bust
17.  Yes, it was dangerous to live in the west.
18. A claim jumper is a person who takes over someone else’s land and steals their rights to nay gold found there.
19. No, not at boomtowns had sheriffs.
20. A sheriff was responsible from 100s to 1000s of people.
21. The only thing townspeople had to fight fires were a few barrels of rainwater or water from a nearby stream.
22. The townspeople formed bucket brigades.
23. A ghost town is a boomtown that people deserted.
24. Today’s example of a boomtown is Silicon Valley.

My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris

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Author: Christine King Farris
ISBN: 978-0689843884

1. She is 1 ½ years older
2. Martin’s grandparents
3. Reverend and Mrs. A.D. Williams
4. Aunt Ida
5. M.L.
6. boy
7. grandfather
8. Christine
9. They scared passersbyers by dangling the fur piece of the hedge by their home
10. Mr. Mann
11. Atlanta
12. Georgia
13. unfair laws
14. black people or African Americans
15. picture shows, Grand Park
16. Sweet Auburn
17. It was called Sweet Auburn because of the street that ran in front of their house
18. Yes
19. They stopped playing with them because they were African American
20. “Mother Dear, one day I’m going to turn this world upside down.”
21. Ebenezer Baptist Church
22. He took Martin to another shoe store

Arrow To The Sun, A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott

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Book: Arrow To The Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale
Author: Gerald McDermott
ISBN: 978-0140502114

1. long ago
2. space and earth
3. it sent the spark of life to earth
4. it traveled on the sun’s rays
5. the heavens
6. Pueblo
7. a boy
8. because he didn’t have a father
9. He told his mother that he was going to look for his father
10. The Corn Planter
11. nothing
12. The Plot Maker
13. Yes
14. “Can you lead me to my father?”
15. The Arrow Maker
16. No
17. He was wise
18. a special arrow, then the boy became an arrow
19. He shot him into the heavens

Once a Mouse by Marcia Brown

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Book: Once a Mouse
Author: Marcia Brown
ISBN: 978-0689713439

1. big and little things
2. a mouse
3. a book
4. answers vary
5. answers vary
6. answers vary
7. eat the mouse
8. answers vary, maybe because the mouse is small
9. answers vary, maybe because the crow is bigger than the mouse
10. maybe because the mouse was scared and felt fear
11. milk and grains of rice
12. to his hut
13. in the jungle
14. a cat
15. magic and prayer
16. answers will vary
17. maybe so the cat wouldn’t eat him
18. a dog
19. he changed it to a big dog
20. a tiger
21. a tiger
22. changed the dog into a royal tiger
23. He peacocked about the forest
24. He was showing off thinking he was better than the rest of the animals.  Answers will vary
25. He chided or lectured the mouse
26. Answers will vary
27. The mouse felt offended and humiliated.
28. tiger
29. He was upset because he had forgotten all the good it had received from the old man.
30. Answers vary
31. Yes
32. He turned the tiger to a mouse
33. Answers vary

Grasshoppers and Crickets by Susan Ring

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Book: Grasshoppers and Crickets
Author: Susan Ring
ISBN: 978-0-02-202595-3

Introduction: Meet the Insects
1. The meadow
2. Yes
3. 3 body parts, 6 legs, and 2 antennas
4. the exoskeleton is the hard outer shell
5. 4 wings
6. They are narrow and long
7. They cover and protect the back wings
8. Their strong muscles in their long back legs
9. Grasshoppers have short, thick antennas.  Crickets have long thin antennaes
10. An eye made up of hundreds of tiny eyes
11. 2
12. Grasshoppers breathe through tiny holes along the sides of its body
13. They are tiny holes that grasshoppers use to breathe through
14. The rubbing of body parts to make sounds
15. They can propel themselves 20 times their body length
16. A tympanum is a small hole with a thin covering.  It is used to sense sounds of their enemy’s movement.
17. They eat plants and flowers
18. Grasshoppers can damage entire crops
19. Lizards, snakes, beetles, spiders, birds, and mice eat grasshoppers
20. They protect themselves by camouflaging themselves, spitting at their enemies, smelling bad, and/or flying away
21. More than 10,000
22. As tiny as the tip of a pencil
23. As long as a person’s hand
24. They are colorful grasshoppers
25.  Monkey-Hoppers
26. In the dry deserts of the Southwest
27. The Lubber Grasshopper

Chapter 2: A Closer Look at Crickets
28. No, only male crickets chirp
29. The tree cricket helps you figure out the temperature
30. Count the number of chirps in 15 minutes, then add 40 to that number.  The sum should be the temperature.
31. Crickets hear through their front legs
32. In the Chinese culture crickets bring good luck
33. The builder was unable to please the emperor with his designs
34. The cricket helped the builder by designing his cage.  The emperor loved the cricket’s design.
35. The Mole Cricket
36. They got their name because they live underground
37. Little shovels
38. They dig dirt
39. They work like scissors cutting the underground roots
40. The stone cricket lives in the rocky deserts of South Africa.
41. They eat by tickling worker ants until the ants throw up their partially digested food.
42. Weta Crickets can be found in small islands in New Zealand
43. The Cooloola Monster can be found underground in Australia

Chapter 3: Grasshopper and Cricket Babies
44. A nymph is a baby grasshopper/cricket
45. molt
46. 6, 10

Chapter 4: Grasshopper and Cricket Cousins
47. The two insects that look like grasshoppers and crickets are Katydids and the locust.
48. They imitate wasps when they sense danger.

Conclusion: Grasshoppers, Crickets, and People
49. The order is called “orthoptera.”
50. Straight wings
51. They study insects

The Earth Dragon Awakes by Laurence Yep

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Book: The Earth Dragon Awakes
Author: Laurence Yep
ISBN: 978-0060008466

1. 1906
2. Chin
3. Henry Travis
4. wealthy banker
5. Pacific Plate and North American Plate
6. 375,000 square miles
7. Richter Scale
8. 8.25 on the Richter Scale
9. 343,000
10. 18 million sticks of dynamite
11. A dog
12. Low rumbling
13. His bed
14. Chest of drawers
15. The whole house
16. His bed and all the furniture
17. The Smith’s house
18. bricks
19. screams
20. Henry
21. the door
22. the tenement
23. broken glass
24. cracks on the wall
25. cattle
26. Valencia Street
27. When underground water mixes with landfill material and it converts to a form of quicksand
28. Chin and Ah Sing

Thomas Alva Edison by Laurie Rozakis

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Book: Thomas Alva Edison
Author: Laurie Rozakis
ISBN: 978-0-02-203075-1

Introduction
1. Phonograph
2. false
3. true
4. more than 1,000
5. Guglielmo Marconi
6. 1895
7. Guglielmo Marconi
8. 1901
9. Vladimir Zworykin
10. 1923
11. 1929
12. The Age of Invention
13. Answers will vary
14. Steamboat, steam-engine train, airplane, and telephone

Chapter 1: An Inventor from the Start
15. Thomas Alva Edison
16. Milan, Ohio
17. 1847
18. “Al”
19. Port Huron, Michigan
20. Answers will vary
21. school teacher
22. a laboratory
23. the chemical smells made her dizzy
24.
a) 1839
b) 1865
c) the elevator
d) the sewing machine
25. on the railroad
26. newspapers
27. 16 yrs old
28. telegraph signals
29. 1868
30. Western Union Telegraph Company
31. $40,000
32. 1869
33.
a) The United States buys Alaska from Russia
b) 1867
c) 1868
d) the zoo
e) The telephone and automobile engine

Chapter 2: A Bright Idea
34. started his laboratory
35. Newark, New Jersey
36. Menlo Park
37.
a) 1876
b) 1880
c) 1885
d) 1886
38. he used a parallel circuit
39. Lewis Latimer
40. He used carbon instead of metal, wood, or cotton
41. About 13 hours
42. 1878
43. he built a big electric generator
44. New York City
45. Edison Electric Illuminating Company
46. 85 people
47.
a) The Spanish-American War
b) The vacuum cleaner
c) The air conditioner
d) The airplane and the crayons
e) The completion of the Panama Canal

Chapter 3: Let There Be Music!
48.  his daughter
49. 1877
50. phonograph
a) 1877
51. yes
52. 25 cents
53. $30
54. Leon Berliner
55. record players
56. vinyl discs

Chapter 4: Motion Pictures
57. The Wizard of Menlo Park
58.
a) the zipper
b) The Russian Revolution
c) World War 1
d) The Great Depression
e) Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic
f) bubble gum

Conclusion
59.  kinetoscope
60. movie camera, movie projector
61. kinetograph

Andrew Smith Hallidie by Lisa Zamosky

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Book: Andrew Smith Hallidie
Author: Lisa Zamosky
ISBN: 978-0-02-202406-2

Chapter 1: Who Was Andrew Smith Hallidie?
1. Andrew say a terrible accident
2. San Francisco
3. Summer
4. They all died when the weight of the streetcar pulled them down.
5. March 16, 1836
6. London, England
7. He was both an inventor and an engineer
8. He owned the patent for making wire rope
9. metal wire rope
10. Andrew Jr.
11. Sir Andrew Hallidie
12. Answers will vary- he was a famous doctor
13. At 13 yrs old
14. 15 days
15. 16 days
16. The Gold Rush was in full swing
17. Find gold and become rich
18. He was disappointed that he didn’t earn as much as he hoped.
19. 17 years old
20. He fixed tools and built bridges, dug ditches, mined, and worked on roads and trails.
Chapter 2: Using Wire Rope
21. He continued to study
22. He built a wire suspension bridge across Sacramento’s American River
23. He used his father’s metal wire rope technology.
24. one, two
25. his own company
26. wire rope
27. he became famous by being a suspension bridge builder

Chapter 3: The Cable Car Comes to Life
28.  Hallidie Ropeway
29. April 24, 1900
30. In San Francisco
31. Where Clay and Kearny Streets meet

The Gold Rush Game by William Wu

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The Gold Rush Game by William Wu

1. The boys are playing The Gold Rush Game.
2. It is Eric’s game.
3. Matt O’Brien
4. They bought the game so Eric can learn about the Gold Rush.
5. Eric’s great-great-great grandfather on his dad’s side came to California.
6. China
7. He showed them a piece of paper with the name of his ancestor written on it.
8. Daido
9. Great Path
10. Answers will vary; U.S. Example: Daido Wong; Chinese Example: Wong Daido
11. button
12. They pressed the button that said “Press if you dare.”  They were taken back in time to the California Gold Rush.
13. If they knew who Wong Daido was
14. He responded with a question by asking if they were from around there.
15. The boys are on Feather River upstream from Marysville
16. The town got started by miners and prospectors
17. The miner said to ask other Chinese miners
18. They found him alongside the river panning for gold
19. There was suddenly an earthquake and it pulled him into the river
20. His reaction was to pull down a tree branch a pull him out.
21. He felt if he didn’t save him, he wouldn’t be born.
22. He is trying to raise enough money to bring the woman he loves to California.
23. He offered them his chop.
24. The boys walked back into the space between the two big rocks where they had walked out.
25. No, they didn’t believe the boys.
26. Answers will vary

Leah's Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich

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Book: Leah’s Pony
Author: Elizabeth Friedrich
ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5

1. The year the corn grew tall and straight
2. Answers will vary
3. Yes, yes
4. Answers will vary
5. Answers will vary
6. To hear Mr. B shout compliments about her pony
7. “That’s the finest pony in the whole country.”
8. Answers will vary
9. Answers will vary
10. The house became very quiet
11. Answers will vary
12. Answers will vary
13. The wind
14. By the wind blowing hard
15. An adult female swine
16. Baby pigs
17. Answers will vary
18. A) papa sold the pigs  B) papa sold the cattle  C) mama used flour sacks to make underwear for Leah    D) mama threw dishwater on her drooping petunias to keep them growing
19. They are bags made out of cotton with flour inside.
20. Answers will vary
21. Yes, they will have to be very poor to go to these measures
22. Answers will vary
23. The trees
24. Answers will vary
25. They felt it was better over there
26. Answers will vary
27. He borrowed money to buy seeds
28. They fried up and blew away
29. corn seeds
30. They are going to auction the cattle, chickens, pickup truck, and tractor.
31. They might have to leave the farm.
32. Answers will vary
33. She sold it to Mr. B
34. $15
35. a) the bull  b) the prize rooster  c) Leah’s favorite calf
36. a) plow  b) plant  c) fertilize  d) cultivate
37. That’s all the money she had.
38. Answers will vary
39. All auctions end at the end of the day and have to sell to the highest bidder.
40. Answers will vary
41. chickens
42. 10 cents
43. A Ford Pickup Truck
44. 25 cents
45. a) chicken  b) a cow  c) a plow
46. a) the chicken for $0.01   b) the cow for $0.05   c) the plow for $0.25
47. Answers will vary
48. Answers will vary

From The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein by Johanna Hurwitz

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Book: From The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein
Author: Johanna Hurwitz
ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5

1. David Bernstein was 8 yrs old.
2. There are 4 Davids’ in the classroom.
3. Mrs. Booxbaum gave extra credit for reading fat books.
4. The librarian recommended the “The Arabian Nights.”
5. David wanted to be called Ali Baba Bernstein.
6. Yes, David’s parents agreed to his new name.
7. His mother gave him 3 choices: going bowling, movie, and roller-skating
8. None of the birthday party choices interest Ali Baba.
9. Two boys in class had bowling parties.
10. One student had a movie party.
11. One student had a roller-skating party.
12. He wanted to invite all the other David Bernsteins in the city to his birthday party.
13. Please tell me if you are going to come.
14. RSVP is a French abbreviation.
15. David printed 17 invitations.
16. Only two David’s accepted to attend his birthday party.
17. More than five David’s accepted to attend his birthday party after the first week.
18. Four David’s called saying they couldn’t attend the birthday party.
19. Six David’s didn’t call.
20. The items that were served at David’s party were pot roast, corn, rolls, applesauce, and salad.
21. The first guest was wearing a jogging suit and running shoes.
22. The 76 year old man requested Kasha Varnishkas.
23. All the Davids lived in Manhattan, New York
24. The occupation of the David that is wearing the jogging suit is a dentist.
25. The David that is wearing the running shoes is the only David Bernstein that finished the New York City Marathon.
26. David received the following gifts: a calculator, jigsaw puzzle, model airplane, a few books
27. The story ended by all the Davids talking about inviting all the Bernsteins to a future party.

The Astronaut and the Onion by Ann Cameron

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Book: The Astronaut and the Onion
Author: Ann Cameron
ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5

1. Gloria
2. An onion (A)
3. A grocery store
4. The Berkbee’s Baby Food display
5. Approximately 346
6. She was wearing a sky-blue jogging suit
7. Roughly 1,000
8. Berkbee’s Baby Food
9. castle
10. a cereal box
11. She threw her onion high in the air to make a daring catch
12. The earrings were blue and green to look like the Earth; they spun around.
13. Top of the page, “Some friends go them for me, she said, to remind me of a trip we made.”
14. Dr. Grace Street
15. Jones
16. To the space station
17. the universe
18. stars
19. space
20. space
21. 200 miles
22. Like a giant blue cradle for the land and one ocean.
23. Probably I couldn’t
24. Answers will vary
25. Answers will vary
26. By doing things that are difficult and succeeding
27. Doing things that are difficult and succeeding
28. You get confidence once you succeed in something difficult and knowing you can count on yourself
29. Fear keeps you careful
30. The great secret of life is that big things are really little.
31. By picking up an onion she met an astronaut and by not weighing the onion she had to stop talking to the astronaut.

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

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Book: Because of Winn-Dixie
Author: Kate DiCamillo
ISBN: 978-0-02-199970-5

1. Naomi
2. The Herman W. Block Memorial Library
3. Miss Franny Block
4. a dog
5. a bear
6. She thought he was a bear returning from years ago.
7. Yes
8. Miss Franny Block
9. 3 times bigger than Winn-Dixie
10. No
11. War and Peace
12. a book
13. He took it with him
14. No
15. They all died
16. Amanda Wilkinson

How Thor Got His Hammer by Nomi J. Waldman

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Book: How Thor Got His Hammer
Author: Nomi J. Waldman
ISBN: 978-0-02-202615-8

1. a Norse god of thunder and lightning
2. Thor’s wife
3. a trickster, troublemaker, and shape shifter
4. the son of Ivaldi
5. the son of Ivaldi
6. a blacksmith
7. an elf
8. an elf
9. the chief of the gods
10. the god of agriculture
11. yes
12. Loki
13. Loki thought it would be funny
14. Yes
15. She will find new hair
16. She went across the river to Nidavellir
17. Yes
18. Yes
19. gold
20. Frey
21. anywhere
22. as many sailors he needs
23. the ship folds and fits in his pocket
24. the spear
25. he showed them to Sindri and Brok
26. Loki wager his head that Sindri and Brok couldn’t create better gifts than the elves
27. a fly
28. golden boar
29. arm-ring
30. a hammer
31. Sindri
32. it can fly (A)
33. faster than any horse
34. true
35. the hammer will not miss the target
36. yes
37. no
38. He didn’t collect on the bet because he couldn’t cut off Loki’s head without touching his neck.

Lost Languages by Dina Anastasio

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Book: Lost Languages
Author: Dina Anastasio
ISBN: 978-0-02-202689-9

1. true
2. writings
3. the fragments of writing
4. codes
5. Rongorongo
6. no
7. Eugene Eyraud
8. Script
9. giant carved statues
10. between 1400 A.D.- 1600 A.D.
11. 13 feet
12. 14 tons (28,000 pounds)
13. They are stone pedestals about 4 feet high that the statues are placed on in the island.
14. About 20
15. 1) They think the pictures stand for words that form thoughts and stories.     2) They also think that the glyphs are only pictures and not writing at all.
16. Charles Masson
17. In the 1820s
18. India
19. True
20. True
21. A later Egyptian language
22. 1822
23. Jean Francois Champollion
24. in a cave
25. 800
26. goatskin and sheepskin
27. 11 caves
28. it is another word for book
29. 1838
30. 448 pages
31. 87 pictures
32. it has 10 times more symbols
33. Voynich Manuscript
34. In Italy
35. 1912
36. Roger Bacon
37. lenses
38. He wrote about building traveling machines
39. 1540
40. 1799
41. 1822
42. 1827
43. 1864
44. 1912

Alexander Graham Bell by Laurie Rozakis

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Book: Alexander Graham Bell
Author: Laurie Rozakis
ISBN: 978-0-02-202383-6

1. yes
2. Thomas A. Watson
3. Scotland
4. They taught people how to speak clearly in public.
5. They helped people overcome speech problems.
6. Eliza
7. March 3, 1847
8. Edinburgh, Scotland
9. Hearing impaired
10. Royal Edinburgh High School
11. no
12. 4 years
13. London
14. a written code called “visible speech”
15. it helped hearing-impaired people to speak
16. 1863
17. He read about a scientist who made sound with a turning fork and electricity.
18. When Alexander’s brothers died
19. Two years later
20. He taught speech to hearing-impaired children
21. 1872
22. Thomas A. Watson
23. Elisha Gray
24. Michael Faraday
25. Michael Faraday
26. Joseph Henry
27. The Greek Language
28. distant
29. voice or sound
30. A device that converts sound into electrical impulses that are sent over wires
31. 29 years old
32. February 14, 1876
33. Centennial Exposition
34. Volta Laboratory
35. it tests hearing
36. records and plays back sound
37. August 2, 1922
38. Alexander Graham Bell’s grandson
39. 1947
40. 1983
41. 2002

From Gliders to Rockets by Sarah Jane Brian

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Book: From Gliders To Rockets
Author: Sarah Jane Brian

1. Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier
2. June 5, 1783
3. True
4. True
5. Sir George Cayley
6. England
7. 1804
8. Wilbur and Orville Wright
9. 1899
10. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
11. True
12. True
13. Orville
14. December 17, 1903
15. 1908
16. 1 hour
17. a World War I pilot
18. Baron Manfred von Richthofen
19. Germany
20. 80 planes
21. 1911
22. 84 days
23. Harriet Quimby
24. Charles Lindbergh
25. 33 ½ hours
26. May 1932
27. 1937
28. zeppelins
29. a lightweight gas
30. May 6, 1937
31. 35
32. 1944
33. 400 miles per hour
34. 550 miles per hour
35. The speed of sound
36. Chuck Yeager
37. October 14, 1947
38. 1953
39. Jackie Cochran
40. Cape Canaveral, Florida
41. 1957
42. Sputnik
43. Explorer 1
44. It was a project to send a man into space
45. Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961
46. Alan Shepard
47. Gemini
48. Ham
49. Apollo 11
50. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
51. 2 hours
52. Mae Jemison

Looking at Whales by Dina Anastasio

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Book: Looking at Whales
Author: Dina Anastasio

1. underwater
2. whales
3. no
4. 30 miles per hour
5. breaching
6. calves
7. pods
8. yes
9. they work as a unit
10. living, eating, traveling together, protecting their young
11. anywhere from 2 whales to 25
12. killer whales
13. no, they don’t
14. no, with one eye open
15. on its skull
16. 13 feet
17. nine-story building
18. yes
19. during summer
20. it helps them by keeping them warm and store food
21. 2
22. by catching fish with their teeth and swallowing them whole
23. they scoop up tangles of food and their upper jaws strain the food
24. baleen whales
25. they communicate with songs and splashing noises
26. The Sea Canary
27. By click and whistle
28. They make knocking, moaning, and rumbling noises
29. They sing but not during feeding season
30. True
31. True
32. False
33. This is when sound is bounced off an object.  The longer the sound takes to travel back to its sender.  The further the food/object is.  The sooner the echo returns the closer the food is.
34. for miles
35. yes
36. yes
37. 70+
38. it is a mother whale and her calf
39. it is a group of whales that live together
40. it is a group of pods that sometimes travels together
41. it is a group of clans
42. follow the leader
43. by creating water currents as they swim in the ocean, the calf is pulled along in this current
44. When a whale pops its head up above the surface to see where its at
45. laws
46. Getting tangled in nets