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- 100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum:
- Choosing The Right Curriculum And Approach For Your Child's Learning Style
- by Cathy Duffy
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- Homeschooling : The Teen Years:
- Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- To 18-Year Old
- by Cafi Cohen
- This book reveals the adventure and rewards as well as the special challenges of working with this age group.
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- First Year of Homeschooling Your Child:
- Your Complete Guide to Getting Off to the Right Start
- by Linda Dobson
- Many of today's families are opting to teach their children at home. The first hurdle these families face is getting started.
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- The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas:
- 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12
- by Linda Dobson
- Kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more for your homeschooling needs.
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- The Unschooling Handbook:
- How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
- by Mary Griffith
- Unschooling is a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests.
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Award Winning Children's Books
Top literary awards in 2011 for the best children's and young adults' literature and illustration.
Children's Book Awards
Here's a quick reading assessment to give to your child if you aren't sure which level books they could read.
2011 Newbery Medal Winners
The Newbery Medal honors the year's most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The medal was established in 1922 and is presented annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The recipient must be a citizen or resident of the United States.
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Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
Winner, 2011 Newbury Medal
Gr 5-8. After a life of riding the rails with her father, 12-year-old Abilene can't understand why he has sent her away to stay with Pastor Shady Howard in Manifest, Missouri, a town he left years earlier; but over the summer she pieces together his story.
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Dark Emperor
and Other Poems of the Night
by Joyce Sidman
Honor, 2011 Newbury Medal
Gr 3-6. Sidman continues her explorations of natural history in this set of poems about nocturnal life in the forest.
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Heart of a Samurai
A novel inspired by a true adventure on the high seas.
by Margi Preus
Honor, 2011 Newbury Medal
Gr 5 Up. A Japanese teenager living in the mid-19th century bridges two worlds in this stunning debut novel based on true events.
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Turtle in Paradise
by Jennifer L. Holm
Honor, 2011 Newbury Medal
Grade 3-5. Eleven-year-old Turtle is not one to suffer fools gladly. And she runs into a lot of fools, especially the no-goods her starry-eyed mother meets.
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Winners of the Newbery Awards from 1990-present |
2011 Caldecott Medalists
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
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A Sick Day for Amos McGee
by Philip Christian Stead
Winner, 2011 Caldecott Medal
K-Gr 2. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too!
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Interrupting Chicken
David Ezra Stein (Author, Illustrator)
Honor, 2011 Caldecott Medal
Preschool-Gr 2. In a picture book that is as charming and comic as Pouch! (Putnam, 2009), Stein again represents an affectionate parent's trials with a vigorous child.
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Dave the Potter
Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill
Honor, 2011 Caldecott Medal
K-Gr 4. The life of an astonishingly prolific and skilled potter who lived and died a slave in 19th-century South Carolina is related in simple, powerful sentences that outline the making of a pot.
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Caldecott Medalists: Winners and Honors, 1990-present |
2011 Coretta Scott King Award Winners
The awards are given to an African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution. The books promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream. The Award is further designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.
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One Crazy Summer
by Rita Williams-garcia
Author Winner, 2011 Coretta Scott King Award
Gr 4-7. Emotionally challenging and beautifully written, this book immerses readers in a time and place and raises difficult questions of cultural and ethnic identity and personal responsibility.
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Lockdown
by Walter Dean Myers
Honor, 2011 Coretta Scott King Award
Young Adult. Myers takes readers inside the walls of a juvenile corrections facility in this gritty novel.
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Dave the Potter
Artist, Poet, Slave
by Laban Carrick Hill
Illustrator Winner, 2011 Coretta Scott King Award
K-Gr 4. The life of an astonishingly prolific and skilled potter who lived and died a slave in 19th-century South Carolina is related in simple, powerful sentences that outline the making of a pot.
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Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow
A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
by Gary Golio
Honor, 2011 Coretta Scott King Award
Grade 4-8. Before he was famous, little Jimmy Hendrix tuned into a world colored with the sounds of the city outside the Seattle boarding house where he lived with his father.
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Winners of the Coretta Scott King Awards from 1990-present |
2011 Michael L. Printz Award Winners
The Michael L. Printz Award, first given in 2000, is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. The award is named in honor of Michael L. Printz, a school librarian from Topeka, Kansas who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.
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Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Winner, 2011 Michael L. Printz Award
Grade 7 Up. In a world in which society has stratified, fossil fuels have been consumed, and the seas have risen and drowned coastal cities, Nailer, 17, scavenges beached tankers for scrap metals on the Gulf Coast.
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Stolen
by Lucy Christopher
Honor, 2011 Michael L. Printz Award
Grade 9 Up. Drugged and kidnapped from her parents at the Bangkok airport, English teen Gemma wakes to find herself in the weirdly beautiful but desolate Australian outback.
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by A.S. King
Honor, 2011 Michael L. Printz Award
Gr 9 Up. Beginning with the funeral of Charlie Kahn, high school senior Vera's neighbor and former best friend, this chilling and darkly comedic novel offers a gradual unfolding of secrets about the troubled teenagers, their families, and their town.
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Revolver
by Marcus Sedgwick
Honor, 2011 Michael L. Printz Award
Grade 7 Up. Scenes dealing with brutality or the harsh realities of death may not be for sensitive readers but the satisfying ending will dispel some of the gloomy tone.
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Winners of the Michael L. Printz Award from 2000-present |
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