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2. Come In�����������. This Power Point presentation is designed to share with you the literature we�ve read in our 5th grade language arts classes, during this school year. Although some were enjoyed more than others, all touch upon relevant themes that impact the lives of our young readers. Enjoy!

3. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo �Take one disarmingly engaging protagonist and put her in the company of a tenderly rendered canine, and you�ve got yourself a recipe for the best kind of down-home literary treat. Kate DiCamillo�s voice in Because of Winn-Dixie should carry from the steamy, sultry pockets of Florida clear across the miles to enchant young readers everywhere.�

4. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli They say Maniac Magee was born in a dump. They say his stomach was a cereal box and his heart a sofa spring. What�s Truth, What�s Myth? When Jeffrey Lionel Magee wanders into Two Mills, PA, a legend is born. Jeffrey�s just a scruffy 12 year-old kid. But before long, the stories begin to circulate: about how fast and how far he can run. About how he hits the world�s first �ever �frogball� for an inside-the-park home-run bunt. About how he scores 49 touchdowns when the plays football with the high school team, and about how he performs other feats so incredible that he�s soon being called �Maniac.� All that is nothing compared to the bravest , craziest thing Jeffrey ever does at Two Mills � for the kids from the East End and the West End. This is his story. It�s a story that is very careful not to get the facts mixed up with the truth.

5. The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn Rose finally has a place where where she fits in � but she has to travel through time to get there! It looked like an ordinary root cellar, the kind of place where you�d store canned good and winter vegetables. If 12-year old Rose hadn�t been so unhappy in her new home, she probably never would have fled down the stairs to the dark cellar. And, if she hadn�t, she never would have fled down the stairs to the dark cellar. And, if she hadn�t , she never would have climbed up into another century, the world of the 1860�s and the chaos of the Civil War. There she makes her first friends, and they desperately need her help!

6. Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff Perpetual foster child Hollis Woods longs for her life with the Regans � the one family who has offered her a home, but from whom she ran away � fixing each moment of her time with them in pictures she�ll never forget.

7. The Devil�s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen When Hannah opens the door during Passover Seder to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she suddenly finds herself in the unfamiliar world of a Polish village in the 1940s. Hannah had always complained about listening to her relatives tell the same stories of the Holocaust over and over, but now finds herself in a terrifying situation. The Nazi soldiers have come to take the villagers away, and only Hannah can guess where they are going.

8. The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss When the German army occupied Holland, Annie deLeeuw was 8 years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger � she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For two years they hid Annie and her sister, Sini, in the cramped upstairs room of their farmhouse. Most people thought the war wouldn�t last long. But for Annie and Sini � separated from their family and confined to one tiny room � the war seemed to go on forever.

9. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen Rosen, often think about life before the war. But it�s now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazi�s won�t stop. The Jews of Denmark are being �relocated,� so Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be part of the family. Then Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission. Somehow she must find the strength and courage to save her best friend�s life. There is no turning back now.

10. Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan and came to America to escape poverty. World War II seems far away for Tomi and his friends � they�re too busy playing ball on their 8th grade team, the Rats. But, Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese and the US declares war on Japan. Tomi�s father and grandfather are arrested. Tomi must be the man of his family and help his mother and little sister survive. It�s a terrifying time to be Japanese in America. But one thing doesn�t change: the loyalty of Tomi�s buddies, the Rats.

11. Language Handbook � Level F Steck-Vaughn Used as a supplement to our language arts curriculum, this handbook covers the following: *Writing *Writing Forms *Grammar *Usage *Mechanics *Study Skills Includes additional practice pages for each skill taught.

12. The Young Writer�s HandbookAllan A. Glatthorn / Willa F. Spicer Another supplement to our language arts curriculum, this book is intended for young writers who often have questions that need a quick answer. For example: Which word is correct in this sentence? How can I organize this essay or letter? Topics are arranged alphabetically, an index lists more specific information and a �List of Words Commonly Confused� near the end of the book is also included. A helpful book for solving all kinds of writing problems.