CC Cycle 3

Picture Books for Cycle 3

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Book cover for "Harold and the purple crayon"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Notes:
Week 5
Description:
Harold goes for an adventurous walk in the moonlight with his purple crayon.
Book cover for "Caleb's story"
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Sequel to: Skylark. The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.
Book cover for "Johnny Tremain"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Book cover for "The king's fifth"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
A map-maker accompanying a ruthless band of Coronado's soldiers in their search for gold must battle against his own sudden greed. Seven members of Coronado's army attempt to find the fabled city of Cibola.
Book cover for "Leaves of Grass"
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Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense. Criticized when first released for Whitman's use of free verse and his rather racy depictions of sexual love and the senses, Leaves of Grass is a celebration of the human form, the material world and nature.

Book cover for "The sign of the beaver"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
In the late eighteenth century, eleven-year-old Matt befriends an Indian boy of the Beaver clan who helps him survive alone in the wilderness. Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Book cover for "Snowflake Bentley"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.
Book cover for "Taffy of Torpedo Junction"
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In 1942, thirteen-year-old Taffy, living with her grandfather on Hatteras Island, inadvertently helps capture Nazi spies responsible for passing information to offshore German submarines engaged in torpedoing American ships.
Book cover for "The witch of Blackbird Pond"
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Average Rating:
3.1 stars
Description:
Now an orphan, Kit Tyler travels from Barbados, where she grew up, to live with her strict Puritan uncle in Connecticut.