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 "Ox-cart man"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Notes:
week 8
Description:
Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.
Book cover for "Follow the drinking gourd"
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Week 9
Description:
By following the directions in a song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada.
Book cover for "Henry's freedom box"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Notes:
Week 9
Description:
A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
Book cover for "Apples to Oregon"
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Week 10
Description:
A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.
Book cover for "Abe Lincoln crosses a creek"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Week 11
Description:
In Knob Creek, Kentucky, in 1816, seven-year-old Abe Lincoln falls into a creek and is rescued by his best friend, Austin Gollaher.
Book cover for "When Jessie came across the sea"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Week 16
Description:
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.
Book cover for "Finding Winnie"
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Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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Week 17
Description:
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Book cover for "Shooting at the stars"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Notes:
Week 17
Description:
In 1914 France, a British soldier writes to his mother about the strange events of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when German and Allied soldiers met on neutral ground to share songs, food, and fun. Includes historical notes and glossary.
Book cover for "Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the wolf"
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Week 19
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Despite Grandfather's warning about wolves in the forest, Peter and his animal friends capture one.
Book cover for "Nine, ten"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Week 22
Description:
Relates how the lives of four children living in different parts of the country intersect and are affected by the events of September 11, 2001.
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 "Lewis & Clark"
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Presents, in graphic novel format, the adventures of explorers Lewis and Clark during their journey from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.
Book cover for "The matchbox diary"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Follow a girl's perusal of her great-grandfather's collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.
Book cover for "Play ball, Jackie!"
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On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers season-opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball. Includes facts about Jackie Robinson's life and career.
Book cover for "Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims"
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Series:
Rush Revere volume 1.
Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.
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.