A Limerick a Day for a Fifth Year


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Fifth in the Limerick a Day For a Year series by Kevin Ahern. The book follows the format of the previous four books of the series.




The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary


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An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class’s poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and Eileen Spinelli. Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill’s fifth-grade class has plans for you. They’re going to speak up and work together to save their school. Families change and new friendships form as these terrific kids grow up and move on in this whimsical novel-in-verse about finding your voice and making sure others hear it. Honors and Praise: Winner of a Cybils Award in Poetry Winner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices An NCTE Notable Verse Novel A Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year An ILA-CBC Children’s Choice Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association Children’s Book Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire), Lectio Book Award Master List “This gently evocative study of change in all its glory and terror would make a terrific read-aloud or introduction to a poetry unit. A most impressive debut.” —School Library Journal “Sure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old.” —Mark Goldblatt, author of Twerp




Mastering Fifth Grade Skills-Canadian


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A wide range of activities to spark students' interest in learning as they develop the skills they need to meet academic standards in reading, writing, math, and science.




Try Never


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Poetry. Written under the spell of a medieval Welsh poetic form, the poems in Anthony Madrid's incantatory second book, TRY NEVER, each offer up their own strange world. They're full of erudition, humor, and rare magnificence. A single poem can contain "bottles and cans," Mount Everest, an upset stomach, Texas rain, a hawk, the evil queen, a "twice- mended lid," and Ralph; as if to say, anything's possible.




Mastering Fifth Grade Skills


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A wide range of activities to spark students' interest in learning as they develop the skills they need to meet academic standards in reading, writing, math, and science.




180 Days of Reading for Fifth Grade, 2nd Edition ebook


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Improve reading skills with 180 Days of Reading, 2nd Edition, a workbook of fun and meaningful daily practice activities. This easy-to-use fifth grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Help students learn to read and write more confidently with these standards-based learning activities. The 2nd Edition of this activity book incorporates thematic units and a combination of fiction, nonfiction, and nontraditional texts. The new edition also reinforces the connection between reading and writing by having students write about what they read. Parents appreciate the grade-appropriate reading passages and engaging topics that children will love. The daily reading practice is great for homeschool, to reinforce learning at school, or to prevent learning loss over summer. Teachers rely on these workbooks to save them valuable time and address learning gaps.







Memorials of Adare Manor


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Memorial of Adare Manor


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. By Caroline, Countess of Dunraven, with Historical Notices of Adare, by her son, The Earl of Dunraven.




A Hurricane in My Head


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With surprising honesty and words that resonate long after reading, A Hurricane in My Head tackles the themes of friendship, bullying, technology and the life of a modern teenager. These poems say the things we can't always put into words; they may make you laugh, they may make you cry, but they will most definitely make you reminisce, escape, discover... This is a truly stunning collection from Matt Abbott, nationally acclaimed writer and performer, with poems that will make you want to become a poet and put your own words to paper - much to the perplexity of any careers advisor!