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M & M and the Halloween Monster by Pat Ross
While getting ready for Halloween, Mandy and Mimi observe a number of creepy things in their apartment building and conclude that a monster is lurking in the basement.
  • Lesson Plan with group activities. Alternative Parenting

 

The M & M's Chocolate Candies Counting Book by Barbara Barbieri McGrath
Students can practice simple addition and subtraction, as well as learn about the three primary shapes: square, circle, and triangle, using the photographs of the colorful M & M candies. 
  • Activities for mathematics, reading, and writing. 
  • Activities include math ideas. TeacherViews
  • Activities include math games and patterns. Trumpet 
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the math concepts of estimation skills and gathering data and recording findings. Kansas State University
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

M. C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

 

M Is for Music by Kathleen Krull
An alphabet book introducing musical terms, from allegro to zarzuela.

 

Ma Dear's Aprons by Patricia McKissack
Young David Earl always knows what day of the week it is, because his mother, Ma Dear, has a different apron for every day except Sunday.

 

Mabel the Tooth Fairy and How she Got Her Job by Katie Davis
Relates how Mabel Becaharuvic's failure to brush or floss her own teeth turned her from an ordinary fairy into the Tooth Fairy.

  • Activities include a word search, crossword puzzle, bookmarks, stickers, and more. Katie Davis
  • Booktalk Nancy Keane

 

Mabela the Clever by Margaret MacDonald
An African folktale about a mouse who pays close attention to her surroundings and avoids being tricked by the cat.

  • Activities. Scroll down the page. Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award
  • Activity Card for parent and child. Microsoft Word document. Texas 2X2 Reading List

 

Mac and Marie and the Train Toss Surprise by Elizabeth F. Howard
Mac and Marie await the surprise that their uncle will throw to them from the train he works on. 

  • Discussion Guide with project suggestions. Scroll down the page under the author's name and click on Curriculum

 

Macaroni Boy by Katherine Ayres
In Pittsburgh in 1933, sixth-grader Mike Costa notices a connection between several strange occurrences, but the only way he can find out the truth about what's happening is to be nice to the class bully.

  • Booktalk Random House
  • Teacher's Guide includes pre-reading activities, thematic connections, cross-curricular connections, and suggestions for vocabulary. Random House

 

Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The story of the quest of Macbeth and his Lady to attain the throne of Scotland. 

  • Novel Guide with theme openers, cross curricular activities, and research assignments. McDougal Littell

 

McGraw's Emporium by Jim Aylesworth
A boy searches for a gift for a sick friend at the unique store, McGraw's Emporium, but finally settles on a free kitten.
  • Activities include cross-curricular ideas. Jim Aylesworth

 

Mack Made Movies by Don Brown
A simple biography of the director whose silent films immortalized such slapstick clowns as the Keystone Kops, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Ben Turpin.

 

Mad Summer Night's Dream by Ruth Brown
A strange dream on a midsummer night in winter produces many contradictions and unusual sights, from singing flowers and blooming birds to dancing stone monkeys.

  • Activity include oxymorons. Nancy Polette

 

Made You Look by Diane Roberts
Jason, who longs to try out for his favorite game show, is excited when his parents plan a family vacation to California until he learns that it will be a cross-country camping expedition in a camper that looks like a giant sardine can.

 

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmens
Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.

 

Madeline in America by Ludwig Bemelmens
The story of Madeline's only visit to America and two other holiday tales.

  • Activity for an acrostic poem. Scroll down the website. Nancy Polette

 

Madeline in London by Ludwig Bemelmens
When the Ambassador moves to London, the twelve little girls go to visit his son, Madeline has an adventure on a horse, and the horse returns to Paris with the girls.

  • Activities include vocabulary and writing. TeacherViews

 

Madeline Says Merci by Ludwig Bemelmens
An etiquette primer for children and teenagers using characters from the "Madeline" series of books.

  • Activities include making a poster and creating an acrostic. TeacherViews

 

Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmens
A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise.

 

Madlenka by Peter Sis
Madlenka joyfully skips around her New York City block to proclaim the news that her tooth is loose.
  • Activities include ideas for introducing the book, research, and writing about new cultures. Trumpet
  • Activity for creating a  map of Madlenka's neighborhood. Scroll down the page for activity.
  • Teacher's Guide includes cross-curricular activities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

Madlenka's Dog by Peter Sis
Madlenka wants a dog and doesn't care what kind it is, so long as she can put it on a leash and walk it around the block, but when her parents say no, Madlenka must use her imagination.
  • Teacher's Guide includes cross-curricular activities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

Maebelle's Suitcase by Tricia Tusa
An elderly woman sacrifices a treasured prize to help her friend, a young bird, make his first flight south.
  • Activities include making a hat. TeacherViews
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man's life forever.
  • Activities include learning about music. TeacherViews

 

Maggie in the Morning by Elizabeth Van Steenwky
In 1941, while visiting relatives in Oquawka, Illinois, eleven-year-old Maggie Calhoun is prodded by a spirited neighbor girl to track down a family secret
  • Discussion Guide includes discussion topics, activity suggestions, author and illustrator information, and more. Eerdman’s Books

 

Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean, set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to reach a better life in America.
  • Booktalk Nancy Keane
  • Booktalk Random House
  • Teacher's Guide includes questions for discussion and writing, cross-curricular activities, and vocabulary. Random House

 

Magic by the Lake by Edward Eager
On a vacation, four children find themselves with an entire lake full of
magic, which they must tame and learn how to handle in order to find
the treasure that waits for them.

 

Magic Carpet by Pat Brisson
When Elizabeth asks Aunt Agatha how her pretty carpet got to her from China, where it was made, it's the beginning of a game for the two of them.

 

The Magic Dreidels by Eric Kimmel
When an old lady swindles him out of his magic dreidels, Jacob tries to get them back in time for the family's Hanukkah celebration.
  • Activities include cooking and art. TeacherViews

 

The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them.
  • Activities include an author study. TeacherViews
  • Questions Irish National Teacher's Organization

 

The Magic Fish by Freya Littledale
A greedy fisherman's wife is granted every wish but can't find happiness.

 

The Magic Listening Cap by Yoshiko Uchida 
A magic cap allows the wearer to hear understand the speech of plants and animals. 

 

The Magic Menorah by Jane Zalben 
Stanley does not look forward to spending another Chanukah with all his relatives, but when an old man comes out of a tarnished menorah in the attic and grants Stanley three wishes, he changes his mind.
  • Questions to ask before and after reading. Family TLC

 

The Magic of the Glits by C. S. Adler
Twelve-year-old Jeremy, spending the summer on Cape Cod, befriends a seven-year-old girl whose mother has just died.

·         Curriculum Guide includes synopsis, author information, discussion questions, and activities. William Allen White Children's Book Award

 

The Magic Peach by Janet Palazzo-Craig
An extraordinary Japanese boy sets out to destroy the ogres who have terrorized his village for years.

 

The Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole
The magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle, and her class take field trips to exciting places.
  • Games online from the publisher.

 

The Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip by Joanna Cole 
Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip through the town's electrical wires so they can learn how electricity is generated and how it is used.
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

The Magic School Bus and the Great Shark Escape by Jennifer Johnston
Ms. Frizzle's class boards the Magic School Bus for an underwater field trip to study ocean life.

·         Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks by Joanna Cole 
When Ms. Frizzle, the strangest teacher in school, takes her class on a field trip to the waterworks, everyone ends up experiencing the water purification system from the inside.
  • Activities include learning about the water cycle. TeacherViews
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus Blows Its Top by Gail Herman 
A special field trip on the Magic School Bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to experience the formation of an island from an underwater volcano.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus Butterfly and the Bog Beast by Nancy Krulik
Ms. Frizzle's students learn about the wonders of butterflies when she takes the class on a Magic School Bus adventure to the swamp in search of the Bog Beast.

  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus Explores the World of Bugs by Nancy White
The students in Ms. Frizzle's class learn what it is like to live as an insect when they take a field trip aboard the Magic School Bus.

  • Activities include the study of bugs. TeacherViews

 

The Magic School Bus Gets All Dried Up by Suzanne Weyn
A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to see how animals and plants adapt in the desert.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants by Linda Ward Beech
A special field trip on the Magic School Bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to see how ants live, work, eat, and reproduce as a group.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake by Joanna Cole
It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday and the class is in for some delicious fun when they try to bake a cake but wind up inside it--learning about mixtures and reactions that occur when ingredients are put together.

 

The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten by Patricia Relf
A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to see how the food chain works in the ocean.

·         Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

The Magic School Bus Goes Batty by Mary Krulik
The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class learn lessons about bats when they accidentally transform the Magic School Bus and then themselves into creatures of the night while trying to find out what their teacher has done with their parents.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus in a Pickle: A Book About Microbes by Nancy Krulik
Keesha’s prizewinning cucumber has been stolen, and a pickle has been left in its place. Keesha thinks Ms. Frizzle is a thief!
  • Activities include the study of pickles. TeacherViews
  • Lesson Plan includes an experiment about mold. Scholastic

 

The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole
Ms. Frizzle warps her students back to the late Triassic period, where they begin a journey forward through time in search of Maiasaura eggs.
  • Activities feature measurement, studying fossils, and making a picture dictionary. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Integrated Literature Unit with curricular connections. University of North Carolina
  • Lesson Plan with Internet activities for before, during, and after reading. Ball State University
  • Questions to ask before, during, and after reading. Family TLC

 

The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive by Joanna Cole 
Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a fieldtrip to a beehive in her magic school bus.
  • Activities include making a book shaped like a bee. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Lesson Plan with Internet activities for before, during, and after reading. Ball State University

 

The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane by Joanna Cole
When Ms. Frizzle's class takes a field trip to the local weather station, they end up in a hurricane
  • Activities include creating a weather dictionary. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Integrated Literature Unit with curricular connections. University of North Carolina
  • Lesson Plan with Internet activities for before, during, and after reading. Ball State University

 

The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole
Ms. Fizzle, and her students go on a field trip they’ll never forget. They learn first hand about different kinds of rocks and the formation of the earth.

·         Activities for the family. Reading Rainbow

  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

·         Teacher's Guide Reading Rainbow

 

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole
On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system.
  • Activities includes writing and science ideas. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Literature Unit features an extension activity and vocabulary builder. Scholastic
  • Integrated Literature Unit with curricular connections. University of North Carolina

 

The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole
On another special field trip on the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns about the ocean and the different creatures that live there
  • Activities include studying shells and making a saltwater painting. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • CyberGuide includes writing and reading activities resulting in a student product. San Diego County Office of Education
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus Out of This World by Jackie Posner
The kids in Ms. Frizzle's class learn lessons about space rocks when they board the Magic School Bus, now a space-bus, to try to head off a huge asteroid that is heading directly for Walker Elementary School.

  • Activities include craters and a vocabulary game. TeacherViews

 

The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds by Joanna Cole
When the class decides they want to plant a garden, Ms. Frizzle leads them on a wacky field trip back to Phoebe's old school--where they learn about the cycle of plant life. 
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Integrated Literature Unit with curricular connections. University of North Carolina

 

The Magic School Bus Sees Stars by Joanna Cole
The kids in Ms. Frizzle’s room want to buy a star as a birthday gift for Dorothy Ann.

  • Activities include creating a graphic organizer and a vocabulary game. TeacherViews
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Magic School Bus Space Explorers by Joanna Cole
Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a great adventure through space.

  • Activities include comprehension questions. TeacherViews

 

The Magic School Bus Spins a Web by Eva Moore
A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to learn how spiders trap their prey.

  • Lesson Plan with Internet activities for before, during, and after reading. Ball State University

 

The Magic School Bus Takes Flight by Gail Herman
Ms. Frizzle's students learn all about how airplanes fly when the zany teacher shrinks them to thumb size and takes to the skies in a model plane.

·         Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

Magic Windows/Ventanas Magicas by Carmen Lomas Garza
Explores the author’s family, community, and ancestors through the traditional folk art form of papel picado (cut-paper art).

  • Lesson Plan includes a summary, author and/or illustrator profiles, and activities for before and after reading. School-Library.org

 

The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.

  • Activities include prediction and character charts. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Lesson Plan includes sample vocabulary exercises and questions. Progeny Press
  • Quiz Fact Monster

 

The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones
After two centuries of feuding the powers of the two families of magicians in mythical Caprona are too weak to stop an incipient war, but the younger members of the families find a way.

 

Magid Fasts for Ramadan by Mary Matthews
Magid, an eight-year-old Muslim boy in Cairo, is determined to celebrate Ramadan by fasting, despite the opposition of family members who feel that he is not yet old enough to fast.

 

The Magnificent Mummy Maker by Elvira Woodruff
The mummy that Andrew creates for his fifth grade project seems to have special powers and helps him to understand his feelings about himself, his dead mother, and his stepbrother, who he calls Mr. Gifted.

 

Magnificent Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook's Final Expedition by Laurie Lawlor
Uses excerpts from the journal of a twenty-five-year-old American sailor to chronicle the final voyage of Captain James Cook in 1776.

 

Magpie Magic by April Wilson
A wordless picture book that depicts a young artist who draws a picture of a magpie which then comes to life and interacts with a series of colorful drawings.

  • Questions to ask before, during, and after reading. Family TLC

 

Mahalia by Joanne Horniman
When his girlfriend leaves him and their five-month-old baby, seventeen-year-old Matt struggles to make a life for himself and Mahalia, the daughter he adores.

 

Mail-Order Wings by Beatrice Gormley
Nine-year-old Andrea orders wings through the mail with a guarantee to fly. Incredibly, they work, but there is a frightening side effect.

  • Activities include dramatics and studying birds. TeacherViews

 

The Mailbox Trick by Scott Corbett
The letters which Kerby wrote to the neighborhood bully, the Governor of the State, and the difficult neighbor across the street were just a joke until his little cousin Gay mailed them.

  • Questions for comprehension. Scroll down the website.

 

Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.

  • Activities include determining the setting, reading train tables, and comparing prices. Scroll down the page. Georgia Children's Literature Book Awards
  • Activities include point of view and related weblinks. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Internet Workshop about who should be pictured on a stamp. Scott Foresman
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the economic concept of opportunity cost. KidEconBooks
  • Lesson Plan with Internet activities for before, during, and after reading. Ball State University
  • Teaching Guide with curriculum connections. Children's Literature Association of Utah
  • Vocabulary Activities include matching, word search, concentration, and flash cards. Quia-Heather Kurtenbach

 

Maisy Makes Gingerbread by Lucy Cousins
Maisy the mouse makes gingerbread cookies and shares them with her friends Charley and Tallulah.

  • Activities include background ideas and math. TeacherViews

 

Maisy Mouse series by Lucy Cousins

 

Maisy's Colors by Lucy Cousins
See Maisy in her red coat and her white bathrobe, driving her green train, and sailing on the blue sea.

  • Questions to ask before, during, and after reading. Family TLC

 

Make a Wish, Molly by Barbara Cohen
Molly, who recently emigrated with her family from Russia to New Jersey, learns about birthday parties and who her real friends are.

  • Activities include discussion topics and related weblinks. TeacherViews

 

Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolffe
In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.

·         Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring. 

  • Activities include games and a quiz. Family Education
  • Activities include making a map and a subtraction idea. TeacherViews
  • Activity using a yellow glove to teach subtraction. Sesame Workshop
  • Activity emphasizes character education. Georgia Humanities Council
  • Lesson Plan designed to help students locate features of the school and community by interpreting and constructing maps using simple grid systems, cardinal directions, relative distances and sizes, and symbols explained in a legend (key). Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools
  • Lesson Plan includes enrichment activities and related Internet resources. TeacherVision
  • Lesson Plan includes a summary, activities for home and classroom, and a booklist. Scroll down to page 18. Vocabulary list on page 25. Memphis, TN, Public Schools
  • Lesson Plan includes a community graphic organizer. Innovation Designs for Education
  • Lesson Plan 1 with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Lesson Plan 2 with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Lesson Plan for learning geographic principles such as map-reading and scale. Salem State College
  • Literature Unit features a writing prompt and extension activity. Scholastic
  • Online Trivia Quiz Fun Trivia
  • Study Guide includes pre-reading, during reading, and post reading activities. Weston Woods

 

Making the Earth by Douglas Wood
Shows how how we each are part of the world and how we help in creating it.

  • Activities include graphic organizers and personification. TeacherViews

 

Making Up Megaboy by Virginia Walter
When thirteen-year-old Robbie shoots an old man in a liquor store, everyone who knows the quiet, withdrawn youth struggles to understand this act of seemingly random violence.

  • Lesson Plan includes a summary, author and/or illustrator profiles, and activities for before and after reading. School-Library.org
  • Teacher's Guide Random House

 

Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly by Walter Dean Myers
This compelling narrative explores Malcolm X’s journey from his tragic childhood to his life as a street hustler, a Black Muslim, a prison inmate, and a fearless leader in the struggle for blacks to achieve equality.
  • Activity for discussion of a quote from the book. Scroll down the page for activity.

 

The Malted Falcon: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko by Bruce Hale
Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie try to find a missing valentine and the winning ticket to a fantastic dessert.

 

Mama Bear by Chyng Feng Sun
When Mei-Mei fails in her attempt to earn money through a cookie sale for the expensive toy bear she wants for Christmas, her mother helps her to see a special gift she has had all along.
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the economic concept of saving. KidEconBooks

 

Mama Cat Has Three Kittens by Denise Fleming
While two kittens copy everything their mother does, their brother naps. 
  • Activities include a coloring page and paper plate art. Denise Fleming
  • Extension Activity includes creating a bulletin board of the dreams of Boris the cat. Scholastic

 

Mama, Do You Love Me?  by Barbara M. Joosse
A beautiful and timeless story about a daughter's attempt to find the limit of her mother's love.
  • Activity to introduce before reading. Ball State University
  • Extension Activity includes making special greeting cards. Scholastic
  • Lesson Plan for identifying the letter "M" by sight and sound. AskERIC
  • Lesson Plan focuses on animals of Alaska. Lesson Plan Page
  • Lesson Plan for teaching letter recognition. Auburn University
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Questions to ask before, during, and after reading. Family TLC

 

Mama Don't Allow by Thatcher Hurd
When Miles gets a saxophone for his birthday, neither his parents nor his neighborhood can stand the racket. However, when Miles and his Swamp Band receive an invitation to play at the Alligator Ball, no one guesses what’s in store.

·         Activities for the family. Reading Rainbow

  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

·         Teacher's Guide Reading Rainbow

 

Mama Had a Dancing Heart by Libba Moore Gray
A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors.
  • Lesson Plan about word choice and writing. Ames Community School District, IA

 

Mama Is a Miner by George Ella Lyon
A mother describes her job working as a miner.
  • Lesson Plan features activities related to economics concepts and geography themes. Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools

 

Mama, Let's Dance by Patricia Hermes
Abandoned by their mother after the death of their father, three youngsters are determined to keep their situation a secret so that the authorities will not split them up and send them to foster homes.
  • Lesson Plan includes a book summary, activities, and a bibliography. Maine Association of School Libraries

 

Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice by Sylvia Rosa-Casanova
Mama Provi takes chicken and rice to her sick granddaughter Lucy who lives upstairs.

  • Activities include making a cookbook and finding out about contributions of other cultures. Scroll down the page. Georgia Children's Literature Book Awards
  • Activities include cross-curricular book extensions. Page 21. North Carolina Children's Book Awards
  • Teaching Ideas Ohio Literacy Resource Center

 

Mama Zooms by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine.

  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Extension Activity includes creating an imagination book. Scholastic

 

Mama’s Perfect Present by Diane Goode
Two children have some problems when they take their dog along as
they search through the streets of Paris for just the right present for their mother's birthday.

  • Activities include writing about and drawing a perfect present and looking up French words from the book. Scroll down the page. Georgia Children's Literature Book Awards

 

Mammalabilia: Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
A collection of humorous poems about mammals such as the tiger, gorilla, and rhebok.

 

Man on the Moon by Anastasia Suen
Describes in illustrations and simple text the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, culminating in man's first lunar landing.

 

The Man Who Loved Clowns by June Rae Wood
Thirteen-year-old Delrita, whose unhappy life has caused her to hide from the world, loves her uncle Punky but sometimes feels ashamed of his behavior because he has Down syndrome.

·         Curriculum Guide includes synopsis, author information, discussion questions, and activities. William Allen White Children's Book Award

 

The Man Who Tricked a Ghost by Laurence Yep
Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness.
  • Activities include comparing stories and story maps. TeacherViews

 

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
 A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
  • Lesson Plan features a review, things to notice and talk about, activities, and related books. Carol Hurst

 

The Man Who Walked the Earth by Tom Wallace
Andre and Elise's father may not make it home for Christmas, but when a mysterious stranger stops by the children learn the importance of family.

 

The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.

·         Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

  • Curricular Connections include studying other books by Poe and related websites. Audio Book Shelf
  • WebQuest based on the book. Natick, MA, Public Schools

 

Mandy Sue Day by Roberta Karim
Using her senses of taste, hearing, touch, and smell, a blind girl enjoys a special day on the farm. 
  • Activities include online games and printables.
  • CyberGuide includes writing and reading activities resulting in a student product. Stockton Unified School District

 

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
  • Activities include a pre-reading idea and staging a talk show. TeacherViews
  • Activities related to homelessness. Includes a student worksheet.
  • Activities include character descriptions and topics for discussion during or after the reading . Scroll down the page.
  • Book Quiz to take online. Renaissance Learning
  • Book Project features writing about how Maniac changed the people of Two Mills with supporting ideas from the book. A Read Across America Project featuring Pennsylvania. University of Virginia Curry School of Education
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Book Test Arcadia Valley Elementary School, MO-Ruth Petsel
  • Booktalk Nancy Keane

·         Curriculum Guide includes synopsis, author information, discussion questions, and activities. William Allen White Children's Book Award

·         Lesson Plan uses technology. Scroll down the page. Irving, TX, Independent School District

  • Lesson Plan includes a summary, author and/or illustrator profiles, and activities for before and after reading. School-Library.org
  • Literature Guide including word and other activities. Nancy Polette
  • Literature Unit includes a discussion guide, writing prompt, extension activity, and vocabulary builder. Scholastic
  • Literature Unit connecting illiteracy and homelessness with a student worksheet. Baltimore County, MD, Public Schools
  • Questions to ask before, during, and after reading. Family TLC
  • Reading Group Guide with activities and discussion questions. Time Warner
  • Reading Response ideas for each chapter. Our Lady of Peace School
  • Spelling Scramble  SchoolDiscovery.com
  • Novel Guide with theme openers, cross curricular activities, and research assignments. McDougal Littell
  • Novel Guide includes background information, chapter summaries, and post-reading activities. Holt, Rinehart and Winston
  • Online Quiz ThinkQuest
  • Simple Questions using yes/no and true/false answers for various chapters. Taking Grades Publishing Company
  • Teacher's Guide includes reading skills and strategies, discussion questions, and vocabulary skills. Harper
  • Quiz McLean County, IL, School District
  • Unit includes activities, strategies, and worksheets. Novelinks-Brigham Young University

 

Many Luscious Lollipops by Ruth Heller
Brief text in rhyme and pictures introduce adjectives and their uses.
  • Lesson Plan about adjectives. (Opens in Microsoft Word) Flowing Wells, AZ, School District
  • Lesson Plan for studying adjectives. Penn State University

 

Many Moons by James Thurber
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.
  • Activities include related weblinks. TeacherViews
  • Book Quiz Charleston County, SC, School District
  • Literature Unit includes a variety of reading and writing activities with comprehension tests. Yale University
  • Vocabulary Quizzes include matching, concentration, flashcards, and word search. Quia

 

Many Waters by Madeline L'Engle
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.

 

Maps: Getting from Here to There by Harvey Weiss
Discusses various aspects of maps including direction, distance, symbols, latitude, and longitude, how maps are made, special purpose maps, and charts.

 

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by E. J. McGraw 
The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled.
  • CyberGuide includes writing and reading activities resulting in a student product. San Diego County Office of Education

 

The Mare's Egg by Carole Spray
A new settler runs into a man who sells mare's eggs.
  • Activities include designing a poster. TeacherViews

 

Margaret, Frank, and Andy by Cynthia Rylant
Recollects the writing lives of Frank Baum, E. B. White, and Margaret Wise Brown.
  • Activities include making a Public Service Announcement about reading and writing. TeacherViews

 

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles (The Royal Diaries series) by Kathryn Lasky
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
  • Discussion Guide includes an introduction for the discussion leader, a summary of the book, thought-provoking questions, student activities, and an interview with the author. Scholastic

 

Mariel of Redwall by Brian Jacques
The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs.
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

Marianthe’s Story by Aliki
Two separate stories, the first telling of Mari's starting school in a new land, and the second describing village life in her country before she and her family left in search of a better life.
  • Activities include the art in the book. Scroll down the page. Georgia Children's Literature Book Awards
  • Teaching Guide from the publisher includes general discussion questions and suggestions for reaching across the curriculum: math, science, language arts, music, and social studies. 

 

Mariposa Blues by Ron Koertge
Returning to California for the summer to help train and race thoroughbreds, thirteen-year-old Graham tries to cope with the changes in his relationships with his dad and best friend Leslie.
  • Lesson Plan includes a book summary, activities, and a bibliography. Maine Association of School Libraries

 

Marisol and Magdalena by Veronica Chambers
Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.
  • Study Unit includes science activities and related weblinks. Jason Project, Michigan
  • Teaching Plan includes activities for understanding the use of language in literary works to convey mood, images, and meaning. Scholastic

 

Market! by Ted Lewin
Describes, in simple text and illustrations, the special characteristics of different types of markets throughout the world, from the Fulton Fish Market in New York to Durbar Square, Patan, where temples rise like pagodas behind the flute sellers.

·         Activity about buying and selling products.  Scroll down the page. Instructor Magazine

 

Market Day by Lois Ehlert
On market day, a farm family experiences all the fun and excitement of going to and from the farmers' market.
  • Activities includes making a class book. Trumpet

 

Market Days: From Market to Market Around the World by Jeffery Madhur
tVisits the markets in Hong Kong, Egypt, Senegal, India, Italy, and Mexico to see the fascinating goods that people like to buy  and sell.
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the economic concept of markets. KidEconBooks

 

Maroo of the Winter Caves by Anne Turnbull 
Maroo, a girl of the late Ice Age, must take charge after her father is killed, and lead her little brother, mother, and aged grandmother to the safety of the winter camp before the first blizzards strike.
  • CyberGuide writing and reading activities resulting in a student product.  San Diego County Office of Education

 

Marsh Cat by Peter Parnall
A huge, wild cat faces new dangers when he moves from his marshland home to a barn during the winter months.
  • Lesson Plan includes a book summary, activities, and a bibliography. Maine Association of School Libraries

 

Martha and Skits by Susan Meddaugh
Martha watches as the new dog her family brings home grows through all the troublesome phases of being a puppy, and even though he does not develop Martha's ability to speak, Skits displays his own unique talent.

 

Martha Blah Blah by Susan Meddaugh
When the current owner of the soup company breaks the founder's promise to have every letter of the alphabet in every can of soup, Martha, the talking dog, takes action.
  • Activities include writing and the alphabet. TeacherViews
  • Fun Sheet with hands-on activities related to reading and a list of theme-related books. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

Martha Calling by Susan Meddaugh
When she wins a call-in radio contest, Martha the talking dog and her family go for a vacation and manage to change the "no dogs allowed" policy.
  • Activities include writing and creating puppets. TeacherViews

 

Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
Problems arise when Martha, the family dog, learns to speak after eating alphabet soup

·         Activities for the family. Reading Rainbow

  • Activities include writing and creating a book. TeacherViews
  • Activities include exploring literary elements, studying the illustrations, and cross curricular connections. EduPlace
  • Booktalk Washburn University
  • Lesson Plan includes a summary, activities for home and classroom, and a booklist. Scroll down to page 16. Vocabulary list on page 25. Memphis, TN, Public Schools
  • Teacher's Guide Reading Rainbow

 

Martha Walks the Dog by Susan Meddaugh
Martha the talking dog rescues the neighborhood from a bully dog with the help of a parrot.
  • Activities include writing and role-playing. TeacherViews
  • Activity for creating the perfect pet. Scroll down the page for activity. Creative Classroom
  • Lesson Plan with activities to teach about bullying.

 

Martin Luther King (Let's Read About series)  by Courtney Baker
A simple read about the life of this famous civil rights leader.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Man of Peace by Garnet Jackson
A short biography of Martin Luther King.
  • Activities include creating a timeline and related weblinks. TeacherViews

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream by Dharathula H. Millender
A biography, emphasizing the early years, of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.
  • Questions to ask before and after reading. Family TLC

 

Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
Provides an ideal introduction to this leader and his works.
  • Activities include a quote worksheet and word search. Scholastic
  • Activities include summary, related readings, curriculum tie-ins, and web links. South Carolina Association of School Librarians
  • Booktalk Nancy Keane
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Study Guide includes pre-reading, during reading, and post reading activities. Weston Woods

 

Martin's Mice by Dick King-Smith
A farm cat who doesn't want to catch mice keeps a family of them as
pets in the barn; but then he is given away to a townswoman and acquires a new perspective.
  • Activity for a police interview with Martin. Primary Resources

 

Marty Frye, Private Eye by Janet Tashjian
Marty Frye, a seven-year-old who likes to read poetry and talk in rhymes, solves three separate mysteries for a classmate, a toy store owner, and his younger sister.
  • Activities include solving rhyming mysteries and poetry. Trumpet

 

Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky
When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.

 

Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins 
Presents such poems as "Math Makes Me Feel Safe," "Fractions," "Pythagoras," and "Time Passes," by such writers as Janet S. Wong, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and Ilo Orleans.

 

Marvin Redpost: A Magic Crystal? by Louis Sachar
When Marvin Redpost's new friend Casey shares with him her magic crystal that can make wishes come true, things get out of control.

 

Marvin Redpost: Alone In His Teacher's House by Louis Sachar
Marvin is pleased when his teacher asks him to take care of her dog while she's away, but he soon finds that there's more pressure involved than he likes.

 

Marvin Redpost: Class President by Louis Sachar
Even though they have all come to school in holey clothes, Marvin and his third grade class manage to impress their surprise visitor--the President of the United States.

 

Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl? by Louis Sachar
After Casey Happleton tells him that if he kisses his elbow he will turn into a girl, nine-year-old Marvin experiments and finds himself very confused about his identity.
  • Book Test Cyberspaces
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth by Louis Sachar
Red-haired Marvin is convinced that the reason he looks different from the rest of his family is that he is really the lost prince of Shampoon.
  • Activities include characterization ideas and an author study. TeacherViews
  • Book Test Cyberspaces
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

Marvin Redpost: Super Fast, and Out of Control! by Louis Sachar
Afraid of his new mountain bike, third-grader Marvin finds himself in a desperate situation when he accepts a challenge to ride down Suicide Hill.

 

Marvin Redpost: Why Pick On Me? by Louis Sachar
A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class.

 

Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter by Sally Walker
Describes the life of Mary Anning, who discovered many of the best and most complete fossils in nineteenth-century England, yet received little credit for her work.
  • WebQuest to learn about fossils. Bowling Green State University 

 

Mary, Bloody Mary (The Young Royals series) by Caroline Meyer
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid-sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
  • Booktalk Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
  • Quiz Scholastic
  • Teacher's Guide includes a synopsis, discussion questions and activities for before, during and after reading, and cross-curricular activities. Harcourt 

 

The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple
When the Mary Celeste was found in 1872, there was no sign of its crew
  • Teaching Plan include activities for before reading, mysteries, and timelines. Scholastic

 

Mary Engelbreit's the Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
After the Snow Queen abducts her friend Kai, Gerda sets out on a perilous journey to find him.
  • Questions to ask before and after reading. Family TLC

 

Mary Geddy's Day: A Colonial girl in Williamsburg by Kate Waters
Mary Geddy, a ten-year-old girl in Williamsburg in 1776, is excited about the colony of Virginia's vote for independence, but sad that her best friend, whose father is loyal to the crown, will be moving back to England, and worried that the vote will mean her father must fight in a war.
  • Activity for comparing colonial life to today. Nancy Polette
  • Lesson Plan includes response writing, creating a Venn diagram, and a map grid. Red Bud, IL, Elementary School
  • Lesson Plan features activities related to geography. Illinois Geographic Alliance

 

Mary Had a Little Ham by Margie Palatini
After Stanley Snoutowski, actor pig, leaves his friend Mary and heads for Broadway, he finally gets a break when he meets Hoggers and Hammerswine

 

Mary Marony and the Snake by Suzy Kline
With the support of her mother and new classmates, Mary sees a speech therapist about her stuttering problem.
  • Activities from the author that involve the reader in book related experiences.

 

Mary Marony Hides Out by Suzy Kline
A second grader is so embarrassed about her stuttering that she almost misses a chance to have lunch with her favorite author who has come to speak at school.
  • Activities from the author that involve the reader in book related experiences.

 

Mary Mehan Awake by Jennifer Armstrong
While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hearing.

 

Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells
Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants.
  • Activities include writing about historical figures and creating a character map. Trumpet
  • Book Test MiKids
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.
  • Lesson Plan includes a synopsis, general review; discussion questions and activity suggestions. Scroll down the page. South Central Kansas Library System

 

Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country (The Royal Diaries series) by Kathryn Lasky
Mary, the young Scottish queen, writes in her diary about her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.
  • Discussion Guide includes an introduction for the discussion leader, a summary of the book, thought-provoking questions, student activities, and an interview with the author. Scholastic

 

Mary Smith by Andrea U'Ren
Early in the morning Mary Smith walks through the town, waking people up by shooting at their windows with her peashooter.

 

Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers by Merle Peek
Each of Katy Bear's animal friends wears a different color of clothing to her birthday party.
  • Activities include a fill-in-the-blank idea. TeacherViews

 

The Marzipan Pig by Russell Hoban
A lonely, lost marzipan pig reaches out with love, in a strange chain of events, to an owl, a mouse and a hibiscus flower
  • Study Guide includes pre-reading, during reading, and post reading activities. Weston Woods

 

Masada: The Last Fortress by Gloria Miklowitz 
As the Roman army marches inexorably across the Judean desert towards the fortress of Masada, Simon and his family and friends prepare, along with the rest of the Jewish Zealots, to fight and never surrender.
  • Discussion Guide includes discussion topics, activity suggestions, author and illustrator information, and more. Eerdman’s Books

 

Masai and I by Virginia Kroll
Linda, a little girl who lives in the city, learns about East Africa and the Masai in school, and imagines what her life might be like if she were Masai.
  • Lesson Plan features activities related to economics concepts and geography themes. Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools

 

Massacre at Fall Creek by Jessamyn West
In 1824, five white men murder innocent, peaceful Indians, including women and children, causing the Indians to threaten bloody reprisals if their demands for justice are not met.
  • Reading Guide with pre-reading activities, questions by chapter, and post-reading activities. Buffalo Grove High School - Illinois

 

Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker by Mary E. Lyons
Examines the life and work of master cabinetmaker Tom Day, a free, literate African-American craftsman whose distinctive furniture was much prized in antebellum North Carolina.

 

The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson
A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.
  • CyberGuide includes writing and reading activities resulting in a student product. San Diego County Office of Education

 

The Matchlock Gun by Walter Edmonds
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.

  • CyberGuide includes writing and reading activities resulting in a student product. Metro-Nashville School System
  • Internet Connections to accompany the book. Annette Lamb
  • Questions by page. Nashville, TN, Public Schools

 

Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
A little girl is bombarded with problems that all seem to be related to math.

·         Activities for the family. Reading Rainbow

  • Activities include math problems. TeacherViews
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the math concepts of understanding everyday uses of numbers and relationships of numbers. Kansas State University
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the math concepts of estimation and measurement skills to make predictions and solve problems involving length. Kansas State University
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the math concepts of estimation, measurement, and metric units. Kansas State University
  • Lesson Plan focuses on the math concepts of solving problems and percents. Kansas State University
  • Lesson Plan about voice and writing. Ames Community School District, IA
  • Teacher's Guide Reading Rainbow
  • Teacher's Guide features math activities. Reading Rainbow
  • Teaching Ideas Ohio Literacy Resource Center

 

Math Man by Teri Daniels
In the fall, Mrs. Gourd and her class take a field trip to the Mighty Mart, where they see plenty of math in action.

  • Activities include creating a dictionary of math terms and writing an adventure. TeacherViews

 

The Math Wiz by Betsy Duffey
Marty Malone is great at math, but finds out that he needs more than just math to tackle third grade problems like PE and making friends.

  • Questions to ask before and after reading. Family TLC

 

Mathematickles by Betsy Franco
A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes.

  • Teaching Guide includes poetry activities related to mathematics. Simon & Schuster

 

Matilda by Roald Dahl 
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

·         Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

·         Interactive Worksheet for comprehension and vocabulary. Includes a reading passage Alan & Hui Meng

 

Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.

 

A Matter of Trust by Anne Schraff
Amid jealousy and competition, Darcy fights for her relationship with Hakeem Randall and struggles with her fears over her own family's future.

 

Matthew and Tilly by Rebecca C. Jones 
Like all good friends, Matthew and Tilly have an occasional tiff, but their friendship prevails despite their differences.

  • Online Games include matching, concentration, and word search. Quia

 

Matthew Henson & Robert Peary: The Race for the North Pole by Laurie Rozakis
Follows the race to the North Pole by two famous explorers.

 

Matthew's Dream by Leo Lionni
A visit to an art museum inspires a young mouse to become a painter.

  • Activities include writing and personal achievements. TeacherViews
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

Mattimeo by Brian Jacques
Mattimeo, the son of the warrior mouse Matthias, learns to take up the sword and joins the other animal inhabitants of Redwall Abbey in resisting Slagar the fox and his band of marauders.

 

The Matzah That Papa Brought Home by Fran Manushkin
A cumulative rhyme in the style of "The House That Jack Built" describes the traditions connected to a family's celebration of the Passover Seder.

  • Activities include making matzo and symbolism. TeacherViews

 

Max by Bob Graham
Young Max has no interest in following in his superhero parents' footsteps, but when a baby bird is in peril, he leaps to the rescue with a single bound.

·         Activities for the family. Reading Rainbow

  • Activity about being different. Scroll down the page for activity. Creative Classroom
  • Teacher's Guide Reading Rainbow

 

Max and Me and the Time Machine by Gery Greer
Steve buys a time machine at a garage sale and takes his friend Max to the year 1250, where they land in the middle of a jousting match, with the fierce Sir Bevis as an enemy.
  • Activities include cross-curricular ideas. TeacherViews

 

Max and Ruby series by Rosemary Wells
Stories about the adventures of Max and Ruby, brother and sister bunnies. 

 

Max and Ruby's Midas by Rosemary Wells
Ruby tries to keep her brother Max from eating so many sweets by reading him an altered version of the story of King Midas.
  • Activities include comparing the Midas stories and planning a balanced meal. TeacherViews

 

Max Found Two Sticks by Jerry Pinkney
Although he doesn't feel like talking, a young boy responds to questions by drumming on various objects, including a bucket, hat boxes, and garbage cans, echoing the city sounds around him.
  • Activities include comprehension questions and writing. TeacherViews

 

Max the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father.

·         Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.