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Q Is for Duck by Mary Elting and Michael Folsom
While learning some facts about animals, the reader is challenged to guess why A is for zoo, B is for dog, and C is for hen.
  • Activities include ideas for the alphabet. TeacherViews
  • Book Test CyberSpaces
  • 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

 

Quack and Count by Keith Baker 
Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.

 

Quake! by Joe Cottonwood
With their parents away at the 1989 World Series, fourteen-year-old Franny, her younger brother, and their cousin try to cope with the frightening events following an earthquake that destroys their home on Loma Prieta mountain.
  • Activities include research and creating a model. TeacherViews

 

The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
Forsaken by the gods and left to his own devices, Eugenides, Royal Thief of Eddis, summons all his wit and wiles in an attempt to conquer the rival Queen of Attolia.

 

Queen of Christmas by Mary Engelbreit
Although Ann Estelle focuses on her wish list as Christmas approaches, her best memories have little to do with the presents she receives.

 

The Queen with Bees in Her Hair by Cheryl Harness
Relates how a silly queen and a hermit king come to join their separate kingdoms into one.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

Queenie Peavy by Robert Burch
Tormented by taunts that her father is in prison, thirteen-year-old Queenie retaliates by causing a lot of trouble until she discovers something important about her father and herself.
  • Activity includes questions to answer online and print out.

 

Quentin Fenton Herter III by Amy MacDonald
Quentin Fenten Herter Third is always perfectly behaved, but his shadow, Quentin Fenten Herter Three, is quite the opposite.
  • Activities include cross-curricular ideas. Amy MacDonald

 

A Question of Loyalty by Barbara Greenwood
Deborah Wallbridge's problems are only beginning when she finds a young, wounded rebel in the barn while her father and brother are away fighting in Canada's 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion.

 

Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood
A young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam," "tough as a rhino," and "gentle as a lamb."

 

Quick, Quack, Quick by Marsha Arnold
A very slow duckling saves his family during a crisis.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

The Quicksand Question (A to Z Mysteries series) by Ron Roy
When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
  • Teacher's Guide includes activities to be used with all books in the series. Random House

 

Quiet as a Butterfly by Lawrence F. Lowery
A boy thinks of all the sounds he has heard that day--bacon sizzling, sirens screaming, kitten purring--and wonders why he can't hear a flower, a ladybug, or a butterfly.
  • Activities include links to butterfly sites. TeacherViews

 

Quiet on Account of Dinosaur by  Jane Thayer
The dinosaur Mary Ann finds has trouble adjusting to the noise of the twentieth century.
  • Book Test CyperSpaces
  • Book Test Join the acceleratedreading Yahoo Group to access the test under Files/Charlotte's Archive.

 

Quiet, Wyatt! by Bill Maynard 
Everyone is always telling Wyatt to be quiet because he's too young, but when he gets mad and stops talking, it seems that maybe he wasn't so annoying after all.
  • Activities include art projects to illustrate what it feels like to be "too little."  Trumpet

 

Quiet! You're Invisible by Margaret Meacham
With his mother expecting a baby and a bully living next door, fifth-grader Hoby Hobson has enough to worry about even before Zirc, a time-traveling boy who can sometimes be invisible, shows up in his backyard.
  • WebQuest for exploring the past. Bowling Green State University 

 

The Quilt by Ana Jones
A small girl enjoys her new quilt whose scraps bring back pleasant memories.
  • Activity for designing a quilt square. TeacherViews
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads

 

Quilt of Dreams by Mindy Dwyer
While working on a quilt that her grandmother had started before she died, Katy discovers the special memories and meanings that are part of every quilt.

 

The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston
A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.
  • Lesson Plan with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Teaching Plan includes reading strategies and activities. Scholastic

 

The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart.
  • Activities include ideas for language arts, math, art, and social studies. Page 30. North Carolina Children's Book Awards
  • Activities include creating a paper quilt. TeacherViews
  • Booktalk Nancy Keane

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

·         Lesson Plan incorporates technology for author, illustrator, and art study. Widener University

  • Lesson Plan 1 with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Lesson Plan 2 with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities. KYReads
  • Official Website with curriculum activities and ideas.

 

Quiver by Stephanie Spinner
When her father commands that she produce an heir, the huntress Atalanta gives her suitors a seemingly impossible task in order to uphold her pledge of chastity, as the gods of ancient Greece look on.