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The Common Core in Grades 4-6 is the first in a series of comprehensive tools to tap into the vast flow of recently published books for children and teens, offering recommendations of exemplary titles for use in the classroom. Currency meets authority, brought to you by the editors of the highly regarded review sources, School Library Journal and The Horn Book Magazine. This guide includes approximately 200 selections published since 2007 for grades 4-6 recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. The titles are grouped by subject and complemented by School Library Journal's "Focus On" columns, which spotlight specific topics across the curriculum.
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Preface
Introduction
Putting Nonfiction to Work in Schools: The Challenges and Opportunities of Implementing CCSSby Mary Ann Cappiello (Lesley University) and Myra Zarnowski (Queens College, CUNY)
Arts
Business & Technology
Folklore
Language & Literature
Focus on Charles Dickens
Happy Birthday Mr. Dickens! by Jill Maza
Poetry
Religion & Myth
Focus on Greek Mythology
OMGS! by Joy Fleishhacker
Science
Focus on Ocean Life
Going Deep by Kathy Piehl
Focus on Scientific Exploration
Quantum Leaps and Bounds by John Peters
Sports
U.S. History
Focus on Westward Expansion
California Bound by Mary Mueller
Focus on Politics
We the People by Jennifer S. Prince
Focus on Civil Rights
Everyday Heroes by Rhona Campbell
World History
Focus on the Holocaust
Rescue and Resistance by Rachel Kamin
Title Index
Author Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Roger Sutton has been editor in chief of the Horn Book Magazine since 1996. He is the author of A Family of Readers: The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature with Martha V. Parravano. He has an M.A. from the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago.
Daryl Grabarek is the editor of School Library Journal's enewsletter Curriculum Connections and its app column, "Touch and Go," and a member of its book review team. She is also a school librarian in lower Manhattan.
