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Preferences For Spring 2009 Purchases -- CHMS LA Teachers In order to make this process move along more smoothly than a greased pot-bellied pig on Craigslist, here's a table for you to fill in with your individual preferences in the way of books to order this spring. To add your info, click "Edit this page", and don't forget to click Save when you're done adding. Remember, the deadline for spending the money is May 1, so please get your info to me soon. Thanks, Steve Numbers? || Other considerations? || replace TSB, shorts, fairy tales, great non-fiction, winter survival stories, readers theatre books that have 8-20 characters in each play. || One of each DCF from this year & the list that just came out Hugo Cabret Few Rhyming Dictionaries Idiom Dictionary Grammatical Dictionary other unique dictionaries or maybe some cool new encyclopedia set? || 1. below grade level books that look like grade level books 2. books with readers guides 3. Something as close to a magazine subscription as possible since mags aren't allowed || but pb is OK if it's much cheaper. || Canada/Mexico/South America- I'm looking for both fiction and non-fiction related to these units. I'll try to be more specific. If fiction (and really good) I'd like to have 8 or 9 copies of about 5 different books Geology and experiments in geology? Electricity and experiments in electricity?
 * Name || HC or PB? || Units? || Specific titles?
 * Sandy || either || THUGS, fairy tales, ||  ||   ||
 * Jenna || HC or PB || asian lit (NF), multiple copies - character development book to
 * Ellen || HC is preferable

General readers workshop || all this year's DCFbooks Who Was First? by Russel Freedman The Lost Colony of Roanoke by Jean Fritz Go Big or Go Home by WIll Hobbs Cyberia by Chris Lynch Terrier by Tamora Pierce The Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan the Jack Rider series Mythological Creatures by Lynn Curlee Tales from Shakespeare and Bravo by Marcia Williams The Adventures of Robin Hood; King Authur and the Knights of the Round Table by Marcia Williams Cartooning by Art Roche Tap Dancing on the Roof by Linda Sue Parker Worlds Apart by Gary Soto Blue LIpstick by John Grandits Street Love and Jazz by Walter Dean Myers Boris by Cynthia Rylant Poop by Nicola Davis Rex Jones and the End of the World by Tim Wynne-Jones Good Masters Sweet Ladies byLaura Amy Schlitz Oh Rats! by Albert Marrin When Mammoths Walked the Earth by Caroline Arnold Outside and Inside Wooly Mammoths by Sarah Markle The Last of the High Kings by Kate Thompson The Way We Work by David Macaulay The Brook Book by Jim Arnosky Revenge of the Witch;Curse of the Bane;Night of the Soul Stealer; The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney The Thief, The Queen of Atolia, The King of Atolia by Megan Whalan Turner ||  ||
 * Michelle || either--mostly PB if available || colonial north america, native cultures, electricity, folklore, ecosystems || all new DCF's--folklore to connect with native cultures--nonfiction to connect with exploration, colonization-- Idiom Dictionary, various books to fill in Author Study collection || need more nonfiction that is exciting to kids!

Low level, high interest, both fiction and nonfiction || 6th grade content: Ancient Civilization, Cultures of the Western Hemisphere, Geology, Human Body (circulatory, digestive and respiratory systems), Density, Magnets and Motors || DCF 09-10, Non-fiction for our science and social studies units that are grade level appropriate or younger. Historical fiction that relates to native cultures, ancient civilizations, interdependence ||  ||
 * Kerry and Angela || either, mostly PB if available || 5th grade content: Colonial North America, Native Cultures, Exploration, Force and Motion, Ecosystems/Interdependence