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DISASTERS AND HEROIC RESCUES OF NORTH CAROLINA, Cohn, Scotti
— $13.95 pb
208 pgs. 2005. Upper elementary, middle school, high school.
It’s only human to be fascinated by disasters - and uplifted by reports of heroic rescues in the face of such overwhelming circumstances. DISASTERS AND HEROIC RESCUES OF NORTH CAROLINA includes eighteen stories of tragedy and triumph from two centuries of Tar Heel State history. Focusing on individuals who met their fate and historical accounts from witnesses and survivors, these incredible but true stories uncover the human drama found at the heart of every catastrophic event.
Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies

THE NORTH CAROLINA ALPHABET BOOK, George, Pamela and illustrated by Walter Brown~~~$16.95pb

64 color pages, 2005, perfect bound,,

This beautifully-rendered alphabet by Pamela George and Walter Brown teaches letter recognition and facts about NC outdoor life.

Curriculum Applications: Grades PreK - 3.

THE NORTH CAROLINA ALPHABET POSTER, George, Pamela and illustrated by Walter Brown~~~$10.00

$12.95 laminated

The North Carolina Alphabet Poster. 2006

The North Carolina Alphabet Poster is now available. 24'x36", full color.

Curriculum Applications: Grades PreK - 3.

THE NORTH CAROLINA COLONY, Haberle, Susan E., — $22.60 library binding
32 pgs. full-color photographs. 2006. Elementary school. AR 4.5 LG
Witness the beginning of American democracy in the North Carolina colony. The attractive historical images and clear, well-organized text, will enable students to learn all about the colony, the native tribes, the early European settlements, the economy and community life that eventuallly led to statehood.

Curriculum Applications: 3rd - 8th Grade Social Studies

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NORTH CAROLINA (The United States), Murray, Julie, — $22.75 library binding
32 pgs. full-color photographs. 2006. Elementary school. AR 4.2 LG.
This fun, fact-filled book is perfect for young researchers. The history, geography, and people of North Carolina are covered and the text is enhanced with maps, photos, and graphs. Timelines and fast-facts sections reinforce the text.

Curriculum Applications: K - 5 Social Studies.

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NORTH CAROLINA (It’s My State!), Gaines, Ann — $29.93 library binding
80 pgs. 2004. Elementary school, middle school. AR
An easy-to-use source of quick and reliable information, this selection provides a broad overview of the state, from a concise geography and detailed history to a discussion of its government and economy. Also provided are abundant key facts, figures, people, and dates; information about plants and animals as well as products and resources. Fully illustrated with captioned photographs and easy to read icons.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies

NORTH CAROLINA'S MOUNTAINS, PIEDMONT, AND COASTAL PLAIN IN SPAINISH AND ENGLISH, Goldman, Phyllis~~~ $32.95 spiral bound

124 pgs. illus. 2005. Elementary and middle school. .

From the thrilling Highland Games played in the mountains to the Wild Ponies found on the Outer Banks, this unique book explores people, places and events that are located in the three regions of North Carolina. The material is presented topically in both Spanish and English, enabling students to become familiar with another language. Pertinent questions follow each selection. Interesting trivia facts plus an answer key complete this informative, bilingual title.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies, Language Arts, ESL, Introductory Spanish.

A PRIMARY SOURCE HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Margulies, Phillip~~~ $10.95pb Special Purchase

Regular price: $14.60

64 pages. 2005 full-color illustrations. Upper elementary, middle school, high school. AR 8.8 MG.

For a limited time only we are discounting this unusual title packed with unique primary source documents relative to the early history of the state.

Curriculum Applications: Grades 4- 11 Social Studies/History.

THE MYSTERY OF THE ROANOKE COLONY, Niz, Xavier,
— $25.25 library binding
32 pgs. full-color illus. 2006. Upper elementary school, middle school.
History leaps off the page in this exciting graphic portrayal of the mysterious disappearance of the Lost Colony. Eye-popping artwork and easy-to-read text offer an appealing, accessible alternative for struggling and reluctant readers. An additional section provides key facts and further understanding.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies, Language Arts.

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THE APPALACHIANS, Maynard, Charles W. — $15.95
24 pgs. full-color photographs. 2004. Elementary school. AR 6.1 MG
The Appalachians are an ancient mountain chain that stretches more than 1,500 miles along eastern North America. This range of mountains is among the oldest in the world. Worn down by erosion, the Appalachian Mountains are known for their forest-covered slopes and farmlands in fertile valleys. Students will read about Hernando de Soto’s explorations during the 1540s, and how Daniel Boone built the Wilderness Road and the Cumberland Gap. Today, it has a rich heritage of music and storytelling that reflects the lives of the European and African American people who settled there.
Curriculum Applications: 4th Grade Social Studies; K -4 Language Arts

THE LIFE CYCLE OF A HONEYBEE, Kalman, Bobbie,

— $23.92 library binding

32 pgs. full-color photographs & illus. glossary, index. 2005. Elementary school, middle school. AR 5.5 MG
Children will love this presentation about the amazing life cycle of the honeybee---North Carolina’s state insect. It takes readers through the fascinating process of life that all living things share — birth, growth, and adulthood. The book also shows that a life cycle does not simply describe the life of one living thing but the continuation of its entire species.

Curriculum Applications: 4th Grade Social Studies; 3rd - 5th Grade Scienc

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Making Love to Typewriters, Taylor, Theodore~~~ $16.50pb

124 pgs. illus. 2005. Elementary and middle school. .

Born in Statesville, NC in 1921, Theodore Taylor moved to Portsmouth , Virginia when he was twelve. He got his formal education in the newsrooms of four daily newspapers beginning at the age of thirteen, earning fifty cents a week in 1934. During this time he began visiting the Outer Banks and began doing research for three books that would become the Outer Banks trilogy. A veteran of World War II, his many books for children, young adults, and adults often mirror sea battles and salty characters. His first book was published in 1954, the same year he joined Paramount Pictures as a press agent, soon to enter production. For three years, Taylor lived and traveled in the Caribbean, the setting of The Cay, his best-known and best-selling novel.

Curriculum Applications: 4th - 8th grade Language Arts (biography and literature);

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SIR WALTER RALEIGH (In the Footsteps of Explorers) Ward, Nancy — $23.92 reinforced library binding
32 pgs. full-color illustrations, photographs, maps. 2006. Elementary, middle school, high school. AR 6.7 MG
When England’s Queen Elizabeth I asked Sir Walter Raleigh to search for new lands to claim and colonize, her friend and loyal subject pledged to found a colony in tribute to his Queen. This exciting recreation of the founding, loss, and reclamation of the Virginia colony in the late 1500s also describes Raleigh’s unsuccessful search for the fabled wealthy kingdom of El Dorado, the deterioration of his relationship with the Queen, and his eventual execution.
Other topics include England’s relationships with Spain and other European powers, Raleigh’s travel routes, his later explorations, how Natives in America received Raleigh and how the Europeans treated the Natives.
Curriculum Applications: 3rd, 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies - biography, technology, early explorations.

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ORSON SCOTT CARD, Architect of Alternate Worlds, Willett, Edward — $31.93 reinforced library binding
128 pgs. illus. 2006. Middle school, high school.
Greensboro resident Orson Scott Card is among the most popular writers of fiction today. Starting out in the science fiction genre and later fantasy, he is best known for Ender’s Game, one of the most popular sci-fi novels ever published. Ender’s Game, along with its sequel, Speaker for the Dead, both earned Hugo and Nebula awards, making Card the first author to ever win both prizes in consecutive years. More recently, Card has branched out into contemporary fiction and even comic books. This unique biography includes personal interviews, insightful quotes, and perhaps most importantly Card’s perspective on the writer’s craft.
Anyone lucky enough to have heard Card speak can attest to his dynamic magnetism. Introducing readers to Card and his books may be the best way to stimulate even reluctant readers.
Curriculum Applications: 6th - 12th Grade Language Arts/ English - biography, fantasy genre, writing.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIANS, Tate, Eleanora ~~~ $24.95

176 pgs. b & w photos.. 2000. Elementary, middle school.

From early concert singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield to today's Queen Latifah, from Thomas "Blind Tom" Bethune to Louis Armstrong, from Ray Charles to Tupac Shakur, from conjoined North Carolina singing twins Millie-Christine McCoy to Aretha Franklin, from Sea Island storyteller-singers Frankie and Doug Quimby to the Hall Johnson Choir, from Mahalia Jackson to gospel queen Shirley Caesar, these biographical profiles will help both young and old readers gain a more intimate understanding about the lives of these and many more African Americans and the music they loved.

"Recommended!" -- Parents Choice
"An interesting and readable survey of how great musicians shaped popular American music." -- Parent Council

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies, Language Arts and Music.

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32 pgs. full-color illus.. 2004. Elementary, middle school.

To Be Free (a quick read!)
Eleanora Tate's newest book and it's for middle school boys who don't like to read. So it's very very very short!
To gain his freedom out of slavery on the eve of the Civil War, Abram runs away from his mean master on the North Carolina coast. Abram battles dangers in his quest.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies and Language Arts

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN EARLY NORTH CAROLINA: A Documentary History, Watson, Alan D., editor

— $15.00pb

200 pgs. index. 2005. Middle school, high school.
This volume draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. Documents are used to outline the arrival of Africans, mechanisms for maintaining slavery, slave resistance, manumission, and the challenges facing free blacks. This book presents in an accessible format a variety of primary sources, which are suitable for classroom use and have appeal for anyone curious about the lives of black North Carolinians during the state’s earliest years.
Curriculum Applications: 8th & 11th Grade Social Studies-primary sources, antebellum era

32 pgs. full-color illus.. 2006. Elementary, middle school.

Grade 2-5–Set in the rural South in the early 1920s, this simple, respectful story examines one community's efforts to build a new school for African-American children with seed money provided by the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Each spread features a prose poem told in the voice of a student. Readers learn about the difficult decision to accept the challenge–which the Sears Roebuck executive extended to more than 5000 communities–and then to build a decent schoolhouse for the children of sharecroppers and other poor families. Land, lumber, and labor were all donated or purchased cheap; cast-off books and furnishings from more affluent communities appeared; and within a year, the students who used to study in a drafty shack walked into the first building they could truly call their own. Christie's gouache and colored-pencil illustrations have the variegated look and stylized layout of collage art–a good complement to the child's rough-around-the-edges narration. An afterword explains Rosenwald's impact on thousands of poor black communities. An uplifting and inspiring story about the buildings that are all too frequently taken for granted.

From School Library Journal
Starred Review.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies and Language Arts - poetry, Black history

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CAROLINA’S STORY, Sea Turtle’s Get Sick Too!, Rathmell, Donna,

— $15.95

32 pgs. full-color photos, 2005. Elemeentary, middle school, high school. AR 3.6 LG
Carolina is a sea turtle rescued along the Carolina coast and taken to a sea turtle “hospital” where she and other turtles are cared for until they can be released back into the ocean. Full-color photographs document Carolina’s story.
Similar stories happen to the turtles rescued at the facility on Topsail Island where tours are available.
Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies; 3rd -12th Grade Environmental Science.

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NORTH CAROLINA'S ADVENTURES, MYSTERIES, LEGENDS, & GHOST STORIES, Goldman, Phyllis ~~~ $32.95 library binding

132 pgs. b & w illus. 2006. Elementary school, middle school.

For the first time North Carolina adventures, mysteries, legends, ghost tales and science are all represented under one cover. Review activities accompany each entry. Also included is a separate section with review activities on the Environment and Pollution. Reproducible for classroom use.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies; 2nd-8th Grade Language Arts - tales and legends

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PIRATES OF THE CAROLINAS, Zepke, Terrance — $10.95 pb
176 pgs. b&w illus. 2005. < i > Upper elementary, middle school, high school.
PIRATES OF THE CAROLINAS discusses thirteen of the most fascinating buccaneers in the history of piracy. These men and women are all connected somehow to the Carolinas.
This book provides insight into the personalities and lives of these fascinating sea marauders and answers many questions about what life was like for pirates.
Curriculum Applications: 3rd, 4th, & 8th Grade Social Studies and Language Arts- colonial era, biographies.

156 pgs. b&w illus. 2005. Upper elementary, middle school.

Turn on the lights and make sure your front door is locked as you read about the eerie Fire Ship of New Bern, which appears every year on the anniversary of its tragic end, in "Ship of Fire"; otherworldly phenomena such as "Colonel Buck’s Curse" and "Mysterious Pactolus Light"; the ghosts of Confederate soldiers who lingered in the "Haunted Hospital" long after their tragic deaths; and the dreaded Boo Hag, an evil spirit who uses witchcraft to work her mischief, and may suffocate her victims by sitting on their chests.

Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies and Language Arts

THE CHRISTMAS BUS, Inman, Robert — $19.95
84 pgs. full-color illustrations. 2006.
Elementary school, middle school.
Christmas is coming to the Peaceful Valley Orphanage where kindly Mrs. Frump is in charge of a gaggle of rowdy kids. Frump decides that her orphans need real homes and real families to fill the emptiness in their lives, so on the day before Christmas she sets off to deliver them to their destinations. Trouble is she hasn’t checked it out with the busybodies on her board of trustees. Soon, what began as a simple bus ride turns into a harum-scarum adventure as Frump and her orphans are pursued by the busybodies— and the suspicious Sheriff Snodgrass.
Curriculum Applications: K-5 Language Arts

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HIGHLAND FLING, Ernst, Kathleen — $15.95
192 pgs. 2006. Upper elementary, middle school.
A year ago, Tanya Zeshonski was living in Wisconsin, interning at the public television station, and eating Polish food on the holidays. Then her mother divorced her father, reclaimed her maiden name of McDonald, and moved to North Carolina to submerge them all in their Scottish heritage. So now, at 15, Tanya is the oldest beginning school student at the Flora McDonald School of Highland Dance. Instead of pursuing her dream of being a filmmaker, she’s learning the Highland Fling in preparation for the Cross Creek Highland Games.
At the games, Tanya must face not only the intricacies of the dance, but the complications brought on by a handsome bagpiper named Miguel, a ghostly ancestor, and the arrival of her father. Tanya’s sharp, funny voice rings true as she describes the delicate steps of the dance and the beginning of her new life.
Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies; Grades 3 - 8 Language Arts; Character Education

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BLACKBEARD’S LAST FIGHT, Kimmel, Eric A. — $17.00
32 pgs. full color illustrations. 2006. Elementary school. AR 4.1 LG
Cabin boy Jeremy Hobbs knows the horror stories about Blackbeard the pirate. In 1718, the man is notorious for plundering ships and has recently blockaded the port of Charleston. But Jeremy has heard Blackbeard is loved as well. One day Jeremy accompanies Lieutenant Maynard on a visit to Virginia’s governor, who is looking for a bold officer to wipe out the pirate. Now, as Lieutenant Maynard’s sloop approaches Blackbeard’s ship, Jeremy’s mouth feels dry and his stomach tightens. He has never been in a sea battle before. He hopes he will act bravely— and that he is doing the right thing.
With bold acryllic paintings, this tale is a thrilling adventure in which the roles of hero and villain become evermore blurred.
Curriculum Applications: 4th & 5th Grade Social Studies; Grades 2-5 Language Arts; Character Education

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O.HENRY (Stories for Young People), edi. John Hollander~~~ $14.95

80 pgs. 2005 full-color illustrations. Vocabulary with definitions.
Upper elementary, middle school.

Includes:Tthe Gift of the Magi; Mammon and the Archer; After Twenty
Years; Two Thanksgiving Gentlemen; The Last Leaf; A Retrieved Reformation;
The Pimienta Pancakes.

Greensboro native William Sydney Porter, a.k.a.O. Henry, was a master
storyteller whose short, witty, and often humorous tales have made him
one of America's most famous and popular writers. In this delightful
collection, created especially for young children, the author's work
is brilliantly illustrated with spectacular color paintings.

Curriculum Applications: Grades 3-9 Language Arts

JAMES AND THE HALIFAX RESOLVES, Coxe, Vivian — $5.95 pb
60 pgs. illus. 2006. Elementary school.
On April 12, 1776, the Fourth Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, thereby making North Carolina the first colony to declare independence from Britain. Join the fictional characters, Eliza and Captain Nate, Eliza’s father, and their Edenton neighbors, as they participate in the historic events of 1776. Their love of liberty helped bring about the birth of a new nation and a new state...
Historical fiction, coast

BILLY AND THE REBEL: Based on a True Civil War Story, Hopkinson, Deborah — $3.99 pb
4JAMES AND THE HALIFAX RESOLVES, Coxe, Vivian — $5.95 pb
60 pgs. illus. 2006. Elementary school.
On April 12, 1776, the Fourth Provincial Congress passed the Halifax Resolves, thereby making North Carolina the first colony to declare independence from Britain. Join the fictional characters, Eliza and Captain Nate, Eliza’s father, and their Edenton neighbors, as they participate in the historic events of 1776. Their love of liberty helped bring about the birth of a new nation and a new state...
Historical fiction, coast 8 pgs. 2006. Lower elementary school.
AR 3.2 LG
“Billy is living in Gettysburg in 1863 when he hears the nearby guns and cannons of the Rebel soldiers. When a young Confederate deserter from North Carolina arrives at their door, Billy and Mama offer him shelter and protection until the battle is over. Based on a true story, this tale of courage and concern, illustrated in watercolors, would be a good choice to introduce young readers to the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, soldiers, friendship, and courage.” —Infotech

Historical fiction, chapter book

A GIRL CALLED BOY, Hurmence, Belinda — $5.95 pb
176 pgs. 2006. Elementary, middle school. AR 5.7 MG
“Hurmence can be applauded for breaking new ground here, for she’s taken the well-used time-travel fantasy mode and freshened it with black characters and a vivid historical context...”

Historical Fiction, Black history.

AN INDEPENDENT SPIRIT, The Tale of Betsy Dowdy and Black Bess, Smith, Donna Campbell

— $11.95pb

208 pgs. 2006 reprint. Upper elementary, middle school.
Unlikely heroine Betsy Dowdy lives on North Carolina’s isolated Currituck Banks. She would rather be riding her wild pony, Black Bess, than knitting caps and learning how to be a “proper” lady.
Far away in Boston, war is brewing between King George and the colonists. Betsy isn’t worried—until word comes that Lord Dunmore and his British soldiers are moving towards Currituck Banks, burning houses and killing livestock. Suddenly Betsy’s beloved ponies are in danger. In a daring all-night ride, Betsy and Bess race to warn General Skinner of the coming attack. Can she reach him in time?
Historical fiction, coast, revolutionary era.

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