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Outsiders, The

Hinton, S.E.


In a small Oklahoma city, the Outsiders are a tough gang of boys who have a running feud with another gang. When Ponyboy witnesses a murder by one of his pals, they go to a hideaway. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=23958&ti=0 .
Date Published:1967

In a small Oklahoma city, the Outsiders are a tough gang of boys who have a running feud with another gang. When Ponyboy witnesses a murder by one of his pals, they go to a hideaway. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=23958&ti=0 .

Date Published:1967

Lightning Thief, The [Grade 6 Module 1]

Riordan, Rick


I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher -- Three old ladies knit the socks of death -- Grover unexpectedly loses his pants -- My mother teaches me bullfighting -- I play pinochle with a horse -- I become supreme lord of the bathroom -- My dinner goes up in smoke -- We capture a flag -- I am offered a quest -- I ruin a perfectly good bus -- We visit the Garden Gnome Emporium -- We get advice from a poodle -- I plunge to my death -- I become a known fugitive -- God buys us cheeseburgers -- We take a zebra to Vegas -- We shop for water beds -- Annabeth does obedience school -- We find out the truth, sort of -- I battle my jerk relative -- I settle my tab -- Prophecy comes true. Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse--Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, god of the sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends--one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena--Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24395&ti=0 Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2005

I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher -- Three old ladies knit the socks of death -- Grover unexpectedly loses his pants -- My mother teaches me bullfighting -- I play pinochle with a horse -- I become supreme lord of the bathroom -- My dinner goes up in smoke -- We capture a flag -- I am offered a quest -- I ruin a perfectly good bus -- We visit the Garden Gnome Emporium -- We get advice from a poodle -- I plunge to my death -- I become a known fugitive -- God buys us cheeseburgers -- We take a zebra to Vegas -- We shop for water beds -- Annabeth does obedience school -- We find out the truth, sort of -- I battle my jerk relative -- I settle my tab -- Prophecy comes true. Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse--Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, god of the sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends--one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena--Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24395&ti=0 Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:2005

Long Walk to Water, A [Grade 7 Module 1]

Park, Linda Sue.


"Based on a true story." When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Date Published:2010

Giver, The

Lowry, Lois


The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:1993

The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:1993

Esperanza Rising [Grade 5 Module 1]

Ryan, Pam Muñoz.


Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24402&ti=0 Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2001

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24402&ti=0 Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:2001

Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck, John


George and Lennie, two drifting ranch hands, come to work in the Salinas Valley. They are never able to work up a stake because simple-witted Lennie keeps getting them into trouble. George controls Lennie by talking about the rabbit farm they will have one day where Lennie may look after the rabbits if he is good. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24377&ti=0 .
Date Published:1949

George and Lennie, two drifting ranch hands, come to work in the Salinas Valley. They are never able to work up a stake because simple-witted Lennie keeps getting them into trouble. George controls Lennie by talking about the rabbit farm they will have one day where Lennie may look after the rabbits if he is good. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24377&ti=0 .

Date Published:1949

Bud, Not Buddy [Grade 6 Module 2]

Curtis, Christopher Paul.


Copyright c1999. 2002 reprint. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24394&ti=0 Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2005

Copyright c1999. 2002 reprint. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. This title is also available in Spanish: https://erie2.insigniails.com/Library/ItemDetail?l=0001&i=24394&ti=0 Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:2005

Holes

Sachar, Louis


Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are a lot of holes. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:1998

Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are a lot of holes. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:1998

Animal Farm [Grade 10 Module 4]

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.


A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:1996

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:1996

Because of Winn Dixie

DiCamillo, Kate


Ten year old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all of the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2000

Number the Stars

Lowry, Lois


In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. Newbery Medal, 1990. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:1989

Hunger Games, The

Collins, Suzanne


In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition that pits young people against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's is challenged, when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2008

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition that pits young people against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's is challenged, when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:2008

Peter Pan [Grade 3 Module 3]

Zamorsky, Tania.


An abridged retelling of the adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
Date Published:2009

Love That Dog [Grade 4 Module 1B]

Creech, Sharon,


Joanna Cottler books. A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2001

Crossover, The

Alexander, Kwame.


Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2014

Night

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-


Originally published in 1958 by Les Ã?ditions de Minuit, France, as La nuit. A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2006

Originally published in 1958 by Les Ã?ditions de Minuit, France, as La nuit. A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:2006

Wild Robot, The

Brown, Peter, 1979-,


Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
Date Published:2016

Hoot

Hiaasen, Carl


Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2002

Fahrenheit 451 [Grade 9 Module 3]

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.


Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright. History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. pt. 1. The story of Fahrenheit 451. The story of Fahrenheit 451 / by Jonathan R. Eller ; From The day after tomorrow: why science fiction? (1953) / by Ray Bradbury ; Listening library audio introduction (1976) / by Ray Bradbury ; Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / by Ray Bradbury ; Coda (1979) / by Ray Bradbury -- pt. 2. Other voices. The novel. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren ; Books of the times / by Orville Prescott ; From New wine, old bottles / by Gilbert Highet ; New novels / by Idris Parry ; New fiction / by Sir John Betjeman ; 1984 and all that / by Adrian Mitchell ; From New maps of hell / by Sir Kingsley Amis ; Introduction to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / by Harold Bloom ; Fahrenheit 451 / by Margaret Atwood ; The motion picture. Shades of Orwell / by Arthur Knight ; From The journal of Fahrenheit 451 / by FranÃ§ois Truffaut. In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.
Date Published:2012

Introduction / by Neil Gaiman -- Fahrenheit 451. The hearth and the salamander ; The sieve and the sand ; Burning bright. History, context, and criticism / edited by Jonathan R. Eller. pt. 1. The story of Fahrenheit 451. The story of Fahrenheit 451 / by Jonathan R. Eller ; From The day after tomorrow: why science fiction? (1953) / by Ray Bradbury ; Listening library audio introduction (1976) / by Ray Bradbury ; Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 (1982, 1989) / by Ray Bradbury ; Coda (1979) / by Ray Bradbury -- pt. 2. Other voices. The novel. From a letter to Stanley Kauffmann / by Nelson Algren ; Books of the times / by Orville Prescott ; From New wine, old bottles / by Gilbert Highet ; New novels / by Idris Parry ; New fiction / by Sir John Betjeman ; 1984 and all that / by Adrian Mitchell ; From New maps of hell / by Sir Kingsley Amis ; Introduction to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / by Harold Bloom ; Fahrenheit 451 / by Margaret Atwood ; The motion picture. Shades of Orwell / by Arthur Knight ; From The journal of Fahrenheit 451 / by FranÃ§ois Truffaut. In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. Teacher's guide available as a PDF through the link below. If you would like a physical copy of the teacher's guide to be included with your request, please contact the Media Center: media@e2ccb.org.

Date Published:2012

Benefits of Being an Octopus, The

Braden, Ann


Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out.
Date Published:2018