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Summary: Squirrel and her brother Bone begin their lives in a tool-shed behind someone's summer house. Their mother nurtures them and teaches them the many skills they will need to survive as stray dogs. But when their mother is taken from them suddenly and too soon, the puppies are forced to make their own way in the world, facing humans both gentle and brutal, busy highways, other animals, and the changing seasons. When Bone and Squirrel become separated, Squirrel must fend for herself, and in the process makes two friends who in very different ways define her fate.

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Hurricanes: Can You Believe It by Sandra Markle

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Hurricanes: Can You Believe It by Sandra Markle

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Summary: Packed with color photographs, this exciting book takes a look at hurricanes — from their formation to the destruction they cause — and the scientists who study them. Part of a brand-new series by a well-known science author, this book also includes mini-quizzes and activities.

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Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, Sadako races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes. Legend says this will make a sick person healthy.

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Summary: A boy is excited when he sees a lot of fireflies making patterns of light in the dark around his home. After catching many of them, however, the boy realizes that the fireflies' lights are dimming. What can he do to bring back the light?

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Summary: "Come on, Rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Then the clouds roll in and the rain pours. Tess, her friends, and their mothers join in together in a rain dance to celebrate the shower that renews both body and spirit.

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Trouble on the T-Ball Team by Eve Bunting

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Trouble on the T-Ball Team by Eve Bunting

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Summary: When everyone on Linda's T-ball team starts "losing one" at the oddest times and places, Linda wonders when her big moment will come. This easy-reading mystery keeps readers guessing right up to the very end.

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The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

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The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

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Summary: This beautiful picture book, illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award-illustrator George Ford, and written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles, tells the true story of six-year-old Ruby Bridges. In 1960, Ruby, a young African-American girl, entered a whites-only school in New Orleans. Even though she had to pass through crowds of angry protesters, Ruby bravely walked into the school. Every day for months, Ruby persevered. White parents pulled their children out of the school, and Ruby and her teacher were alone in the classroom. Still, Ruby and her family would not give in.

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An old woman is granted three wishes, but then she and her husband wish for foolish things.

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"The Indian in us must disappear, they say. It must be tamed."

In the late 1880s, ten-year-old Young Bull is sent to boarding school to learn the white man's ways. Eve Bunting's sensitive and poetic text recreates an experience shared by many Native American children in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Irving Toddy's dramatic paintings capture the beauty and color of the world Young Bull has left behind — and the vivid memories he preserves in his ledger drawings.

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Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Polacco 

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Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Polacco 

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A humorous parable about the dangers of too much television brings readers to the town of Triple Creek, where residents watch TV day and night, until eccentric Aunt Chip arrives and decides to pull the plug on everybody in favor of introducing books.

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Thank You Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco

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Thank You Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco

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Summary:
In this autobiographical story, Little Trisha, overjoyed at the thought of learning how to read struggles when she finds that all the letters and numbers get jumbled up. Her classmates make matters worse by calling her dummy.  Finally, in fifth grade, she is lucky enough to have a teacher who recognizes Trisha's incredible artistic ability — and understands her problem, and takes the time to lead her to the magic of reading.
Although dyslexia is never mentioned in the book, this story will provide great reassurance to children who struggle to overcome learning disabilities.

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Honest to Goodness Truth by Patricia Mckissack

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Honest to Goodness Truth by Patricia Mckissack

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When Libby Louise is caught in a lie, her own shame far outweighs the punishment, and Libby vows, From now on, only the truth. But her own rules soon get her in trouble. She alienates a host of people as she spreads the truth all over town-about the hole in Ruthie May's sock, the fact that Thomas didn't have lunch money, and how Miz Tusselbury's yard looks like a jungle. It isn't until Libby gets a small spoonful of her own medicine that she grasps how to tell the truth.

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Welcome to Mrs. Gee's Bee-zy Beez reading page! On this page, you will see all of the books we have read in class so far. Please make sure you take the AR tests on these books in order to meet your weekly AR goal. Have you read an AR book that your classmates might enjoy? Then please feel free to add that book to the list along with a short summary and picture of the book. Reading is fun to do especially if you are selecting great books! In the words of Dr. Seuss,  "The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more you learn, the more places you will go!"