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Grade 6, 7, 8 Common Core Text Exemplars

Description: These books exemplify the level of complexity that Common Core State Standards require students to engage with. While the choices serve to help educators select texts of similar complexity, quality, and range, this not a required reading list. #teachers


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Category Title Author Date Added Action
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Dragonwings 		Laurence Yep 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
United States Constitution 		United States of America 04/09/2018 Read Now
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer 		Mark Twain 04/09/2018
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 		Mildred D. Taylor 01/15/2019
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Black Ships Before Troy 		Rosemary Sutcliff 04/09/2018
Informational Text: ELA
Travels with Charley 		John Steinbeck 04/09/2018
Informational Text: ELA
Harriet Tubman 		Ann Petry 04/09/2018
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The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks 		Katherine Paterson 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
This Land Was Made for You and Me 		Elizabeth Partridge 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
The Great Fire 		Jim Murphy 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
The Words We Live By 		Linda R. Monk 04/09/2018
Informational Text: STEM
The Building of Manhattan 		Donald A. Mackay 04/09/2018
Informational Text: STEM
Cathedral 		David Macaulay 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
A Night to Remember 		Walter Lord 04/09/2018
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A Wrinkle in Time 		Madeleine L'Engle 04/09/2018
Informational Text: STEM
Geeks 		Jon Katz 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
A Short Walk Around the Pyramids & Through the World of Art 		Philip M. Isaacson 04/09/2018
Informational Text: STEM
Math Trek 		Ivars Peterson and Nancy Henderson 04/09/2018
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The People Could Fly 		Virginia Hamilton 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
Vincent van Gogh 		Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan 04/09/2018
Informational Text: History / Social Studies
Freedom Walkers 		Russell Freedman 04/09/2018
Informational Text: STEM
The Number Devil 		Hans Magnus Enzensberger 04/09/2018
Informational Text: STEM
Astronomy & Space 		Phillis Engelbert 04/09/2018
Informational Text: ELA
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 		Frederick Douglass 04/09/2018
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The Dark Is Rising 		Susan Cooper 04/09/2018

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