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District List: BCPS Core Text Lists – Grade 2

Description: Baltimore City Public Schools Core Text List for students in 2nd Grade. Contains books from Modules: A Season of Change, The American West, Civil Rights Heroes, and Good Eating. #bcps


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The Buffalo are Back

by Jean Craighead George

The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks.

Date Added: 01/10/2019


Bone Button Borscht

by Dusan Petricic and Aubrey Davis

On a dark winter's night, a ragged beggar dreams of a warm hearth and a delicious meal -- and sets out to find just that. In this retelling of the classic folk tale "Stone Soup," a stranger teaches the poor villagers what can be accomplished with a few buttons and a little cooperation.

Date Added: 02/20/2019


Bill Pickett

by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

The true sweat-and-dirt tale of the feisty cowboy-child who became the most famous black rodeo performer who ever lived. Includes a note about the history of the black West and a bibliography.

Date Added: 03/27/2019



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