The UGLY DUCKLING

By Marianna Mayer

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art

By Candace Christiansen

Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley: Nature Poems

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Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places

By Joseph Bruchac

Through the guidance of his uncle and the retelling of various Native American legends, a young boy learns that everything living and inanimate has its place, should be considered sacred, and given...

Baseball in the barrios

By Henry Horenstein

Hubaldo's life as a fifth grader in a barrio in Venezuela centers around his love for the country's most popular sport, its teams, and its players.

Grandfather's Christmas tree

By Keith Strand

A grandfather tells how the family's Christmas tradition of placing a carved wooden nest with a pair of geese and their babies in the large spruce tree started years ago when his parents first sett...

Water Dance

By Thomas Locker

Water speaks of its existence in such forms as storm clouds, mist, rainbows, and rivers. Includes factual information on the water cycle.

Harcourt School Publishers Treasury of Literature: Library Book Grade 5 Beetles,Lightly Toasted

By Jean Little

Andy's entering the fifth-grade essay contest stirs his imagination to creative heights as he competes with his know-it-all cousin by making recipes with some unusual food sources and testing them...

The tarantula in my purse

By Jean Craighead George

And then what happened Paul Revere

By Jean Fritz