Multigenre texts

Picture books and short chapter books
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Andrews-Goebel, Nancy. The Pot that Juan Built. (Lee & Low, 2002). 32 pp.
        (Also available in Spanish, La Vasija Que Juan Fabricó)
Arnold, Katya, with Sam Swope. Katya’s Book of Mushrooms. (Henry Holt, 1997). 48 pp.
Bang, Molly. Nobody Particular: One Woman’s Fight to Save the Bays. (Holt, 2000). 45 pp.
Cole, Joanna. Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Ancient Egypt. (Scholastic, 2001). 48 pp.
Coulter, Laurie. Secrets in Stone: All About Maya Hieroglyphs. (Little, Brown, 2001). 48 pp.
Dewey, Jennifer Owings. Rattlesnake Dance. (Boyds Mill Press, 1997). 48 pp.
Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Celebrating Ramadan. (Holiday House, 2001). 32 pp.
Kurlansky, Mark. The Cod’s Tale. (Putnam, 2001). 48 pp.
Macaulay, David. Black and White. (Houghton Mifflin, 1990) 32 pp.
Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Snowflake Bentley. (Houghton Mifflin, 1998).




Longer Works
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Avi. Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel. (HarperTrophy, 1993). 224 pp.
Cofer, Judith Ortiz. The Year of Our Revolution : New and Selected Stories and Poems. (Puffer, 2000). 144 pp.
Conrad, Pam. Our House: Stories of Levittown. (Scholastic, 1995). 96 pp.
Draper, Sharon. Tears of a Tiger. (Atheneum, 1994). 192 pp.
Dyson, George B. Baidarka: The Kayak. (Alaska Northwest Books, 1986) 212 pp.
Klise, Kate. Regarding a Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks. (Avon, 1999). 144 pp.
Kumar, Amitava. Passport Photos.  (University of California Press. 2000). 276 pages
Murphy, Claire Rudolf. The Prince and the Salmon People. (Rizzoli, 1993). 48 pp.
Myers, Walter Dean. Monster. (HarperCollins, 1999). 288 pp.
Strasser, Todd. Give a Boy a Gun. (Simon and Schuster, 2000). 208 pp.
Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard Love. (Aladdin, 1999). 240 pp.
Yolen, Jane and Coville, Bruse. Armaggeddon Summer. (Harcourt Brace, 1998). 272 pp.
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