Creativity

Untold: Adventures Await

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Untold: Adventures Await is the customizable storytelling game powered by Rory's Story Cubes. Players become the heroes of a thrilling tale that unfolds in under 60 minutes.

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Elementary
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High
Content Area: 
ELA
Play Time: 
45 min.
Untold: Adventures Await

Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece

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Copies: 6

In the wooded heart of Pennsylvania, a house perches atop a waterfall. The water's tune echoes through its sunlight-dappled rooms, and the facade blends effortlessly into the rock and forest behind it. This is Fallingwater, an architectural masterpiece born from the marriage of meticulous research and unbounded imagination, the legacy of the lauded American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Lexile: 
620L
Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Masterpiece

Draw Out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics

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Copies: 7

From single-panel jokes to long graphic novels, comics come in endless shapes, sized, and styles. But when you think of it, they all do one thing: tell stories.

Lexile: 
800L
Draw Out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics

The Meanest Birthday Girl

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Copies: 7

It's Dana's birthday, so she can do what she likes. And what Dana likes to do is pinch. And call people names. And steal her classmates' desserts in the lunchroom.

You probably know a kid like Dana. What can stop her from being so mean? In this story, it's not what you might expect. Because sometimes it takes a little creativity (and possibly a very large pet) to change a mean kid's ways.

Lexile: 
AD580L
The Meanest Birthday Girl

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

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Copies: 1

The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and picures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. The individual tales, such as he Really Ugly Ducklingand ittle Red Running Shorts,can be extracted for telling aloud, with great success. Another masterpiece from the team that created The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! -Horn Book

Lexile: 
520L

Crafts for Kids Who are Wild About Dinosaurs

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Copies: 1

THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE DINOSAURS CURRICULUM KIT

Provides instructions for twenty projects, including a triceratops ring-toss game, diplodocus body puppet, plesiosaur window decoration, necktie tree, and dinosaur feet.

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Crafts for Kids Who are Wild About Dinosaurs

Applewhites at Wit's End

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Copies: 7

Jack Semple and E.D. Applewhite are back, in this middle-grade sequel to Stephanie S. Tolan’s Newbery Honor Book Surviving the Applewhites.

Teenager E.D., the not so artistic, not at all eccentric member of the unconventional Applewhite clan, can't believe the plan her father has hatched to save the family from financial disaster. He’s decided to transform their rural North Carolina farm into a summer camp for creative children.

Lexile: 
840L
Applewhites at Wit's End

Palace of Stone

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Copies: 7

When the king's priests declared Miri's village the home of the future princess, Miri, Britta, and the village's other girls attended the Princess Academy to learn how to be princesses. In the end, the prince chose Britta to be his bride.

Now Miri and five of her fellow graduates are leaving their mountain town to spend several months at the palace helping Britta prepare for the royal wedding. Miri's excited to help her friend, and to get a chance to study at the grandest school in the kingdom!

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Lexile: 
740L
Palace of Stone

Palazzo Inverso

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Copies: 7

Mauk, mischievous apprentice to the master architect, must not draw on the plans for the new Palazzo. But by turning the plans a bit each day, he finds a way to alter them, turning the master's creation onto its head! Discover what mystery and excitement a small change of perspective has brought to the Palazzo.

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Lexile: 
AD450L
Palazzo Inverso

Clever Jack Takes the Cake

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Copies: 7

Take a bite out of this deliciously funny original fairy tale by a bestselling picture-book duo. While girls are sure to love a storyabout a princess's birthday party, Jack's adventures with trolls, bears, and gypsies make this an ideal read for boys, too.

Lexile: 
AD600L
Clever Jack Takes the Cake

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