In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, teachingbooks supports the first amendment and celebrates the right to read. When you start reading this, you cant put it down, kinda like the hunger games. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands w. Book your river rafting in rishikesh in just a click with us book my raft. We are a license holding company, approved by tourism and forest dept. Click on the link below for a great resource to find tons of books in all lexiles. We are working with the hundreds of companies that partner with us to.
The raft is a book about 15yearold robie mitchell who must stay at her aunts apartment in honolulu, hawaii, until she returns. The raft that becomes her support contains some useful items, but with the only other survivor almost comatose, it is clear that robie is pretty much on her own. Lexile find a book ecms learning commons cobb learning. As nicky explores, the raft works a subtle magic, opening up the wonders all around him the animals of river and woods, his grandmothers humor and wisdom, and his own special talent as an artist. Take our free the raft quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by british writer stephen baxter. Four college students randy, deke, rachel, and laverne swim to a wooden raft on a remote pennsylvania lake in october as a final. Bodeen this study guide consists of approximately 43 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the raft. For a list of newbery winners by year, visit the association for library service to children website lexile 520 flora and ulysses by kate dicamillo 2014 rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comicreading cynic. When a plane carrying three airmen fails to return from its bombing mission on january 16, 1942, the u.
Raft is both baxters debut novel and the first book in the xeelee sequence, although the xeelee are not present. Pacific ocean resources are stretched thin following the destruction at pearl harbor that led america into war a month earlier. Navy can afford only a brief search before giving the men up as dead. Lewis hines took over 7,000 photos of children in the harsh working. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the. Max pulls her onto the raft, and thats when the real terror begins. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. When she has to get to midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute.
Read the entire book, adding your own insights to the understandings identified. Library of virginia notable books with lexile levels 200. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides for challenging works of literature. The external conflict is about robie is facing mother nature both on the sea and also the island. Although the vast majority of books that have lexile measures did not change, a small subset of books required updated lexile measures. Enhancements were made to more precisely measure materials read in k2 classrooms. This book will tell you how to find your way to the landwithout instruments and. Newbery winners by lexile childrens reading suggestions. Bodeens third young adult novel, the raft, opens with robie, the protagonist, visiting her aunt in hawaii during one of her many breaks from the small island where robie lives. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there is a new copilot named max. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands. When he builds his raft, a twelveyearold boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for him and his grandmother when hostile indians threaten their prairie cabin. Can someone suggest to me some good popular fiction books with a lexile 1400 to 1500.
Heres what teachers are saying i love this for independent reading. Many products and services offer lexile measures for their books and reading materials. Robie seizes the opportunity to be the independent girl shes always wanted to be. Reading to kids is a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring underserved children with a love of reading, thereby enriching their lives and opportunities for future success. Theme overview plot to survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself george orwell robie. Though it was covered with leaves and branches, now i could tell that it was a raft.
Her aunts friend, who is to check on robie every day while her aunt is away, is not able to do so. The newbery medal honors the author of the most distinguished contribution to american literature for children. It was first published as a booklet included with gallery in november 1982 and was collected in kings 1985 collection skeleton crew. This is about a girl who goes on a plane and it crashes and all she has is. Novel series raft is a book report option designed to creatively assess novel series, pushing students beyond simple recall to synthesis, evaluation and application levels of understanding. Wolf tower lee, tanith 400 fantasy breaking point flinn, alex 410 actionadventure smile telgemeier 410 realistic fiction cold case leonard, julia platt 420 mystery gimme a call mylnowski, sarah 440 realistic fiction vandal schraff, anne 450.
Josef is a jewish boy living in 1930s nazi germany. As a survival tale, this is both engaging and full of scary factoids and frightening possibilities. The book was wrote in 1942 but the information is just as important today. The raft jim lamarche paperback harpercollins publishers. Are you trying to find a book in a specific lexile level. The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation dr devra davis duration.
She has taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands where her parents live, many times. Shes taken the flight from honolulu to the midway atoll, a group of pacific islands where her parents live, many times. Also note the stopping points for the textinspired questions and activities. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, theres a new copilot named max. When she has to get to midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in hawaii, she gets on. Book my raft is a trusted brand for booking your river rafting in rishikesh. Please note that the lexile measures for a small population of books have been recently updated. Rosie raccoons rock and roll raft lexile find a book. It tells of the strength, the fears and the courage for three men to survive against all odds.
Preferably a book with mystery, action, and suspense, similar to the artemis fowl series. Bodeen paula perez 1st period i choose this movie trailer to present, is to give the image of how the characters and events look like. Have you ever thought about what you would do it your plane went down in the middle of. Hanging out in honolulu with her aunt is a far cry from midway atoll where her scientist parents work. Title author lexile lexile code call number jungle book, the kipling, rudyard 1140 jfic kip brians winter paulsen, gary 1140 jfic pau wide window, the snicket, lemony 1150 jfic sni slippery slope, the snicket, lemony 1150 jfic sni nine lives of aristotle, the kingsmith, dick 1160 ad jfic kin. Popular lexile 600 700 books meet your next favorite book. While spending the summer with his grandmother, nicky finds a raft that is covered with sketches of animals. A flock of birds was moving toward me along the river, hovering over something floating on the water. Bodeen includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 57 chapters, as well as several more indepth sections of expertwritten literary analysis.
Popular 700 750 lexile books meet your next favorite book. Inspired in part by his own childhood, this gorgeous picture book from jim lamarche, the beloved illustrator of a story for bear and the elves and the shoema. It drifteddownstream, closer and closer, until finally it bumped up against the dock. Easily find lexile 450730 stories for children to enjoy. The conflict in this book is pretty obvious, shes in a plane crash and stuck in the middle of the ocean with only a raft and a few kind of useless supplies. Speakaboos offers many interactive lexile 450730 stories as part of our story library. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. I would recommend this to people who like to read actionadventure.
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