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4 Reader Packages & Literature

Introduction to American History, Part 2
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Stories to stimulate imagination and fuel learning!

  • Trek along with a 19-year-old boy as he braves the dangerous jungles of South America.
  • Engage in the experiments of African American George Washington Carver as he invents many things including peanut butter.
  • Follow wheeling-and-dealing Eric, as he works through seventeen "swaps" to get his friend a special gift.
  • Join Jack Flagg as he looks for gold and finds adventure.
  • Unearth the secrets of America's most prolific inventor (Thomas Edison). Witness the frustrations, failures, joys, and amazing triumphs that led to many technologies that we take for granted today—such as the light-bulb, music CD's and even movies.

A world of excitement, adventure, and learning awaits in 19 books that your children will read and read again!


Readers Program 4 - Five-Day

Readers Program 4 - Five-Day

Includes all of the 4R titles.… more »

This is part of a Core and so does not include an Instructor's Guide.

Recommended for ages: 9-12

9 10 11 12
$143.57

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Item #4R5

Hero Over Here

Hero Over Here

Theodore learns that heroism requires more-and less-than he imagined in this story set during the deadly flu epidemic at the end of World War 1. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
$5.75

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Item #4H18

The Story of Thomas Alva Edison

The Story of Thomas Alva Edison

Wizard of Menlo Park Explains the basic principles behind Edison's discoveries as well as his joys, tragedies, and amazing successes. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
$4.50

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Item #4H39

The Perilous Road

The Perilous Road

A realistic story of a Tennessee mountain boy who, during the Civil War, comes to realize that war is terrible no matter where one's sympathies lie. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R05

By the Great Horn Spoon

By the Great Horn Spoon

To save his aunt's home, young Jack and his butler rush off to California to join the '49ers in their hunt for gold. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R06

Freedom Train

Freedom Train

The Story of Harriet Tubman Fascinating biography of Harriet Tubman, a black woman who risked her life helping other slaves reach freedom on the Underground Railroad. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R08

Shades of Gray

Shades of Gray

Thought-provoking story of a boy who was orphaned by the Civil War as he struggles to forgive "the enemy" and discover what true courage is all about. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R10

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Two thousand Georgia textile workers were shipped North against their will to work in Yankee mills. Twelve-year old Hannalee was one of them. This is the true story of how more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R11

Old Yeller

Old Yeller

The touching Newbery Honor story about a boy and the dog he loves. Set during frontier days in the Texas hill country. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R13

Helen Keller

Helen Keller

The inspiring story of Helen Keller, a blind and deaf girl who overcame her limitations through courage and the firm love of a caring teacher. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R15

All-of-a-Kind Family

All-of-a-Kind Family

The light-hearted story of an all-girl family in a crowded section of New York City at the turn of the 19th century. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R17

Thimble Summer

Thimble Summer

A winner about a mid-American farm family in the early 20th century. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R18

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

In 1947, a Chinese girl comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and to make friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R19

Plain Girl

Plain Girl

Despite her father's objections, a young Amish girl secretly looks forward to attending public school where she makes a best friend and gains a new perspective on her family's way more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R20

Gone Away Lake

Gone Away Lake

Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R22

The Seventeenth Swap

The Seventeenth Swap

Eric wants to buy his young crippled friend Jimmy a pair of red cowboy boots, and devises a plan to get them through a series of wheelings and dealings with more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R31

Bruchko

Bruchko

When a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians, he proves God's strength is made perfect in weakness. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R33

The Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers

Pioneers of American Aviation A biography of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first airplane. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R34

George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist George Washington Carver overcame racial prejudice to become an outstanding Christian scientist. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R35

The Terrible Wave

The Terrible Wave

Top-notch historical fiction about the great Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood of 1889. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R36

Shoes For Everyone

Shoes For Everyone

Jan Matzeliger, a black man from Dutch Guiana, wanted everyone to be able to afford shoes. He invented the first automatic shoemaking machine, and revolutionized the industry. Inspiring! more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R38

Sing Down the Moon

Sing Down the Moon

Beautifully written Newbery Honor story of a teen aged girl who is confronted by the challenges of life as a female member of the Navaho nation in the mid-1860s. more »

Recommended for ages: 9-12 9 10 11 12
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Item #4R39