  This highly acclaimed series will introduce your students to beloved children's books--and whet their appetites for more. Selections have been carefully made--to offer a wide variety of style, readability and reading difficulty. The objectives are simple--to motivate students to read to teach the enjoyment of reading and to develop and improve reading skills and vocabulary. Some of the book excerpts are: "The Odyssey of Homer" retold by Barbara Leonie Picard "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell "Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain |