Orca Echoes Resource Guide

by Alex Van Tol
Orca Echoes Resource Guide
Author: Alex Van Tol
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1554693780
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The Orca Echoes are lively, entertaining short chapter books aimed at readers between ages seven and nine. These popular classroom favorites are well suited for social responsibility and character building programs. The Orca Echoes Resource Guide helps teachers open the door for meaningful classroom discussion. Professionally written guides with curriculum connections, writing exercises, discussion questions and activities are provided for each title in the Orca Echoes series. With additional information on teaching ideas, reading levels, literature circles and assessment, the Orca Echoes Resource Guide is a valuable tool for teachers using Orca Echoes in the classroom.

Orca Echoes Resource Guide

by Alex Van Tol
Orca Echoes Resource Guide
Author: Alex Van Tol
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1554692407
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The Orca Echoes Resource Guide helps teachers open the door for meaningful classroom discussion. Professionally written guides with curriculum connections, writing exercises, discussion questions and activities are provided for each title in the Orca Echoes series.

A Bee in Your Ear

by Frieda Wishinsky
A Bee in Your Ear
Author: Frieda Wishinsky
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554695627
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Kate is determined to win her spelling club's spelling bee, but the competition is fierce. She can almost put up with Violet's relentless claims of superior spelling ability, but when Kate and Jake begin to fight with each other, Kate is miserable. She wants to win the contest, but she doesn't want to lose her best friend.

Batcat and the Seven Squirrels

by Eric Walters
Batcat and the Seven Squirrels
Author: Eric Walters
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459812573
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Nathan has always loved animals and longs for a pet. When a baby squirrel shows up at Nathan's door, he wonders what could have happened to its mother. It isn't long before his family discovers six more orphaned baby squirrels in need of food and shelter. With help from Batcat, a neighborhood cat who is fed by many but owned by no one, Nathan learns to care for the squirrels. But all babies must leave the nest eventually. Will Nathan finally find a pet to call his own? The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Speaking Our Truth

by Monique Gray Smith
Speaking Our Truth
Author: Monique Gray Smith
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 145981584X
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Holding each other up with respect, dignity and kindness.

Orca Sports Resource Guide

by Susan Greye
Orca Sports Resource Guide
Author: Susan Greye
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1551439255
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The Orca Sports Resource Guide provides teachers with ideas for connecting each title in the series to the curriculum, the text and, most importantly, the students.

Ben the Inventor

by Robin Stevenson
Ben the Inventor
Author: Robin Stevenson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459800958
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Inventors invent inventions! That's what Ben and his best friend Jack like to say. So when Ben discovers that Jack's family is planning to move to another city, he decides they should put their inventions to work. The boys figure that if no one buys Jack's house, Jack won't have to move away, so all they need is a plan to scare off potential buyers! Inventors are good at coming up with plans. But when Plans A, B and C fail to bring the results the boys had hoped for, Ben discovers that not everything in life stays the same—and that while change can be hard, sometimes it isn't all bad.

Mystery of the Missing Luck

by Jacqueline Pearce
Mystery of the Missing Luck
Author: Jacqueline Pearce
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459806026
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Sara loves her grandmother's bakery. It's a special place-not only because of its delicious Japanese buns and pastries. She enjoys spending time with her obaachan, her grandmother. But things aren't going well for the bakery. When the bakery's lucky cat statue goes missing, Sara wonders if the bakery's luck is gone for good. But then a mysterious cat appears in the backyard one night and inspires a plan. With the help of her friend, Jake, Sara just might find the statue and restore the bakery's lost luck. The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Captain Jake

by Shannon Stewart
Captain Jake
Author: Shannon Stewart
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554695872
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Jake loves to hunt for treasure, so when the famous pirate Captain Kidd asks him to be his cabin boy, he can't refuse. But Jake soon learns that bringing home an invisible pirate can be a real disaster, particularly when the pirate is mortally terrified of his teenage sister. There are many rules of the sea, and Captain Kidd's own cabin boy, Richard Barleycorn, teaches Jake how to face his biggest fear, Boris Baxter, the meanest boy in the whole school.