Books with author Phyllis J. Perry

Use popular fiction to attract students to great nonfiction (expository text) about science. Focusing on the general theme of water, this resource provides webs that lead from popular fiction titles to a variety of related nonfiction titles that will generate interest and build in-depth scientific knowledge for thematic studies. Detailed summaries of books and student activities across the content field motivate young readers and help busy educators implement a multidisciplinary approach.

Focusing on animals, a subject of intense fascination for young students, this book helps educators build learning across the curriculum. It contains four sections-animals as pets, animals on the farm, animals in the woods, and animals in the wild. In each section the author describes subject-specific fiction and nonfiction materials and other books that will help readers make the transition from fiction to nonfiction. Plot summaries, discussion topics, and student projects help develop library research skills and link language arts to science, math, social studies, and the arts. Books cited were selected by children's librarians and published within the last 10 years. Grades K-5.

WHAT IF - Somewhere in the galaxy there is a school taught by angels?WHAT IF – A young person with no special talent finds the one perfect gift?WHAT IF – Youngsters who failed to survive their first life are given a new life?WHAT IF – One evil young girl threatens talented students with her greed?Halo Havens didn’t know that angels had special talents and different jobs. She’d never met an android, talked to a giant fish or met an angel. Her life changed the day she skated in front of a car trying to rescue a puppy and was transported to the fantastic world of White Feathers Academy. There she makes new friends, accepts the challenge of a seemingly hopeless job and embarks on the greatest adventure of her new young life, if she can survive the tests.