The Pearson AdvantageConsumable work texts provide core skills instruction and practice. Students build confidence and proficiency through active reading.

Program is flexible enough to customize your library to your students’ interests and abilities.

Full range of teaching support materials, including a classroom Activity Kit, customizable lesson plans, and the ExamView ® test generator, gives you the flexibility you need to reach today’s students.

The Reader’s Journey© 2009

Grades 6–8

A novel approach to learningThe Reader’s Journey is an innovative, library-based language arts program. Consumable Student Work Texts ensure comprehensive coverage of skills and standards. The program is flexible enough to use with any full-length work. You may also select the recommended titles from our library.

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The Reader’s Journey Anchor Books

A complete library of leveled novels and high-interest readers to match students’ reading proficiencies.

Program ComponentsStudent Work Texts

Consumable work texts provide comprehensive skills instruction and practice, and promote active learning.

Teacher Organizer

Full teaching support includes directions for choosing the right novel, lesson plans, and notes for differentiating instruction.

Teaching Resources

All the resources you need to easily differentiate instruction for all levels of learners in your classroom.

Transparencies

Visual-skills support enhances small- or large-group instruction.

Prentice Hall Discoveries

Content area and controlled vocabulary readers develop academic vocabulary, build word knowledge, and improve fluency with high-interest, cross-curricular readings.

ExamView® Test Bank CD-ROM

Create standards-based tests instantly with just a few mouse clicks.

Reader’s Journey Classroom Activity Kit

Online Success Tracker™

Automatic online remediation tailored to individual students’ needs.

Teacher Online Access PackPowered by SuccessNet ®

Our powerful, easy-to-use Online Teacher Center features a lesson planner that allows you to create customized lessons instantly, access to Success Tracker™ for instant intervention tailored to each student, and Anchor Book resources—including Anchor Book assessments!

• Hands-On Timeline Activities with Jumbo Vinyl Timeline Put novels into context. Perfect for classroom displays.

• Hands-On Writing and Grammar Activities Hone writing skills and the structures behind them.

• Roboversity and Mind Climb Vocabulary Board Games Fun ways to build students’ vocabulary.

• WORDWALL Vocabulary Builder Activities 300 vocabulary cards plus a special hanger for displaying them.

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Recommended Anchor BooksChoosing Your Novel—The Reader’s Journey includes 36 books per grade, making it easy to select a book that will be level-appropriate and engaging. Simply choose the full-length, high-interest novel that matches your students’ reading levels.

GRADE 6Unit 1

ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363629-1 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Deciding What Is Real 0-14-130644-0 Going Home, Nicholasa Mohr 6.66 0-14-240308-3 Racing the Past, Sis Deans 6.21 0-8037-3118-3 Jim Thorpe: Original All-American, 17.97 Joseph Bruchac 0-374-44330-0 Leon’s Story, Leon Walter Tillage 6.21 0-14-038304-2 Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier’s 10.97 Life in the Civil War, Delia Ray

Unit 2ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363630-5 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Trouble Ahead 0-14-240602-3 Miracle's Boys, Jacqueline Woodson 6.66 0-15-205780-3 Tangerine, Edward Bloor 6.21 0-13-437436-3 Bearstone, Will Hobbs 11.47 0-441-00548-9 Redwall, Brian Jacques 8.29 0-316-80906-3 Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli 7.25 0-374-41229-4 The Clay Marble, Minfong Ho 10.47

Unit 3ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363632-1 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Digging for Answers 0-448-43900-X Amistad: the Story of a Slave Ship, 4.13

Patricia C. McKissack 0-14-240072-6 A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie 6.21

“Peanut” Johnson, Michelle Y. Green 0-13-367539-4 The Tarantula in My Purse: and 172 Other 7.77

Wild Pets, Jean Craighead George 0-399-22786-5 You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, 15.97

Jean Fritz 0-670-05886-6 Thura’s Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq, 12.47

Thura Al-Windawi 0-689-80631-0 Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba, 14.47

Alma Flor Ada

Unit 4ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363633-X Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Sharing Meaning0-13-367540-8 Number the Stars, Lois Lowry 9.85 0-13-200655-3 The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin 6.66 0-399-23615-5 Fearless Fernie: Hanging Out with Fernie and Me, 15.47

Gary Soto 0-399-23991-X The Liberation of Gabriel King, K. L. Going 16.97 0-14-240760-7 The Hero’s Trail: A Guide for a Heroic Life, 7.25

T. A. Barron 0-060-08460-X Cheaper by the Dozen, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., 10.97

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Unit 5ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363634-8 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Looking in the Mirror0-13-367501-7 Pushing Up the Sky: Seven Native American 9.85 Plays for Children, Joseph Bruchac 0-13-200637-5 Escape to Freedom: A Play About Young 9.75

Frederick Douglass, Ossie Davis 0-87602-263-8 Mother Hicks, Susan L. Zeder 7.25 0-451-20114-0 The Mousetrap and Other Plays, Agatha Christie 8.72 0-573-69380-3 Play to Win, James de Jongh and Carles Cleveland 7.25 0-87129-276-9 I Never Saw Another Butterfly, Celeste Raspanti 5.17

Unit 6ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363635-6 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Finding Connections0-590-20833-0 Hiroshima, Laurence Yep 5.69 0-7894-5713-X Spies, Richard Platt 3.47 0-7894-8517-6 The Story of Muhammad Ali, Leslie Garrett 3.47 0-670-03512-2 The Emperor’s Silent Army: The Terracotta 18.97

Warriors of Ancient China, Jane O’Connor 0-525-47734-9 Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World, 19.97

Jane Breskin Zalben 0-7566-1079-6 Eyewitness: Mythology, Dorling Kindersley 15.97

GRADE7

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GRADE6

Student Work Text 0-13-363597-X 20.97

Teacher Organizer 0-13-363775-1 103.97

TEACHINGRESOURCES

Teacher Resources 0-13-363627-5 31.47

Transparency Pack 0-13-363603-8 51.97

Activity Kit Grades 6–8 0-13-367672-2 311.97

TECHNOlOGy

ExamView® Test Bank CD-ROM 0-13-363719-0 135.47

Reader’s Journey Online Teacher Center Teacher Access Pack 0-13-363725-5 311.97

Reader’s Journey Success Tracker™ 1-Year Online Student Access 0-13-363720-4 19.97

GRADE7

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GRADE8

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GRADE6

Implementation Kit, 30 Students 0-13-366492-9 1,143.97

Implementation Kit, 90 Students 0-13-366489-9 2,391.97

ONE-yEARIMPlEMENTATIONKIT

For the following packs below:30 students (includes Teacher Resources, Teacher’s Organizer, Activity Kit, ExamView®, Transparencies, and 30 Student Work Texts)90 students (includes Teacher Resources, Teacher’s Organizer, Activity Kit, ExamView®, Transparencies, and 90 Student Work Texts)

Core Components

Novels are available for purchase.

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Unit 1ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363636-4 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction0-14-038572-X The Outsiders, S.E.Hinton 8.370-14-230209-0 Journey of the Sparrows, FranLeeperBuss 7.25 withDaisyCubias 0-13-437504-1 The Glory Field, WalterDeanMyers 19.970-670-06027-5 Guys Write for Guys Read, Ed.JohnScieszka 18.970-14-130120-1 Rosa Parks: My Story, RosaParks 7.18 withJimHaskins0-425-10153-3 The Lottery Rose, IreneHunt 6.21

Unit 2ISBN Title Level Price0-13-361898-6 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Working It Out0-14-250027-5 A Step from Heaven, AnNa 18.970-14-034892-1 Let the Circle Be Unbroken, MildredD.Taylor 7.690-698-11958-4 Between Madison and Palmetto, 7.25

JacquelineWoodson0-14-032613-8 Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff, 6.03 WalterDeanMyers0-399-24301-1 Heat, MikeLupica 17.970-13-064144-8 Hatchet, GaryPaulsen 12.97

Unit 3ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363637-2 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Finding Our Place in the World0-14-303687-4 Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo, 14.47 ZlataFilipovíc0-14-240057-2 They Led the Way: 14 American Women, 6.21 JohannaJohnston 0-13-131243-X “Who Moved My Cheese?” for Teens, 21.97

SpencerJohnson,M.D.0-14-037438-8 Oddballs, WilliamSleator 6.210-439-42592-1 Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson 5.17 Changed America, SharonRobinson0-553-27258-6 Farewell to Manzanar, JeanneWakatsukiHouston 11.97 andJamesD.Houston

Unit 4ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363638-0 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Pushing the Boundaries0-425-10294-7 Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island, EveBunting 6.660-06-073400-0 Touching Spirit Bear, BenMikaelsen 17.970-14-250056-9 Crazy Loco, DavidRice 6.210-14-130497-9 Within Reach: My Everest Story, 12.97

MarkPfetzerandJackGalvin0-14-230024-1 Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea 24.97 Lange, ElizabethPartridge0-13-365716-7 Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 20.97

1954–1965, JuanWilliams

Unit 5ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363639-9 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 With Our Eyes Wide Open0-87602-352-9 The Yellow Boat, DavidSaar 7.250-15-205863-X Novio Boy, GarySoto 6.210-87602-261-1 Doors, SuzanL.Zeder 6.210-452-26883-4 Lost in Yonkers, NeilSimon 12.470-87129-537-7 Flowers for Algernon, DavidRogers 6.730-06-051263-6 Our Town, ThorntonWilder 9.33

Unit 6ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363640-2 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Path to the Present0-7894-4756-8 Micromonsters: Life Under the Microscope, 4.47

ChristopherMaynard0-525-46922-2 Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The 15.97

Search for the Smallpox Vaccine, AlbertMarrin0-13-367502-5 The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle: And Other 6.73 Extraordinary Stories Behind Everyday Things, DonL.Wulffson0-7566-2111-9 Gandhi: A Photographic Story of a Life, AmyPastan 4.970-14-240473-X Portraits of African-American Heroes, 12.47 TonyaMaynard0-13-366406-6 Sea Otter Rescue: The Aftermath of an Oil Spill, 7.77 RolandSmith

GRADE 7

Unit 1ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363641-0 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Believe It or Not0-13-437491-6 The House of Dies Drear, VirginiaHamilton 11.470-441-73154-6 Robot Dreams, IsaacAsimov 7.690-14-038068-X An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, 7.69 JudithOrtizCofer0-13-200423-2 To Be a Slave, JuliusLester 7.691-59078-005-1 Uncommon Champions: Fifteen Athletes Who 11.47

Battled Back, MartyKaminsky0-13-366405-8 Cut From the Same Cloth: American Women 7.25

of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale, RobertD.SanSouci

Unit 2ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363642-9 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 The Unexpected0-14-240370-9 Al Capone Does My Shirts, GenniferCholdenko 17.970-14-240577-9 The Schwa Was Here, NealShusterman 17.970-14-240596-5 Code Talker, JosephBruchac 8.290-13-067714-0 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, MildredD.Taylor 8.720-385-46886-5 Obasan, JoyKogawa 14.470-374-52510-2 Annie John, JamaicaKincaid 12.47

Unit 3ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363643-7 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Exploring the Possibilities0-312-31894-4 We Just Want to Live Here, AmalRifa'iand 12.47

OdeliaAinbinderwithSylkeTempel0-670-03616-1 Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in 17.97

Faraway Places, Ed.JillDavis0-61849-478-2 Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About 9.33 Brain Science, JohnFleischman 0-553-29698-1 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, AnneFrank 10.470-13-116629-8 They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights 8.72

Struggle from Frederick Douglass . . . Malcolm X, JulesArcher

0-7566-0831-7 Escape from Earth: Voyages Through Time, 8.81 PeterAckroyd

Unit 4ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363644-5 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 The Lines of Communication0-8037-2227-3 A Dime a Dozen, NikkiGrimes 19.970-13-180264-X The Devil’s Arithmetic, JaneYolen 7.690-399-23623-6 Under the Baseball Moon, JohnH.Ritter 17.970-440-22800-X The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, 6.76

ChristopherPaulCurtis0-394-74723-2 Maus I: A Survivor's Tale, ArtSpiegelman 18.970-14-037149-4 The Sword and the Circle, RosemarySutcliff 6.15

Unit 5ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363645-3 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 From a Different Angle0-698-11784-0 Nerdlandia, GarySoto 6.150-060-75738-8 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon 7.25

Marigolds, PaulZindel0-8222-0307-3 The Diary of Anne Frank, FrancesGoodrich 7.77

andAlbertHackett0-06-028077-8 Monster, WalterDeanMyers 16.970-7434-5758-7 The Miracle Worker, WilliamGibson 10.470-679-75533-0 A Raisin in the Sun, LorraineHansberry 11.97

Unit 6ISBN Title Level Price0-13-363646-1 Prentice Hall Discoveries Reader: 8.81 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow0-7566-4531-X The Story of Wolverine,MichaelTeitelbaum 3.470-13-366400-7 Amos Fortune: Free Man, ElizabethYates 7.250-13-367503-3 Baseball's Biggest Bloopers: The Games That 6.73

Got Away, DanGutman0-7566-1465-1 Cool Stuff and How It Works, ChrisWoodfordetal. 27.470-525-65190-X Famous Hispanic Americans, JanetNomura 17.97

MoreyandWendyDunn0-7566-0270-X Ultimate Robot, RobertMalone 31.47

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