Orca currents are short highinterest novels with contemporary themes, written expressly for middleschool students reading below grade level. As is typical of the orca soundings series, the book is written at a level accessible to most middle school students and is an excellent resource for ell and struggling readers. Orca publishes stunning board books and picture books to captivate the youngest. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new. Orcas currents is a series of public lectures, seminars, and workshops intended to reach wide audiences of interested islanders. A member of the order of canada, he has now published more than 100 novels and picture books. Orca publishers with contemporary themes and exciting stories, the orca soundings for reluctant teen readers are books that teens want to read. Orca sports stories engage middleschoolers and teens with fastpaced plots and easytoread language. A series of short highinterest novels with compelling mysteries, humour, and adventures. Orca currents goreader vol 5 each goreader features.
Orca books catalogue fall 2019 by crosscan educational services. Sewer rats orca currents and millions of other books are available for instant access. Lucas enjoys his status as a troublemaker on the school bus until the consequences become serious. She cannot wait to compete in her schools dance competition. He has to do all the chores in the house, do all the grocery shopping. Orca echoes early chapter books guided reading levels are now available for all books in the orca echoes series. Thirteenyearold chris and his younger sister need to help make their familys new bungee jump operation work, which means battling rumours that the island its on is haunted. The main characters that are in the stories are laurel, jack and sean. Key features contemporary themes samples additional information. Books about whales, dolphins or other marine mammals. The novel called blob, written by frieda wishinsky, is about a young insecure girl named eve.
Kristin butcher is the author of several books for young readers, including the trouble with liberty and the hemingway tradition in the orca soundings collection. Snowboard tracks leading away from the trap are the only clue. Individual teachers guides and resource guides for books in each series are availble on the orca website. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Write the following sentences, which use the novels context, on the board. Get the most out of sora nocost books with these next. In the previous book savn saved vlad from an undead wizard but had his mind damaged in the process. Eric walters began writing as a way to get his fifthgrade students interested in reading and writing.
Including sections on reading levels, book discussion groups, literacy circles, assessment and followup activities, this resource guide enables a teacher to implement the orca soundings and orca currents series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit. This nonfiction book in the orca footprints series, illustrated with color photographs throughout, looks at trade from the perspective of making it fair for all people. High interest low reading level book list one may also consider the choose your own adventure series for those struggling with reading. In this book from the orca currents series, fourteenyearold dan hogg goes on a field trip with his class to a heritage farm. The bobsled team has to be in top physical condition. In this book from the orca currents series, fifteenyearold linda is hesitant about entering the world of chat rooms until her school starts its own. Topics include a variety of team and individual sports. This package of titles from the orca currents series features contemporary. Swift walker science and geography books for kids, book 3 dogs. Read the secrets, coming october 2015 from orca book publishers. Barely over 100 pages, it offers a highinterest story at an easy reading level. Ask students to complete the sentences using similes. Finding elmo by monique polak fifteenyearold tim loves his job at his dads pet store, partly because he gets to spend time with his best friend, a black.
Buy a cheap copy of wired orca currents book by sigmund brouwer. Renata, an immigrant from brazil is faced with bullying and stereotyping, some time soon as she enrolls into a highschool. Founded in 1982, orca book publishers is an independently owned canadian childrens book publisher. Laggan lard butts by eric walters sam campbells school team, the laggan lairds, always loses. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Trevor, nick and robyn are ready to solve another mystery. Orca currents resource guide by orca book publishers, janice. Please donate to our gofundme campaign to help us raise the startup funds for the coop. When renata is chosen to play the lead role in the school musical, students who used to ignore her start saying hello and congratulating her in the hall. Grade 8 by kari jones orca book publishers, 2011 pages. This nonfiction book in the orca footprints series, illustrated with color photographs throughout, looks at trade from the perspective of making it fair for. Bored at home because he was suspended he decided to listen to it. In this sequel to murphy and mousetrap, murphy and his three friends are nervous about trying out for the soccer team at their new school, but a diagnosis of leukemia proves more challenging than anything they encounter on the field.
Orca currents resource guide paperback book collections. Although he has been picked on, teased, and ignored by his classmates, dan saves their lives. Since his father gave up drinking, basketball star bobby byingtons life is finally on track, but he wishes he could say the same for his girlfriend and a fellow teammate. Changing minds on mental health is the goto guide for teenagers who want to know about mental health, mental illness, trauma and recovery. With over 500 titles in print and more than 65 new titles a year, orca publishes awardwinning, bestselling books in a number of genres, including baby board books. Dog care puppy care how to take care of and train your dog or puppy dog care, puppy care, dog training, puppy training. The series is written approximately at a grade 4 to 5 level, with an interest level from grades 48 and.
Orca currents goreader vol 6 each goreader features. Orca currents full collection by orca book publishers 49th shelf. Kate lane hill this resource guide enables a teacher to implement the orca currents series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit. Orca currents resource guide orca currents resource guide orca currents orca book publishers. I had to sneak it out of my classroom to get a chance to read it. This story is about discovering who is the cheater. Kristin butcher author kristin butcher is the author of several books for young readers, including the trouble with liberty and the hemingway tradition in the orca soundings collection. At the beginning of high school, eve was bullied by her old friends because she was over weight. Changing minds on mental health is the goto guide for teenagers who want to know about mental health, mental illness, trauma and. Cam became the man of the house, ever since his father died and now must take his responsibilities and time seriously. Vlad finds a witch who can help, but she needs help in. Each individual book has some, all or none of the following. The laurel is articlereporter, jack is basketball and cheats and sean too. This fastpaced novel will appeal to both strong and struggling readers, who will likely want to investigate the franklin expedition further.
In shadow, fourteenyearold preston craft is organizing a film festival for his schools film club. Everything is going fine until she is chosen to be a lead role in a play. Two complete hilo novels from the orca currents series arrives at your school or library ready to play no downloads, cds, or cassettes batteries and headphones included book details. When bobsledder josh gantz is accused of deliberately injuring a fellow competitor, he runs the risk of being thrown out of the sportright before the world cup. Orca currents are middleschool novels for reluctant readers. And like most books in this line, it ended with maddie learning a lesson though in this book, the lesson is not shoved down your throat in an unrealistic way, and thats true of most orca currents books ive read. Orca currents resource guide orca currents orca currents resource guide orca book publishers. He is a tireless presenter, speaking to over 100,0.
Orca books is becoming a memberowned, workerrun cooperative by april 1st, 2020 to learn about the coop transition, the benefits of membership, and how to sign up, visit our coop page. He has to do all the chores in the house, do all the grocery shopping and he also has. This is the 7th book in brusts vlad taltos series and i do not recommend starting here. Fourteenyearold roonie loves hiphop almost as much as she loves her grandmother. Orca currents are short, highinterest novels with contemporary themes written specifically for middleschool students reading below grade level. Grade 8 by frieda wishinsky orca book publishers, 2010 pages. Orca is a publisher of high quality, awardwinning books for children and teens and reluctant readers of all ages. Cheat by kristin butcher overdrive rakuten overdrive. Orca currents offers hypnotized by don trembath, cracked by michele marin bossley. In lost, john wilsons most recent novel for the orca currents high interestlow reading level series, he brings back the characters sam and annabel from two of his previous books, stolen and bones, to star in a suspenseful adventure story based on the mystery of the franklin expedition. Orcas currents lectures on science, technology, and culture. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. This nonfiction picture book is full of stunning wildlife photographs of the bears of the great bear rainforest in british columbia. Karen spaffordfitz is the author of several novels for young people, including vanish and dog walker in the orca currents series.
Like the two earlier novels, the teenage protagonists must solve puzzles from the. In the resource guide for the orca currents series middle school readers, activities are suggested for connecting to the text explorations of such elements as point of view, character development, vocabulary and language, and connecting to the students ideas for discussion and exploration various openended questions. Orca soundings are teen novels for reluctant readers. Simon and ellens parents leave the island to go somewhere and leave the kids in charge of watching the house and island. Orca publishes everything from beautifully illustrated board books and picture books to middlegrade and youngadult nonfiction and fiction. Farmed out orca currents by christy goerzen librarything. Sigmund brouwer has written bestselling books for three orca series. Once she visits the chat room, she is pulled toward a student with the nickname cyrano. When one of the films goes missing two days before the festival begins, preston is convinced it was stolen and is determined to get it back. Series orca currents orca currents are short highinterest novels with. Keegan bishop, championship skier, is almost injured in a dangerous trap set for one of his teammates. Orca currents series kristin butcher author 2018 cairo kelly and the mann juvenile novs 1014 series kristin butcher. Some of orca medias regular series abled and on air all things lgbtq bear pond books events bill doyle on vermont issues extempo first wednesdays hunger mountain coop workshops series onion river community access media.