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Time Quest
Time Quest is a science fiction story. Tonk, who lives on an Earth satellite, is accosted by a hideous time traveller who wants to steal Tonk’s life preserver. Fortunately, Tonk remembers what he’s learned about time travel in...
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Time to Sleep
Time to Sleep is an expository text that shows children where animals sleep. A picture of an animal sleeping is depicted on a two-page spread. Animals are labeled in illustrations that support the text. Interest words include sleep, den, tree, water, and...
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Toast with Miss Lily
Toast with Miss Lily is a narrative about a boy, Kip, who is angry at his parents for leaving him with a babysitter, Miss Lily, while they go on a trip. Kip warms to Miss Lily when a power failure prompts some improvising and Miss Lily teaches him...
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Tongues
Tongues is an expository text about the different tongues that animals have and how they use them. The tongue of each animal is labeled. An index is presented. Interest words include flick, tongue, sticky, danger, and hiss. Adjectives and adverbs are...
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Tony's Dad
Tony’s Dad is a realistic fiction about a boy named Tony whose dad got hurt and needed to use a wheelchair. Initially, Tony was upset that his dad could no longer pay football with him and hated the wheelchair. Tony’s dad showed his son he...
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Tooth Walkers
Toothwalkers is an expository text that invites readers to learn about walruses. The text explores useful tools that walruses use, how they hunt for food, and how they care for their young. Illustrations depict content and ideas in the text. Many...
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Tornadoes
Tornadoes is an expository nonfiction text that explains what makes a tornado, where tornadoes happen, after a tornado, and if a tornado can be stopped. The back of the book includes a section on Scientists Then and Now. Readers gain information from...
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Tornadoes.
Tornadoes is an informational report. The text describes why tornadoes are dangerous, how to stay safe, how animals are in danger, and how scientists study tornadoes. Readers gain a comprehensive picture of this phenomenon, from how tornadoes...
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Touch
Touch… is a science fiction story about two scientists and a doctor who make an unexpected stop on an unknown planet. The book also discusses features of a science fiction story. The story unfolds in third -person narrative in the format of a...
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Tracey and the Sun
Tracey and the Sun is a realistic fiction story about a girl who moved to a new home where the sun shone every day. The sun kept ruining her day by burning her legs, melting her cookies, and making her miss goals from the sun being too bright. Suddenly,...
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Trackers
Trackers is an expository text that describes a variety of methods and purposes for tracking. Indigenous expertise, dogs, GPS devices, infrared cameras, and radar are used to track animals, criminals, lost people, and wildlife. The style is...
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Trains
Trains is an informational text about different types of trains, new and old, and about where trains can travel. The text is composed of simple language patterns that are close to oral language. All the sentences are short and similar in structure...