Louisa May Alcott briefly worked as a nurse during the Civil War before becoming ill herself. In this fantasy, Jack and Annie travel back to the Civil War, meeting Clara Barton and help nurse the soldiers wounded in battle.
Massachusetts may be best known as the place where Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.
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When Nettie and her family travel to the South, they see enslaved people. Nettie is literally sickened by it and realizes how wrong slavery is. This fictional story is both realistic and heart wrenching.
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Though born later a bit after Louisa May Alcott and in a different part of the U.S., Laura Ingalls Wilder shared a great deal with Alcott.
DW's plot to fool the tooth fairy doesn't work so Arthur, her brother of tooth-losing age, assumes a magical role himself. This easier-to-read book is just right for new readers and has stickers intended to reinforce vocabulary.
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Fluffy, the class pet guinea pig wants to lose a tooth to meet the tooth fairy but then learns that guinea pigs don't lose teeth; rather they gnaw to wear them down.
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Babies don't have teeth as they don't need them yet. But as children grow, teeth grow in and then fall out to be replaced by adult teeth.
Junie B. worries about her loose tooth. If she's the first in her class to lose a tooth, will she appear different, weird?
Dr. Flossman welcomes his class of incisors, canines, etc. (appropriately for each of the typical mouth's 32 teeth), providing actual information in a wacky, slightly abstract combination of art and story.
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The words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired four students to protest in a way that ultimately changed the United States.