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HIP Books:
High interest, low vocabulary books written and edited
for reluctant readers. |
| (Teacher's Guides are available
for every novel.) |
| Series Canada novels for younger readers |
| Using the same readability and editorial controls
that have made Series Canada so successful for older elementary and high school students,
Series Canada Junior offers novels that are shorter and even easier to read.
These action-adventure novels feature 11 and 12 year-old central characters with themes
appropriate for grades 4 to 6.
Reading level: grade 2.5, (a grade level below regular Series Canada) Fountas and Pinnell levels L and M. Interest level from age 8 to 12.
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HIP Readers' Theater Plays - by Paul Kropp and Lori Jamison |
Fifteen readers' theater plays adapted from HIP Jr and HIP Sr novels - to be used with the novels or on their own. Each play calls for 4 to 6 student actors and can be ready for presentation in just two or three periods.
Each play has been classroom tested and specially typeset for effective reading by students in your classes. Includes an introduction on how to prepare students for reader's theater and how to assist in rehearsal and performance.
Teaching notes for each play . Classroom tested
$19.95 includes rights to reproduce for school use. ISBN 1-897039-40-9 |
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HIP Reading Assessments
Covering Grades 2-8 |
The HIP Reading Assessment is a graded set of 200-word texts which, administered one-on-one, enables a teacher to determine a child's reading level and understand his/her strengths and weaknesses as a reader. The book also includes:
- An overview of how assessment should guide instruction
- The HIP "3-minute" reading assessments
- Suggestions for specific instruction to deal with student needs
$24.95 includes rights to reproduce for school use
ISBN 1-897039-41-7 |
| Now ten titles in our best-selling HIP Jr. series – for reluctant readers in grades 4, 5 and 6 who read at a grade-2 level. All titles $10.95. Each with a 24-page teacher’s guide |
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Jingle Bats - by Sharon Jennings |
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Sam and Simon (the "Bat gang") get holiday jobs at the local mall working as Santa's elves. But when toys start to disappear from the donation box, the Bat gang has to find the thief!
"The scene with Sam chasing the crook through the women's lingerie store was so, so funny." - student reviewer
Third book in the Bats series, following Bats Past Midnight and Bats in the Graveyard.
Reading level: grade 2.4, IL grades 3-7 ISBN 1-897039-22-0 |
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I Didn't Do It! - by Paul Kropp |
Tom has just moved to the big city and left all his old friends behind him. Now he's getting blamed for strange things that take place at his new school. Somebody is trying to make him look guilty. And Tom has to get smart, fast, in order to clear his name.
Reading level: grade 2.3, IL grades 4-7 ISBN 1-897039-23-9 |
Now twenty four titles in our HIP Sr. series – for reluctant readers in grades 6 to 10 who read at a grade 3-4 level. All titles $10.95. Each with a 20-page teacher’s guide. |
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Stealing Home - by Shawn Durkin |
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Josh is trying to fit in with the guys, trying to make his way in a new school. Baseball is the one thing he does really well. But his best friend on the school team is leading him into dangerous territory.
Reading level: grade 3.8, IL grades 4-10 ISBN 1-897039-24-7 |
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Foul Shot by Paul Kropp |
The Cougars haven't won a game in years, but Luther sees a way to break the losing streak. There's a big kid named Frank. He can run plays and sinks baskets. Soon Frank turns the Cougars into a dream team . but not quite for the whole season.
Reading level: grade 2.6, IL grades 4-10 ISBN 1-897039-25-5 |
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The Crash - by Paul
Kropp |
| A school bus slides down a cliff
in a snowstorm. The bus driver is out cold. One of the
guys is badly hurt. Can Craig, Rory and Lerch find help
in time? RL 2.5, IL grades 3-7 |
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Bats Past Midnight -
by Sharon Jennings |
| Sam and Simon (the "Bat
gang") wonder about a fancy car that hangs around
their school late at night. When they try to find out
more, they end up in trouble at school, at home and with
the police. RL 2.5, IL grades 3-7 |
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Three Feet Under - by
Paul Kropp |
| Scott and Rico find a map to
long-lost treasure. There's $250,000 buried in Bolton's
mine. But when the school bully steals their map and heads
for the old mine, the race is on. RL 2.5, IL grades 3-7 |
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Choose Your Bully -
by Lori Jamison |
| Ling and Richard have a great
idea to deal with their school bully - hire a bodyguard.
But when their bodyguard starts to bully them too, they
have to get even smarter. RL 2.5 IL grades 4-7 |
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Against All Odds |
Nothing ever came
easy for Jeff. He had a tough time at school and problems
with kids in his neighborhood. The teachers said he was
"special"; the other kids just called him dumb. But Jeff
never gave up. RL 3.4, IL 6-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
| The Kid is Lost! |
A babysitter's
worst nightmare: a child goes missing! Kurt has to find
help, come up with a plan and lead the search into a deadly
swamp. RL 3.6, IL 6-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
| Student Narc |
It wasn't Kevin's
idea to start working with the cops. But when his best
friends dies, somebody has to do something. RL 3.8, IL
5-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
| Dark Ryder |
Kate finally gets
the horse of her dreams, but Dark Ryder comes with a catch.
Kate has just three months to turn him into a winner,
or she'll lose her horse forever. RL 4.0, IL 4-9.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
| Our Plane is Down! |
A small plane goes
down in the bush, hours from anywhere. The radio is broken,
the pilot is out cold. Can Cal make it through the woods
to save his sister and himself? RL 4.0, IL 5-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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The novels that have excited tens of thousands of kids
about reading - now revised and rewritten for the next
wave of students.
"The series is a 'must-have' for any elementary
or secondary school library and a valuable classroom
acquisition for special education classrooms and integrated
exceptional students."
-Resource Links, Dec. 2002
Many books claim to be written for reluctant readers,
but only the titles in the new Series Canada have a
25-year history of classroom success. All aspects of
the books are tested with real students: stories, typeface,
design, illustrations. Every page is balanced for reading
difficulty using four different readability formulae
as well as classroom testing -- so a student who can
read page one can read every page in the book. Most
importantly, the stories in these novels are what reluctant
readers want to read: real-life adventures, with realistic
teen characters, in stories that will keep them hooked
chapter after chapter.
The author, Paul Kropp, is known throughout North America
for his books The Reading Solution and How to Make Your
Child a Reader for Life. He's received many awards for
his young-adult novels like Moonkid and Liberty and
The Countess and Me. But the books closest to his heart
have always been the novels in series Canada. These
books have helped more than a million children read
or read better. For some, they are the first books they've
every finished ... all the way through. |
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Tag Team |
Jes had plenty of
problems to start with. He was short, shy and lovely --
at least until he went out for the school's wrestling
team. Then his life seem to turn around, until the night
he had to deal with Banjo and Joey down in the tunnel.
RL 3.5, IL 4+.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Scarface |
Coming to Canada
had been a great thing for Tranh. This was a country of
peace and wealth and happiness. So why did Martin Beamis
keep picking on him? Did this rich kid have nothing better
to do than make life rotten for someone who had already
suffered so much? RL 3.5, IL 5+.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Street Scene |
The guys weren't
looking for trouble. Maybe Dwayne did pick the wrong girl
to dance with. But did that give Sal and his gang an excuse
to come after them? The fight should never have started
-- and it should never have finished the way it did. RL
4.0, IL 6+.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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My Broken Family |
Divorce is always
rotten. But sometimes it feels even worse than rotten.
When Maddy's parents split up, her whole life starts to
fall apart. She holds on to her dancing as one thing that
is really hers. But when it's all over, she finds that
love is stronger than she thought. RL 3.8, IL 5+.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Hitting the Road |
The road isn't
nice to kids who run away. Matt knew there would be trouble,
even before he took off with his friend Cody. Along the
way, there would be fights, hunger and a jump from a speeding
train. Was it all worth it? RL 3.2, IL 5+.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Terror 9/11 - by Doug
Paton |
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Curtis was just
picking up his sister at the World Trade Center when the
first plane hit. As the towers burst into flames, the
teenager must beat the odds to save his sister, his father
and himself. RL 3.5, IL 5-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Show-Off |
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Nikki was one tough
girl, or so all the kids said. She’d take on anybody,
risk anything for the gang. But that was before she met
Austin and began to turn her life around. RL 3.8, IL 5-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Caught in the Blizzard |
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Sam and Connor
were enemies from the start. Sam was an Innu, close to
the Arctic land that he loved. Connor was a white kid,
only out for a few thrills. When a blizzard strikes, it
forces them to work together to survive in the frozen
Arctic. RL 4.0, IL 5-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Playing Chicken |
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Josh just wanted
to fit in with the guys. Maybe they did a few crazy things,
but that’s what fun is all about. The party continues
… until Guzzo dares Josh to a race that ends in death.
RL 3.6, IL 6-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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Ghost House |
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Tyler and Zach
didn’t believe in ghosts. So when a friend offers
them big money to spend a night in the old Blackwood house,
they jump at the chance. There’s no such thing as
ghosts, right? RL 3.2, IL 4-10.
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out more in HIP's website.. |
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