2 volumes (xiiW, 516W, 46; xxiii, 606 pages, 48 pages) : 24-29 cm For remedial, ESL, and LEP instruction, grades 6-8 Common core Includes bibliographical references (pages PD28-PD32) and index Finding your own place -- Water for life -- Natural forces -- Creepy classics -- The drive to discover -- Struggle for freedom -- Star power -- Art and soul Complex text library: Unit 1. Down Garrapata Road / Anne Estevis -- Unit 2. Three rivers of Zambia / Rob Waring -- Unit 3. Tornado Chase / Rob Waring -- Unit 4. Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- Unit 5. Solar cooking / Rob Waring -- Unit 6. Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass -- Unit 7. Walking stars / Victor Villasenor -- Unit 8. Capoeira: the fighting dance / Rob Waring Leveled library: 20,000 leagues under the sea / Jules Verne, adapted by Judith Conaway -- Bearstone / Will Hobbs -- Breaking through / Francisco Jimenez -- Can you feel the thunder? / Lynn E. McElfresh -- Domitila: a Cinderella tale from the Mexican tradition / adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Kate McMullan -- The dragon prince: a Chinese beauty & the beast tale / Laurence Yep -- Franklin D. Roosevelt / Laura Hamilton Waxman -- Frankenstein / Mary Shelley, adapted by Larry Weinberg -- Hercules the twelve labors: a Greek myth / Paul Storrie, Steve Kurth -- Knights of the round table / adapted by Gwen Gross -- Letters from Rifka / Karen Hesse -- The man who went to the far side of the moon / Bea Uusma Schyffert -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka, adapted by Peter Kuper -- Novio boy: a play / Gary Soto -- Othello: a novel / Juliu Lester -- Pearl Harbor is burning! a story of World War II / Kathleen V. Kudlinski -- Sadako and the thousand paper cranes / Eleanor Coerr -- Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli -- The time machine / H.G. Wells, adapted by Les Martin -- Tornado / Betsy Byars -- The war of the worlds / H.G. Wells, adapted by Mary Ann Evans -- When Marian sang / Pam Munoz Ryan -- WJHC on the air! / Jane Smith Fisher