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  First Sentence: James' Portrait of a Lady (upper elem/middle)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Doyle's Beyond the City (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: du Marier's Rebecca (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Huxley's A Brave New World (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Dickens' David Copperfield (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Stevenson's Kidnapped (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Kafka's Metamorphosis (upper elem/middle)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Saint-Exupery's Little Prince (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Twain's Connecticut Yankee... (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Orwell's 1984 (upper elem/middle)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Dante's Inferno (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby (upper elem/middle)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Clarke's 2001 Space Odyssey (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Bronte's Wuthering Heights (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Shelley's Frankenstein (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Orwell's Animal Farm (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Burnett's A Little Princess (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  Crossword: American Writers (1700-1900)

  1 DOWN: Wrote Last of the Mohicans. Match the famous American authors to their works.
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  First Sentence: London's Call of the Wild (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Kipling's Jungle Book (upper elem/middle)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  Word Wall: American Writers (1700-1900)

  A list of 20 great US authors and a corresponding list of their works. These can be used in a variety of ways including in matching games, for study aids, etc.
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  Literature Circles Job: Illustrator
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  First Sentence: Burnett's The Secret Garden (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Barrie's Peter Pan (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  First Sentence: Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.
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  Literature Circle Job: Travel Chaser
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  First Sentence: Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (upper elem/middle school)

  You can't judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its first sentence? With these simple worksheets, students will exercise their skills of prediction, research, and creative writing.

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