Defeating Giants is a Kids Wings collection of literature guides for award-winning novels and intermediate-level picture books.  Built around David and Goliath-type themes, the guides feature prereading discussion, readers theater scripts, puzzles, comprehension activities, puzzles, research, writing prompts, vocabulary study, games and cooperation.  You and your students are in for great experiences with literature that encourages life-long learning, skill-building reflected in authentic literature, and makes enthusiastic readers out of ho-hum turned-off nonreaders!

Books Featured in Defeating Giants include:

• Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of the Day America Entered World War II  by  Shelley Tanaka 
• Cockroach Cooties by Laurence Yep 
• Dear Whiskers by Ann Whitehead Nagda 
• The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins.  by Barbara Kerley  
• Edwina Victorious by Susan Bonners 
• Ereth's Birthday by Avi 
• Esperanza Rising by  Pam Munoz Ryan 
• Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman by  Louise and Mary Kay Kroeger 
• The Golden Mare, the Firebird, and the Magic Ring.  Sanderson, Ruth.  
• The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park 
• Love That Dog   by Sharon Creech  
• The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine by Diane Stanley 
• The Other Side by  Jacqueline Woodson 
• Radio Rescue.  by Lynne Barasch 
• The Raft by Jim LaMarche 
• The School Story  by Andrew Clements 
• The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy 
• Spiders and Their Web Sites by Margery Facklam 
• The Year of Miss Agnes  by Kirkpatrick Hill  
• And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel