Hilltop Elementary School is in the of Glen Burnie, Maryland

Pathfinder
for
4th Grade's Unit
on
The State of Maryland



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Internet Links

      Look for "Kids' Pages" under "My Maryland."

Maryland's Official Website
     Search here to locate Maryland's State Symbols.

Maryland State Archives
      Click here to learn more about
Maryland's history, its counties,
its land, and some fun facts.


Maryland Is Fun
     You'll need to remember your:
User ID and Secret Password to use...


Culture Grams: Maryland

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Reference Books

     You'll find these books
in Hilltop's Reference Section.

Maryland's Symbols
by Elmer Martin Jackson, Jr.

Maryland A to Z:
A Topographical Dictionary
by Marion J. Kaminow

The Flag Book of the United States:
The Story of the Stars and Stripes
and the Fifty States
by Whitney Smith

Flags Book of American History
by David C. Crouthers


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Fiction Books

 Maryland Settings,
Maryland Ponies,
& Maryland Crabs!

Misty of Chincoteague
by Marguerite Henry

Misty's Twilight
by Marguerite Henry

Chadwick the Crab
by Priscilla Cummings

Autumn Journey
A New Book
by Priscilla Cummings

The Boy Who Saved the Town
by Brenda Seabrooke


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Nonfiction Books

Check out some of Hilltop's new books
for the 2006-2007 year.

The Library of the Thirteen Colonies
and The Lost Colony
The Colony of Maryland

by Brooke Coleman
Maryland
by Susan Labella
Maryland:
HELLO U.S.A

by Joyce Johnston
How to Draw Maryland's
Sights and Symbols

by Jenny Deinard
Counties of Southern Maryland,
Counties of Northern Maryland,
&

Counties of Central Maryland,
All by
Elaine Bunting & Patricia D'Amario
Lifetime in the
Thirteen Colonies
Maryland

by Michael Burgan
Seeds of a Nation
Maryland

by Debbie Levy
M is for
Maryland

by Carla Golembe
This Land is Your Land
Maryland

by Ann Heinrichs
It's My State!
Maryland

by Steve Otfinoski
Maryland
by Barbara A. Somervill
The
Maryland Colony

by Tamara Britton
Maryland
Facts and Symbols

by Muriel L. Dubois
The
Maryland Colony

by Mandy R. Marx
Maryland
by Jonatha A. Brown
Maryland
The Old Line State

by Rennay Craats

     How could MARYLAND
be named after Queen Henrietta?
Find out in...


Maryland:
Biographical Sketches

by George & Virginia Schaun
     Learn about Maryland's
very first residents.

Indians of Early Maryland
A Book on Maryland Life

by Thelma Ruskin
     Behind every important man, there's a woman...
...and sometimes she moves to the forefront!


Woman of Achievement in Maryland History
by Carolyn Stegman
      Photographs, maps, charts and more!

Uniquely Maryland
by Jennifer Leese
     Enjoy the photographs of Jim King

The Chesapeake: Poetry in Paradise
by Lennie Williams
Take a look at a new addition
to Hilltop's shelves.

     Awesome Chesapeake:
A Kid's Guide to the Bay

by David Owen Bell

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To locate more books about Maryland:
Go to OPAC
Key words to try:
Annapolis, Chesapeake, Colonial Life, & Maryland!

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Historical Fiction

      Trace the path from a
Maryland plantation to freedom


Go Free or Die:
A Story About Harriet Tubman
     More on Harriet Tubman

      Harriet and the Promised Land
by Jacob Lawrence


A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

Minty
by Alan Schroeder



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Videos

     Teachers may borrow these titles
from Hilltop's Media Center


      Enjoy a bird's eye view of our state capital

Destination Annapolis
     Learn how Annapolis first looked
& how it has changed over time.


Streets of Historic Annapolis
      What's life like on
the other side of the Bay Bridge?


>Maryland's Historic Eastern Shore:
Parts 1 & 2

     Step back in time with a young Kent County
planter who is apprenticed to a cabinetmaker!


18th Century Maryland:
Aaron's Story


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Maryland My Maryland


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