Exploring sixth graders' selection of nonfiction trade books

Reading Teacher

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 6-17

  Moss, Barbara ^a   Hendershot, Judith ^b  

^a University of Akron ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

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