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Measurement Books 1

This document provides citations and summaries for 5 books about measuring and quantification: 1) "Measuring Up" is about a 12-year-old girl who wants to win a cooking contest to pay for her grandmother's plane ticket to visit. 2) "Me and the Measure of Things" teaches children how to quantify daily routines using tools like rulers and cups. 3) "How Long or How Wide?" uses rhyming text to explain comparing metric and customary units of length. 4) "Measuring Penny" has a girl measure her dog in different standard and non-standard units for a homework assignment. 5) "Millions to Measure" follows a magician exploring the history

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Measurement Books 1

This document provides citations and summaries for 5 books about measuring and quantification: 1) "Measuring Up" is about a 12-year-old girl who wants to win a cooking contest to pay for her grandmother's plane ticket to visit. 2) "Me and the Measure of Things" teaches children how to quantify daily routines using tools like rulers and cups. 3) "How Long or How Wide?" uses rhyming text to explain comparing metric and customary units of length. 4) "Measuring Penny" has a girl measure her dog in different standard and non-standard units for a homework assignment. 5) "Millions to Measure" follows a magician exploring the history

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Title Citation and Summary

LaMotte, L. (2020). Measuring Up. HarperAlley.

Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the
only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate
her grandmother, A-má’s, seventieth birthday together. Since she can’t
go to A-má, Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-má to her by winning the
grand prize in a kids’ cooking contest to pay for A-má’s plane ticket!
There’s just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.

And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch, she’s determined to


channel her inner Julia Child. Can Cici find a winning recipe to reunite
with A-má, a way to fit in with her new friends, and somehow find herself
too?

Sweeney, J. (2019). Me and the Measure of Things. Dragonfly Books.

This easy-to-understand introduction teaches children how to quantify


the things in their daily routines. They'll learn all about the tools used to
measure—rulers, scales, pencils, and cups—as well as the language to
express what they find. Readers will soon have the answers to
questions like how far, how tall, and how small.

Cleary, P. B. (2009). How Long or How Wide? A Measuring Guide.


Millbrook Press.

A rhyming text filled with funny examples explains how to use and
compare metric and U.S. customary units of length. Readers are also
introduced to the tools they need to measure length―rulers, meter
sticks, and more.

Loreen, L. (2000). Measuring Penny (Rise and Shine). Square Fish.

Lisa has an important homework assignment--to measure something in


several different ways. She has to use standard units like inches and
nonstandard units like paper clips to find out height, width, length,
weight, volume, temperature, and time. Lisa decides to measure her
dog, Penny, and finds out ...

Penny's nose = 1 inch long


Penny's tail = 1 dog biscuit long
Penny's paw print = 3 centimeters wide

... and that's only the beginning! Lisa learns a lot about her dog and
about measuring, and even has fun doing it.
Schwartz, M. D. (2006). Millions to Measure. HarperCollins.

There are millions of things to measure . . . and almost as many ways to


measure them!

Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is back -- and ready to


explore the invention of length, weight, and volume measurements.
After that, with another wave of his wand, the wizard introduces the
world of metrics and makes it easy to understand the basic pattern of
meters, liters, and grams.

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