At last, a cure for the common core! New! Literature guide for teachers and librarians based on Common Core ELA Standards from classroom 6-9.  Created by educators for educators.  Ready for immediate classroom adoption.  Suggested assignments, writing prompts, glossaries, extension activities and more! Education benefits: Reading comprehension and vocabulary development Engage At last, a cure for the common core! New! Literature guide for teachers and librarians based on Common Core ELA Standards from classroom 6-9.  Created by educators for educators.  Ready for immediate classroom adoption.  Suggested assignments, writing prompts, glossaries, extension activities and more! Education benefits: Reading comprehension and vocabulary development Engage readers with high-interest adventure tales Fluency and pronunciation skills dramatically improved Lexile: 690 AR: 5.3 Guided Reading: Z Story: Detective Terry Lane is a standout cop—as tough as Eliot Ness of The Untouchables—who thought he’d seen it all . . . until now.  But he’s never seen a murder spree like this.  The evidence is clear: the killers have not emerged from the underside of the city, but from six feet under it—the walking dead.  And if Lane doesn’t think outside the box . . . he could end up inside one, buried alive.