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Communities
Then and Now
Katie Peters
GRL Consultants,
Diane Craig and Monica Marx,
Certified Literacy Specialists
Lerner Publications Minneapolis
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Note from a GRL Consultant
This Pull Ahead leveled book has been carefully designed for beginning readers.
A team of guided reading literacy experts has reviewed and leveled the book to
ensure readers pull ahead and experience success.
Copyright 2021 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may
be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout
the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the
inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review.
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An imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
241 First Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA
For reading levels and more information, look up this title at www.lernerbooks.com.
Main body text set in Memphis Pro 24/39
Typeface provided by Linotype.
Photo Acknowledgments
The images in this book are used with the permission of: anilakkus/iStockphoto, p. 3;
jmsilva/iStockphoto, pp. 8, 9, 16 (airport); Jonny Essex/iStockphoto, pp. 10, 11;
kelvinjay/iStockphoto, pp. 6, 7, 16 (homes) ; Kirkikis/iStockphoto, pp. 14, 15, 16 (park);
MasaoTaira/iStockphoto, pp. 12, 13, 16 (mall); WendellandCarolyn/iStockphoto, pp. 4, 5.
Front cover: zimmytws/Shutterstock
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Peters, Katie, author.
Title: Communities then and now / Katie Peters.
Description: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, 2020. | Series: My community | Includes index.
| Audience: Ages 47 | Audience: Grades K1 | Summary: This nonfiction title features
carefully leveled text and engages emergent readers with its vivid photographs of a changing
neighborhood. Pairs with the fiction title Grandpas Photos Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019046317 (print) | LCCN 2019046318 (ebook) | ISBN 9781541590151
(library binding) | ISBN 9781728403014 (paperback) | ISBN 9781728400570 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: CommunitiesJuvenile literature.
Classification: LCC HM756 .P48 2020 (print) | LCC HM756 (ebook) | DDC 307dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046317
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046318
Manufactured in the United States of America
1 CG 7/15/20
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Contents
Communities Then
and Now
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Communities
Then and Now
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Trees were here.
Now there is a road.
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A factory was here.
Now there are homes.
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A field was here.
Now it is an airport.
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A train track was here.
Now it is a bike path.
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