Brian Floca
1) Locomotive
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
2) Five trucks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
3) Lightship
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 830L
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon -- a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away by steady astronauts in their great machines.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Describes the expeditions led by Roy Chapman Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.
10) Poppy
Author
Series
Tales from Dimwood Forest volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
11) Ragweed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
12) Poppy and Rye
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
15) Ereth's birthday
Author
Series
Tales of a Dimwood Forest volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
16) Marty McGuire
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When tomboy Marty is cast as the princess in the third-grade play, she learns about improvisation, which helps her become more adaptable.
17) Poppy's return
Author
Series
Poppy volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
Describes how an elephant seal made a home in New Zealand's narrow Avon River and loved to stretch out across a two-lane road, requiring volunteers to tow her farther out to sea after she kept returning repeatedly.
20) Hawk rising
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Early morning and a ruffle of feathers, a shadow gliding through the backyard. High above your house Father Hawk circles, sharp eyes searching for prey. Swoosh! He dives after chipmunks, crows, sparrows, squirrels. Screech! The sun hangs low in the sky as three hungry chicks wait. Will they eat today?