J. Brian Pinkney
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Language
English
Description
Although he doesn't feel like talking, a young boy responds to questions by drumming on various objects, including a bucket, hat boxes, and garbage cans, echoing the city sounds around him.
2) Puppy truck
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
190L
Language
English
Description
Carter gets a truck instead of a much wanted puppy, but he soon discovers his new toy is just as fun and rascally as a pet.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Parents and grandparents will delight in sharing this exuberant book with the children in their lives. Here is a songbook, a storybook, a poetry collection, and much more, all rolled into one. Find a partner for hand claps such as "Eenie, Meenie, Sassafreeny," or form a circle for games like "Little Sally Walker." Gather as a family to sing well-loved songs like "Amazing Grace" and "Oh, Freedom," or to read aloud the poetry of such African American...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 830L
Language
English
Description
A poor boy hopes to win a fortune for himself and his family by spending the night in a haunted house and bravely standing up to a frightening ghost.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
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Description
A celebration of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing Civil Rights Movement.
16) Thumbelina
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tiny girl no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad and subsequently has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a warm and beautiful southern land.
17) Little diva
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nena wants to be a Diva, with a capital D, just like her mommy, who's a star on Broadway. So she learns all she can about singing and dancing when she is at the theater and trains day and night to make her dreams come true.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Language
English
Description
Explores the intersecting lives of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the historic moment when their joined voices inspired landmark changes.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.