Ann Warren Turner
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The diary of Sarah Nita, a thirteen-year old Navajo girl, which describes the Navajos' forced 400-mile walk from their ancestral homeland to Fort Sumner in 1864.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to the abolitionist and women's rights activist, narrating her rise from former slave to preacher and orator a century before the Civil Rights Movement.
10) Pumpkin Cat
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One stormy night just before Halloween a ginger cat finds shelter and kind people at a library, but at night, all alone, she recognizes that the library cannot be a real home because something is missing.
11) Elfsong
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Maddy Trevor goes for her annual summer visit to her grandfather and her cat Sabrina goes missing, she searches the woods and discovers a magical world.
13) Katie's trunk
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie, whose family is not sympathetic to the rebel soldiers during the American Revolution, hides under the clothes in her mother's wedding trunk when they invade her home. When raiders attack Katie's house during the American Revolution, she tries to save her family's possessions.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 710L
Language
English
Description
A series of poems describes the lives of a family of dolls and their servants living in a dollhouse in a young girl's room, from the perspective of Emma, the oldest of the doll children.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1989]
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Description
Papa's statement that he would like to have Mrs. Hedgehog for breakfast leads George and Charles to try to cook her in their kitchen, but their guest does not seem to realize that they intend her for the main course.
19) Rosemary's witch
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After moving into an old house in a small New England town, 9-year-old Rosemary discovers that the nearby woods conceal a 150-year-old witch, who once lived in the house and is using her magic to take it back.