Ed Young
2) My Mei Mei
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's childhood in World War II-era Shanghai, where the house built by his father provided comfort and safety to his family and a growing number of friends and strangers.
5) Mighty Moby
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The classic tale of the hunt for Moby Dick, the whale, with a new twist.
A bedtime story of a whale hunt inspired by the classic tale of the hunt for Moby Dick, here with a new twist. Deep in the dark ocean, Mighty Moby lurks. Up above the ocean waves, a one-legged captain pursues the whale he clashed with long ago.
6) White Fang
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Up in the frozen north, life is harsh and dangerous. But this is where White Fang, the wolf-dog, feels at home--in the wild. When White Fang lives among man-animals, he must learn to fend for himself. And when he finds himself with a man who is kind to him, he must learn to love.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 950L
Language
English
Description
This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the earliest European version.
13) Sadako
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Language
English
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
14) Desert song
Author
Publisher
Sierra Club Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Description
As the heat of the desert day fades into night, various nocturnal animals, including bats, coyotes, and snakes, venture out to find food.
16) Seven fathers
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
A lone traveler, tired, hungry, and cold, finds a house and asks for a room for the night, but the old man to whom he speaks refers him to his father, and that man to his father, until he is finally rewarded for his efforts by the eldest.
17) Wabi Sabi
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Language
English
Description
Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
18) Tsunami!
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 620L
Language
English
Description
A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.