Eve Bunting
1) SOS Titanic
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
3) The Wall
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
A Boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Language
English
Description
With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free, and every summer after that butterflies come to visit her.
6) Smoky night
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality.
10) Flower garden
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Language
English
Description
Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
11) Night tree
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Language
English
Description
A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
12) Whales passing
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
A boy standing with his father on the shore watches five Orca whales and imagines them talking underwater in their star-dance light while the bubbles bubble up.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An illustrated alphabetical examination of the history of piracy uses poetry and expository text to cover topics including legendary ships, fabled hideouts, notorious villains like Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, and much more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A band of trick-or-treaters and a mother cat and her kittens spend a very scary Halloween. Four pairs of eyes stare from the blackness to watch fearsome creatures trick-or-treat.
16) My big boy bed
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little boy celebrates all the things he can do now that he has a big boy bed.
17) One green apple
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks perfectly complements the other students' red apples.
18) Yard sale
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Selling most of her personal possessions when her family is forced to move from their house into a small apartment, Callie struggles while watching other people buy her things before coming to realize what truly makes a home.
19) Hurry! hurry!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
All the animals of the barnyard community hurry to greet their newest member, who is just pecking his way out of an egg.
20) No nap
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Lexile measure
AD 430L
Language
English
Description
Dad tries various activities to get Susie tired enough to take her nap, but they only exhaust him.