Eve Bunting
1) SOS Titanic
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
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
Formats
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
Formats
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
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three little mouse brothers go into the meadow to find a present for their mother but it is the littlest mouse that comes up with the most unusual gift of all.
10) 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
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
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.
14) Night tree
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
15) 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.
16) Yard sale
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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.
17) Best summer ever
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Frog enjoys a summer with his friends as he compares himself to a bat, takes a vacation, and meets a Starman who helps him to see the night sky in a new way.
18) Hurry! hurry!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
All the animals of the barnyard community hurry to greet their newest member, who is just pecking his way out of an egg.
19) Emma's turtle
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Emma's box turtle digs his way out of his pen, he imagines that he is having adventures in Africa, India, and other faraway lands that Emma has described to him.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two turtles go to the gym, plant a garden, see a movie, eat out, and go on a night hike, they discover that you do not have to like the same things in order to be friends.