Jonathan London
41) Mustang canyon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
A young mustang is separated from its mother when a plane sweeps over the canyon and the horses run from the noise.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 860L
Language
English
Description
Describes how a polar bear and the little fox that follows it survive over the course of a year in the Arctic. Includes afterword with facts about Arctic animals and Inuit peoples.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
Froggy hoped for a brother to play with so he is disappointed with his new baby sister, Pollywogilina, but only until she is old enough to start learning from her big brother.
50) Gray Fox
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Gray Fox is at one with nature and his place in it. When his life is brought to a sudden end, we see--through the eyes of a compassionate young boy--that nature offers recompense for loss.
51) Jackrabbit
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
When a baby jackrabbit's home is destroyed by developers, she is cared for by a human family until she is big enough to live on her own in the wild.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 860L
Language
English
Description
Off the Pacific coast of Mexico, a baby sperm whale is born, feeds, speaks to her mother in clicks, and spends her days diving, spy-hopping, lob-tailing, and rolling as she grows and learns the ways of the sea.
53) Giving thanks
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it becomes a habit and makes one feel good.
57) Hurricane!
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 690L
Language
English
58) Red wolf country
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 870L
Language
English
Description
Two red wolves hunt, eat, and prepare for the birth of their pups.