Ed Young
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rapunzel is a girl with the very long, golden hair; A pair of elves secretly create an amazing pair of shoes for a poor but kindly shoemaker; When a young girl befriends a mysterious elderly woman, magical things begin to happen; Follow the adventures of billy goats named Gruff as they bravely hunt for fresh green grass to eat; Lon Po Po brings lessons about strangers, trust and courage; A king falls in love with a princess after she hides her identity...
42) Bitter bananas
Author
Publisher
Caroline House/Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Baboons are stealing young Yusuf's palm sap, which he sells at the market. Yusuf devises a plan to stop the baboons.
44) Goodbye geese
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A father describes the coming of winter to his little girl.
46) Bird & Diz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
47) Dreamcatcher
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1070L
Language
English
Description
In the land of the Ojibway a baby sleeps, protected from bad dreams, as the life of the tribe goes on around him.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
In this Native-American variant of a familiar story, some turkeys make a gown of feathers for the poor girl who tends them so that she can participate in a sacred dance, but they desert her when she fails to return as promised.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Once there was a little slip of a boy who roamed the streets of London, hungry for life (and maybe a bit of bread). His dad long gone and his actress mother ailing, five-year-old Charlie found himself onstage one day taking his mum's place, singing and drawing laughs amid a shower of coins. There were times in the poorhouse and times spent sitting in the window at home with Mum, making up funny stories about passersby. And when Charlie described a...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A free-verse novel about eleven-year-old Xiao Mei's visit with her extended family in China, where the Chinese-American girl finds many differences but also the similarities that bind a family together.
54) Birches
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated version of the well-known poem about birch trees and the pleasures of climbing them.
58) Mice are nice
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems about mice by David McCord, A. A. Milne, John Ciardi, Ian Serraillier, and others.
59) Moon bear
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Language
English
Description
Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, get their name from the white moon-shaped blaze on their chests. Sadly, there are more moon bears in captivity than in the wild, as the animals are being farmed for their commercially valuable bile. This text pays tribute to the endangered species.