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Eve Bunting
41) Thunder horse
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the friendship and love between a little girl and the winged horse she receives as a gift.
43) Jumping the Nail
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When teenagers in a California coastal community challenge each other to "jump the Nail"--leap from dangerous cliffs into the ocean--group pressure and manipulative relationships quickly drive the game out of control.
46) Dandelions
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.
47) Going home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home.
48) Sunflower house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.
50) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh grade boy they both love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
After discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be prowling around inside his house while he's at school and his mother is at work.
54) A sudden silence
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Jesse Harmon searches for the hit-and-run driver who killed his brother Bry.
56) Someday a tree
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an old oak tree that has been poisoned by pollution.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When he offends the toughest gang in his San Francisco school, Danny tries to elude them by going to Alcatraz only to find himself and a Park Service employee trapped by the gang in an old prison cell block.
58) Dream dancer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl hits upon a plan to save both her grandfather and an old horse from retirement.
59) Blackwater
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Children's author Amanda Drake visits the students at Third Street School, spending the day reading to them and explaining what it's like to be an author, and later sends them a very special surprise to remind them of her visit.
