Kate Kiesler
3) Temple cat
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Language
English
Description
A temple cat in ancient Egypt grows tired of being worshipped and cared for in a reverent fashion and travels to the seaside, where she finds genuine affection with a fisherman and his children.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
5) Crab moon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
One June night, a young boy watches as many, many horseshoe crabs come ashore to lay their eggs.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 960L
Language
English
Description
Describes the various landscapes of America, from the Rocky Mountains and Alaska's wildlands to the giant sequoias of California, relating the parent-child relationship to these natural settings.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
For one year, thirteen-year-old Timmy records in her journal the changes she sees in the natural world and her family's activities on their Wyoming ranch as they fight to save it from financial ruin.