Kathryn Lasky
41) Lunch bunnies
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.
Author
Series
Bears of the ice volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but nobody is truly safe when a way of life is collapsing around...
43) Lucy
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Lucy Snow has always felt on the edges of New York society. She dreads the elegant parties, making tedious conversation with the young, sophisticated set. She doesn't belong in that world, but it's the only one she's ever known. When her minister father accepts a summer position in an elite seaside community, Lucy begins to discover some strange truths about her family and herself. She's not an only child... and she's not quite human. More complications...
47) Sugaring time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs show how a family taps the sap from maple trees and processes it into maple syrup.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 870L
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the activities of Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, founders of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, a late nineteenth-century Audubon Society that would endure and have impact on the bird-protection movement.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Mary, her mother, and her brother Caleb live in Salem, Massachusetts, during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. When their mother is accused of practicing witchcraft, Mary and Caleb must decide whether their mother is innocent, and if she is, how they can help her escape before it is too late.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
From the meadows of Scotland to the farms of Wisconsin, from the swamps of Florida to the Alaskan tundra, John Muir loved the land. Born in 1838, he was a writer, a scholar, an inventor, a shepherd, a farmer, and an explorer, but above all, he was a naturalist. John Muir was particularly devoted to the high cliffs, waterfalls, and ancient giant sequoia trees that, through his careful influence, were set aside as the first national park in America...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
55) Ashes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In 1932 Berlin, thirteen-year-old Gaby Schramm witnesses the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, as soldiers become ubiquitous, her beloved literature teacher starts wearing a jewelled swastika pin, and the family's dear friend, Albert Einstein, leaves the country while Gaby's parents secretly bury his books and papers in their small yard.
58) Star wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
The Ring of Sacred Volcanoes has been destroyed and Faolan is leading his small band of wolves across the ice bridge to the hoped for safety of the Distant Blue--but his old enemy Heep is pursuing him and the icy path ahead is filled with danger.
59) Spirit wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When earthquakes and erupting volcanoes strike the Beyond, Faolan and the other surviving wolves must head for the Distant Blue, where they hope to find a new home.
60) Porkenstein
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
Description
Lonely after his two brothers are eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, Dr. Smart Pig invents a wolf-proof friend to keep him company on Halloween.