Ed Young
21) Nighttime Ninja
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 440L
Language
English
Description
Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure -- Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 950L
Language
English
Description
This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the earliest European version.
25) Sadako
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Language
English
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
26) Desert song
Author
Publisher
Sierra Club Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Description
As the heat of the desert day fades into night, various nocturnal animals, including bats, coyotes, and snakes, venture out to find food.
28) Seven fathers
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
A lone traveler, tired, hungry, and cold, finds a house and asks for a room for the night, but the old man to whom he speaks refers him to his father, and that man to his father, until he is finally rewarded for his efforts by the eldest.
29) Wabi Sabi
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Language
English
Description
Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
30) Tsunami!
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 620L
Language
English
Description
A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
Author
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Presents advice from a Christian perspective on maintaining a healthy sex relationship within marriage, discussing some of the obstacles to sexuality and what can be done to achieve a balance between everyday demands and marital sex.
35) Moon tiger
Author
Language
English
Description
After getting in trouble because of her little brother Michael, Jessica Ellen imagines a visit from a wonderful giant tiger who can take her flying through the night or eat Michael.
36) The yellow boat
Author
Publisher
Modern Curriculum Press
Pub. Date
[1966]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
180L
Language
English
Description
A simple story reveals the things a little sailboat encounters while sailing along.
37) Whale song
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Counting as they sing, whales use their mighty voices to pass on to one another the numbers from one to ten.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
The littlest cricket of Swampswallow Pond is convinced only by the Wise Old One that being special has nothing to do with physical metamorphosis, flashy colors, or shimmering wings.