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Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1971
Edition
[1st ed.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1972. Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
6) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
7) Ginger Pye
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mystery man in a mustered yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
10) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1984. In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
11) Call it courage
Author
Publisher
The Macmillan company
Pub. Date
1940
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
95 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1967
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
An afternoon of readings and lively discussion with contemporary authors, including Blue Balliett (Chasing Vermeer), Chris Grabenstein (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library), Wendy Mass (The Candymakers), and Alexander London (The Wild Ones) who have been inspired by E. L. Konigsburg's Newbery Award-winning classic about a sister and brother who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find themselves caught up in a mysterious adventure.
14) King of the wind
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
[1948]
Physical Desc
173, [3] p., illus. (part col.) 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the abuses and triumphs of the Arabian stallion who became a founding sire of the Thoroughbred breed, and of the mute Arabian boy who tended him as long as he lived.
15) Dicey's song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Newbery medal winner, 1983. Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
16) The grey king
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1975
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
208 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
a176 p. illus. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
18) Kira-kira
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
130 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
20) Maniac Magee
Author
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English