Lincoln James
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Banana peels, apple cores, candy wrappers, and dirty diapers-it's all garbage. No one wants garbage piling up around their homes, so we put it at the curb for the garbage truck. The answer,s to where that garbage ends up might surprise readers. Informative photographs and a summarizing diagram show readers, where our garbage goes. The text also offers ideas on how to help protect the planet by reducing the amount of garbage we throw away.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What are hedgehogs? Are they hogs? Rodents? Tiny porcupines? They're none of those. Hedgehogs are one of the most, unique mammals in the world. Although shy around people, these little critters have been, known to warm up to people who keep them as pets. This book is, filled with amazing close-up photographs of wild and domestic hedgehogs. Readers are sure to enjoy this informative yet, fun guide to one of the world's cutest creatures.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Poison dart frogs are cute and tiny. They come in many eye-catching colors. These colors, however, aren't meant to make them attractive. The bright colors tell other animals that they shouldn't try to eat them. These vibrant amphibians are covered with a deadly poison that makes predators very sick. It's so strong that some Native American tribes even used it to make poison darts for hunting. Readers will surely enjoy getting up close to these small...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Porcupines are brown, prickly, and climb trees. Readers explore life in a group of porcupines inside the pages of this educational and enjoyable book. When a group of porcupines gets together, they're called a prickle. Porcupines often have a bad reputation as dangerous creatures, but they usually just want to be, left alone. Thanks to numerous eye-catching photographs, readers get closer to porcupines than ever before. They also learn fascinating...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sleepy Sal is learning how to use an alarm clock in order to plan his wake-up times. Books of the Neighborhood Readers Program build early literacy skills, introduce important content-area language, and help develop speaking and writing skills. They can be integrated into any existing language arts or core reading programs.
Author
Language
English
Description
Porcupines are brown, prickly, and climb trees. English language learners explore life in a group of porcupines inside the pages of this educational and enjoyable book. When a group of porcupines gets together, they're called a prickle. Porcupines often have a bad reputation as dangerous creatures, but they usually just want to be left alone. Thanks to numerous eye-catching photographs, readers get closer to porcupines than ever before. They also...
10) Solar eclipses
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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12) Who is Carrie?
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carrie has been a kitchen slave in Sam Fraunces' tavern in New York City for as long as she can remember. But after she narrowly escapes a kidnapper, Carrie becomes more curious about her mysterious past. After all, she doesn't even know her own last name. When her friend Dan Arabus comes to town, he talks about his dream of buying his mother's freedom with the Continental notes his father left him. Deciding to help Dan discover how much the notes...
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master and tries to find help in cashing the solidier's notes received by his father for fighting in the Revolution.
14) The jazz kid
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Playing the coronet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Eugene starts hearing a voice inside his head telling him to do awful things, it leads him to look into his small town's past before the Depression, and to discover long-hidden secrets about his neighbors and his town.
Author
Series
Arabus family saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City. Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven at the famous Fraunces Tavern. But even with the help of Sam Fraunces and her fellow worker, Horace, Willy knows that to be black, female, and free leaves her open...
18) The clock
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.
19) Wild boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.
20) The empty mirror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nick, whose parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic, must find out why his mirror-image is causing mischief around their New England town and making sure Nick gets the blame.