Emily Arnold McCully
4) 3, 2, 1, go!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone is mad at Pete! Even Mom! But Pete can't eat that green slop that Mom made for lunch. He won't even taste it! His siblings want Pete to eat so they can go out to play. But Pete stands firm, and his siblings desert him. Mom makes Pete stay, but she is feeling sad about it. She is about to make him a sandwich when Pete decides to try the slop. He likes it! In addition to enjoying the yummy slop, Pete has learned the benefits of keeping an
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as "the Lady Edison."
10) First snow
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Some little mice spend a snowy day skating and sledding with their grandparents.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is the true story of a determined and resourceful young man whose intimate knowledge of two cultures later led him to play an important role in the opening of Japan to Western trade and ideas.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.
17) Pete likes Bunny
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pete likes Bunny, the new girl in his class; and despite teasing from classmates, Bunny likes Pete too"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams"--