Katherine Paterson
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Description
"This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia....
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don't be fooled by her "Who me?" expression, guaranteed to...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An historical novel about a young Cuban teenager who volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign that taught those throughout the impoverished countryside to read. Inspired by the socially tumultuous and violent real-life events of 1961.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1899 in a small town in Vermont, and the turn of the century is coming fast. According to certain members of the church where Robbie's father is the preacher, the end of the century might even mean the end of the world. But Robbie has more pressing worries. He's sure his father loves his simple-minded brother, Elliot, better than him, and he can no longer endure the tiresome restrictions of Christianity. He decides to leave the fold and become...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In James Johnson's family, everybody strums and sings. With their music, his mamma, daddy, and uncle get crowds stomping at county fairs. Eleven-year-old James loves to sing harmony with his grandma on their favorite old mountain ballads. One day, the Johnson family hires a manager to book their appearances. But when the manager hears James sing, he quickly gives the boy a stage name and puts him on national TV. As his popularity grows, James will...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares the personal stories that inspired her children's books"--Amazon.com.
10) The king's equal
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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Description
In order to wear the crown of the kingdom, an arrogant young prince must find an equal in his bride. Instead, he finds someone far better than he.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
145 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 930L
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
A pair of mandarin ducks, separated by a cruel lord who wishes to possess the drake for his colorful beauty, reward a compassionate couple who risk their lives to reunite the ducks.
13) Jip: his story
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
14) Park's quest
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Parkington Waddell Broughton knows he is the fifth person to bear this family name, but he doesn't know much more about his relatives. His father died in the Vietnam War when Park was an infant, and his mother refuses to talk about his father's life or his family. Finally, Park convinces his mother to let him visit his grandfather's farm in Virginia. The boy hopes he will find answers to his questions there. But his grandfather is...
15) Lyddie
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lyddie Worthen is only 13 when her family is split up and she is forced to hire herself out at Cutler's tavern. Far from home, she despairs of ever seeing her loved ones again. Desperate, Lyddie makes her way to Concord, Massachusetts where she becomes a factory girl, working as a weaver in a textile mill. Six days a week Lyddie struggles at the back-breaking looms. In spite of the deafening noise of the machines, the sweltering heat, and the choking...
16) Flip-flop girl
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
120 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Vinnie Matthews is a little girl with a big problem. She needs a lifesaver-not the candy kind, but a real one that will take her back to her home in Washington and make her daddy live again. Life without Daddy means moving to Grandma's rickety old house in Virginia and going to a new school where the other girls only make fun of Vinnie. Most of the time, Vinnie spends recess sitting alone on the school steps. But one day on the playground,...