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10 Days: Abraham Lincoln
By David Colbert
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
You're about to be an eyewitness to the ten crucial days in Abraham Lincoln's life, including: A tragic loss that sets a boy on a course for greatness A career sacrificed to protest an unjust war A state resorting to treason to preserve slavery A president who learns the most difficult decisions are made alone And a promise made to every citizen that American's salves will be free. These days and five others shook Lincoln's world - and yours.
A Book about Your Skeleton
By Ruth Belov Gross
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 6 - 8 years
Provides an understanding of the vital tasks performed by the skeleton, which range from protecting soft organs to manufacturing bloodcells
A Jar of Dreams
By Yoshiko Uchida
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930's, a time of great prejudice.
A Theft in Time: Timedetectors II
By Darrel and Sally Odgers
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
Tom and Coxie thought they had put time travel behind them. But when Tom becomes ill and his search for a missing skull leads him to team up with Coxie again, the past and the future are placed very much in doubt. Then, a mysterious stranger from the future begins to follow them, and a pesky doctor accuses Tom of stealing the very skull he has been hoping to find. But when two more strangers appear from the future and try to grab Tom and Coxie, they boys don't know where to turn. What's more, Tom is getting sicker and sicker, and time seems to be running out...
A.R. Blasts Off!
By Charles Hirsch
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
A.R. Smith (formerly Aida Rose Smith) is a resident of a small farming town called Kindbrae. Life in town centers around the General Store and Cafe, which A.R. is also kept busy tending her garden and taking trips to the farmer's market. A.R. loves Kindbrae and Kindbrae loves A.R., but she has always had her sights set skyward. She is positive that one day her dream of space flight will come true.
Al Capone Does My Shirts
By Gennifer Choldenko
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read!
Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. And then there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.
Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life
By Elizabeth MacLeod
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
"One would think that I had never done anything worthwhile but the telephone," complained Alexander Graham Bell. No wonder he was annoyed; Bell invented the phone when he was just 29 and went on to lead a long and inventive life. This biography in the Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History series chronicles the life and many remarkable achievements of Alexander Graham Bell, including his work with the hearing impaired and experiments with flight, iceberg locators and, of course, the telephone.
All about You
By Catherine Anholt, Laurence Anholt
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
When you wake up in the morning, how do you feel? Happy, tired, sad? Noisy, quiet, glad? This book invites very young children to think and talk about themselves and their world.
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
By Tanya Lee Stone
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the government. They were blocked by prejudice, jealousy, and the scrawled note of one of the most powerful men in Washington. But even though the Mercury 13 women did not make it into space, they did not lose, for their example empowered young women to take their place in the sky, piloting jets and commanding space capsules. Almost Astronauts is the story of thirteen true pioneers of the space age. Back matter includes an author’s note, an appendix, further reading, a bibliography, sources, source notes, and an index.
An Indian Winter
By Russell Freedman
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Relates the experiences of a German prince, his servant, and a young Swiss artist as they traveled through the Missouri River Valley in 1833 learning about the territory and its inhabitants and recording their impressions in words and pictures.
Arthur and the Lost Diary: An Arthur Chapter Book
By Marc Brown
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Third-grade Arthur fans ready to read on their own can take their own adventure with Arthur as he finds a lost diary. Illustrations.
Aunt Flossie's Hats
By Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 8 years
A lyrical celebration of Black families and family history based on the author’s own memories of her great-aunt, with lush illustrations by James E. Ransome.
Sunday afternoons are Sarah and Susan’s favorite time of the week. That’s when they visit Great-great-aunt Flossie and her memorable collection of hats—and hear her stories about days of long ago, when she was young. At times touching and poignant, laced with light humor, Aunt Flossie’s stories give readers a peek into moments in Baltimore’s history and a family who loves spending time together.
Away West
By Patricia McKissack
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
A historical chapter book series from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author, Patricia C. McKissack. Unlike his older brothers, thirteen-year-old Everett was "born in freedom," never knowing life as a slave. His most prized possession is the medal his father earned in the Civil War. Now, more than 125 years later, that treasure is kept in the Websters' attic with other "scraps of time," ready to be discovered by another generation eager to know its family history. The second novel in Patricia C. McKissack's family saga recounts a young Southern boy's dream of heading west to a new life and the way in which his journey teaches him the deeper meaning of the medal his father won. "A rewarding tale that highlights a lesser-known aspect of American's pioneer story." --School Library Journal
Because of Walter
By Carol Krueger
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
Kaysha has always longed to have a family. Unfortunately, every time she thinks she's about to be adopted, something goes wrong, and she's bounced to another foster home.
Just as she's losing hope, Kaysha is placed with the Parkers, and they seem to be the family she's always dreamed of having. There's only one problem - Victoria Parker, a girl about Kaysha's age. Victoria does not want to share her parents, and will do anything to get Kaysha kicked out. Will Kaysha every become part of the family? Maybe, with a little help from an unexpected source...
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
By Barbara Nichol
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
Classical Kids presents Beethoven Lives Upstairs, a touching tale of music, friendship and genius. The arrival of an eccentric boarder turns Christoph's life upside down. Ludwig van Beethoven has moved in upstairs! The young boy slowly comes to understand the genius of the man, the torment of his deafness and the beauty of his music.
Bonanza Girl
By Patricia Beatty
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
A widow and her two children head for gold rush territory in Idaho, hoping to find jobs and a new life.
Brian's Winter
By Gary Paulsen
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
From three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen comes a beloved follow-up to his award-winning classic Hatchet that asks: What if Brian hadn't been rescued and had to face his deadliest enemy yet--winter?
In the Newbery Honor-winning Hatchet, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. As millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if that hadn't happened? What if Brian had been left to face his deadliest enemy--winter?
Brian Paulsen raises the stakes for survival in this riveting and inspiring story as one boy confronts the ultimate adventure.
Bridge to Terabithia
By Katherine Paterson
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class, but when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighboring farm his life changes forever. Even though she runs faster than him, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay - she's clever and funny and not a bit soppy. And it is Leslie who invents Terabithia, the secret country on an island across the creek where he can escape his troublesome family.The only way to reach Terabithia is by rope-swing where Jess and Leslie become King and Queen, defeating giants, sharing stories and dreams, and plotting against their enemies. They are invincible - until tragedy strikes. It is more dreadful than anything Jess had ever dreamed of, but as he struggles to cope with his grief and anger, he finds that his family value him more than he'd thought and that, still King, he could even save Terabithia for the future.
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Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt!
By Jean Fritz
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Today's preeminent biographer for young people brings to life our colorful 26th president. Conservationist, hunter, family man, and politician, Teddy Roosevelt commanded the respect and admiration of many who marveled at his energy, drive and achievements. An ALA Notable Book. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
Call of the Selkie: Challenges and Choices
By Jean Bennett
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Caminando bajo la nieve (The Snow Walker)
By Charles M. Wetterer, Margaret K. Wetterer
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
One morning in March 1888, twelve-year-old Milton Daub awoke to find the world buried in snow. The blizzard was like nothing Milton and his neighbors in the Bronx had ever seen. No one dared go out into the storm. No one, that is, except Milton. He and his father made a pair of snowshoes from barrel hoops and old roller skates. Then Milton stepped bravely into the storm to buy milk for his family. Soon he was buying supplies for everyone in the area. His neighbors declared him a hero. The Blizzard of 1888 set records in the Northeast that are still unbroken. It forced whole cities to shut down for days. But Milton didn't let the snow stop him from helping neighbors in need. His true story is both an exciting adventure and a heartwarming glimpse of old New York.
Casey's Case
By David Rish
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Catch the Sunlight
By Marguerite Chase McCue
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
At first, it seems like it's going to be just a typical day at Mr. Kramer's ranch. Clark Lewis, a fourth-grade prize-winning writer, soon learns otherwise. Clark's first surprise of the day is meeting Jamilla, a horse that has amazing abilities. But there is a crisis at the ranch that Jamilla can't solve alone. So it's up to Clark to come to the rescue.
Children of the Wild West
By Russell Freedman
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
This is a portrait of pioneer and American Indian children in the 19th-century West. It covers both the lives of settlers, crossing America in covered wagons and building log or sod cabins, and of the American Indians whose lives were changed by the new arrivals.
Circle of Gold
By Candy Dawson Boyd
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Mattie believes that by buying her mom a beautiful pin for Mother’s Day, it will show how much she loves her mother and will help her mother show more affection toward her. Since her father’s death, Mattie feels like there is a growing gap between herself and her mother and that her mother is unfairly harsh with her. In a lot of ways Mattie is correct, but she doesn’t understand that it all comes from a deep place of grief and that her mother needs help. The whole idea of the jewelry as a fix for their problems is both sweet, heartbreaking, and clearly not going to work the way Mattie hopes.
Cupid and Psyche
By M. Charlotte Craft
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
Psyche is the most beautiful woman in the world, yet the oracle at Delphi foresees she will fall in love with a creature feared even by the gods themselves. Magically, Psyche finds herself in a magnificent castle fitted with sweet music, attentive servants, and a charming but invisible host. Soon she falls in love with this man she has never seen, but in a moment of doubt she betrays his trust. To win back his love, Psyche must show that she is as brave as she is beautiful by performing three impossible tasks. Perhaps the greatest love story of all, Cupid and Psyche is unsurpassed in its richness and drama. Marie Craft's lively, suspenseful retelling of this classic Greek myth will appeal to young and old alike. And these legendary lovers have inspired forty lush luminous paintings by award-winning artist Kinuko Craft. Lavishly illustrated and thrillingly told, here is a book to be treasured forever.
Deenie
By Judy Blume
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
Deenie’s mother wants her to be a model, with her face on magazine covers—maybe even in the movies—but Deenie wants to spend Saturdays with her friends Janet and Midge, tracking Harvey Grabowsky, the captain of the football team, around Woolworth’s. She wants to be a cheerleader, too, and go to the seventh-grade mixer to hear Buddy Brader play his drums.
Instead, Deenie is diagnosed with scoliosis. And that means body stockings to squeeze into, a roomful of strangers to face, and a terrifying brace that she’ll need to wear for years that goes from her neck to her hips. Suddenly Deenie has to cope with a kind of specialness that’s frightening—and might be hers forever.
Destination Disaster
By Fleur Beale
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
The story centers on a character named Jim and his grandfather who embark on a routine fishing trip. When an unexpected and severe accident occurs, the two must rely on their wits and resilience to survive.
El principito
By Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 7 - 9 years
SPANISH TRANSLATION: The beloved classic story about a young prince's travels through space―a profound philosophical tale about loneliness and loss, and love and friendship.
A pilot crashes in the Sahara Desert and encounters a strange young boy who calls himself the Little Prince. The Little Prince has traveled there from his home on a lonely, distant asteroid with a single rose. The story that follows is a beautiful and at times heartbreaking meditation on human nature and the wisdom of the heart.
The Little Prince is one of the best-selling and most translated books of all time, a classic fable universally cherished by children and adults alike, and Richard Howard's translation of the beloved classic beautifully reflects Saint-Exupéry's unique and gifted style, bringing the English text as close as possible to the French in language, style, and spirit.
Ellis Island
By Judith Jango-Cohen
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of Freedom series.
Eureka!: It's Television!
By Jeanne Bendick
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
An illustrated history of invention provides an in-depth examination of television, tracing its origins and showing the series of inventions that made the television a reality.
Fernitickles
By Mary Peace Finley
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
The King has come to town, and young Duncan Fisher is worried. If he and his father can't catch the impossibly high numbers of fish the King keeps ordering, they'll be ruined! Even worse, it seems the local furrier wants to make Duncan's favorite family of otters into a fur cloak for the Queen. Is there a way Duncan can save the trusting otters and his family's fortune?
Fight for Freedom: The American Revolutionary War
By Benson Bobrick
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
An illustrated, chronological account of the American Revolutionary War.
Follow That Spy!: Individual Title Six-Packs
By Ann Sullivan
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
Chip and Toad thought playing spies was fun, at least until Trudy came along and ruined their game. But Trudy has something they don't have--a real spy camera watch. On a field trip to the top secret Axion Satellite Corporation, the children seem to stumble onto a plot to steal plans for a secret satellite system. Is the trio up to playing spies for real?
Fossil River Adventure
By Mike Graf
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
Terrence Chang and his family are off to explore Fossil River National Park, a great place to search for dinosaur fossils, but his dinosaur science fair project didn't win a prize as he had hoped. His dad thinks this family trip will be the inspiration Terrence needs to improve his project, and maybe win a prize next year. Who knows what Terrence will discover on this adventure?
Fox and His Friends
By Edward Marshall
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
Fox's plans to have fun with his friends are interrupted on three different occasions when he chooses to be faithful to his responsibilities, which include taking care of his little sister and being on duty for traffic patrol.
Frindle
By Andrew Clements
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.
Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.
Geysers: When Earth Roars
By Roy A. Gallant
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Discusses various aspects of geysers including their formation, location, anatomy, use by humans, and possible extinction
Give Me a Sign, Helen Keller!
By Peter Roop, Connie Roop
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
A fever left two-year-old Helen Keller blind and deaf. Still, she learned how to read, write and talk. She graduated from college, met eleven U.S. presidents and won many awards.
But what was Helen Keller like as a young girl? Did she know that one day she'd overcome her disabilities?
In this book, you will find out all about Helen Keller before she made history.
Gravity
By Dan Greenberg
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
Introduces young readers to the concept of gravity.
Great Escapes of World War II
By George Sullivan
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
A collection of true stories of seven daring escapes by prisoners of war during World War II.
Great Explorations
By David Neufeld
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Have you ever looked at the horizon and wondered what was out there? People have been curious about the unknown for centuries. People who explore the unknown are sometimes called navigators. Navigators know where they are, know where they are going, and know how to get back from there. For centuries, navigators were most interested in sailing the seas.
Harcourt School Publishers Collections: Library Book Grade K Benny's Pennies
By Pat Brisson
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
An easy-to-understand children's story about financial literacy and the value of giving and saving—even five pennies!
Benny McBride starts his day with five new pennies and is determined to spend them all. His mother wants him to buy something beautiful. His brother wants something good to eat. His sister wants something nice to wear. Benny knows his dog and cat would like something too. With the help of generous and thoughtful neighbors, Benny fulfills each request with a penny and arrives home with five but simple gifts.
Henry and Beezus
By Beverly Cleary
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Newbery Medal winner Beverly Cleary tells the story of a boy with a goal—and the girl who helps him achieve it.
Well-meaning Henry Huggins would do anything to get the bike of his dreams. But every idea he has keeps falling flat. Selling bubble gum on the playground gets him in trouble with his teacher. There’s the paper route, but Henry’s dog Ribsy nearly ruins that with his nose for mischief.
Even pesky little Ramona Quimby manages to get in the way of Henry’s chance at a bike. But it’s with the help of his best friend Beezus that there may be a way. After all—with a friend by your side, anything is possible.
Don't miss the beloved classic Henry Huggins books from Beverly Cleary. Boys and girls alike will be charmed instantly by an average boy whose life is turned upside down when he meets a lovable puppy with a nose for mischief.
Henry And Mudge And The Happy Cat
By Cynthia Rylant
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
Henry and his dog Mudge get acquainted with a cat in this eighth Ready-to-Read book of their adventures.
Henry and his 180-pound dog Mudge are best friends forever. And when they meet a scruffy but lovable cat, it looks like they've made a new friend!
Hoang Anh: A Vietnamese-American Boy
By Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
In a photographic study of the immigrant experience in action today, a Vietnamese-American boy explains how he successfully lives astride two cultures, American and Vietnamese. By the author of Totem Pole.
How I Came To Be A Writer
By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's one hundred and more books are true to life, funny, and, most of all, well written -- you'd think that she doesn't have to work at writing at all. But that's not true.
How I Came to Be a Writer is the story of one author's beginnings -- successes and failures, reviews and rejection slips -- things that mark the stages of a writer's life. Illustrated with photographs, and including samples of her earlier writing, this book will show you the inner workings of the writing process, from the spark of an idea to a book's actual publication.
This classic writer's memoir has been revised and updated to include material on the writing of the Newbery-winning Shiloh and its two sequels.
Imagine this, James Robert
By Rebecca Weber
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
By Cornelia Meigs
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 12 - 17 years
Profiles the life of the noted nineteenth-century writer, detailing her early, happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston, and her later success as author of the classic "Little Women"
Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story
By Beverly Naidoo
Category: Teen/Young Adult
Reading Level: 12 - 17 years
"Has no equal. Evocative and haunting." (School Library Journal starred review)The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of their divided country. Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know that they need to bring their mother back in order to save their sister's life. Bravely, secretly, they set off on the long journey to the big city to find Mma. It isn't until they finally reach Jo'burg that they see up close what life is like for black citizens across South Africa--and begin to really question the unfair and dangerous laws of apartheid. A classic look at prejudice and racism in apartheid South Africa, this short and compelling novel is perfect for independent reading projects and classroom sharing. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Journey to the New World: My Diary of 1848
By Susan Brocker
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
In 1848, Hannah leaves Ireland to start a new life in America. But first she must survive the long sea voyage in cramped, unhealthy conditions with little food and a fever raging through the ship.
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World
By Militts Walter
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Ten-year-old Justin hates that his sisters and his mama are always fussing at him. They make him feel stupid because he can't clean his room or cook. But why should he? He'd rather be outside playing. After all, cooking and cleaning is just “women's work.” That's why Justin is glad when his grandfather invites him back to his ranch for the summer. Justin is sure he can get away from all the women and do some actual “men's work,” such as cleaning fish, mending fences, and riding horses. But back at the ranch, Justin learns some unexpected lessons and soon realizes that anyone can do anything once they learn how.
Kid Power
By Susan Beth Pfeffer
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and the Sequoyah Children's Book Award:To save money for a bike, a young girl becomes a business tycoon
Eleven-year-old Janie is desperate for a new bike, but her parents won't buy her one unless she can pay for half of it herself. She's too young to babysit and it's too late to get a paper route, so Janie decides to open her own business. She calls it Kid Power and promises her customers that there is no problem too big or too small for her to handle—but this budding entrepreneur will soon find that running a company isn't as easy as it looks.
As Janie begins walking dogs, feeding cats, cleaning gutters, and pulling weeds, she gets closer and closer to her bike. But as Kid Power grows bigger than Janie can handle, she learns that there are some problems money can't solve, and some things even more important than getting a new bike.
Let It Begin Here!: Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution
By Dennis Brindell Fradin
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 7 - 9 years
Told in a step-by-step account of the 24 hours leading up to the battles that sparked the American revolution, this picture book is sure to both inform and entertain. On April 18th at 9:30 p.m. Paul Revere learned that the British Army was marching toward Lexington and Concord to arrest rebel leaders. At 5:20 the next morning, a shot rang out and the American Revolution had begun. In less than 24 hours a rebellious colony would be changed forever.
Life Story
By Virginia Lee Burton
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
Examines and explains how life on Earth came to be and how the Earth and life on it developed and evolved throughout time, told through a play with five acts and a prologue.
Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life
By Martin W. Sandler
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
A man of humble beginnings, minimal schooling, and early failures, Abraham Lincoln was, above all, a man of the people. This frontiersman-turned-chief executive was a simple man with large goals, who was savvy enough to recognize the power of the new invention of photography, and was willing to use it to shape his image and create an historic legacy. More than one hundred images of Lincoln's life and times provide a complete portrait of our most revered president, and the events that defined him. From the only confirmed existing picture of Lincoln before the historic Gettysburg Address to his second inauguration-where he is unknowingly surrounded by John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators-to the execution of his murderers, this eye-opening, inspiring visual journey provides a fresh take on one of the most documented and beloved figures in American history.
Louis Armstrong: Swinging, Singing Satchmo
By Sandford Brown
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
Examines the personal life and musical career of the famous jazz trumpeter and singer known as Satchmo.
Mark Twain: America's Humorist, Dreamer, Prophet
By Clinton Cox
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
An introduction to the life of Mark Twain examines his many achievements as a riverboat pilot, newspaper reporter, adventurer, satirist, and author of many classic works including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Mary On Horseback: Three Mountain Stories
By Rosemary Wells
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Master storyteller Rosemary Wells tells the incredible true story of a World War I nurse who brought medical care to the Appalachians Mary Breckinridge, trained as a nurse during World War I, rode on horseback into the isolated mountains of Appalachia and never looked back. Instead, she spent her life fording icy streams and climbing untracked mountains to bring medical help to those in need. More nurses on horseback joined Mary . . . and the Frontier Nursing Service was born. Mary’s story is amazing. And it is true. “Wells’s realistic yet poetic prose perfectly captures the dichotomy of the majestic beauty of Appalachia and the harsh realities of mountain life. . . . This one’s a gem.”—School Library Journal
Midnight Magic
By Avi
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
Mission Microraptor
By Philip Kavvadias
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
A school trip to the Alps turns dangerous when Finn and Milo must protect a hatchling microraptor they discovered from a squad of army-trained mercenaries determined to capture it.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic
By Betty MacDonald
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
A classic story from one of the most beloved children's book authors!
Mary Poppins meets Nanny McPhee in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic, a hilarious and charming book about a magical problem solver that has been delighting readers for generations.
Parents love Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle because she can cure children of any bad habit. Children love her because she’s tons of fun! When Mrs. Burbank is in despair because her children become Thought-You-Saiders, or Mrs. Rogers’ sanity and crockery are threatened as Sharon turns into a Heedless Breaker, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle produces a magical potion that takes care of the problem.
Listen to the other books in the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Farm, Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle!
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #4: The Cinderella Ballet Mystery
By Carolyn Keene
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Can Nancy follow the trail of this fairy tale?
Nancy and her friends are going to be in a ballet! After months of taking dance classes, Nancy, George, and Bess will perform in a ballet version of Cinderella! The Clue Crew is excited to wear fancy costumes and dance on a real stage! Nancy's friend Andrea is going to play the part of Cinderella. And she'll wear special glass slippers just like in the fairy tale!
But when the glass slippers disappear, Nancy is determined to help. Can the Clue Crew uncover Cinderella's slippers before the clock strikes show time?
Nature's Patterns
By Karen Edwards
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 8 years
Discover all the patterns in nature!
Notes From the Dog
By Gary Paulsen
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
Nothing But the Truth
By Avi
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
In this thought-provoking examination of freedom, patriotism, and respect, ninth grader Philip Malloy is kept from joining the track team by his failing grades in English class. Convinced that the teacher just doesn't like him, Philip concocts a plan to get transferred out of her class. Breaking the school's policy of silence during the national anthem, he hums along, and ends up in a crisis at the center of the nation's attention.
Nothings Fair in Fifth Grade
By Barthe DeClements
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
Now is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom
By Walter Dean Myers
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
A Coretta Scott King Award winner that is more timely than ever—excellent narrative nonfiction that's "history at its best."* Like Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, Now Is Your Time! explores American history through the stories of the people whose experiences have shaped and continue to shape the America in which we live.
History has made me an African American. It is an Africa that I have come from, and an America that I have helped to create.
Since they were first brought as captives to Virginia, the people who would become African Americans have struggled for freedom. Thousands fought for the rights of all Americans during the Revolutionary War, and for their own rights during the Civil War. On the battlefield, through education, and through their creative genius, they have worked toward one goal: that the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be denied no one.
Fired by the legacy of these men and women, the struggle continues today.
"Portrays the quests of individual Africans against the background of broader historical movements. Instead of a comprehensive, strict chronology, Myers offers, through freed slave Ibrahima, investigative reporter Ida Wells, artist Meta Warrick Fuller, inventor George Latimore, artist Dred Scott, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, and others, history at its best—along with deeper understanding of past and contemporary events. Readers will grasp reasons behind incidents ranging from bewildering Supreme Court decisions to the historical need for the black extended family. Intriguing and rousing." (Publishers Weekly starred review*).
Walter Dean Myers was a New York Times bestselling author, Printz Award winner, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, two-time Newbery Honor recipient, and the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Maria Russo, writing in the New York Times, called Myers "one of the greats and a champion of diversity in children’s books well before the cause got mainstream attention."
Number the Stars
By Lois Lowry
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
The unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel from Lois Lowry. As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.
A modern classic of historical fiction, Number the Stars has won generations of fans and continues to speak to today's readers. Jessica Grose wrote in a November 2022 New York Times essay entitled "This Perfect Mother-Daughter Read Holds a Powerful Lesson for Fighting Antisemitism": “Number the Stars is particularly relevant to our family, and to this moment."
As School Library Journal put it: "Readers are taken to the very heart of Annemarie's experience, and, through her eyes, come to understand the true meaning of bravery."
On My Way to Buy Eggs
By Chih-Yuan Chen
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
When her father sends her out for eggs before she can go out to play, Shau-yu finds plenty of excitement while walking to the store.
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story
By Andrea Warren
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.
Over The Bridge
By Jeannie Kennedy
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
Over the Bridge is an Explanation. The FOCUS PANEL for Fluency Level titles continues to build students' reading and writing strategies and skills through the READING REVIEW and WRITING REVIEW. At the end of each book, reading and writing are linked: - Through the Partner Prattle, students in pairs are encouraged to think and talk about what they have read.
Owl Moon
By Jane Yolen
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
Celebrating 30 years of the beloved classic Owl Moon from renowned children's book author Jane Yolen and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator John Schoenherr! Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird. But there is no answer. Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling, you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn't an owl, but sometimes there is. Distinguished author Jane Yolen has created a gentle, poetic story that lovingly depicts the special companionship of a young child and her father as well as humankind's close relationship to the natural world. Wonderfully complemented by John Schoenherr's soft, exquisite watercolor illustrations, this is a verbal and visual treasure, perfect for reading aloud and sharing at bedtime.
Peter the Pumpkin-eater
By Janine Scott
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
When Peter enters the 'Grow and Show' gardening competition he plans to grow cactuses. However instead he manages to accidentally grow a crop of giant pumpkins. Now he just has to find a way to get rid of them. Suggested level: primary.
Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money
By Amy Axelrod
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 8 years
The hungry Pig family learns about money and buying power as they turn the house upside down looking for enough money to buy dinner at the local restaurant.
Please Bury Me in the Library
By J. Patrick Lewis
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
There's nothing like curling up with a good book, but you have to be careful. Before you know it, a minute turns into an hour, an hour turns into a day, and a day may turn into . . . eternity.
Inspired by the likes of Edward Lear, X. J. Kennedy, and Lewis Carroll, the author of Arithme-Tickle and Scien-Trickery has created a collection of original poems about books and reading that range from sweet to silly to laugh-out-loud funny. Newcomer Kyle M. Stone's clever, witty, and endearing paintings make this the perfect treat for book lovers of all ages.
Ramona and Her Mother
By Beverly Cleary
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
This warm-hearted story of a mother's love for her spirited young daughter is told beautifully by Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary.
Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you ask her. Not allowed to stay home alone, yet old enough to watch pesky Willa Jean, Ramona wonders when her mother will treat her like her older, more mature sister, Beezus.
But with her parents' unsettling quarrels and some spelling trouble at school, Ramona wonders if growing up is all it's cracked up to be. No matter what, she'll always be her mother's little girl…right?
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
By Elizabeth Partridge
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Photographer Dorothea Lange captured some of the most famous and moving images of the Great Depression. This biography, written by the daughter of Lange's assistant, showcases 60 of Lange's most famous black-and-white photos which show how she caught her subjects in relation to harsh, powerful events, and to one another.
Rigby Literacy: Leveled Reader Grade 5 Glessner House: An American Home and Family
By Rigby
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Grade 5 Leveled Reader exploring the history of the Glessner Family.
River Food Chains
By Rachel Lynette
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
This book explores the species and food chains within a river habitat, and discusses why these food chains need to be protected.
Robinson Crusoe (Scholastic Junior Classics)
By Retold From Daniel Dafoe
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe is alone on a desert island. Are there wild animals in the forest? Cannibals?
If he wants to stay alive, Robinson Crusoe must start to do things he never thought of doing before: build a house, weave baskets,, tame goals, raise grain, sew anima-l skin clothes.
He has no one to help him, no one to talk to. He has to decide for himself what to do. Then he has to do it.
How does Robinson Crusoe stay alive and safe on his island?
Ryan's Dog Ringo
By Marie Gibson
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Ryan wants a dog. But with his twin brother, Greg, in a wheelchair after an accident involving a dog, and Aunt Beth's feelings toward the species, Ryan doesn't have much hope. Everything changes when Ryan gets a job at the kennels. As he helps a small, unwanted dog named Trixie, he discovers that he may hold the key to helping his brother get well. He knows he can help both, but only if his father and Aunt Beth don't try to stop him before he has a chance.
Samuel's Choice
By Richard Berleth
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Samuel is a fourteen-year-old enslaved African American in Brooklyn in 1776 when the fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his doorstep. "Liberty ain't for Africans," says fellow servants. "It got nothin' to do with us." But his friend Sana says, "Nobody here's gonna be free unless they take the risk." Soon the well-equipped Redcoats have trapped ragged American soldiers, who have no boats to escape, and a terrible storm blows up. Samuel, a strong boatman, must decide what he should do.
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl
By Kate Waters
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Follows a Plimouth Plantation pilgrim girl through a typical day.
Sarah, Plain and Tall
By Patricia MacLachlan
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 7 - 9 years
This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.
Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay?
This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love.
This anniversary edition includes author Patricia MacLachlan's Newbery speech, a discussion guide, and a reading list. This modern classic is a strong choice for independent reading.
Read the rest of the Sarah books by Patricia MacLachlan: Skylark, Caleb’s Story, More Perfect than the Moon, and Grandfather’s Dance.
*The front cover is a different version.
Sir Arthur
By Sunita Apte
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
Presents a short biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes. Also presents selections of stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.
Sleepers, Wake
By Paul Samuel Jacobs
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
A ten-year-old boy Dody, a space pioneer of the future, wakes long before anyone else during his ship's journey and grows old while his family continues to sleep.
Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella
By Alan Schroeder
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 5 - 7 years
In this variation on the Cinderella story, based on the Charles Perrault version but set in the Smoky Mountains, Rose loses her glass slipper at a party given by the rich feller on the other side of the creek.
Somewhere in the Darkness
By Walter Dean Myers
Category: Teen/Young Adult
Reading Level: 12 - 17 years
Jimmy hasn't seen his father in nine years. But one day he comes back -- on the run from the law. Together, the two of them travel across the country -- where Jimmy's dad will find the man who can exonerate him of the crime for which he was convicted. Along the way, Jimmy discovers a lot about his father and himself -- and that while things can't always be fixed, sometimes they can be understood and forgiven.
Steal Away
By Jennifer Armstrong
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
In 1896, Mary Emmons is surprised when her grandmother takes her along to visit an old friend, in Toronto, named Bethlehem. Mary has led a sheltered life in New York City, far from hardship and danger. But when Mary meets the ancient woman, the personal history she shares removes the blinders from Mary’s eyes, forcing the girl to recognize prejudice and injustice for the first time.
As a young girl, Suzanna, Mary’s grandmother, is sent to live with her uncle in the South. Seeing slaves for the first time, and the horrible way they are treated, Suzanna decides to run away, back to her home in Vermont. When she leaves, though, she is not alone. Disguised as a boy, the young slave Bethlehem escapes with her. As the story of these two brave young women is told through alternating chapters, they share the dangers they face on the perilous journey from Virginia to freedom.
Strange Meetings
By Jenny Wagner
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
Michael's new in town and wants to make a good impression, especially where his new neighbor, Anita, is concerned. But wearing his cousin's baggy clothes doesn't help! Michael turns to his mother's new computer, the space-age Vector 3e, for company. Through the Vector's infrared modem he makes a new friend, Tania, and when they finally do meet face to face, Michael makes more of an impression the he'd bargained for!
Surviving the Applewhites
By Stephanie S. Tolan
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Will anyone take on Jake Semple? Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he burned down his old school and got kicked out of every school in his home state. Only one place will take him now, and that's a home school run by the Applewhites, a chaotic and hilarious family of artists. The only one who doesn't fit the Applewhite mold is E.D.—a smart, sensible girl who immediately clashes with the unruly Jake. Jake thinks surviving this one will be a breeze . . . but is he really as tough or as bad as he seems?
Tales Mummies Tell
By Patricia Lauber
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
Explains how the study of mummies, both natural and man-made, including a frozen baby mammoth found in Siberia and the human mummies of Egypt, Peru, and Denmark, can reveal information about ancient civilizations and prehistoric life.
Television Drama
By Sue Cason
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
Tim's dad is a high-profile children's entertainer. He sings and dances and acts like a clown - and all on national television! How embarrassing! But when a small child is in trouble, Tim's feelings about his father change dramatically...
Thanksgiving
By Steve Potts
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Briefly discusses the history and customs connected to the celebration of Thanksgiving in the United States.
The Adventures of Marco Polo
By Russell Freedman
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
A look at the life of Marco Polo.
The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales
By Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
Presents six tales about Spider, including those which explain how he got a thin waist and a bald head and why he lives in ceilings and dark corners.
The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
By James Cross Giblin
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
A biography of the 18th-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. Full-color illustrations.
The Bad Luck of King Fred
By Anna-Maria Crum
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 8 years
Oh no, Your Majesty! Wait! Stop! Don't touch that! Poor King Fred is having the worst luck ever, and he doesn't know what to do next. Even worse, his new royal adviser is working so hard to keep the king out of harm's way, that life in the palace is just no fun anymore. King Fred's suit is muddy, his mustache droopy, and he's getting a little grumpy. What does a king have to do to turn his luck around?
The Boy Who Dared
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Category: Teen/Young Adult
Reading Level: 13 - 17 years
A Newbery Honor Book author has written a powerful and gripping novel about a youth in Nazi Germany who tells the truth about Hitler. Susan Campbell Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmut Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he's tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmut's story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naive child caught up in the patriotism of the times , to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.
The Call of the Wild
By Jack London
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
The Coin Counting Book
By Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Twenty-five pennies, four dimes, two nickels, and one quarter… hmm… A pocketful of coins! Who can make heads or tails of it? YOU can with THE COIN COUNTING BOOK. Change just adds up with this bankable book illustrated with real money. Counting, adding, and identifying American currency from one penny to one dollar is exciting and easy. When you have counted all your money, you can decide to save it or spend it.
The Colorado River
By Carol B. Rawlins
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Examines the location, origin, history, and uses of the Colorado River.
The Emperor's Teacup and More Tales from Near and Far
By Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Here is a collection of stories from all over the world that have been told, retold, and treasured for years. These seven tales take you to the lands of emperors, kings, and clever ordinary folks. The stories come from Spain, Japan, Russia, Africa, Mexico, and North America. Read about the success of the characters in these tales as they use their brainpower, determination, and their good luck to get ahead.
The Field Mouse and the Dinosaur Named Sue
By Jan Wahl
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 8 years
A field mouse finds himself in the Field Museum when the roof of his former home is transported there with the rest of the bones of a dinosaur named Sue.
The Firework-maker's Daughter
By Philip Pullman
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Lila knows everything about making fireworks, but she learns that to be a true firework-maker, one must face the Fire-Fiend of Mount Merapi. After she sets off, her friend Chulak discovers another halfo of the secret, and without it, Lila will perish.
The Good, The Bad, and Everything Else
By Ann Trunnell Herrell
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
Sara Burnett has had it! Her parents have just explained that they're going to have a baby, and Sara's already struggling to handle school, friends, and life with her genius brother. Even worse, the horrible Geoff Nelson seems to have made it his goal in life to torment her. Thank goodness for "Operation Slime Time"! It just might save the day!" This is her diary...
The History of Emigration from China & South-East Asia
By Katherine Prior
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
A colour illustrated history of emigration from China and South-East Asia, which features accounts of the experiences of various migrants and analysis of the contribution of immigrants to their new country. Part of the ORIGINS series and compatible with National Curriculum Key Stage 3.
The House Without A Christmas Tree
By Gail Rock
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
It's Christmastime in 1946, and all Addie wants is a pair of cowboy boots and a Christmas tree
Ten-year-old Addie lives in Clear River, Nebraska, population fifteen hundred, with her stoic but loving father and quirky grandmother. Carla Mae is her neighbor and best friend in the fifth grade. Carla Mae's house is different than Addie's—she has five siblings and another on the way, while Addie is an only child.
It's the week before Christmas, and shopping lists are at the front of the girls' minds. Addie's house doesn't have a tree—her dad says they are a waste of money, and they'll be opening presents at Uncle Will's anyway. Uncle Will has a tree, but to Addie, it doesn't feel like Christmas without a tree of their own. Then she comes up with the perfect plan. Will it make this the best Christmas they've ever had, or will her father never forgive her?
The Hundred Dresses
By Eleanor Estes
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 7 - 9 years
This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right. Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate Maddie decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." A timeless, gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.
The International House of Dereliction
By Jacqueline Davies
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door—only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too!
Home is where the heart is. But can a house have a heart of its own?
Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time.
She’s lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you’re a whiz at fixing things?
But when Alice arrives at her new home, she can’t take her eyes off the house next door, the stately dark house that hulked in the dimming light. The once-grand mansion, now dilapidated and condemned, beckons Alice; it's the perfect new repair job!
As Alice begins to restore the House to its former splendor, she senses strange presences. Is there a heartbeat coming from the House’s walls? Is someone looking at her? Soon she realizes she’s not alone. Three ghosts have been watching, and they need Alice’s help to solve their unfinished business.
Will Alice be able to unravel the mysteries of the House and find her forever home . . . before it’s too late?
The Journal, Dear Future II
By Meredith Costain
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
In the year 2198, a time capsule buried for over two hundred years is found under Anika's learning center. Inside it are books, paper, and a journal written in 1998 by a girl called Anna.
The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i
By Fay Stanley
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
The day she was born, bells rang joyously and cannon fired noisy salutes--at last there was an heir to the Hawai'ian throne. But although this beautiful young princess worked tirelessly to prepare herself to rule, and fought bravely to protect the rights of her beloved people, she would never be queen.
When it was first published, The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i won many honors for its sensitive text and brilliantly colored illustrations. "The full page paintings are reflecting the beauty of the islands and the handsome racially mixed people who live there...A visual treat," said School Library Journal in a starred review. A 1991 American Library Association Notable Book, it also won the Carter G. Woodson Award from the National Council Social Studies.
In this reissued edition of an inspired collaboration, author Fay Stanley, writing her only children's book, and daughter Diane Stanley, the celebrated author and illustrator, tell the touching, bittersweet story of Princess Ka'iulani and open a window onto a nation's history that is often forgotten.
The Life Cycle of a Tree
By Bobbie Kalman
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Text and photographs describe basic facts about trees, their function in a forest, and how they benefit animals, people, and the environment.
The Long Walk Home
By Pauline Cartwright
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
When Brad's mom decides to sell their family house, Brad thinks his parents will never get back together. And his mom's new friend, Gary, seems to be very happy with the situation. That's when Brad decides to leave!
The Martian Tales
By Marilee Robin Burton
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
The Moon Bridge
By Marcia Savin
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
The friendship between San Francisco girls Mitzi Fujimoto and Ruthie Fox is changed when World War II begins and Mitzi and her family are forced to go into an internment camp.
The Penny Pot
By Stuart J. Murphy
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
The Penny Pot is perfect for teaching counting coins to second, third, and fourth graders. Life-size coins and a cat named Chester will soon have readers confidently counting coins along with Jessie and her friends at the face-painting booth.
Kids will love the story and the funny illustrations by Lynne Cravath. Parents and other educators will love how the story and pictures make understanding comparisons a breeze—as well as the concrete examples of how math works! The book contains activities for adults to do with kids to extend math into their own lives!
Math skills are life skills, and the MathStart series supports success!
- This award-winning series by Stuart J. Murphy teaches math through stories and visual models
- 63 books divided into three levels with 21 books in each
- Fun activities kids will love are included to help parents and teachers emphasize the lessons
- Engaging and relatable stories, with each story revolving around practical applications of the math concept presented
- Lively art from top-notch illustrators
- Charts and other visual representations help children understand how the math works and promote deeper comprehension
MathStart's unique combination of stories, illustrations, and visual models helps teachers and parents in the teaching of math and provides all children with the opportunity to succeed.
The math concepts taught in MathStart books conform to state and national standards. Level 1 is Pre-K–Kindergarten; Level 2 is Grades 1–3; Level 3 is Grades 2–4. The series follows math topics across grades so there is a foundational path to learning that runs through the levels.
The Power of Un
By Nancy Etchemendy
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Everyone knows that a computer's "undo" command can erase a mistake. Gib Finney has been given a device that allows him to do the same thing - in real life. At first, the possibilities seem endless. Flunk a test; take it over again. Keep swinging at the same pitch until you finally hit the winning home run. But when his younger sister is gravely injured in a traffic accident for which he feels responsible, Gib has to figure out which events in a two-day period should be changed in order to ensure that the accident never takes place. Did it all begin when Gib and his friend Ash set out for the carnival? Or when he argued with Rainy Frogner about the salt in their science experiment? Or when he shot the spitball at his math teacher? Gib finds himself "correcting" far more than he intended to, and the consequences quickly become impossible to predict.
The Real McCoy
By Susan McCloskey
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
Devin McCoy is spending the summer in a small town in Maine. He and his mother are helping his grandmother at her diner, which hasn't been making a lot of money. Devin's parents own a successful restaurant in New York City and know a few tricks of the trade that might improve business at the diner. Devin would love to help, too, but he has a habit of messing up. This may be the summer that he proves what he can do.
The Real Thief
By William Steig
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
The goose who is Chief Guard of the Royal Treasury is unjustly accused of stealing by King Basil the bear and his faithless friends.
The Sound of All Things
By Myron Uhlberg
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Experience the sights and sounds of 1930s Brooklyn and Coney Island through the eyes—and ears—of a hearing boy and his deaf parents.
A Brooklyn family takes an outing to Coney Island, where they enjoy the rides, the food, and the sights. The father longs to know how everything sounds. Though his son does his best to interpret their noisy surroundings through sign language, he struggles to convey the subtle differences between the "loud" of the ocean and the "loud" of a roller coaster.
When the family drops in at the library after dinner, the boy makes a discovery. Perhaps the words he needs are within reach, after all.
Myron Uhlberg's story, based on his own childhood experiences, covers the almost unique topic within children's books of children raised by deaf parents. Ted Papoulas beautifully and sensitively portrays the family's day and brings the whole experience to life for readers.
The Star Fisher
By Laurence Yep
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
The Toothpaste Millionaire
By Jean Merrill
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
A young girl describes how her school friend made over a million dollars by creating and marketing a cheaper and better toothpaste.
The Trail of Tears
By Joseph Bruchac
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 7 - 9 years
In 1838, settlers moving west forced the great Cherokee Nation, and their chief John Ross, to leave their home land and travel 1,200 miles to Oklahoma. An epic story of friendship, war, hope, and betrayal.
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
By Ellen Raskin
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • Ellen Raskin's unforgettable, timeless classic continues to be cherished by young readers of each new generation.
"Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand." —The New York Times Book Review
A highly inventive mystery begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play a game. All they have to do is find the answer—but the answer to what? The Westing game is tricky and dangerous, but the heirs play on—through blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!
Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense.
They Came from Center Field
By Dan Gutman
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 7 - 9 years
A team of youngsters takes on a crew of extraterrestrials determined to learn the game of baseball.
Timedetectors
By Sally Farrell Odgers, Sally Odgers
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
When Tom and Coxie go on a camping trip, the discovery of some mysterious objects sends them on an adventure to another time. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Tuckers' Gold
By L.L. Owens
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
Twelve-year old Penelope Tucker is not happy when her family decides to head out West. Uncle James hopes to strike it rich in the California gold fields, but Penelope would rather stay in Independence, Missouri. The journey on the Oregon-California trail is difficult. When they finally reach their destination, Penelope finds it not to her liking, until...
Uncle Tease
By Ellen Javernick
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
A story in 10 chapters about a pair of twins' disgruntlement over the fact their uncle is going to get married, because "married people aren't much fun." They plot to destroy the romance, and then have second thoughts. Black and white illustrations. At one point Uncle Tease gives the kids flashlights and tells them how to flash coded messages to each other. The book includes a table of the letters and numbers of the International Morse Code. Uncle Tease is listed with several other books under the heading "Friends and Friendships," apparently a series published by Shortland Publications and Rigby.
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens
By Patricia Lauber
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 6 - 10 years
In this extraordinary photographic essay, Patricia Lauber details the Mount St. Helens eruption and the years following in Volcano: Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helen's.
Through this clear accurate account, readers of all ages will share the awe of the scientists who witnessed both the power of the volcano and the resiliency of life.
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
By Cynthia Levinson
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
The inspiring story of the 1963 Birmingham Children's March as seen through the eyes of four young people at the center of the action. The 1963 Birmingham Children's March was a turning point in American civil rights history. Black Americans had had enough of segregation and police brutality, but with their lives and jobs at stake, most adults were hesitant to protest the city's racist culture. So the fight for civil rights lay in the hands of children like Audrey Hendricks, Wash Booker, James Stewart, and Arnetta Streeter. We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the four thousand Black elementary, middle, and high school students who answered Dr. Martin Luther King's call to "fill the jails." Between May 2 and May 11, 1963, these young people voluntarily went to jail, drawing national attention to the cause, helping bring about the repeal of segregation laws, and inspiring thousands of other young people to demand their rights. Drawing on her extensive research and in-depth interviews with participants, award-winning author Cynthia Levinson recreates the events of the Birmingham Children's March from a new and very personal perspective. Archival photography and informational sidebars throughout. Back matter includes an afterword, author's note, timeline, map, and bibliography.
West Side Kids Book #4: The Pet Sitters
By Ellen Schecter
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 10 years
Pet-sitting seems like a simple task to DeVonn and his friends, but it soon becomes much more than they bargained for.
What Is Anti-Racism?
By Hedreich Nichols, Kelisa Wing
Category: Chapter
Reading Level: 10 - 14 years
Race in America has been avoided in children's education for too long. What Is Anti-Racism? explores the idea of actively working against racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach race issues with open eyes and minds. Includes 21st Century Skills and content, as well as a PBL activity across the Racial Justice in America series. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities.
Where Can You Find Different States of Water?
By Romaytha Abdullah
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Leveled reader science book exploring water in its various states on Earth.
Where the River Runs: A Portrait of a Refugee Family
By Nancy Price Graff
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
The story of a Cambodian refugee family now living in the Allston neighborhood of Boston. After six years in the U.S., the grandmother, mother and three sons are participating in their new culture while keeping Cambodian traditions alive in their lives in this new land. Where the River Runs explores the school, foods, cooking, language struggles, community and daily life of the Prek family.
Which Way Jack
By Diana Short Yurkovic
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 11 years
An adaptation of the classic fairytale, Jack and the beanstalk. Children are invited to choose Jack's adventures with the plot-your-own story format.
Who Will Look Out for Danny?
By Marie Gibson, Kelvin Hawley
Category: Young Chapter
Reading Level: 8 - 12 years
Thirteen-year-old Abby doesn't want her family to spend the summer picking fruit at an orchard; being stuck out in the country with no access to a computer means she has no hope of entering the story competition. And to add to her worries are seven-year-old Danny, who needs constant attention, and her older brother Leo who thinks only about himself. Suggested level: intermediate.
Wild Weather Hurricanes
By Lorraine Jean Hopping
Category: Early Reader
Reading Level: 6 - 8 years
Hello Reader book that introduces young readers to facts about hurricanes.
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
By Ursula K. Le Guin
Category: Early Chapter
Reading Level: 6 - 9 years
Jane meets a new friend in this third book in legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling Catwings chapter book series, now with a new look! Fluffy, orange Alexander is the oldest, biggest, loudest, and strongest of all the Furby kittens. Everyone in his family thinks he’s so remarkable that they call him “Wonderful Alexander” and spoil him to pieces. But one morning, when Alexander bravely sets out to explore the world on his own, he finds himself stuck in a tree and unable to get down. It’s up to Jane, the youngest of the Catwings, to rescue him! Now if only Alexander could do something wonderful for her in return…
Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance
By Anita Fitch Pazner
Category: Picture
Reading Level: 9 - 12 years
Words are powerful. Words spread truth. Words turn to action. Words matter in this lyrical account of the White Rose Resistance. The White Rose Resistance was the German student movement that used the power of the written word to speak out against the Nazis during World War II. They worked in secret to distribute leaflets condemning the government’s actions at a time when doing so meant putting your life at risk. The story follows siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were instrumental members of the resistance. Words Matter transports readers through the world the siblings inhabited, from their idyllic childhood to becoming leaders in the Hitler Youth groups; the Nuremberg Rally; witnessing the arrests and murders of innocent people; and finally emerging as leaders of the White Rose Resistance — while still believing in the goodness that lived in the hearts of the German people. The Scholl siblings were arrested and executed in 1943 but their legacy, and the words of the Resistance, live on. Written in verse and strikingly illustrated for middle-grade readers, Words Matter brings to life an unforgettable true story of nonviolent resistance. Hans and Sophie’s story demonstrates the enduring power of words, especially in times of propaganda and fear. Includes a historical note. Key Text Features author's note further reading historical context illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.7 Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.