Kevin Hawkes
4) Weslandia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
6) Library lion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroups Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Describes the need for sailors to be able to determine their position at sea and the efforts of John Harrison, an eighteenth century man who spent his life refining instruments to enable them to do this.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Language
English
Description
Velma starts first grade in the shadow of her memorable older sisters, and while her newfound interest in butterflies helps her to stand out, it also leads to an interesting complication.
12) I was a rat!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
13) Dial-a-ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a lady mistakes him for kitten, big hairy spider Luigi resists her kind advances until tasty breakfasts and getting tucked into bed convince him otherwise, but he soon learns what might be at stake when you pretend to be someone you're not.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 970L
Language
English
Description
In 1870, Tulip Jones, a wealthy, self-reliant widow from England, acquires the By-Golly Gully Ranch in Texas and soon finds herself saddled with 1000 suitors.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the early career of Ted Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss, describing how he adhered to strict literary guidelines while writing "The Cat in the Hat."