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(0)Katherine Paterson
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Each Christmas Eve when John Paterson was a pastor, he read an original story to his congregation--a story that illuminated the true meaning of the holiday season, written by his wife, two-time Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson. Now you, too, can share them ...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
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
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Josh, who has just moved to Vermont with his mother, stepfather, and new baby brother, must deal with the bullying of a neighbor boy and discovers that his dog, whom he hears talking with other dogs, is also facing a bully of his own.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"[Thirteen-year-old Lora] a young Cuban teenager ... volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
A personal account by the Newbery Medal- and National Book Award-winning author shares stories about the experiences that inspired her novels, from her childhood in China to her marriage to a minister and relationships with four children.
38) Birdie's bargain
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Birdie has questions for God. For starters, why couldn't God roll history back to September 10, 2001, and fix things--so the next day was an ordinary sunny day and not the devastating lead-in to two wars? Daddy has already been to Iraq twice. Now he's going again, and Birdie is sure he'll die. At the very least, she won't see him again for a year. To save money, she, Mom, and Baby Billy have moved to Gran's, where shy Birdie must attend a new school....
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When his family becomes a successful country music group and makes him a featured singer, eleven-year-old James has to deal with big changes in all aspects of his life, even his name.
