Emily Arnold McCully
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the early 1900s, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world.
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Formats
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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory, and to buying the minibike he's always wanted. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
6) Wonder horse
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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."
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell became widely known for her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust-a complicated business empire run by tycoon John D. Rockefeller-that revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller's success.
Rejecting the term "muckraker" to describe her profession, she went on to achieve remarkable prominence for a woman of her generation as a writer and shaper...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
13) Monk camps out
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young mouse decides to spend the night camping out alone in his backyard, but his parents have other ideas.
14) First snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A timid little mouse discovers the thrill of sledding in the first snow of the winter.
17) Picnic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little mouse gets lost on the way to a family picnic.
19) Mouse practice
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Monk the little mouse learns from his parents that practice is the way to succeed--whether it is in playing baseball or in playing music.