Ed Young
3) White Fang
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Includes instructions on folding paper cranes.
7) Dreamcatcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the land of the Ojibway a baby sleeps, protected from bad dreams, as the life of the tribe goes on around him.
11) The other bone
Author
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
A dog loses his bone when he volleys with his own reflection in a pool.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...
16) Hook
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get help from a boy in learning how to fly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the earliest European version.
18) My Mei Mei
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
20) Donkey trouble
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this retelling of the traditional fable, a kind but simple man and his grandson, on their way to market with their donkey, find it impossible to please everyone they meet.