Patricia Polacco
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When two brothers visit a museum in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, with their grandmother, they find themselves in a very realistic Civil War setting where they see the Antietam battlefield and meet historical figures from the aftermath of that momentous battle. Includes author's note on the Battle of Antietam.
5) Mrs. Mack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
7) Emma Kate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Emma Kate and her best friend share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time, all the things best friends do. But there is more to this best friend than meets the eye.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Paige Darling loves the stuffed rabbit her grandmother has made for her, but when she ties a helium-filled balloon to Bun Bun Button the toy gets loose and goes floating away, and it may take some Darling luck to bring her home.
10) Rechenka's eggs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Includes a CD of the author reading the story with music by Hankus Netsky.
12) Chicken Sunday
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
13) Pink and Say
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
14) My ol' man
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Drawing on the author's memories of her youth, a girl recalls the special summer spent in Michigan with her yarn-spinning father and a magic rock.
16) Thunder cake
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
17) G is for goat
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A rhyming celebration of goats and their antics, from A to Z.
18) Betty Doll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll she was there. Now when Mary Ellen's daughter needs Betty Doll most, she opens a package and rediscovers the sweet old doll, along with a letter written by her mother just before she died.
20) The butterfly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
During the Nazi occumpation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom.