Jerdine Nolen
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It's springtime on Bradford Street and twins Jada and Jamal Perkins are helping their parents with yardwork as they look for signs of spring, When their teacher tells them about the town's plans to plant new trees at school in celebration of Earth Day, Jada and Jamal and their best friends, Carlita and Josh, come up with a school beautification project of their own"--
4) Thunder Rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building fences, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"When Layla arrives for her first day of school at Unicornia, the school for unicorns, she realizes that she's not like the other kids there. They're all pastel colors and know the rules to Horn Ball and none of them come from the Woods like Layla does. Try as she might to make friends, Layla's just...different. But when her class gets lost during a field trip to the Fiddle Dee Deep Forest, it's up to Layla to step up and save the day"--
7) Plantzilla
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In a series of letters a boy, his cience teacher, and his partents idscuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses
10) Calico Girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Max and Jax volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Second grade twins Max and Jax prepare to start the summer off right with a fishing trip and a slumber party.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Today and always...
15) Freedom bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
17) Big Jabe
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Momma Mary tells stories about a special young man who does wondrous things, especially for the slaves on the Plenty Plantation.