Patricia Polacco
2) 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.
3) 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
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.
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
Series
Rotten Richie tales volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Richie and his younger sister Trisha face off in a contest to see whose hobby is more challenging.
15) The bee tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.
17) The blessing cup
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A single china cup from a tea set left behind when Jews were forced to leave Russia helps hold a family together through generations of living in America, reminding them of the most important things in life.
18) Oh, look!
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Three goats visit a fair but run home after they seem to encounter a troll.
19) Just plain fancy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Naomi, an Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the importance of adhering to the simple ways of her people, is horrified when one of her hen eggs hatches into an extremely fancy bird.
20) Some birthday!
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On her birthday Dad takes a young girl and her brother to see the Monster at Clay Pit Bottom.