Emily Arnold McCully
3) School
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A curious little mouse decides to find out what school is all about.
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 1
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.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
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the true story of how four boys looking for buried treasure in the south of France in 1940 stumbled upon something much more valuable--a sealed cave whose walls were covered with prehistoric paintings and engravings.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Ida Tarbell, the nineteenth-century author/journalist whose articles on the corrupt practices of John D. Rockeller and Standard Oil Company resulted in legislation against trusts.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Prepare to discover new heroes among these twenty-one women who challenged the status quo, championed others, and made their voices heard. From Jane Addams to Alice Waters, from groundbreaking artists and social justice advocates to scientific pioneers and business innovators, a strong thread of trailblazing women runs through American history. Written in compelling, accessible prose and vividly illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Emily Arnold McCully,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When he is shipwrecked and unable to return to Japan due to the chance of being executed, fourteen-year-old Manjiro is rescued by the captain of an American whaling ship who takes him to Massachusetts where he is torn between his second home and seeing his mother again.
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press/Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two old rabbit friends disagree about many things, including when and how to deal with the tricky fox who threatens to ruin the business at their restaurant in Provence region of France.
18) Cat jumped in!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An inquisitive feline walks through the rooms of a house, jumping into one mess after another, before landing in the loving arms of its owner.
Author
Series
Billy Forrester books volume 1
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2006, c1973
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A small boy is challenged by a friend to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days for fifty dollars.
20) The Banshee
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.