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3) Thunder Rose
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
4) Fishing day
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun, Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Reenie and her mother, who are African Americans, go fishing, Reenie decides to share the secret of their success with their needy white neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her grandmother takes in a stranded family at Christmas, Grace is reluctant to share her favorite holiday with strangers, even though the visiting family includes a "real live ballerina."
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Destiny's favorite place in the world is Mrs. Wade's bookstore, so when she finds out it may close she stirs the community to help out, then works on a special gift of her own to encourage Mrs. Wade.
7) Going north
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young African American girl and her family leave their home in Alabama and head for Lincoln, Nebraska, where they hope to escape segregation and find a better life.
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes volume 8
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Third-grader EllRay dreads the upcoming Winter Wonderland school assembly in which he must emcee and sing "Jingle Bell Rock."
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kameeka yearns to continue her hula hooping competition with her rival, Jamara, rather than help prepare for Miz Adeline's birthday party, and "the itch" almost ruins the party before the girls learn who the real winner is.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A boy wakes up one morning to find his father gone. At first, he feels lost. But his father has left him a letter filled with advice to guide him through the times he cannot be there"--
Author
Series
EllRay Jakes volume 6
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Third-grader EllRay, a "shrimpy, goof-up kid," discovers magic all around him when he and his schoolmates participate in the Oak Glen Primary School talent show and work together on a wedding shower gift for their teacher.
Author
Publisher
Alred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A runaway slave makes a daring escape to freedom with the help of his faithful hunting dog, Zeus. Based on the true story of James Smith's journey from Virginia to Ohio in the mid-1800s.
19) The snowy day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.
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