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1) Verdi
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
5) Gilead
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He "preached men into the Civil War," then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After he is involved in a prank that led to an elderly woman's injury, twelve-year-old Mitchell must make amends by participating in a police program in which he chats online with a nursing home resident.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Between school and Al-Anon meetings, Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb/Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book: 2003.
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A plucky West Highland Terrier named Harvey is determined to protect his yard from an intruding animal. Meanwhile, Harvey's owner Maggie struggles to fit in at school, his friend Austin works to prevent his grandfather from losing his job at a retirement home, and new retirement home resident Josephine Fradette clings to her fierce individuality in the face of conformity"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While attending his first "night party" to celebrate Great-Gran Sadie's 100th birthday, Robert's manners disappoint family members and relatives but please the guest of honor, who loves his dance steps.
15) The piano
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young black girl's love of music leads her to a job in the home of an older white woman who not only teaches her to play the piano but also about caring for others.
16) Mr. George Baker
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Harry sits on the porch with Mr. George Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.
Author
Series
Norvelt volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
19) Grampa-Lop
Author
Publisher
Price/Stern/Sloan
Pub. Date
1985, c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Despite the disapproval of their parents, the young rabbits flock to hear old Grampa-Lop tell his magical tales every afternoon.
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