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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A boy, a dog, and an old man are lonely before the boy plans a rally, the dog looks for a boy, and all the townspeople run to the old man's aid when lightning strikes his home and something miraculous happens.
Author
Series
Hill Hawk Hattie volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite society, and, while there, discovers the fate of her missing grandfather.
Author
Series
Spindlewood tale volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After running away from an orphanage, Pip arrives in the walled city of Hangman's Hollow, where children must hide to avoid imprisonment by citizens or danger from evil creatures in the surrounding forest, but new friend Toad asks his help in finding a lone girl.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The poetry of Langston Hughes pulses with the rhythms of jazz and blues, and the language of the streets. In describing the everyday lives of African Americans, he became the leading African-American poet of the world. Jodie A. Shull s insightful and highly readable new biography sheds light on one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance and introduces another generation to his extraordinary outpouring of poetry, short stories, novels,...