Linda Oatman High
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Loving her family but disliking the circus that is her grandparents' life, Lily is devastated when her grandfather passes away, a loss that leads her to develop an unexpected bond with her grandfather's equally grieving elephant.
4) Barn savers
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A boy spends a long day helping his father dismantle a nineteenth-century barn so that the pieces can be used in other barns and houses to live another one hundred years.
6) Hound Heaven
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Living with her grandfather on Muckwater Mountain in West Virginia, twelve-year-old Silver aggressively pursues her dream of having a dog by working to earn the money for one.
10) Under New York
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In catchy verse and vibrant illustrations this books shares the hustle and bustle of life beneath New York.
12) Otherwise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A law has been passed. There will be no more genders. Everyone must appear gender neutral. No more boys. No more girls. Just ... Otherwise. Same bland clothes. Same fuzzy heads. "Spark" dreads the countdown leading up to the finality of the new law's passage. Her parents are for it. They're tired of conforming to society's standards. But they allow her to take off for a quick camping trip to gather her thoughts. At the campsite, she meets "Whistler."...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1910, when his family moves to New York City from their ranch out West, Ben misses the cowboys and the prairies that they left behind, but after he learns that there are cowboys in the city who race along the railroad tracks and warn people of approaching trains, he begins to feel more at home.