Donald(Illustrator) Cook
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. A compelling account, told in easy-to-read format, of a sled dog who led his team over 53 miles of Alaska wilderness to deliver medicine during an outbreak of diptheria in 1925.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 720L
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln, one of our greatest presidents, started out in life as an absent-minded frontier lawyer. How did he nudge his memory? He stuck letters, court notes, contracts, and even his checkbook in his trademark top hat. When he took off his hat, it was all there!
3) Pirates
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1997]
Lexile measure
AD 800L
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of a pirate, the codes by which pirate crews lived and how they operated, and mentions famous pirates and their lost treasures.
4) White bird
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.