Tor Seidler
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
What do a pair of newlywed woodchucks, a squirrel, a testy snake, a skunk, and a couple of bats have in common with a family of pudgy human beings names Hubble? Their lives are all turned topsy-turvy by a tyrannical toddler named Margaret.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Fish, foxes, farmers, and frogs, seagulls, sparrows, and swans, turtles and terns--the ponds and fields and woods of Wainscott are home to all sorts of creatures. But the most remarkable citizens of this seaside community are the weasels: Zeke Whitebelly and his boisterous brothers.
Author
Publisher
Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Gulliver leads a life of luxury with his master. But when his master falls in love with a woman who is allergic to dogs, Gulliver is sent to a new home. He finds himself with a family of raucous human beings and three mutts. But just as Gulliver begins to make a grudging peace with his new reality, he gets swept up in a harrowing new adventure.
6) The tar pit
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Shy Edward Small has only one real friend, a loving and brave dinosaur, with whom he finds adventure at the edge of a curious pond full of dark, oily goo and daydreams.
7) A rat's tale
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Montague, an artistic young rat living beneath the streets of New York City, is convinced he can do nothing to save his friends from extermination until he achieves a better understanding of both himself and his ne'er-do-well uncle.
9) Firstborn
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"A wolf pack's alpha gets a disappointing surpirse when his first born son is not like a normal wolf, but rather one who has fallen for a coyote"--
10) The dulcimer boy
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers are abandoned on their uncle's doorstep in early twentieth-century New England with nothing but a silver-stringed dulcimer.
11) Toes
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
After getting lost on Halloween night when he is only a few months old, an intelligent seven-toed kitten makes his way into the life of a struggling musician.