Heidi E. Y Stemple
Author
Publisher
Sea Grass
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
Describes how bird watching and bird counting helps researchers collect data and spread valuable information to help all species of birds, and details how naturalist Frank Chapman used his love of birds to found the first annual bird count.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Gregory likes to be equipped for any situation and carries several essential items in his backpack like a feather duster, a colander, and even a kazoo! 'There might be a kazoo emergency,' Gregory explains to his new friend, Lola, on their way to school. Not long after, their school bus gets into trouble! As the bus gets tangled in a rope hanging from a hot air balloon and crashes into a dinosaur, Gregory wonders if this is just the kazoo emergency...
5) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this metaphor for the global pandemic and the power of community, a mouse in a small boat finds comfort and strength during a storm when he sees another boat and is joined by others, close enough to see each other, but not close enough to crash.
Author
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
With rhyming text, this soothing bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds. As a mother describes to her child how many species of birds nest, from pigeons on concrete ledges to owls in oak tree boles to swallows above barn doors.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, witnessed one of the saddest and most inexplicable chapters in American history. When a group of girls came down with a horrible, mysterious bout of illness, the town doctor looked in his medical books but failed to find a reasonable diagnosis. Pretty soon everyone in town was saying the same thing: The girls were ill because they were under a spell, the spell of witchcraft! And still, the question remains: Why did the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text affirms that girls can pursue their many interests, from playing sports to planting flowers in the dirt, without giving up their tiaras.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
"Making cool cookies and eating them, too, is something that very good dinosaurs do. Inside you'll find cookies and sweet smells galore. So scratch, sniff, and eat up, little dinosaur!" --Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"This appealingly icky poetry collection presents animals that suck-quite literally! From the mosquito to the elephant to the lamprey, discover how and why these animals sip, slurp, and suck"--
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale."--Amazon.com.
Harlot or hero? Liar or lady? There are two sides to every story. Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, and debate alongside authors Yolen and Stemple--who appear in the book as themselves in a series of comic panels--as to each girl's guilt or innocence.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 840L
Language
English
Description
A young girl relates the facts that are known about the unexplained disappearance of the crew on the ship Mary Celeste in 1872, and challenges the reader to solve the mystery.
18) Monster Academy
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 410L
Language
English
Description
It is the first day of school at Monster Academy, where all the monsters go, and the lesson for the day involves counting missing teeth, and Vic the vampire is sad because he still has both fangs--until Jo, a troublemaking student who whirls like a dervish but is actually a human, gives him an apple at lunch.
19) A kite for Moon
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.