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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
A simple description of a flowering plant's life cycle through the seasons. Dazzlingly colorful collage illustrations and a simple but dramatic text tell the fascinating story of the life cycle of a flower in terms of the adventures of a tiny seed. Carried aloft by the autumn wind, the tiny seed, along with other bigger seeds, travels far over the world. the journey is perilous: one of the bigger seeds is burned by the sun another falls into the ocean...
2) Weslandia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
4) Plantzilla
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
5) Wings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they ... meet ... some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they notice that their father is developing plantlike tendencies. In fact, he is becoming distinctly weedy--and seedy. Is this just part of their father's 'harmless' experiment? Or has the basement turned...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon finding a flower pot containing a tiny green shoot, a little girl tries to encourage the plant to grow by feeding it pizza and chocolate chip cookies, but when it still won't grow and bloom, she throws it out the door.
11) What homework?
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
When Andy forgets to do his science homework, he luckily manages to complete the plant scavenger hunt on his way to school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
On display at a rare plant auction, unusual plants Stanley and Fluffy meet Curly Temple, a mischievous little plant with a taste for excitement, and team up to foil the evil plans of vandals who have broken into the greenhouse.
14) Plantpet
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
In his junkyard Bertie discovers a life form fond of gardening, but he nearly loses his new pet by not understanding its needs.
15) Midnight mystery
Author
Series
Ruby Gloom volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Skull Boy decides to assume the role of Sherlock Holmes to find the culprit when all the food in the house disappears.
18) Spells
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Summoned to study at The Academy of Avalon, sixteen-year-old Laurel learns about the town with friend Tamani, while honing her long-forgotten skills as a Fall faerie in order to protect her human family and Avalon from trolls.