Catalog Search Results
1) Be a wolf!
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Joe and Wishbone must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big mean dog, Wishbone imagines himself as the hero Beowulf of Geatland who helps King Hrothgar rid his kingdom of the terrible monster Grendel and his equally fearsome mother.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Because Wishbone keeps getting interrupted while trying to take a nap, he begins thinking about Rip Van Winkle and finds himself in Rip's shoes, finally waking to a changed world.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During a fast-paced roller hockey game in which an awkward boy is humiliated by the other players, Wishbone imagines himself as Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, who defeats his enemies and saves the life of a beautiful gypsy.
4) Muttketeer!
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Locked out of the school while Joe and his friends are inside, Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When Joe gets a chance to prove himself as coach and discovers that it is not as easy as it seems, Wishbone is reminded of the tale in which a poor boy trades places with the crown prince of England, each one believing that the other has the easier life.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As he and Joe try to get to the eighth-grade basketball game in time, Wishbone the dog imagines himself as Robinson Crusoe, the sole survivor of a shipwreck who lived on a deserted island for nearly thirty years.
7) Salty dog
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When he accompanies Joe and his friends to look for treasure in the condemmed Trumbull barn, Wishbone imagines himself as young Jim Hawkins who acquires a treasure map and soon finds himself involved with dangerous pirates.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Wishbone imagines that he is David Balfour, the young Scottish Lowlander bound for adventure in Kidnapped, the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 14
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 13
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A day filled with troubles reminds Wishbone of Homer's epic poem a he imagines himself as Odysseus, the ancient Greek hero who encounters monsters and other obstacles on his journey home after fighting in the Trojan War.
Author
Series
Super adventures of Wishbone volume 2
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
12) Moby Dog
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
An intrigue involving the election of class president reminds Wishbone of the twin brother of King Louis XIV of France who must decide if he should risk everything to escape his iron mask and trade it for the king's crown.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 11
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Wishbone helps Joe protect a top-secret note and the caper reminds him of The purloined letter by Edgar Allan Poe.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Joe and David decide to use a computer to publish a sports newsletter that will outshine the one that the school produces, Wishbone is reminded of Mark Twain's story and imagines himself as Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who travels back in time to King Arthur's court.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 17
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 18
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Joe learns a valuable lesson in judging basketball players by their size, Wishbone imagines himself as Lemuel Gulliver, a seventeenth-century ship's surgeon who is shipwrecked in two strange lands. In one place, everyone is only a few inches tall. The other land is populated by giants.
19) Ivanhound
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 20
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 16
Publisher
Big Red Chair Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English