Elisa Kleven
2) Sun bread
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A baker, tired of the long, gray, chilly days of winter, bakes a huge sun-shaped loaf of bread which cheers everyone up so much, they wake up the real sun.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Language
English
Description
After the girl who drew her grows older and no longer plays with her, a paper princess lets the wind carry her off to adventures which include a cat, a Christmas tree, butterflies, and a new home.
5) Ernst
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young crocodile with a vivid imagination celebrates a birthday.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lizzy is scared to start school, so she makes a doll out of an apple from her favorite tree to take with her on the first day and keep her company. Includes instructions for making an apple doll.
11) A carousel tale
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
Given the responsibility of taking care of his favorite carousel dog's tail during the winter, Ernst, the young blue crocodile, finds, as time goes by, that he cannot resist his own artistic urges.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
A boy listens to his new neighbor describe the monster that lives at her house, who screams when awakened, yells for food, spits up on everything, and sucks his toes.
16) Isla
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.
19) Abuela
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Flying over Manhattan Island, turning somersaults in midair. Gliding low to race the sailboats, spreading skirts for sails. Rosalba and her grandmother, her abuela, are taking an extraordinary trip - on Rosalba's imagination. "Tantos pájaros. So many birds." Rosalba says to herself, feeding the birds in the park with Abuela. "What if they picked me up and carried me high above the park? What if I could fly?" And fly she does, calling Abuela up to...