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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When Amber and her father go to visit her Aunt Phoebe, she wraps herself in cloth from Ghana and learns the significance of the colors and symbols to the Ashanti people.
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grade boy trades his 5792 freckles to a strange department store manager in exchange for a fitting revenge on everyone in school who has ever tormented him.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
As a young African American girl pieces her first quilt together, the history of her family, community, and the struggle for justice and freedom in Gee's Bend, Alabama unfolds.
13) The trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having become embroiled in one troublesome situation after another while living on his uncle's plantation in South Carolina in 1861, eleven-year-old Austin eventually accuses his older relative of hypocrisy.
16) Are We There Yet
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
17) The puppy sister
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
A young boy is astonished when his new puppy begins to change into a human girl who says to him, "I love you, brother!"
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When he and his younger sister agree to help their wealthy, elderly neighbor care for the capuchin monkey that keeps getting away from her, Jimmy also helps the woman's troublesome granddaughter deal with secrets from her family's past.