George Guidall
2) Windcatcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on a poor island in 1932, a young boy determines, despite his family's bitter opposition, to identify and somehow bring to justice the liquor smugglers who have been terrorizing the island.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What Kenny saw-or thought he saw- were two hands, then two arms, reaching up from the stain, pushing away a box of his mother's old books that was sitting on it. These hands and arms seemed to be not flesh and blood but sculptured, glowing smoke. It was as if, from under that box, a body was struggling to be free."-from Something Upstairs
Kenny Huldorf is not happy when he learns that he and his family will be moving all the way across the country...