LLC Recorded Books
1) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Salma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Series
Hot Rod Hamster (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hamster, with the help of a canine junkyard dealer and his mouse assistants, builts a hot rod and drives it in a race against some very large dogs.