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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who is the author behind your most beloved American classic? This title takes a look into Langston Hughes's life, including significant events, influences, and most remembered works. Hughes-poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist-is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This...
2) Walt Whitman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who is the author behind your most beloved American classic? This title takes a look into Walt Whitman's life, including significant events, influences, and most remembered works. Whitman was an influential American poet who is responsible for the famous poetry collection Leaves of Grass. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This title also includes...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Who is the author behind your most beloved American classic? This title takes a look into Emily Dickinson's life, including significant events, influences, and most remembered works. Dickinson, who lived a surprisingly introverted and reclusive life, is remembered as a great American poet who was influenced greatly by the works of Wordsworth and Emerson. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This biography introduces readers to Cynthia Kadohata, the Newbery Medal winning author of Kira-Kira. She is also the author of A Million Shades of Gray, Outside Beauty, Weedflower, Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam, and other young adult and adult novels. Readers will learn about Kadohata's early life in the South, the influence of her Japanese heritage, her struggle to get short stories published in magazines, her switch to young adult fiction,...
5) E. B. White
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This biography introduces readers to beloved, award-winning author E.B. White. Readers will learn about White's childhood in New York, his work at the New Yorker, his farm in Maine, and his authorship of and inspiration for Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Easy-to-read text and full-color photos highlight White's childhood, education, family, and life as an author. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This biography introduces readers to Suzanne Collins, the best-selling author of the Underland Chronicles series and the Hunger Games series. Her books include Gregor the Overlander, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. Readers will learn about Collins's childhood in the United States and Belgium, the influence of her father's military career, her early love of reading, and her initial work as a writer for television shows such as Clarissa...
7) Robert Frost
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Who is the author behind your most beloved American classic? This title takes a look into Robert Frost's life, including significant events, influences, and most remembered works. Frost is best known for his stunningly realistic descriptions of rural life and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This title...
8) Mark Twain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Who is the author behind your most beloved American classic? This title takes a look into Mark Twain's life, including significant events, influences, and most remembered works. Twain is best known for authoring The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its famous sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This title also...
9) Molly's Cue
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English
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Molly's Cue is a story of growing up only to discover that things aren't the way you always thought they were; but with persistence there's more than one way to reach for the stars. For always and EVER, Molly Gumley has wanted to be on stage, has imagined and dreamed of life as an actor. That's because Grand, her grandmother, filled Molly with colourful stories of theatre life, and with her faith in what she saw as Molly's destiny. But as Molly enters...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"SOME PIG," Charlotte the spider's praise for Wilbur, is just one fondly remembered snippet from E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. In Some Writer!, the two-time Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell his story, from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1985. Budding young writers will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and...
11) Rick Riordan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book describes the childhood, education, and career of Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles series, the Heroes of Olympus series, and the 39 Clues series.
12) Mo Willems
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This title will introduce readers to the life and works of Mo Willems, including the Pigeon and Elephant & Piggie series. Complete with great photographs and a timeline!
13) Dav Pilkey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book describes the childhood, education, and career of Dav Pilkey, author of the Captain Underpants series.
15) Dr. Seuss
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The creator of fanciful children's books such as Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss is an amazing author. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the author's life. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.
17) Charles Schulz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The creator of the wildly successful Peanuts comic strip, Charles Schulz is an amazing author. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the athlete's life. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.
18) Yuyi Morales
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Highlights the life and career of the children's author and illustrator best known for her work "Just a Minute: a Trickster Tale and Counting Book."
19) Dr. Seuss
Author
Series
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This title will introduce readers to the life and works of Dr. Seuss, including The Cat and the Hat and Horton Hears a Who. Complete with great photographs and a timeline!
20) Mercer Mayer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The creator of the popular Little Critter series, Mercer Mayer is an amazing author. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into the author's life. Zoom in even deeper with quick stats, a timeline, and bolded glossary terms.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.
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