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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mallie knows better than to dream. In Coal Top, you live the story you're given: boys toil in the mines and girls work as servants. Mallie can't bear the idea of that kind of life, but her family is counting on her wages to survive. It wasn't always this way. Before the Dust came, the people of Coal Top could weave starlight into cloth. They'd wear these dreaming clothes to sleep and wake up with the courage to seek adventure...or...
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