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1) Zooman Sam
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
3) Wolf!
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
"When the new teacher announces all 3rd graders must read in front of everyone on Parents Night, Trevor Lee and his best friend take action before his secret of not being a good reader gets out."-- publisher.
6) The book hog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
9) The big game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
11) The golden braid
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The one who needs rescuing isn t always the one in the tower. Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter and...
13) Just Juice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
18) Ever faithful
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A man who can't read will never amount to anything--or so Nate Webber believes. But he takes a chance to help his family by signing up for the new Civilian Conservation Corps, skirting the truth about certain "requirements." Nate exchanges the harsh Brooklyn streets for the wilds of Yellowstone National Park, curious if the Eden-like wonderland can transform him as well.
Elsie Brookes was proud to grow up as a ranger's daughter, but she longs for...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
20) Read on, Rita
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rita, a young raccoon discovers that all of the books in the land are being bought by a sly hedgehog who firmly believes a picture is worth a thousand words. Rita, in a competition, convinces him that from words come great dreams and pictures.
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