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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) 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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
After receiving a K-9 badge for his birthday, Sparky is eager to prove himself a hero but the only one he can find in trouble is Tidbit, a puppy who just needs help with his reading.
8) 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
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...
10) Close to famous
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.
12) 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.
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....
15) Papa's mark
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
"A son teaches his father how to write his name so he can vote for the first time in this historical tale filled with warmth and strength by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Colin Bootman's expressive oil paintings. In a new author's note, veteran teacher and author Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert expands upon the obstacles facing African American voters in the aftermath of the Civil War and the fight to end voter suppression that goes on even today. Simms...
16) Take me there
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
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