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2) Warm as wool
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm.
3) Watercress
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
"Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot something growing in a ditch by the side of the road ... watercress! With an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail-covered plant as they can. At first, it's embarrassing. Why can't her family get food at the grocery store? But when her mother shares the story of her family's...
4) Lentil
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lentil's harmonica playing saves the day when calamity threatens the homecoming celebration for the leading citizen of Alto, Ohio.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After traveling from Connecticut to Ohio in 1800 to start a new life in the settlement of Aurora, the Sheldons find that they are the first family to arrive there and realize that they will be starting a new community by themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American family in Cleveland, Ohio, listens on their new radio to the first game of the 1948 World Series, in which Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League, won the game for the Cleveland Indians.
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