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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Teddy is a gifted dog. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud and the comforting clicking of a keyboard. Although Teddy understands words, Sylvan always told him there are only two kinds of people in the world who can hear Teddy speak: poets and children. Then one day Teddy learns that Sylvan was right. When Teddy finds Nickel and Flora trapped in a snowstorm, he tells them that he will bring them home...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
3) Fly away
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old brother Teddy, the rest of their family, and a few cows.
Author
Series
Young patriots volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides a fictional account of the slave who arrived in Boston unable to read, write, or speak English, but overcame these obstacles to become a published poet.
5) The dreamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. Includes author's note about the poet.
7) The rescuers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two enterprising mice live up to the motto of the Rescue Aid Society, "We help anyone ... anywhere," when they rescue a kidnapped orphan.
Author
Series
Marty Frye private eye volume 01
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Marty Frye, a seven-year-old who likes to read poetry and talk in rhymes, solves three separate mysteries for a classmate, a toy store owner, and his younger sister.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance--paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Longing for a life filled with poetry and the green pastures beyond the farm where she is destined for the slaughterhouse, Audrey the cow enlists the help of human and animal friends to stage a daring escape."--From NoveList.
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