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Pippi Longstocking volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Outrageous Pippi Longstocking of Villa Villekulla has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She has been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too - like buying, and eating, seventy-two pounds of candy on a shopping trip, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to show them what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
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English
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The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takes great delight in hurting the animals in his family farm. Nils captures a tomte (mythological creature from Nordic folklore) in a net while his family are at church and have left him home to memorize chapters from the Bible. The tomte proposes to Nils that if Nils frees him, the tomte will give him a huge...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait in separate foster homes for their parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
Author
Series
Flicka Ricka Dicka volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three little Swedish sisters find a wet and unhappy dog outside their door on a rainy day, care for him, return him to his owner--and find him outside again the next day.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
13) Deep sea
Author
Series
Steiner sisters quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nearly four years after leaving Vienna to escape the Nazis, Stephie Steiner, now sixteen, and her sister Nellie, eleven, are still living in Sweden, worrying about their parents and striving to succeed in school, and at odds with each other despite their mutual love.
15) Swede dreams
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In order to get away from her annoying twin sister, and to be with her boyfriend who was a Swedish exchange student at her Wisconsin school, sixteen-year-old Calista spends a semester in Sweden, where she learns about more than just the language and culture of this Scandinavian country.
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