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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,...
Author
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
Great Peach experiment volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After ten-year-old Freddy Peach wins his family a trip to the Ice Hotel in Sweden, the family pack their bags to learn how to run a successful hotel and participate in the Ice Hotel's Frozen Olympics.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Gustaf Håkansson, the sixty-six-year-old man who in 1951 surprised the judges and the crowds by riding more than a thousand miles in the Tour of Sweden bicycle race. Includes a CD containing a reading of the story and a Swedish waltz.
9) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Spending most of a year with relatives on a farm in southern Sweden while his parents are busy building a new house in town, a young boy finds inner strengths and unexpected sources of entertainment.
11) Superabuelo
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A sixty-six-year-old grandfather, barred from entering the 1000-mile Tour of Sweden because of his age, unofficially joins the bicycle race and, to the delight of his countrymen, emerges victorious.
Sumario en español: Gustaf Håkansson tenía 66 años. Quería andar en una carrera de bicicletas pero los jueces dijeron que el era demasiado viejo para eso. Así decidió entrar la carrera a solas y al final ganó la carrera.
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