Peter Sís
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
3) Robinson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robin and his friends are planning to dress up as pirates for their school's annual costume party, but instead his mother creates a Robinson Crusoe costume for him, and while the adults love it, his friends are less welcoming.
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Madlenka plays soccer in her city neighborhood--with the mailbox, a dog, a parking meter, and some cats.
6) Madlenka
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Madlenka, whose New York City neighbors include the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the South American grocer, and the Chinese shopkeeper, goes around the block to show her friends her loose tooth and finds that it is like taking a trip around the world.
Author
Series
Madlenka books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Madlenka walks her imaginary dog around her city block, her neighbors see in her pet the image of the dogs they had as a children.
Author
Language
English
Description
A father's diary, an artist's memoir.
By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys.
While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings from that time make no sense. I cannot decipher them. It was not until I myself had gone far, far away and received the message from my father that I became...
9) Nicky & Vera
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Français
Description
« J'ai toujours cherché à célébrer les aventuriers, les explorateurs, les inventeurs et les rêveurs. Mais je n'avais pas prêté assez d'attention aux héros discrets et silencieux. Je rends hommage aujourd'hui à Nicholas Winton, un homme qui, voyant la tournure que prenait le monde en 1939, a tenté, à son
échelle, d'agir autour de lui, sans jamais prétendre être un sauveur. » - Peter Sís
Hiver 1938, un jeune Anglais annule...
échelle, d'agir autour de lui, sans jamais prétendre être un sauveur. » - Peter Sís
Hiver 1938, un jeune Anglais annule...