Peter Sís
2) 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.
3) Fire truck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Matt, who loves fire trucks, wakes up one morning to find that he has become a fire truck, with one driver, two ladders, three hoses, and ten boots. Features a gate-fold illustration that opens into a three-page spread.
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.
6) Komodo!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy who loves dragons goes with his parents to the Indonesian island of Komodo in hopes of seeing a real dragon. Includes factual information about the Komodo dragon.
7) Beach ball
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
While at the beach, Mary and her mother see letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and more.
8) Ballerina!
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young girl puts on costumes of different colors and imagines herself dancing on stage.
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
It is raining bullfrogs. Inside the coach to Cricklewood sit a blacksmith, a thief, and an orphan boy named Touch. "The haunt, lad!" shouts the blacksmith suddenly. "If you want to see a live ghost, stick your head out the window. He's on the roof." That is Touch's first glimpse of the roguish ghost of The Great Chaffalo, a magician once celebrated for his trick of turning straw into horses. They meet again when Touch, fleeing from his wicked great-uncle,...