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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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No one would accuse eleven-year-old Caddie Woodlawn of being dainty and ladylike. In spite of her mother's best efforts, Caddie is as wild as the wind, playing freely and rambunctiously with her two brothers in the Wisconsin backwoods. There are rafts to build, and trees to climb, and pranks to play. Caddie especially likeds to watch her friend Indian John build birchbark canoes at the river. Everyday seems wide with possibility-as wide as the frontier....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.
Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
12) Shadow
Author
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Dear Mr. Henshaw
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
15) The bronze bow
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1961
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
16) The little house
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin co
Pub. Date
1942
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.
18) Time of wonder
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1957]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
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