Tony Johnston
2) Very scary
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
©1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A pumpkin shimmering in the moonlight attracts the attention of an owl, a cat, crickets, a witch, and a group of boys and girls, who change it into a scary jack-o-lantern.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Unwelcomed by their neighbors because they are squiggly, skinny, and long, the Worm family moves from place to place before finally finding friends who accept and appreciate those who are different.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Each day, from September through November, a girl quietly sitting in the woods with her sketchbook glimpses forest animals seeking food in preparation for the onset of winter, from a fox sniffing the last apple to a flock of wild turkeys that finds nothing.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Torn from his home and parents in Poland during World War II, a young Jewish boy starving in a concentration camp finds hope in playing Schubert on his harmonica, even when the commandant orders him to play.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Using the alphabet, Mexico is introduced in this picture book using poetry and detailed expository text. A through Z topics include: adobe, Diego Rivera, Lady of Guadalupe, lava, prickly pear, and skeleton"--Provided by publisher.
10) Day of the Dead
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes a Mexican family preparing for and celebrating the Day of the Dead.
12) My abuelita
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With great gusto, a child's grandmother performs deep knee bends, consumes a breakfast of "huevos estrellados, " and practices vocal exercises before going to work as a storyteller.
18) The soup bone
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
Description
Looking for a soup bone on Halloween, a little old lady finds a hungry skeleton instead.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Spencer and Vincent are jellyfish brothers who live together in the sea, their wet and shining home. They invented a little song which went like this: 'My brother, my brother, he’s sweet, not smelly. I love him from down in my jelly belly.' One day a wave of superior magnitude separates them! The brothers know they have to do whatever it takes to find each other again. And they’ll need some help along the way…"--Amazon.com.