Emily Arnold McCully
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
Author
Series
Mirette books volume 3
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With the help of a young immigrant boy they meet on their crossing to America, two famous tightrope walkers manage to survive the treachery of a rival showman.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnamʼs Sons
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mirette learns tightrope walking from Monsieur Bellini, a guest in her mother's boarding house, not knowing that he is a celebrated tightrope artist who has withdrawn from performing because of fear.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tarbell was the catalyst for exposing the truth behind corruption and unfair business practices. She investigated and published works about the Standard Oil Trust for McClure's Magazine that informed the world of shady business dealings and skyrocketed her into the public eye. She wrote inspiring and engaging biographies on public figures, her most notable on Abraham Lincoln. Although largely forgotten as the country forged into the 20th century,...
16) 1, 2, I love you
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A counting rhyme that captures the playfulness and tender affection between parent and child.
18) Nora's ark
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.
19) Ballerina swan
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sophie the swan joins a ballet class and works hard to earn a part in the end-of-year performance of Swan Lake.