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(0)Lois Lenski
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
c1973
Language
English
Description
Judy lives in a tent with her family. Will they ever be able to afford a farm with a real house? Ten-year-old Judy and her family are migrants, moving from farm to farm with each new season. Starting in Alabama, they travel to Florida and up the East Coast all the way to New Jersey, always looking for steady work. Every time Judy feels as if they're beginning to put down roots, they have to move on. It's hard for her to catch up in school; it's hard...
Author
Series
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
1946
Language
English
Description
A young boy dreams of music and sunshine in the Great Smoky Mountains. As far as Billy is concerned, there's no sight more beautiful than the sun setting over the Blue Ridge Mountains. When the day is done, he sneaks away from his work to watch the sun go down. If his father knew, he would call Billy lazy, but Mama would understand. She knows life in the mountains is hard and that there's no point in living if a person can't take time to appreciate...
5) Betsy-Tacy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Best Friends Forever
There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy.
Betsy
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Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
Joel, son of an Oregon logger, grows up in a family that sees the forest as a thing to be cut down; but as he watches fire, flood, and cutting damage the forests he loves, and realizes the dangers of his father's profession, he is better able to select the right future for himself
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2011, ©1957
Language
English
Description
"What would it be like to live on a houseboat on the Mississippi River with two parents, four kids, eight chickens, several turtles, a dog, and a cat? Patsy and her family are about to find out!"--Back cover.
8) Cowboy Small
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cowboy Small takes good care of his horse, rides the range, helps in the roundup, and rides a bucking bronco.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1979,c1941
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Two best friends discover the joy of meeting someone new in the second book in this classic children's series set in 1910 Minnesota.
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.
They are not as good as they...
Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves.
They are not as good as they...
12) On a summer day
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, a girl describes the many ways in which she and her brother play together on a summer's day
13) The little train
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000, c1940
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Engineer Small at the throttle takes the little train on its run from Tiny Town to the big city
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ann Eliza takes very good care of the farmyard animals so, despite the grumbling of Graybeard the Goat and the bragging of White Rabbit, they work together to make a very nice Easter for her
18) The little auto
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1962,1934
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers
Pub. Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing up-exciting things are bound to happen. And they do! The girls fall in love with the King of Spain, perform in the School Entertainment, and for the first time, go all the way over the Big Hill to Little Syria by themselves. There Betsy, Tacy, and Tib make new friends and learn a thing or two. They learn that new Americans are sometimes...