Leo Dillon

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1) If kids ran the world

Author

Dillon, Leo

Publisher

The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

[2014]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

AD 520L

Language

English

Description

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In text and pictures, this book tells us how much better the world would be, if kids were allowed to run the world.

2) Rap a tap tap: here's Bojangles-- think of that

Author

Dillon, Leo

Publisher

Blue Sky Press

Pub. Date

2002.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

AD 360L

Language

English

Description

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In illustrations and rhyme describes the dancing of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, one of the most famous tap dancers of all time.

3) Love and the rocking chair

Author

Dillon, Leo

Publisher

The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc

Pub. Date

2019.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

AD 580L

Language

English

Description

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Before the baby arrives a couple orders a rocking chair, and as the family grows and changes, the rocking chair is always there, a center of love and continuity.

4) Two little trains

Author

Brown, Margaret Wise

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.

5) The people could fly: American Black folktales

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4

Lexile measure

660L

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD Book, eAudiobook

Description

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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.

6) The people could fly: the picture book

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

2004.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

480L

Language

English

Description

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In this retelling of a folktale, a group of slaves, unable to bear their sadness and starvation any longer, calls upon the African magic that allows them to fly away.

7) The girl who spun gold

Author

Hamilton, Virginia

Publisher

The Blue Sky Press

Pub. Date

2000.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

AD 620L

Language

English

Description

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In this African American retelling of "Rumpelstiltskin," Lit'mahn spins thread into gold cloth for the king's new bride.

8) The goblin and the empty chair

Author

Fox, Mem

Publisher

Beach Lane Books

Pub. Date

[2009]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

AD 550L

Language

English

Description

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A goblin who for many years has been hiding himself so that he does not frighten anyone finally finds a family.

9) Blast off

Author

Cain, Linda C

Publisher

New York Review Books

Pub. Date

[2021]

Lexile measure

AD 550L

Language

English

Description

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When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey.

10) Sabriel

Author

Nix, Garth

Series

The Old Kingdom

Lexile measure

1000L

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead