Karl James Mountford
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"One morning, Fox is drawn toward the forest. There, in a clearing, he sees something small and silent, perhaps forgotten. It's a bird, lying as still as can be. Fox is confused, upset, and angry. Is the bird broken? Why doesn't it move or sing, no matter what Fox does? His curious antics are spied by a little moth, who shares a comforting thought about the circles in the sky--that the sun, even after it sets, is reflected by the moon and the stars,...
4) Heidi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 740L
Language
English
Description
No ordinary beast, Maurice is neat, polite, photogenic, and his roar is delightful to the ear, which leads his parents to enroll him at the Abominable Academy for Brutish Beasts, where he realizes he has a few things he can teach his fellow beasts.
Author
Series
Uncommoners volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Siblings Ivy and Seb Sparrow return to Lundinor with their friend Valian to thwart Selena Grimes, who, as the leader of the Dirge, plans to condemn the uncommoners to a disastrous fate.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the tale of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Description
In a space station many light years from Earth, Jakob lives with Grandma, a robot chicken named Derek, and ToolBot, a robot. One day, Jakob finds an enormous rusty, broken rocket in a hangar. "That's not a rusty rocket!" Grandma says excitedly. "It's the SPACE TRAIN!" She tells him that the Space Train used to travel across the universe "faster than the fastest spaceship." Jakob desperately wants to fix the train. Can they do it?
10) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of Black Beauty's experiences with both good and bad masters in nineteenth-century England.
11) The deadly omens
Author
Series
Uncommoners volume 3
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Ivy and her friends travel to Nubrook, the magical trading city under New York to look for Valian's long-lost sister Rosie and put an end to the Dirge once and for all"--
12) Little women
Author
Series
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the novel chronicling the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.