Claire A Nivola
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Sylvia Earle first lost her heart to the ocean as a young girl when she discovered the wonders of the Gulf of Mexico in her backyard. As an adult, she dives even deeper. Whether she's designing submersibles, swimming with the whales, or taking deep-water walks, Sylvia Earle has dedicated her life to learning more about what she calls "the blue heart of the planet." Life in the Ocean tells the story of Sylvia's growing passion and how her ocean exploration...
4) Elisabeth
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Forced to flee the Nazis, a young girl and her family eventually end up in the United States where, years later, with a young daughter of her own, she is improbably reunited with the beloved doll she left behind in Germany.
5) The forest
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A mouse sets out to overcome a lifelong fear of the forest.
6) Star Child
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Star Child wants very much to visit Earth, but his elders tell him that to do so he will have to be born a human child and endure an existence far different from what he has known.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...Who wrote these words? And why? In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet that was to give voice to the Statue of Liberty. Originally a gift from France to celebrate our shared national struggles for liberty, the Statue, thanks to Emma's poem, slowly came to shape our hearts, defining us as a nation that welcomes...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates events of the 1814 Battle of Baltimore as seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old Caroline Pickersgill, who had worked with her family and their servants to sew the enormous flag which waved over Fort McHenry.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the beginning of the Civil War, Lula McLean's family home in Manassas, Virginia, is taken over by the Confederate army and used as its headquarters. Forced to flee by the oncoming Union army, Lula and her family and her favorite rag doll move south to a small village called Appomattox Court House. Then one day in 1865, Lula left her doll behind, and what happened next made history.