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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There was one passenger in the coach,-a small dark-haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. She was so slender and so stiffly starched that she slid from space to space on the leather cushions, though she braced herself against the middle seat with her feet and extended her cotton-gloved hands on each side, in order to maintain some sort of balance. Whenever the wheels sank farther than usual into a rut, or jolted suddenly over a stone, she bounded...
4) Snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
6) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it. But the thing Maniac Magee is best known for is what he did for the kids from...
Author
Series
Betsy-Tacy stories volume 6
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
1946.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.
10) Goggles
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles.
11) Heat wave
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Abigail, Ralphie, and the other citizens of Lumberville struggle to endure a week-long heat wave.
Author
Series
Little Elliot volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elliot the little elephant has a hard time with a lot of things in the city he loves until he meets Mouse, who is even smaller--and hungrier.
15) Iris and Walter
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Iris moves to the country, she misses the city where she formerly lived; but with the help of a new friend named Walter, she learns to adjust to her new home.
17) Sidewalk circus
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A young girl watches as the activities across the street from her bus stop become a circus.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1979.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The further adventures of 12-year-old Betsy, Tacy, and Tib as they explore the world beyond their neighborhood and discover the public library, see a real play, and make friends with the owners of the downtown hotel.
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