Candace Fleming
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his parents and four sisters, would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.” —The Wall Street Journal
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at...
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Positively tailor-made for reading—or reading aloud—by flashlight," declares Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860s to the present, and ends with...
The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author Candace Fleming gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set in White Cemetery, an actual graveyard outside Chicago, each story takes place during a different time period from the 1860s to the present, and ends with...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the life of the famous American icon, describing her childhood, early determination to become a pilot, flying feats, and her attempt to fly around the world, which resulted in her mysterious disappearance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert F. Sibert Medal Winner
Take to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life!
An Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Selected for the Texas Bluebonnnet Master List
Finalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery...
Take to the sky with Apis, one honeybee, as she embarks on her journey through life!
An Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Selected for the Texas Bluebonnnet Master List
Finalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
A tiny honeybee emerges through the wax cap of her cell. Driven to protect and take care of her hive, she cleans the nursery...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Take a bite out of this deliciously funny original fairy tale, which received four starred reviews and was named a Best Book of the Year by Booklist, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and the Bank Street College of Education.
What would you do if you were invited to the princess’s tenth birthday party but didn’t have money for a gift? Well, clever Jack decides to bake the princess a cake.
Now he just has...
What would you do if you were invited to the princess’s tenth birthday party but didn’t have money for a gift? Well, clever Jack decides to bake the princess a cake.
Now he just has...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Though Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's backgrounds differed considerably, both were intellectuals who shared interests in literature and politics, as well as a great love for each other.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"During the reign of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun ruled and died tragically young. In order to send him on his way into the afterlife, his tomb was filled with every treasure he would need after death. And then, it was lost to time, buried in the sands of the Valley of the Kings. His tomb was also said to be cursed. Centuries later, as Egypt-mania gripped Europe, two Brits -- a rich earl with a habit for gambling and a disreputable,...
Author
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Throughout their fifth-grade year, a group of rambunctious students learns fable-like lessons from extraordinary activities, singing guinea pigs, and eccentric teachers, led by the inimitable Mr. Jupiter.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Biography of P.T. Barnum, showman and founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Readers can visit Barnum's American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 in. tall) and his tinier bride (32 in.); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum's legacy.
13) Oh, no!
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A series of animals falls into a deep hole, only to be saved at last by a very large rescuer.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having worked all summer at keeping bunnies out of his garden, Mr. McGreely looks forward to a peaceful winter--if only he can keep those naughty bunnies from invading his home.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous "crash from outer space" has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge...
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A German shepherd is transformed from Etzel, a police dog in Berlin, to Strongheart, a silent movie star that will need his best acting skills to prove himself innocent of attacking a girl.