Paul Fleischman
1) Weslandia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life.
4) Bull Run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
5) Whirligig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he causes, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
7) Seedfolks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
8) Saturnalia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Language
English
Description
The author draws from a variety of folk traditions to put together this version of Cinderella, including elements from Mexico, Iran, Korea, Russia, Appalachia, and more.
10) Time train
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
A class takes a field trip back through time to observe living dinosaurs in their natural habitat.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
Follow a girl's perusal of her great-grandfather's collection of matchboxes and small curios that document his poignant immigration journey from Italy to a new country.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
"We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything needs rethinking - suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices. It's a changed world. This book explains it. Using politics, psychology, and history for attitude, Eyes Wide Open shows how to see the principles driving events...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
This book profiles twenty-six authors with original and distinctive approaches to literature and language. From a man who used vanity license plates to tell stories and a woman who made new poems by subtracting letters from published works, to people who studied word origins and variations, this is a celebration of the adventurers who have explored language with a sense of curiosity and playfulness. -- Adapted from provided information and jacket....
16) Zap
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A comic drama which combines famous scenes from well-known plays to create something to keep the audience guessing to the very end.
18) Dateline: Troy
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the story of the Trojan War illustrated with collages featuring newspaper clippings of modern events from World War I through the Persian Gulf war.
19) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A young woman presents a play based on her life as a seventeen-year-old runaway whose escape from her foster home in Los Angeles is thwarted by an all-day traffic jam, an event which provides time for her to explore her free-floating identity, hunger for her unknown mother, and yearning for human connection.