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(0)Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized retelling of the true story of three-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods of New Hampshire and was protected by a bear until her rescue four days later.
2) Nora's ark
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a descriptive list of all the things required to have a Christmas like the author's grandmother had, including farm animals, stories of Scotland, ice skating in the moonlight, and joining friends, family, and neighbors at church on Christmas Eve.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
During the summer that Arlis spends with his grandparents in Vermont, his grandfather teaches him about loons, cross-country running, and responsibility, and when he returns home everyone finds out how much he has changed.
9) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Although she initially resents having to spend time with her ailing grandmother, Shelby gradually recognizes that she has much to learn from this older lady.
