Ann Whitehead Nagda
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
A stray kitten turns out to be the perfect way to help Rana make friends in her new school and to feel more comfortable with her grandparents, who are visiting from India while her parents are away.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Jenny is discouraged when her second grade penpal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become friends.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A story of how two baby cheetahs were raised from infancy at the San Diego Zoo is paralleled by how division was used in the daily activities needed to care for them.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Jenny writes an editorial for her fourth-grade classroom newspaper urging that her beloved cat, Munchkin, become the official school cat, despite his mischievous behavior before and during a Valentine's Day pet party.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Forced to work with the class bully on a project to design a new breakfast cereal, Richard also tries to stop him from picking on second-graders by using tarantula power.
Author
Series
Soundprints' read-and-discover volume Level 1
Publisher
Little Soundprints
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hungry panda wakes from a nap to search for its favorite food--bamboo.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When her friend Rana goes to India, Susan volunteers to take care of her cat and her sister's fish, but the job turns out to be much more difficult than she expected.
13) Kevin keeps up
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
When his teacher is replaced by a substitute nicknamed Beezer the Buzzard, and each student has to do a report on an African animal, Kevin, who struggles with attentional difficulties, is not sure he will survive the year.