Kathryn Lasky
101) Unicorns? get real!
Author
Series
Camp princess novel volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Princess Gundersnap learns that her mother, the Empress, has taken her favorite pony to war, she turns to the enchanted tapestry for magical help in saving him and finds that the answer lies with a creature she believes does not exist.
103) The bone wars
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Indians prepare to go to war against the white man.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"A picture-book biography of young Isaac Newton, who 'discovered' gravity, developed calculus, and uncovered the secrets of light and color"--Provided by publisher.
106) Star split
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
1999.
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In 3038, thirteen-year-old Darci uncovers an underground movement to save the human race from genetic enhancement technology.
107) Broken Song
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Julia knows that her physical deformity will keep her from a normal life, but counts on the continuing friendship of her life-long slave, Mitka, until they learn that both of their futures in first-century Pompeii are about to change for the worse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
This box set contains the first three books by Kathryn Lasky, which are the basis of the animated movie, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
The Capture, Book One. Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, and Soren is captured and imprisoned in a dark canyon where there is a mysterious school. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes it's something far
...113) Sophie and Rose
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After she discovers an old doll that had belonged to her mother and her grandmother, Sophie grows to love the doll more and more even though she is missing some hair, gets chocolate-stained, and loses an eye.
115) Blood secret
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls.
118) The royal diaries
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A look at what life might have been like for royal teens of the past, mixing storytelling with historical facts. Includes Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile ; Isabel, jewel of Castilla, Spain; and Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor, England.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Young owl Soren marvels at his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, mythic winged warriors who fought a great battle to save all owl kind from the evil Pure Ones. When he and brother Kludd fall from their treetop home and into the talons of the Pure Ones, it's up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave owls. Also contains the 3D feature film.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
The once-forgotten beginnings and ambitions of the Guardians --as well as some heartbreaks-- are finally uncovered through the inquiry and commentary of Otulissa, the tree's dutiful historian.