Patricia Polacco
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
Description
An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.
4) Meteor!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1060L
Language
English
Description
A quiet rural community is dramatically changed when a meteor crashes down in the front yard of the Gaw family.
5) Thunder cake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
8) Pink and Say
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
10) Welcome Comfort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Language
English
Description
Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
12) Some birthday!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
On her birthday Dad takes a young girl and her brother to see the Monster at Clay Pit Bottom.
13) Betty Doll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 670L
Language
English
Description
Presents a story of precious family memories, based on the author's discovery of a beloved old rag doll wrapped in a letter written by her mother who had died a year earlier.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
Two faiths are brought together one winter in rural Michigan when a Jewish family celebrating Hanukkah makes Christmas special for their neighbors, a Christian family whose house has been touched by scarlet fever.
17) My Ol' Man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
A girl recalls the special summer spent in Michigan with her yarn-spinning father and a magic rock.
19) Chicken Sunday
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When two brothers visit a museum in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, with their grandmother, they find themselves in a very realistic Civil War setting where they see the Antietam battlefield and meet historical figures from the aftermath of that momentous battle. Includes author's note on the Battle of Antietam.