Brian Floca
1) Locomotive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and families are traveling together, riding America's brand new transcontinental railroad. The story comes alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to mountain to ocean. Come hear the hiss of the steam, feel the heat of the engine, watch the landscape race by. Come ride the rails,...
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"The students in Max and Mo's classroom are getting ready for Halloween by making masks. Once the kids go home, it is time for Max and Mo to make their own masks--but what kind of mask should a hamster wear?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She’s sick of running in circles around the dungeon gym. She’s sick, sick, sick of taking three baths a day. And her parents won’t let her have a dog. But when she writes to her fairy godmother for help, she doesn’t expect that help to come in the form of a crocodile—a crocodile who does not behave properly. Princess Cora goes on a delightful outdoor adventure and#x2014; climbing...
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 4
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
9) Ragweed
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
10) Poppy and Ereth
Author
Series
Poppy and friends volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
13) The Hinky Pink
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Summoned to the Great Castle of Firenze to create a special dress for Princess Isabella Caramella Gorgonzola, Anabel, a talented seamstress, is at first delighted but then increasingly despairing as time passes and her efforts are continually subverted by an unseen sprite.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of an elephant seal who knew exactly where she belonged. Here is the incredible story of Elizabeth, a real-life elephant seal who made her home in the Avon River in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Elizabeth decides to stretch out across a two-lane road, the citizens worry she might get hurt or cause traffic accidents, so a group of volunteers tows her out to sea. But Elizabeth swims all the way back to Christchurch....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
17) True stories
Series
Guys read volume 5
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% true.