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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the aftermath of an accident that has left her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Everyone in the neighborhood dreams of a taste of Omu's delicious stew! One by one, they follow their noses toward the scrumptious scent. And one by one, Omu offers a portion of her meal. Soon the pot is empty. Has she been so generous that she has nothing left for herself?
Author
Series
Mouse and Mole (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mr. Putter cannot sleep after eating too many of Mrs. Teaberry's pineapple jelly rolls, he and Tabby take a moonlit stroll that ends with the perfect neighborly gathering.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Morgan, who is very fussy and protective about her front yard, confiscates all the soccer balls, baseballs, and other kinds of balls that land there while neighborhood children are playing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Fish in a Tree comes a compelling story about perspective and learning to love the family you have. Delsie loves tracking the weather--lately, though, it seems the squalls are in her own life. She's always lived with her kindhearted Grammy, but now she's looking at their life with new eyes and wishing she could have a "regular family." Delsie observes other changes in the air, too--the most painful...
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wishing to bake an apple pie, Old Granny Smith sets out with a full basket, trading its contents for a series of objects until she gets the apples she needs. Includes a recipe for apple pie.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although accustomed to celebrating nearly all the holidays on the calendar, the Maple Street neighbors are surprised by the newly-moved-in Mrs. Muddle's definition of a holiday.
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Willow's family moves to a new home, she makes friends with all of the neighbors, even unsmiling Mr. Larch, through her letters inviting each to be as generous as she is.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Throughout the seasons in northern Vermont, Darrell helps his neighbors with snowplowing, supplying wood, and excavation work, never finding time to fix his own barn roof, but when a windstorm passes through town, he finds his kindness to his neighbors returned.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Many people are concerned, most of all Mother, when a band of pirates buys the farm next door, but Dad teaches them how to plant seeds, milk cows, ride horses, and much more while simply being a good neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cantankerous Ezra keeps rebuffing his nosy neighbor Old Betty when she tries to give him advice on how to survive the cold winter nights, until she finally discovers that his five dogs are his private source for warmth.
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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
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