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Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Pippi moves into in a house at the edge of a Swedish village with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She has upside-down braids and is wild and funny and her crazy ideas have a way of making anything exciting! Naturally, the children next door, Tommy and Annika are curious about their new neighbor. The three children have the most rollicking adventures on their own, with horses and monkeys, the circus,...
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Morris and Betty, two teens living in Stockholm, Sweden, meet and fall in love but the darkness within each of them at times makes it hard to maintain their love affair, especially after Betty compares Morris's behavior to that of his bipolar father.
6) Supergrandpa
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A sixty-six-year-old grandfather, barred from entering the 1000-mile Tour of Sweden because of his age, unofficially joins the bicycle race and, to the delight of his countrymen, emerges victorious.
Author
Series
Steiner sisters quartet volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
Author
Series
Pippi Longstocking volume 2
Publisher
Vikings Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too, like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla.
9) Superabuelo
Author
Publisher
Tortuga Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A sixty-six-year-old grandfather, barred from entering the 1000-mile Tour of Sweden because of his age, unofficially joins the bicycle race and, to the delight of his countrymen, emerges victorious.
Sumario en español: Gustaf Håkansson tenía 66 años. Quería andar en una carrera de bicicletas pero los jueces dijeron que el era demasiado viejo para eso. Así decidió entrar la carrera a solas y al final ganó la carrera.
10) The red bird
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Anna and Matthew, two poor siblings who have known only hunger, cold, and hard labor since their mother died, follow a bright red bird to a land of happiness.
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