John Manders
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a faraway kingdom where music has been banned, an ever-increasing group of musicians flees certain death but when their terrible playing becomes too much for their horse, he teaches them to play together by using musical notation.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When he climbs on a roof to read a love letter, a cat has an unfortunate fall with unexpected consequences. Music and Spanish translation at back of book.
Includes Spanish words or phrases.
4) Quiet night
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One frog, two owls, three geese are joined by increasingly larger numbers of different animals that keep ten campers from falling asleep in their tent.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the Buccaneer Bunnies receive a note from an unknown enemy, Henry researches and writes a book called "Plan for Impending Danger from the Unknown Enemy Who Wrote the Scary Note," which helps him when the enemy finally arrives.
11) Cowboy Christmas
Author
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three cowboys, Dwight, Darryl, and Dub, are stuck on the range with the cows at Christmas time. Along with the cook, they try decorating a cactus, frying up molasses cookies, and making the cows look like reindeer. They are rescued by Santa himself on Christmas Day.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jack's mother tells him how his father died when a giant stole his barbecue recipes, Jack vows to find the giant and retrieve the book. Includes an author's note about Texas barbecue.
17) Two bad pilgrims
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Brothers Francis and Johnny Billington take issue with history's account of their troublemaking ways aboard the Mayflower and in the New World, as they tell their side of the story to Standish Brewster, professor of Pilgrimology at Plimouth University.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
You make your bed in the morning. At times in the past, people really made their beds -- and at night they stuffed straw into a sack, making a bed to lie on. Nightclothes were first worn in the 1500s. Before that, people slept in their day clothes, their underwear, or nothing at all. In Ancient Rome, bedrooms were small. A servant guarded the doorway by sleeping across it. Learn these facts and more in this true but funny account as Newbery Honor...
Author
Publisher
Golden Book
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One Christmas Eve in the desert, some homesick soldiers are paid a visit by the Santa of Soldiers. This lively, poignant tale was inspired by Clement C.. Moore's famous yuletide poem.