S. D. Schindler
21) Big pumpkin
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers the value of cooperation when she gets help from a series of monsters.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of the only rock we eat, including its origin, the other discoveries made because of it, and tales of salt and the people who have been involved with it through the ages.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After painstakingly handcrafting a replacement copy of a library book, a medieval monk tries to protect it from a hungry bear with a taste for literature. Includes historical note on illuminated manuscripts.
29) The cod's tale
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As the town's official measurer, Magnus Maximus is consumed with measuring and counting everything and everyone, missing out on life's simple pleasures, until one day when he breaks his glasses.
33) How many fish?
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
A school of fish and a group of children frolic in the bay.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Thomas Jefferson, who was wild about numbers, read a book about America by a famous Frenchman, who insisted America was a horrible place, Jefferson set out to prove to the world that the new nation was nothing like that.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This picture book introduces readers to the famous first son who, forming a special and patient bond with his father, coped with a disability, and other challenges while showing compassion, intelligence and wisdom beyond his years. Tad Lincoln's boundless energy annoyed almost everyone but his father, President Abraham Lincoln. But Tad put that energy to good use during the tough times of the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln guided Tad's wriggle on visits...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Told in the present tense, each story becomes a glimpse of other, often lonely, lives at holiday time. These protagonists are, for the most part, outsiders looking in at more traditional families and their celebrations. One story, for instance, is of Mae, a homeless woman, who walks with her dogs through the pre-Christmas bustle of shoppers, unseen by most. She is sick and can't remember where the sick place is that they once took her to. She almost...
39) Hog music
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois.
40) Jane on her own
Author
Series
Catwings series volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jane, the youngest of the Catwings, thinks that life on the farm is absolutely boring. Looking for adventure, she takes to the skies to explore all the world has to offer. But when she flies through the window of a friendly-seeming human, Jane finds herself captured—and forced to make TV appearances as Miss Mystery, the fabulous winged cat. How can she possibly explore the world now? Is there anywhere Jane can be truly free?"--