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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
2) The big game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
3) Bluefish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.
4) Zooman Sam
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman explains to her son how she grew up in a remote village where almost no one could read and write, but she found a way to learn how when her sister began getting letters from a young doctor who used to live there.
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stuck in Group A with the kids who can't read, upbeat first grader Lupe Lopez is made fun of by a rival but refuses to let that stop her from becoming a reading rock star.
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey's Extraordinary Words, from political leader Stacey Abrams and artist Kitt Thomas. Stacey's favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books. On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in English, so they begin sharing books and...
Author
Series
Good Knight (Easy readers) volume 4
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The three little dragons have agreed to take care of the old wizard's cats while he is away, but their inability to read his instructions causes problems until their friend, the Good Knight, saves the day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Arthur and his friends buddy up to train for a race that will raise money for their school's literacy drive, Fern seems uninterested in winning or even improving her speed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
15) The book hog
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Book Hog loves books - the way they look, the way they feel, the way they smell - and he'll grab whatever he can find. There's only one problem: he can't read! But when a kind librarian invites him to join for storytime, this literature-loving pig discovers the treasure that books really are. --
16) Take me there
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
JoJo's first night in her own room is interrupted by a lion, then a bear, then a tiger and, while the first two obey her keep out sign, the tiger cannot.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After receiving a K-9 badge for his birthday, Sparky is eager to prove himself a hero but the only one he can find in trouble is Tidbit, a puppy who just needs help with his reading.
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
c[2006?]
Language
English
Description
In "Aunt Chip and the great Triple Creek dam affair," Aunt Chip saves the town ot Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television. In "Rechenka eggs," an injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind. In...
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