Candice F Ransom
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ten-year-old Orry Jenkins is sick and tired of the dust. The year is 1935 and Kansas hasn't gotten enough rain in years. Instead of rainstorms, they get dust storms. One day, Orry and his little stepsister go outside to play. They're far from home when a huge dust storm comes up. Stranded alone on the plains, the children must find a way to survive the terrible black blizzard.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It's the summer of 1900, and 10-year-old Robert Pettibone is bored. His parents have sent him to stay with his Aunt Maudie in Galveston, Texas. She doesn't let him do anything by himself. When a storm comes up, he rushes to the beach to take a closer look. But this is no ordinary storm-it's an enormous hurricane headed straight for Galveston. Raging winds and rising floodwaters threaten to destroy the entire town. Can Robert and his aunt survive the...
4) Pony island
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Rhyming text describes the origins of Chincoteague ponies and how they were rounded up and sold for the first time to pay for a new fire engine. Includes facts about the ponies, their home on Assateague island, and their relationship with the people of Chincoteague island.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
One day in 1919, in the town of Skopje, Albania, a young girl and her mother helped a sick neighbor and fed a hungry stranger. It was an ordinary day. But the girl became a woman who was anything but ordinary. She became Mother Teresa, the woman who believed every person counts.
10) Snow day!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After waking up to a snow day, a brother and sister enjoy winter activities with their friends.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Uni loves playing sparkle ball and is very good at it! But Goldie and Silky want to play soccer. Uni has never played soccer before. It doesn't look fun, and there are unicorns Uni doesn't know. Uni tries but makes mistakes. Uni sees a new friend mess up, too, and encourages him to keep trying and to believe in himself. Trying something new is fun when you work together! --Amazon.