Anne Wilsdorf
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On her very first day of school, Sophie is reluctant to make friends with the other children, preferring to play with two squash she grew in her garden--but when a particularly persistent boy named Steven gives her a packet of seeds as an apology for accidentally ripping her picture, she realizes that it just takes time to grow a friend.
Author
Series
Ruby Lu series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts to her new family, tries to mend her rocky relationship with her friend Emma, and faces various adventures in summer school.
10) The best story
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a contest at the local library offers a prize for the best story, a girl tries to write one using her family's suggestions, but her story does not seem right until she listens to her heart.
11) Alligator Sue
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After being separated from her parents by a hurricane on the bayou, a young girl is raised by an alligator and later must discover who she really is.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this fictionalized account, Sunny Boy, a 100-year-old tortoise, describes various events in his long life including the dangerous barrel ride over Niagara Falls that he takes with his daredevil owner on July 5, 1930.
14) Dogs on the bed
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A mother and father try to read to their two children before bedtime, but the family's six dogs create havoc when they insist on climbing into the bed and crowding everyone else out.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When Clarence Cochran wakes up one evening, he's shocked. Where are his antennae and his beautiful wings? And, what is this strange pair of shorts that he's wearing? Clarence has changed from a cockroach into a tiny human boy! The other cockroaches are disgusted. Only Clarence's mother understands. "Be who you are," she says. "You will do wonderful things." And, when the entire roach community, happily living in the messy Gilmartin kitchen, is threatened...