Susan Hood
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women--each paired with a noteworthy female artist--to the next generation of activists, trail-blazers, and rabble-rousers. From the award-winning author of Ada's Violin, Susan Hood, this is a poetic and visual celebration of persistent women throughout history. In this book, you will find Mary Anning, who was just thirteen when she unearthed a prehistoric...
2) Lifeboat 12
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This page-turning true-life adventure is filled with rich and riveting details and a timeless understanding of the things that matter most."—Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus
"Brilliantly told in verse, readers will love Ken Sparks." —Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery Honor winner
"Lyrical, terrifying, and even at times funny. A richly detailed account of a little-known event in World War II." —Kirkus...
"Brilliantly told in verse, readers will love Ken Sparks." —Patricia Reilly Giff, two-time Newbery Honor winner
"Lyrical, terrifying, and even at times funny. A richly detailed account of a little-known event in World War II." —Kirkus...
3) The new kid
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new boy in class is a disruptive pest until one child remembers how bad it feels to be new at school and makes friends with Sid.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers, while hiding in plain sight, during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood with Greg Dawson (Zhanna's son).
She wouldn't be Zhanna. She'd use an alias. A for Anna. A for alive.
When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl, must leave behind her friends,...
6) I am mad!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl is upset when her sister purposely messes up her dress. Includes "Phonics Guidelines."
10) Show and Tell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's just not a good day when you've forgotten about Show and Tell. All the other kids have something neat to show, and you have...nothing. But if you think really hard, you just might come up with the best Show and Tell of all!
Author
Language
English
Description
The inspirational true story of how twenty-two-year-old Henny Sinding courageously helped smuggle hundreds of Jewish families in occupied Denmark to safety in Sweden during the Holocaust. A middle grade nonfiction novel-in-verse by award-winning author Susan Hood.
It wouldn't be easy, but they had to try.
It was their only chance to survive.
In 1943, Henny Sinding, only twenty-two years old, and the crew of Gerda lll, a lighthouse supply boat,...
12) Meet Trouble
Author
Series
All aboard reading volume level 2
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Double the trouble - two stories in one book! Meet Trouble: an adorable kitten - who gets in trouble! Double Trouble. Who is that kitten? Trouble will find out!
13) Bad hair day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the way to get a hair cut, a child sees others with not-so-perfect hair.