Barbara Cooney
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
4) Ox-cart man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
The growing to maturity of an Austrian deer. The Prince of the Forest Bambi's life in the woods begins happily. There are forest animals to play with -- Friend Hare, the chattery squirrel, the noisy screech owl, and Bambi's twin cousins, frail Gobo and beautiful Faline. But winter comes, and Bambi learns that the woods hold danger -- and things he doesn't understand. The first snowfall makes food hard to find. Bambi's father, a handsome stag, roams...
6) Eleanor
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became a great humanitarian.
8) Bambi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Describes the life of a deer in the forest as he grows into a beautiful stag.
10) Emily
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts.
11) Roxaboxen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
It was just like any rocky hill-sand and rocks and some old wooden boxes. But we called it Roxaboxen and it was a town all our own. We created houses outof stones and those old boxes became our furniture. There was one street at first but gradually the town grew.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.