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1) The big game
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Harry sits on the porch with Mr. George Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
6) Bluefish
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide his illiteracy, when he meets a sassy classmate with her own secrets and a remarkable teacher.
7) Zooman Sam
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The Joneses have just won the Great Montgomery Book Emporium in a contest, and it's every book lover's dream! The pull of a lever calls forth a room full of marvelous wonders--from the Room of Woodland tales with its squirrels and mice, to the rocket ship in the Room of Space Adventures, and the aquarium ceiling in the Room of Ocean Tales. But there is more to the Emporium than its thousands of books in extravagant displays. In fact, the previous...
13) The book hog
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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. --
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen is gifted at many things. She's got a great sense of style. She's a loyal friend. And she's also an excellent storyteller who enjoys spinning tales full of mystery and suspense. To capture all her good story ideas, she even carries a personal audio recorder wherever she goes. But Maple has a secret--there's one big thing she struggles with. She doesn't know why letters rearrange themselves on the page or flip upside down when she...
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