Hudson Talbott
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jaap Penraat has always felt a little Jewish growing up in Amsterdam in the 1930s. His hometown is one of the great Jewish centers of Europe -- until the German forces arrive at the outbreak of World War II and begin targeting the Jewish community. Jaap's instincts are to protect his Jewish friends and neighbors from Nazi persecution, and he sets to work making fake ID cards for them. As the war progresses and the Nazis turn his beloved Amsterdam...
3) Lancelot
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Lancelot is welcomed into the court of King Arthur as a valiant fighter and later rescues Queen Guinevere, fights the tournament at Astolat, and pursues other adventures
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Through a story from his own childhood, Hudson Talbott shares the challenges--and ultimately the rewards--of being a non-mainstream kind of learner"--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Beginning with two orphans, a prehistoric boy and a wolf cub, imagines how the bond between man and wolf might have formed and looks at how it changed through their shared history as wolves became domesticated and diversified into more than 400 breeds of dog.
9) Show way
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family
12) Leonardo's horse
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells about Leonardo da Vinci's life and the story of his model clay horse that was destroyed before he could make a bronze statue. Also tells the story of Charles Dent who fulfilled da Vinci's dream and make a twenty four foot bronze horse statue in the late 1990s.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The tale of four huge but huggable dinos who visit New York City to make millions of children's dreams come true. With his IQ-boosting 'Brain Grain' cereal, the time-traveling Captain New Eyes transforms Rex, Elsa, Dweeb, and Woog into thinking, feeling, talking creatures.
14) Into the woods
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Into the Woods brings well-known fairytale characters to musical life, interwoven with the story of a baker and his wife, whose longing for a child is thwarted by a mischievous witch. Stephen Sondheim's songs, seamlessly melded to James Lapine's text, are perfect expressions of the complications of living in modern society and the difficult choices we encounter on the paths of our lives. Into the Woods premiered on Broadway in 1987, winning three...