Matt Faulkner
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
LuLu and Jelly are very excited to see the "colored" water they heard about in the city's water fountain, but are very surprised to learn what "colored" water actually means.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a thirteen-year-old California boy who is half Japanese is sent to an internment camp. Story based on the history of the author's great-aunt.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Groundhog wants to please all the animals, but half of them want spring to come quickly and the other half do not--and all of them think he controls the seasons, so what is a poor groundhog to do on Groundhog Day?
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry Ford, the creator of the Model T automobile, visits Santa Claus at the North Pole and, as he watches the elves making toys, he decides to use the same assembly line method to manufacture his automobile.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part? Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner...
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe's father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe's life around.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy agrees to give a disgusting monster first his soccer ball, then his bike in return for eating the boy's peas, but when the monster asks for the his puppy, the boy makes a surprising discovery.
13) Scatterbrain Sam
Author
Publisher
Talewinds
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Cady Stanton couldn't go to college, become a politician, or even vote. But she didn't let that stop her. She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men - and that included the right to vote.