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1) Madeline
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format.
Author
Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.
4) The barn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons - actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to take Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe on a terrifying,...
Author
Series
Miss Malarkey volume 2
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A teacher imagines the chaos that takes place when she stays home one day because she is sick.
9) The octopus
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.
11) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. Includes discussion questions and related activities.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During a malaria epidemic in late eighteenth-century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.