Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
With a boom and a burst of fireworks, Mary Poppins returns, falling from the sky like a shooting star. She arrives not a moment too late: The Banks home is a complete shambles--five wild children without a nanny are five children too many!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day- yet she says she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, "all lined up." The other girls don't believe it, and when Peggy starts a daily game of teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses, everyone joins in. Maddie, Peggy's best friend, goes along with the game, but she secretly wonders whether she can find the courage to speak up in Wanda's defense. It's not until Wanda fails to come to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Who else but Mary Poppins can lead the Banks children--Jane, Michael, and the twins--on such extraordinary adventures? Together they all meet the Goosegirl and the Swineherd, argue with talking cats on a distant planet, make the acquaintance of the folks who live under the dandelions, and celebrate a birthday by dancing with their own shadow.
6) Paul bunyan
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1985], c1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A collection of exploits of the legendary lumberjack and his blue ox Babe.
8) Half magic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It...
10) Seven-day magic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A seven-day book of magic proves to be entertaining for five children, who must learn the book's rules and tame its magic.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drews put their very lives in peril.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1965
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Prompted by a terrible flood, a seemingly unheroic group of little people sets out on a quest to restore an ancient treasure and make the valley of the Watercress safe again.
13) Fairy tales
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1975] c1965
Language
English
Description
Four tales include "The Old Man Who Said 'Why'," "The Elephant and The Butterfly," "The House That Ate Mosquito Pie," and "The Little Girl Named I."
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1978
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A shoemaker and his wife being photographed for their wedding anniversary keep adding items to the picture despite the photographer's admonition that "Simple pictures are best."
17) Magic or not?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the family moves to Connecticut, twins James and Laura make new friends and begin a series of unusual adventures after discovering an old well that seems to be magic in their backyard.
19) Knight's castle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four cousins, Roger, Ann, Eliza, and Jack, have an extraordinary summer when, after an old toy soldier comes to life, they find themselves transported back to the days of Robin and Ivanhoe.