Ed Young
4) White Fang
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Set during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory, London's 1906 story chronicles the story of a half-dog, half-wolf beast in the wild. As opposed to his famous Call of the Wild tale of a domestic dog reverting to the wild, White Fang depicts a wild animal eventually becoming domesticated. It is a gripping tale told from the wolf's point of view about the hard life in the frozen wilds of the north. The story concludes with White Fang returning...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Includes instructions on folding paper cranes.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A refreshing, vulnerable, and empathetic guide to your own path forward after tragedy and hardship, A Path through Pain by bestselling authors and pastors of Fellowship Church Ed and Lisa Young shares their family's journey from sorrow and anger to hope and healing after the sudden loss of their daughter"--
"In the midst of deep pain, how can you move forward? Most of us spend our lives avoiding pain at every turn, so when we inevitably experience...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...
14) Nighttime Ninja
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure -- Publisher.
16) Hook
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get help from a boy in learning how to fly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the earliest European version.
18) My Mei Mei
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Antonia gets her wish when her parents return to China to bring home a Mei Mei, or younger sister, for her.
20) Red thread
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Early one morning Wei Gu meets an old man from the spirit world who tells the young bachelor about his future bride and their life together.