Melissa Sweet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Award-winning artist Sweet tells the story of the puppeteer Tony Sarg, capturing his genius, his dedication, his zest for play, and his long-lasting gift to America--the inspired helium balloons that would become the trademark of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"SOME PIG," Charlotte the spider's praise for Wilbur, is just one fondly remembered snippet from E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. In Some Writer!, the two-time Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell his story, from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1985. Budding young writers will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and...
12) Bat jamboree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a boy, John James Audubon loved to watch birds. In 1804, at the age of eighteen, he moved from his home in France to Pennsylvania. There he took a particular interest in peewee flycatchers. While observing these birds, John James became determined to answer a pair of two-thousand-year-old questions: Where do small birds go in the winter, and do they return to the same nest in the spring?
20) Bats on parade
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten.