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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly gifted author/illustrator to life.
4) Jeff Kinney
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text and full-color photographs introduce readers to Jeff Kinney. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
8) Maya Angelou
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Offers an illustrated telling of the life of Maya Angelou that focuses on how she overcame childhood trauma and realized her dream and became one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers.
9) E.B. White
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the essayist, poet, humorist, and children's author, who wrote such notable stories for children as "Charlotte's Web," "Stuart Little," and "The trumpet of the Swan."
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The granddaughters of the author Madeline L'Engle draw on previously unshared archival materials, including photographs, letters, and journal entries, to explore her literary life, legacy and impact on friends, fans, and family members.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Ernest Hemingway wasn’t just a novelist. He was a hunter and a fisherman; he became an ambulance officer in Paris, France, during World War I; and he worked as a reporter during the civil war in Spain in the 1930s. All of these experiences had such an important impact on Ernest’s life that he used them as inspiration for some of his most notable works of fiction, including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. He...
15) The lost garden
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.