Emily Arnold McCully
1) Wonder horse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account of Bill Doc Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Knight loved to make things ranging from a foot warmer for her mother or toys for her older brothers. Or, when she was 12, a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off looms and hurting workers. Later, Mattie invented a machine that could cut and glue the square-bottomed paper bags we still use today. Meet the woman known as the Lady Edison.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning author Emily McCully's most adventurous book to date draws a dramatic portrait of life in nineteenth century America.
For as long as he can remember, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau has been told that a promising future lies ahead of him. After all, his mother is the great Sacagawea, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition of discovery. And thanks to his mother, Baptiste's life changes forever when Captain Clark offers him an...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, former slave and veterinarian Bill "Doc" Key realized that his new foal, Jim, was no ordinary horse. Believing in the power of kindness and patience, Doc taught Jim to spell, recognize the primary colors, and even make change from a cash register!
Performing in shows across the country, Jim stunned audiences with his incredible skills. But when some people called Jim a fake, Doc set out to prove them wrong and to show the world...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
On a very hot day, Min, a budding engineer, builds a machine that draws water from a well and into a swimming pool--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., 1 col. map ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he is shipwrecked and unable to return to Japan due to the chance of being executed, fourteen-year-old Manjiro is rescued by the captain of an American whaling ship who takes him to Massachusetts where he is torn between his second home and seeing his mother again.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Although it was not always easy for musician Franz Schubert to practice his music, he was supported immensely by his friends, who believed in his talent and wanted the world to hear his work"--
10) Grandmas at bat
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos.
11) 3, 2, 1, go!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
♭2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Told she cannot step over the line to play school with the older girls, Min builds a catapult and flies over it, instead.
12) Picnic
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little mouse gets lost on the way to a family picnic.
13) 1, 2, 3, pull!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Min wants to be in Ann's show, and after building a crane to remove the tree that has fallen on the stage, she gets her chance.
16) Pete likes Bunny
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Pete likes Bunny, the new girl in his class; and despite teasing from classmates, Bunny likes Pete too--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined that their daughter realize her musical destiny, her poor but devoted parents send her away as a baby to the Venetian ospedale, knowing she will be raised as an orphan and will never again be allowed to return home.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
While travelling with her mother cross-country by train in 1896, a young girl unexpectedly shares Thanksgiving dinner with the notorious outlaw, Butch Cassidy.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
This illuminating biography reveals how the daughter of Lord Byron, Britain's most infamous Romantic poet, became the world's first computer programmer.
Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles,...
Even by 1800s standards, Ada Byron Lovelace had an unusual upbringing. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles,...