Ed Young
21) White Fang
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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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...
22) Seven blind mice
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Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.
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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.
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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...
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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...
28) Nighttime Ninja
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure -- Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
33) Wabi Sabi
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
35) Sadako
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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.
36) Moon bear
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, get their name from the white moon-shaped blaze on their chests. Sadly, there are more moon bears in captivity than in the wild, as the animals are being farmed for their commercially valuable bile. This text pays tribute to the endangered species.
39) Bitter bananas
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Series
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When baboons begin stealing the sweet palm sap that Yusuf sells at the market near his Nigerian village, what is he to do?
40) Tsunami!
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.