Meindert De Jong
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
3) Shadrach
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Davie is overjoyed when he receives the little black rabbit Shadrach -- until the day Shadrach slips through the slats of his hutch and disappears.
12) The singing hill
Author
Pub. Date
[1962]
Description
A little boy moves to the country with his family and gets a new hat which floats down a stream, gets chewed by a horse, and protects a skunk's home from the rain.
13) The Easter cat
Author
Pub. Date
1991, c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Although she has always wanted a cat, Millie is never allowed to keep one until she finds one next to her Easter basket.