Maurice Sendak
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.
42) The golden key
Author
Description
The adventurous wanderings of a boy and girl to find the keyhole which fits the rainbow's golden key.
44) The wild things
Author
Description
During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze.
45) The nutcracker
Author
Series
Formats
Description
After hearing how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps break the spell and changes him into a handsome prince.
46) The moon jumpers
Author
Description
Features simple text that describes a cool, moonlit night and a group of children who meet outside to dance in the grass and play tag while the wind blows gently around them.
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is back with special cures for the not truthful, the pet forgetter, the fraidy-cat, the destructive child, and the child who continually says, "I can't find it."
48) 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.
50) Along came a dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A stray dog earns a home for himself by protecting a little red hen and her chicks from a preying hawk.
52) Osito
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Osito tiene cuatro aventuras incluyendo un viaje a la luna y una fiesta de cumpleaños.
Four brief tales in which Little Bear plays in the snow, has a birthday party, goes to the moon, and dreams about things he would like to do.
54) Swine lake
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A hungry wolf attends a performance of Swine Lake, performed by the Boarshoi Ballet, intending to eat the performers, but he is so entranced by the story unfolding on the stage that he forgets about his meal.
56) Bears
Author
Pub. Date
c2005, c1948
Description
With just 27 words, the inimitable Ruth Krauss created a charming little universe. Now Maurice Sendak has turned her bears into a troupe of players in a slapstick comedy starring a familiar boy in a wolf suit.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...