David Small
Author
Pub. Date
©2020
Description
"One day, Imogene woke up to discover that she had sprouted antlers overnight. Her family was confused, her mother was distraught and there was no explanation. Then she woke up the next day and they were gone, but were replaced by something just as curious. Now Imogene has found she has a new curious feature every day. Some are helpful, some are sweet, some are downright strange. But all of them upset her poor mother who just can't handle how improper...
6) The Gardener
Author
Series
Caldecott honor book volume 1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
9) The library
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.
10) The underneath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
An old hound that's been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
12) One cool friend
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Elliot, a very proper young man, feels a kinship with the penguins at the aquarium and wants to take one home with him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
David Small's harrowing account of growing up under the watchless eyes of parents who gave him cancer (his radiologist father subjected him to unscrupulous x-rays for minor ailments) and let it develop untreated for years--but in delicate glimpses of the author's child's-eye view, sketched most often with no words at all. Early memories (and difficult ones, too) often seem less like words than pictures we play back to ourselves.
15) Home After Dark
Author
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to dilapidated 1950s Marshfield, California where he is forced to fend for himself against a ring of malicious bullies.
Author
Pub. Date
1997, c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"George Washington's cows were kept upstairs,And given their own special room.They never were seen by light of day.No matter for what or by whom."These cows are just the beginning of George's problems. To be sure, his hogs are helpful around the house, but it irks Martha when their parties are better than hers. And then there are the sheep--all of them smarter than Tom Jefferson, with degrees (no to say "sheepskins") to prove it. What's a Father of...