Patricia Polacco
3) Emma Kate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Emma Kate and her best friend share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time, all the things best friends do. But there is more to this best friend than meets the eye.
6) Thunder cake
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.
10) Just plain fancy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Naomi, an Amish girl whose elders have impressed upon her the importance of adhering to the simple ways of her people, is horrified when one of her hen eggs hatches into an extremely fancy bird.
14) Welcome Comfort
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend the school custodian that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve.
15) Remembering Vera
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A stray dog secretly adopted by the men of a U.S. Coast Guard base in San Francisco Bay proves to be a hero.
16) Palace of books
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At the public library in her new town, Patricia meets Mrs. Creavy, an encouraging librarian who introduces Patricia to the books of John James Audubon and helps her become the first member of the Audubon Bird Club of Freemont Elementary.
17) Mrs. Mack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
18) Fiona's lace
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Fiona and her family moved from Ireland to Chicago to begin a new life. Yet, when the family is struck with misfortune, will Fiona's lace help save them?"--
20) Pink and Say
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.