Patricia Reilly Giff
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 1
Pub. Date
c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Held back for a year in second grade, Richard can't seem to help getting into trouble, until he gets really interested in reading and helps his class in a special way.
42) Gingersnap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
Author
Series
Ronald Morgan volume 5
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although he can't hit or catch, Ronald Morgan loves to play baseball.
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 15
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
47) Storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Forced to spend months at an aunt's house, Elizabeth feels a connection to her ancestor Zee, whose picture hangs on the wall, and who reveals her story of hardships during the Revolutionary War as Elizabeth comes to terms with her own troubles.
48) B-E-S-T friends
Author
Series
New kids of Polk Street School volume 4
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Stacy thinks the new girl is horrible because she is so different and does not do anything the way everybody else does.
51) Genevieve's war
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on train to take her to boat back New York and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--
Author
Pub. Date
2007-12-02
Description
"After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill. Hollis is a talented artist and her life stories unfold through her pictures. One revealing picture is the "W" picture Hollis drew for a first grade class assignment on the letter "w". Hollis drew her Wish, her Want. She drew a picture of a family. Hollis had that...
53) Fancy feet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Stacy tried on the beautiful gold shoes her friend brought to school to sell in the class store. Now the shoes are lost and Stacy's friends think she stole them.
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 7
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
March is the worst month for Richard Best, it's report card time and if he doesn't get good grades he might be left back again.
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 9
Pub. Date
1986.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With the help of the meanest substitute teacher in the whole school, Richard "Beast" Best learns a lesson about fear.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home.
57) Starring Rosie
Author
Series
Ballet slippers volume 3
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rosie volunteers to provide the prince and the props for her ballet class production of "Sleeping Beauty."
58) Say "cheese"
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 10
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Emily and the other children go to the class picnic at the park. Emily is lonely because she does not have a best friend. She wanders off and becomes lost.
Author
Series
Ballet slippers volume 5
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rosie plans to surprise her grandfather on his birthday by getting her dance class to perform "Cinderella," his favorite ballet.
60) Soccer song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jill's friends know that she has strong arms and hands and so when she is learning to play soccer, they help her to find a position in which she can excel.