Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt.
3) Nora's ark
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During the Vermont flood of 1927, a girl and her grandparents share their new hilltop house with neighbors and animals.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized retelling of the true story of three-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods of New Hampshire and was protected by a bear until her rescue four days later.
Retells the story of three-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods and was protected by a bear until her rescue
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a descriptive list of all the things required to have a Christmas like the author's grandmother had, including farm animals, stories of Scotland, ice skating in the moonlight, and joining friends, family, and neighbors at church on Christmas Eve.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Quila and her father, living alone in a remote Maine lighthouse in the 1850s, find their lives profoundly changed when a baby washes ashore and they decide to keep her as part of their family.
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The last year of World War I is an eventful one for Vermont farm boy Mason as he helps with the chores, tries to get along with his little brother, and sees an older bully go off to the war.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1932 when Lily is twelve years old, she is granted her two greatest wishes, to be far from the sister who torments her and to have a horse of her own, but she does not expect either the tragic events that bring this about or their consequences.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Iris dreams of one day running the family farm in northern Vermont, but the summer of 1956 holds many shocking changes that threaten the life Iris loves.
18) Wilderness cat
Author
Publisher
Cobblehill Books/Dutton
Language
English
Description
When Serena's family moves fifty miles to a wilderness area in Canada, they think that they have left their cat Moses behind, but then they receive a surprise visitor.
20) True colors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.