Uri Shulevitz
1) Snow
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
2) Dusk
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city"--
3) The treasure
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Troto is a happy little car who likes to go places until he drives all the way to Cactusville and meets some big trucks that tease him for being so small.
5) Snow
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uri Shulevitz details the eight-year odyssey of how he and his Jewish family escaped the terrors of the Nazis by fleeing Warsaw for the Soviet Union in Chance.
It was during those years, with threats at every turn, that the young Uri experienced his awakening as an artist, an experience that played a key role during this difficult time. By turns dreamlike and nightmarish, this heavily illustrated account of determination, courage, family loyalty,...
8) Dawn
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Camped for the night by a lake, a boy and his grandfather experience dawn from their row boat.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
10) Hanukah money
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
Two young brothers wonder how much money they will receive from their relatives for Hanukkah.
12) So sleepy story
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the quiet of the night, a sleepy sleepy boy awakes to find the dishes, chairs, and clocks enjoying themselves.
13) Rain rain rivers
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child indoors watches the rain on the window and in the streets and tells how it falls on the fields, hills, and seas.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, China, Egypt, and Sicily.
16) The golden goose
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simpleton's generosity helps him gain a princess for his bride.
17) The secret room
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The king's clever treasurer tries to clear his name when the chief minister accuses the treasurer of stealing.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1968]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Czar proclaims that he will marry his daughter to the man who brings him a flying ship, the Fool of the World sets out to try his luck and meets some unusual companions on the way.