Patricia MacLachlan
42) Fly Away
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From the Newbery Award - winning author of Sarah, Plain and Tall comes a story about one brave girl who saves her family from losing everything.
Everyone in Lucy's family sings. Opera. Rap. Lullabies. Everyone, except Lucy. Lucy can't sing; her voice just won't come out.
Just like singing, helping Aunt Frankie prepare for flooding season is a family tradition - even if Frankie doesn't want the help. And this year, when the flood arrives, danger finds...
43) Nora's Chicks
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nora and her family have just arrived from Russia and are making a new home on the American frontier. The prairie is very different from the forested hills Nora is used to. Most of all, it's lonely. Papa has the cows he sings to as he milks them. Baby brother Milo has a dog to follow him wherever he goes. But Nora has no one and nothing to call her own until Papa brings home a dozen chicks and two geese. Nora names each one, and they follow her everywhere...
44) Just dance
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
On a farm in the middle of the prairie, ten-year-old Sylvie struggles to understand why her mother gave up singing on stage while she sets off on an adventure of her own as the town reporter.