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Part 3 Rating system; Q=quality rating 5=excellent 4=good
I=interest level, by grade level
R=reading leve, by grade level
Gackenbach, Dick *Tiny for a day* Clarion Q=4 I=k-2 R=3
Haley, Gail E. *Dream peddler* Penguin Q=4 I=2-5 R=3
Heckert, Connie *Dribbles* CLarion
Q=5 I=all R=3 Death from cat's viewpoint (useful)
Lockwood, Gayle Rogers *Libbie Sims, worry wart* Penguin
Q=4 I=4-6 R=4
Sleator, Wm. *Others see us* Penguin
Q=4 I=5-8 R=6 psychological thriller
Sanderson, Ruth *The Nativity* Little Brown
Q=4 I=all R=7
Meyerowitz, Joel *The nutcracker* Little Brown
Q=4+ I=all R=4 photos of production
Butterworth, Nick * The rescue party* Little Brown
Q=4 I=k-1 R=2
Esbensen, barbara Juster *Playful slider: N. Amer. river otter* Little
Q=5 I=33-4 R=4
Emberley, Michael *Welcome back sun* Little Brown
Q=4 I=1-3 R=3 Norway (sun returns)
Lindbergh, Reeve *Johnny Appleseed* Little Brown
Q=4+ I=2-10 R=poetry
McPhail, David *Santa's bk of names* Little Brown
Q=4 I=k-3 R=4
Farndon, John *Question & answer bk Eyewitness* Houghton
Q=4 I=all R=5
Whelan, Gloria *Goodbye Vietnam* Random Q=4 I=3-10 R=4 fiction
Kerson, Adrian *Terror in the towers* Random
Q=4 I=3-5 R=low 3 read it & believe it;good for reluctant rdrs.
World Trade ctr. disaster
Kramer, S.A. *Adventure in Alaska, dog sled race* Random
Q=4 I=3-5 R=low 3 same series as above
Walker, Paul Robert *Head for the hills! Johnstown flood* Random
Q=4 I=3-5 R=low 3
Donnelly, J. *Survive! Could you?* Random Q=4 I=3-5 R=low 3
Brady, Esther Wood *Toliver's secret* Random Q=4 I=3-6 R=5
Leverich, Kathleen *Hilary and the troublemakers* Random
Q=4 I=2-5 I=3
Whelan, Gloria *Night of the full moon* random Q=4 I=3-5 R=4 fiction
Dunlop, Eileen *Green willow* Holiday
Q=4 I=7-9 R=7 Scotland-mystery (adoption)
Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw *Looking at penguins* Holiday
Q=4 I=3-8 R=7 shorter than usual
Birdseye, Tom *Just call me stupid* Holiday
Q=4+ I=4-7 R=5 5th grader who can't read
Woodruff, Elvira *Ghosts don't get goose bumps* Holiday
Q=4 I=3-8 R=3+ good mystery; 2 11 yr. old girls, brother can't talk
Sharmat, Marjorie W. *Great Genghis-Khan lookalike contest* Random
Q=4 I=1-4 R=2 Stepping Stones
Shefelman, Janice *A mare for young wolf* Random
Q=4 I=k-3 R=2-3 Step into reading native Amer. (be true to y'self)
Johnson, Angela *the girl who wore snakes* Watts
Q=4+ I=k-3 R=2 finds a person who understands
Lisle, Janet Taylor *Forest* Watts
Q=4+ I=5-8 R=5 fiction, town called Forest, squirrel civilization
girl joins, war starts
Fox, Paula *Western wind* Watts
Q=4 I=4-8 R=4 bleak island off ME; 11 yr old "vanished" to spend
time with grandmother when sibling is born
Nabb, Magdalen *The enchanted horse* Watts
Nabb, Magdalen *The enchanted horse* Watts Q=4+ I=3-6 R=6
lonely girl in dysfunctional family; rocking horse turns into real horse
Avi *City of light, city of dark* Watts Q=4 I=5-9 R=5
comic-bk. style seasons explained
Van Laan, Nancy *Buffalo dance, Blackfoot legend* Little Brown
Q=4+ I= prek-2 R=3
Bowe, Betsy *Tracks in the wind* Little Brown
Q=4 I=all R=7 Minnesota animal tracks, personal exp. of author
Schotter, Roni *A fruit & vegetable man* Little Brown
Q=4 I=1-3 R=3 man gets sick but helper takes care of & inherits
Kennedy, dorothy *I thought I'd take my rat to school* Little Brown
Q=4- I=2-6 R=poetry poems Sept-June some good, some soso
Smedden, Robert *What is a fish?* Little Brown
Q=4 I=1-4 R=4 great illus.
Facklam, Margery *And then there was one, mysteries of extinction* Little
Q=4+ I=3-8 R=7 one of the best on extinct, endangered
Turner, Robyn *Rosa Bonheur* Little Brown
Q=4- I=3up R=5 portraits of women artists
Conford, Ellen *Can do Jenny Archer* Little Brown Q=4- I=2-6 R=3
Handford, Martin *Where's Waldo* Little Brown
Q=4- I=prek-4 tiny format
Sandburg, carl *More rootabagas* Random
Sandburg, carl *More rootabagas* Random
Q=4 I=3-8 R=4 10 stories
See you in Part 4!
Wendy Waloff in Philadelphia
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