Ted Rand
1) Night tree
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.
2) My Shadow
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated version of the poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow.
3) Mailing May
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
8) Barn dance!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Unable to sleep on the night of a full moon, a young boy follows the sound of music across the fields and finds an unusual barn dance in progress.
11) Baby in a basket
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1917, Marie and her children Betty and baby Ann are leaving Alaska for the winter by sleigh, when disaster strikes during a snowstorm.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with...
15) Can I be good?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although he wants to be good, a big dog keeps doing things that get him into trouble.
17) My mountain song
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
One summer day on her great-grandparents' Kentucky farm, a squabble with her cousin Melvin spurs Brenda Gail to begin choosing the moments that will become her own special song made of memories.
19) My father's boat
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.
20) Once upon a farm
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Illustrations and simple rhyming text recall life on a family farm.