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Author
Series
Norvelt volume 2
Lexile Measure
920L
Summary
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
Author
Series
Cul-de-sac kids volume 3
Summary
Eric wants to find out about the old man who has moved in next door, so he and the other Cul-de-sac Kids decide to pay him a Christmas visit.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Summary
Little ones and grown-ups will giggle through multiple reads of Those Darn Squirrels!
From the creators of Dragons Love Tacos comes the story of what happens when a grumpy old man and some mischievous squirrels match wits-with hilarious results.
Old Man Fookwire is a grump. The only thing he likes to do is paint pictures of the birds that visit his backyard. The problem is, they fly south every winter, leaving him sad and lonely.
So he decides...
Author
Lexile Measure
900L
Summary
Maddy, an elderly woman, returns home to find a strange boy waiting for her, and she tells him the story about when she fell in love with a man named Feather, who put aside his old existence to live with her in a cottage and conceived a child with her--who was never to be born--and left, which caused Maddy to follow him across the sea.
10) Santa Baby
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Summary
"An exhausted Santa wishes for youth and ends up becoming a baby days before Christmas"--
11) Lockdown
Author
Lexile Measure
730L
Summary
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
"From the author and illustrator of Shy Willow comes the adorable Little Toymaker, who makes wonderful toys. not for children, but for their grandparents and other older folk. (People often forget that they, too, like toys!) But it isn't always easy. One morning, an old woman brings the Little Toymaker a candy tin she played with as a girl. The Little Toymaker takes the tin and ta-da! comes back with a sparkling new toy for the old lady. But it seems...
17) Petey
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
740L
Summary
In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.
18) Hour of the bees
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile Measure
670L
Summary
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
Author
Series
Norvelt volume 1
Lexile Measure
920L
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Summary
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.