Barbara Cooney
1) Miss Rumpius
Author
Language
Español
Description
The true story of Miss Rumphius, who made the world a more beautiful place with a handful of seeds.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Author
Publisher
Volo
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Pam and Penny Kellyhorn are eleven-year-old twins, one living with an aunt, the other with their father and cousin, in small towns in Maine and have just met, but it doesn't take them long to learn to be sisters as together they help bring an arsonist to justice, and try to rekindle the romance between Aunt Ivory and Puppa.
8) Ox-cart man
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.
9) Emily
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts.
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
As a child, Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful; she does them all, the last being the hardest of all. In Spanish and English.
12) Miss Rumphius
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As a child, Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful; she does them all, the last being the hardest of all.