HILLARY CLINTON - books at the 3rd Grade Reading Level

Teachers and Homeschoolers, as you know the Presidential election looms and now that there's a narrowing of candidates we thought it was time to create a list of books for children about the current candidates: Clinton and Trump.

Surprisingly there are no reading-leveled books on Mr. Trump so you will have to gather supplemental material for him. 

Should he win we suppose that will be corrected.  For now, here are the books we've found about Hillary Clinton at the Third Grade reading level.  [There are no books at easier levels.]

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HILLARY CLINTON
(First Ladies)
Capstone
by Sally Lee

For this Capstone book we have two sample pages (below).

For those on phones or slow internet connections we've typed up a sample of the text so you can judge it appropriateness for your use.  Note that in this book many of the images are black and white. 

During Hillary's high school years, her minister took her youth group to churches in poor neighborhoods.  Hillary learned how badly minorities were treated.  Hillary wanted to help them.

This book is currently available as Used on Amazon for a reasonable price.

 

 

Reading Information:
Word Count: 304
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reading level: 3.2 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 140969
Lexile: NC550L
--amazon.link


HILLARY CLINTON
(Rookie Biographies - Scholastic)
by Jodi Shepherd

Publishers Blurb:  

As a young girl, Clinton was taught to always help the less fortunate. Over the years, she has dedicated herself to bettering the lives of women and children around the world. As a lawyer, a senator, and the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has worked hard to make the world a better place.

No sample pages available currently. 

Word Count: 617
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader level: 3.8 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 17254
--amazon.link


HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON: Historic Leader
(First Biographies)
by Sarah Tieck

This First Biographies book has a chapter format and amongst the sample pages included there is an image of the index so you can see what is covered.

Word Count: 1,071
Page Count: 112
Accelerated Reader level: 3.8 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 135697
--amazon.link

DISNEY'S FROZEN - reading information

FROZEN is the movie phenomena.  And adults and kids have been swept into the adventure and been awed by the fantastic music.

The following books entertain are based on the movie and give kids a chance to read-it for themselves.  

The BEST part is that these books are very affordable.  In fact, downright cheap, with most of them under $4 dollars.  So there's no reason not to put them on the home shelves where they can be read again and again!

Enjoy the fun!

**all ratings from GoodReads

Big Snowman, Little Snowman
(Step into Reading)
9780385385435

by Tish Rabe

3.97 avg rating — 278 ratings

Perfect for little ones.  This Frozen themed book is all about opposites, like "Happy sister, sad sister" and on/off, in/out.

You can start out using it with toddlers as a learning tool where you can point out objects and things like bird and cup, and name them.  Then later (or now) you can be use the book as a practice reader.  It's at the Kindergarten reading level.

(as of mid-June 2015 it's under $4!)

Reading Information:
Word Count: 138
Page Count:32
Accelerated Reader: 0.8 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 162307
Lexile: 70L
--amazon

Anna's Best Friends
(Step into Reading)
by Christy Webster

3.88 avg rating — 136 ratings

This adventure is all about Anna's best friends, Kristoff and his reindeer Sven.  The print is still large and the sentences are short; perfect for newer readers. They'll love reading about Anna's search for her sister.

(as of mid-June 2015 it's under $4!)

Word Count: 98
Page Count: 24
Accelerated Reader: 1.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 163902
--amazon 

Hello, Olaf!
(Step Into Reading)
by Andrea Posner-Sanchez

Shiny stickers! come with this book where kids get to meet Olaf.

Word Count: 128
Page Count:24
Accelerated Reader: 1.4 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 171449
Lexile: 360L
--amazon

A Tale Of Two Sisters
(Step into Reading)
9780385385442
by Melissa Lagonegro

4.06 avg rating — 432 ratings

A super-short retelling of the story.  This book features colorful pages and short sentences.  Here's sample text from the first 2 pages:

Princess Elsa and Princess Anna are sisters.

Elsa has a secret. She has magic powers. She can create ice.

Word Count: 327
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 1.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 162306
Lexile: 260L
--amazon 

A Day In The Sun
(Disney)
by Frank Berrios

3.82 avg rating — 168 ratings

We know Olaf likes warm weather, and in this book kids get to read about all the fun things Olaf dreams of doing under the sun.

Word Count: 119
Page Count:16
Accelerated Reading level: 1.7 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 174203
Lexile: 480L
--amazon

A Sister More Like Me
by Barbara Jean Hicks
Brittney Lee (Illustrator)

4.41 avg rating — 355 ratings

This book is interesting because it covers the missing years in Anna's and Elsa's lives, a period of time that wasn't mentioned in the movie.  

Alternating view points --shown in different colored text -- the sisters talk about their teen years where each sister developed their own interests and way of doing things.  Elsa, for example, liked to read books.  Anna, on the other hand, liked to be outside and she loved horseback riding.

Word Count: 528
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 3.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 162305
--amazon 

Anna's Icy Adventure
(Golden First Chapters)
by Elise Allen

4.14 avg rating — 97 ratings 

This book is long at 80 pages, but kids will be really motivated to keep reading as it retells the FROZEN story, only this time from Anna's point of view.

Word Count: 8,638
Page Count: 80
Accelerated Reader: 3.6 / points: 1.0
AR quiz: 161831
Lexile: 570L
--amazon

Frozen Fever
(Deluxe Novelization-Disney)
by Victoria Saxon

4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings

It's Anna's birthday and Elsa and Kristoff are working to pull together the best party ever.  The only problem is that Elsa's icy powers are putting the freeze on their best efforts.

Word Count: 10,791
Page Count: 96
Accelerated Reader: 4.0 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 172718
--amazon

Frozen: Junior Novelization
0736431187
by Sarah Nathan (Adaptor)
Sela Roman (Adaptor)

4.33 avg rating — 1331 ratings

This chapter book is at the 4th Grade reading level but it's got plenty of praise from adoring adults. Follows the movie closely.

Word Count: 19,395
Page Count: 128
Accelerated Reader: 4.1 / points: 3.0
AR quiz: 163218
--amazon
--audio version available
--sample pages available

compiled by Pam
updated June 2015

GARY PAULSEN books at the 3rd Grade level (Young Children)

Gary Paulsen is so prolific that we couldn't reasonably squeeze all of his books at the 3rd Grade level onto one page. (Imagine the scrolling... and scrolling!) So we are breaking them down into groups based on interest level.  NIGHTJOHN, for example, is definitely not for little ones.  It's a Young Adult book with some heavy themes.

The books on this list are at the Third Grade Reading level, but they are for young children.

FULL OF HOT AIR: 
Launching, Floating High, and Landing

4.4 STARS from 5 GoodReaders

Couldn't find a copy to review so we'll have to resort to the backcover description which says, "Gary Paulsen knows a lot about hot air ballooning, and he shares the information in witty high style. Illustrated with glorious color photographs taken by an internationally known balloonist."

No longer in print. This book is available on the used market --and at some lucky libraries.

Reading Information:
Word Count: 782
Accelerated Reading level: 3.0 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 7567


WORKSONG
illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen

3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings

People work. And in this book Gary and his wife, Ruth, celebrate all the different sorts of jobs and work that people do.

Personally, I like the artwork more than the poem.  But this is still a lovely book to share. One that can get conversation flowing...

It is keening noise and jolting sights,

and hammers flashing in the light,

and houses up 

and trees in sun,

and trucks on one more nighttime run. 

Word Count: 177
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 3.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 35675
Lexile: AD290L

DOGTEAM
illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen

3.54 avg rating — 61 ratings

In Dogteam, Paulsen draws upon his experience as a musher to bring to life a night run. The air is crisp..., frigid, and the dogs are eager to run. You will feel like you are whisking over the snow, past shadowed trees and wildlife on a moonlit night.

I really like this book. Here is a sample of the verse:

Wolves.
They come alongside in the moonlight,
moonwolves, snowwolves, nightwolves,
they run with us,
pace the dogs, pace our hearts and our lives
and then turn, turn away into the blue dark.

Ruth Wright Paulsen accompanies her husband's text with perfect images that capture the cold and motion and excitement of racing through the dark.

Word Count: 469
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 3.2 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 61739
--sample pages available

CANOE DAYS
illustrated by Ruth Wright Paulsen

3.72 avg rating — 67 ratings

Canoe Days takes a look at the life in and around a lake. The book begins with at paddler launching a canoe. It talks about the wonder of silence and beauty of sliding across the water. Children get to see a pike moving in the murky depths, and animals like foxes and racoons that frequent the shore in search of food and a drink.

The colors in Canoe Days are sunny. Bright blues and cheerful greens that are evocative of spring and summer. The text is lyrical and describes what the paddler hears and sees.

Sample:

Sometimes when it is still so still,
you can hear the swish
of a butterfly's wing --

sometimes when it is that still I take the canoe
out on the edge of the lake.

One stroke of the paddle and we are gone, the
canoe and me, moving silently.

Word Count: 379
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 3.5 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 31078
Lexile: AD840L
--sample pages available


To Find Gary Paulsen books at the 2rd Grade level, click here.

compiled by Pam
updated July 2014

NEWBERY HONOR Books

This list features the NEWBERY HONOR books. 

We'll be expanding it in the future to include more information and more back-years. In the meantime, there are links to check out the reviews at Amazon.com.

You can find the Newbery Medal Winners here. That list includes book descriptions and other information like reading levels, book points, and quiz numbers for those who like those additional facts.

**all ratings from GoodReads

*sample pages are available for all of these books


2013


SPLENDORS AND GLOOMS
by Laura Amy Schlitz

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist

 3.85 avg rating — 3,150 ratings

Clara Wintermute is the only child of a wealthy doctor.  When she sees  Gaspare Grisini fantastic puppet work she has him invited to her birthday party.  Gaspare agrees, but only because his criminal nature lets him see this as an opportunity to become rich.

Gaspare arrives with his two innocents assistants, Lizzie and Parsefall.  To the youngsters Clara's life seems marvelous.  But in fact it is not all it seems to be.  There are secrets and private grief and guilt.  And before the puppeteer and his helpers, Lizzie and Parsefall, can act, someone else kidnaps Clara.  

As they try to puzzle out who could have taken Clara, and where she is, Lizzie and Parse uncover Grisini’s criminal past.  Fleeing London, where they are suspects, they find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisini’s ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it’s too late. 

Reading Information:
Word Count: 102,088
Page Count: 400
Accelerated Reading level: 5.1 / points: 15.0
AR quiz: 153476
 Lexile: 670L 


BOMB: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
by Steve Sheinkin

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** Kirkus

4.15 avg rating — 4,134 ratings

The story of the atomic bomb.  This tale includes espionage!

Word Count:  60,534
Page Count:  266
Accelerated Reading level: 6.9 / points: 10.0
AR quiz:153499
Lexile: 920L 


THREE TIMES LUCKY
by Sheila Turnage

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist

4.01 avg rating — 4,965 ratings

Miss Moses LoBeau (Mo) lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC.  When she was a baby she was found on the shore after a hurricane, and she's been stormy ever since. 

She's found a home with the Colonel and Miss Lana.  And while she hopes one day to find her 'upstream mom', she's more than loyal to them.   So when a police detective comes to town investigating a murder, she can't help but get involved.

Word Count: 62,217
Page Count:  256
Accelerated Reading level: 3.9 / points: 9.0
AR quiz: 151057
Lexile: 560L


2012

BREAKING STALIN'S NOSE
by Eugene Yelchin

**Starred Review**Horn Book
3.80 avg rating — 3,295 ratings 

Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:

• The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
• A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
• A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.

But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night.

Common Core Recommended
Word Count: 15,128
Page Count: 160
Accelerated Reading level: 4.6 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 146486



INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN
by Thanhha Lai

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist

4.06 avg rating — 11,563 ratings 

For all the ten years of her life, HÀ has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by . . . and the beauty of her very own papaya tree.

But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. HÀ and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, HÀ discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape . . . and the strength of her very own family.

Common Core Recommended
Word Count: 14,925
Page Count: 272
Accelerated Reading level: 4.8 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 142622
Lexile: 800L


2011

TURTLE IN PARADISE
by Jennifer L. Holm

**Starred Review** ALA BookList
**Starred Review** Kirkus

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly

3.89 avg rating — 7,802 ratings 

11-year-old Turtle discovers that life isn't like the movies. She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935, and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle's mama gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle says goodbye without a tear and heads off to Key West, Florida, to stay with relatives she's never met.

Common Core Recommended
Word Count: 30,474
Page Count: 208
Accelerated Reading level: 3.7 / points: 4.0
AR quiz: 137063
Lexile: 610L

HEART OF A SAMURAI 
by Margi Preus

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly

**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist

3.86 avg rating — 2,325 ratings

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

Word Count: 51,267
Page Count: 320
Accelerated Reading level: 5.4 / points: 8.0
AR quiz: 139383
 Lexile: 760L 

DARK EMPEROR AND OTHER POEMS OF NIGHT
by Joyce Sidman
Rick Allen (Illustrator)

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** HornBook
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist

4.01 avg rating — 837 ratings

Table of Contents
Snail At Moonrise
Love Poem Of The Primrose Month
Dark Emperor
Oak After Dark
Night-Spider's Advice
I Am A Baby Porcupette
Cricket Speaks
The Mushrooms Come
Ballad Of The Wandering Eft
Bat Wraps Up
Moon's Lament
Welcome To The Night

This collection of poems celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.

Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze,
come smell your way among the trees,
come touch rough bark and leathered leaves:
Welcome to the night. 

Common Core Recommended
Word Count: 2,604
Page Count:  32
Accelerated Reading level: 6.1 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 139110
Lexile: 1020L


ONE CRAZY SUMMER
(Gaither Sisters #1)
by Rita William-Garcia

Scott O'Dell Award (2011)
 National Book Award Nominee for Young People's Literature

**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** HornBook
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist

In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

Common Core Recommended
Word Count: 45,483
Page Count: 
Accelerated Reader:  4.6 / points: 7.0
AR quiz: 135338
Lexile: 750L


2010

CLAUDETTE COLVIN: TWICE TOWARD JUSTICE
by Phillip Hoose

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal
**Starred Review** HornBook

 4.09 avg rating — 1,888 ratings

Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike of 1955-1956, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.

Common Core Aligned
Word Count: 32,581
Page Count:  160
Accelerated Reader:  6.8 / points: 5.0
AR quiz: 129138
Lexile: 1000L

THE EVOLUTION OF CALPURNIA TATE
by Jacqueline Kelly

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** ALA Booklist
**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal

 3.95 avg rating — 14,140 ratings

In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.

Common Core Aligned
Word Count: 80,972
Page Count: 352
Accelerated Reading level: 5.3 / points: 12.0
AR quiz: 130075
Lexile: 830L
--Evolucion De Calpurnia Tate - SPANISH
(no reading information for Spanish edition)

WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON
 by Grace Lin

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly

**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal

4.20 avg rating — 11,516 ratings 

Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish and then joins a dragon that cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of discovering how to change her family's fortune.

Common Core Recommended
Word Count: 42,634
Page Count: 304
Accelerated Reading level: 5.5 / points: 7.0
AR quiz: 131480
Lexile: 820L

The MOSTLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF HOMER P. FIGG
by Rodman Philbrick

**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly

 3.65 avg rating — 3,348 ratings 

Homer P. Figg escapes from his ruthless guardian's home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to find his beloved older brother, Harold, who has been illegally sold into the Union Army.

Common Core Recommended
Word Count: 45,255
Page Count: 240
Accelerated Reading level: 5.6 / points: 7.0
AR quiz: 127487
Lexile: 950L


2009

THE UNDERNEATH
David Small (Illustrator)
by Kathi Appelt

**Starred Review** ALA BookList
3.90 avg rating — 4,651 ratings

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for awhile, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

Others raved about it.  I happened to find this story to be dull and violent. Two traits that don't usually go together, but I'm not much for meanness in KidLit. 

It's one of those stories that follows different characters, where towards the end their paths cross.

Common Core Aligned
Word Count: 56,265
Page Count: 313
Accelerated Reading level: 5.2 / points: 9.0
AR quiz: 122589
Lexile: 830L



THE SURRENDER TREE: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
by Margarita Engle

**Starred Review** ALA BookList
3.95 avg rating — 912 ratings

Rosa is a nurse who turns hidden caves into hospitals. She helps everyone she can regardless of race, age....  This collection of poems addresses Cuba's long struggle to become truly free.  (set at turn of the 19th Century)

Word Count: 12,053
Page Count: 384
Accelerated Reading level: 6.4 / points: 2.0
AR quiz: 121475
Lexile: NP



SAVVY
(Savvy, #1)
by Ingrid Law

**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** ALA BookList

3.95 avg rating — 21,435 ratings

When my brother Fish turned thirteen, we moved to the deepest part of inland because of the hurricane and, of course, the fact that he’d caused it.

In Mib's family, when you turn 13, you get your special ability.  Your SAVVY.

Book #2 is SCRUMBLE. 

Word Count: 57,148
Page Count: 342
Accelerated Reader: 6.0 / points: 9.0
AR quiz: 122451
Lexile: 1070L

AFTER TUPAC & D FOSTER
by Jacqueline Woodson

**Starred Review** SchoolLibraryJournal

3.63 avg rating — 1,680 ratings

This book looks at the world through the eyes three 12 year-old girls.  It deals with some 'heavy' issues, but at an age appropriate level, according to the reviews I've read.  (I've put it on my TBR)

Common Core Aligned
Word Count: 29,251
Page Count: 151
Accelerated Reader: 4.7 / points: 4.0
AR quiz: 120399
Lexile: 750L


2008

Elijah of Buxton, by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt
Feathers, by Jacqueline Woodson


compiled by Pam
updated January 2014