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2) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
4) Roll
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Ren discovers his new neighbor Sutton is training Birmingham Roller Pigeons for a competition, they strike up friendship, just as Ren's best friend Aiden begins playing basketball with the popular kids.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Corey Birdsong, a former slave, becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad by helping to bring a mother and daughter, runaway slaves, to his family's Amherstburg, Ontario, farm in 1859.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Pigeon is dirty and he needs a bath, but he won't go willingly"--
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 7
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.
8) Angelo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While restoring the front of a church, an old plasterer rescues several injured pigeons and nurses them back to health.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place, a pigeon! This is an unflinching and hilarious look at a child's potential for mischief. In a plain palette, with childishly elemental line drawings, the author has captured the essence of unreasonableness in the very young.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 9
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The pigeon really, really wants to drive Santa's sleigh, but reconsiders once he learns how it flies.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pigeon learns about sharing when a curious duckling keeps asking questions about the hot dog Pigeon has found.
Author
Series
Pigeon (Picture books) volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The pigeon really, really wants a puppy, but when a puppy arrives the pigeon changes its mind.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
September 1940, as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Since losing her parents as a child, Susan Shepherd has raised homing pigeons with her grandfather, Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan, but none more so than Duchess, with whom she shares a special bond. When a young pilot named Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force, his quest brings him to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan...
16) Dear Miss Kopp
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. has finally entered World War I. Constance, the oldest of the Kopp sisters, is doing intelligence work on the home front for the Bureau of Investigation while youngest sister and aspiring actress, Fleurette, travels across the country entertaining troops with song and dance. Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location in France, Norma oversees her thwarted pigeon project for the Army Signal Corps. When her roommate, a nurse at the American field...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Author
Series
Chester Cricket volume 4
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nostalgic for his country home, Chester Cricket braves the busy city streets in search of a tree and finds a new friend in the process.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a...
Author
Series
Adventures of Minnie and Max volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Assisted by her cat Max and her friend Cash, Minnie tries to find Mary Moon, a valuable racing pigeon that has disappeared just before a big race.