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Uncle Wiggily's Story Book, Howard Garis

Uncle Wiggily’s Story Book

By Howard R. Garis
Level 4
Moral
5
Educational
2
Literary
4.5
Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

Under the Lilacs

By Louisa May Alcott
Level 7
Moral
5
Educational
5
Literary
5
Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker

Underground to Canada

By Barbara Smucker
Level 6
Moral
5
Educational
5
Literary
4
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Understood Betsy

By Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Level 8
Moral
5
Educational
5
Literary
5
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery

By Booker T. Washington
Level 10
Moral
5
Educational
5
Literary
4.5

Usborne Illustrated Stories from Aesop

By Susanna Davidson
Level 4
Moral
4
Educational
2
Literary
3.5
Victory at Bear Cove- A Story of Alaska by Elsa Pedersen

Victory at Bear Cove—A Story of Alaska

By Elsa Pedersen
Level 8
Entertainment
5
Moral
5
Educational
5
Literary
5
Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla

Viking Adventure

By Clyde Robert Bulla
Level 3
Moral
3.5
Educational
4
Literary
3.5
Viking Quest by Lois Walfrid Johnson

Viking Quest Series

By Lois Walfrid Johnson
Level 6
Moral
4
Educational
3.5
Literary
3

Vincent’s Colors

By The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Picture Books
Entertainment
2
Moral
2
Educational
4
Literary
3

Violet Mackerel Series

By Anna Branford
Level 3
Entertainment
4.5
Moral
4
Educational
2
Literary
3.5
Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker, Kathryn Lasky

Vision of Beauty—The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker

By Kathryn Lasky
Level 5
Moral
3.5
Educational
4
Literary
3.5
Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

By Anna Harwell Celenza
Picture Books
Moral
4
Educational
4
Literary
4
Walter the Lazy Mouse, Marjorie Flack

Walter the Lazy Mouse

By Marjorie Flack
Level 4
Moral
2
Educational
1
Literary
4
Water is Water by Miranda Paul

Water is Water

By Miranda Paul
Picture Books
Moral
2
Educational
4
Literary
3

Watercress

By Andrea Wang
Picture Books
Entertainment
3
Moral
3
Educational
4
Literary
4
Wavie of the Storm by Crona Temple

Wavie of the Storm

By Crona Temple
Level 10
Moral
5
Educational
3
Literary
5
Weather: Poems for All Seasons by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Weather—Poems for All Seasons

By Lee Bennett Hopkins
Level 2
Moral
3
Educational
1
Literary
3

WellieWishers: American Girls (Series)

By Valerie Tripp
Level 3
Entertainment
4
Moral
3
Educational
2
Literary
4

What Degas Saw

By Samantha Friedman
Picture Books
Entertainment
4
Moral
2
Educational
4
Literary
2
What Is Given from the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack

What Is Given from the Heart

By Patricia C. McKissack
Picture Books
Moral
5
Educational
4
Literary
5

What’s Inside a Flower?

By Rachel Ignotofsky
Picture Books
Entertainment
3
Moral
3
Educational
5
Literary
4
When I Was Your Age by Laura E. Richards

When I Was Your Age

By Laura E. Richards
Level 7
Moral
5
Educational
2
Literary
5
When the Dikes Broke by Alta Halverson Seymour

When the Dikes Broke

By Alta Halverson Seymour
Level 8
Moral
5
Educational
5
Literary
5
When the Soldiers Were Gone, Vera W. Propp

When the Soldiers Were Gone

By Vera W. Propp
Level 4
Moral
3.5
Educational
5
Literary
3.5

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

By Grace Lin
Level 6
Entertainment
4
Moral
2
Educational
1
Literary
3.5
White Sails to China by Clyde Robert Bulla

White Sails to China

By Clyde Robert Bulla
Level 2
Moral
4
Educational
3.5
Literary
3
Whose Tree House? by Jean Castle

Whose Tree House?

By Jane Castle
Level 3
Entertainment
4
Moral
3.5
Educational
4
Literary
3

Whose Waves These Are

By Amanda Dykes
Level 10
Entertainment
4.5
Moral
4.5
Educational
3
Literary
5
Wild Geese Flying by Cornelia Meigs

Wild Geese Flying

By Cornelia Meigs
Level 8
Moral
4
Educational
5
Literary
5

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