iHCPL Books, Readers and Beyond: #52 What to Read Exercise 2

Using one of the resources listed above find two books suitable for a fourth grade girl interested in animals and another two books for her thirteen year old brother who is interested in ghost stories. Post which resource you used and the books you located.

I started with NoveList Plus, and drilled down from:
Browse to
Older Kids (9-12) to
Recommended Reads to
Animal Stories to
Horses

To come up with the first title: The black stallion / Walter Farley, Lexile: 680, Popularity: 4 Stars

Then I decided to use Morton Grove Public Library’s Kids’ Webrary® to choose: Actual size / Steve Jenkins.

I went to the book finder using first the first the subject “Animals – Fact” and then limiting that to grade “3”

The result popped up on the bottom of the screen.

I clicked on “Full Details” to get:

I used the same book finder using the Subject “Ghosts and Horror” to and grade “8” to select Dark Thirty by Patricia C. McKissack. It came with a “video review” of an animated dragon reading the annotation, “A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.” The dragon, which moved only its mouth, was interesting, but not very spooky for a thirteen-year-old.

From the same list I also picked:

The 13th floor: a ghost story / by Sid Fleischman

So my final lists are:

Fourth-grade girl
The black stallion / Walter Farley
Actual size / Steve Jenkins

Thirteen-year-old brother
Dark Thirty / Patricia McKissack
The 13th floor: a ghost story / Sid Fleischman