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1) Clever Ali
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Ali's greedy pet steals cherries from the wicked Sultan for whom his father keeps carrier pigeons, Ali is given three days to find 600 new cherries or his father will be thrown into the deep, dark oubliette. Includes facts about carrier pigeons and the sultan on whom this story is based, as well as an excerpt from "In Praise of Books" by al-Jahiz.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
When Rebecca helps her injured neighbor, Mr. Rossi, by caring for his pigeons, she discovers a strange black pigeon with an eerie message warning Mr. Rossi of danger, and consults a fortune teller to learn if she is in danger, as well.
Author
Series
History mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
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.
6) Rome antics
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1997]
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour which includes both ancient and modern parts of the city of Rome.
7) Pigeon hero!
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a carrier pigeon named GI Joe, who braved enemy fire and other hazards to deliver a crucial message that prevented the bombing of an Italian town during World War II.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
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.
Corey begins attending school, and his family, along with his friend, Mingo, are living well in Canada, where they've built their own farm. But, the Birdsongs cannot let go of the memories of their friends left behind in America. Corey and Mingo...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 760L
Language
English
Description
On her sixth birthday, Julietta's grandfather gives her one of his beautiful homing pigeons and tells her a story of his experience raising and training doves in Italy during the Great War.
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