Morris Gleitzman
1) Toad Rage
Author
Series
Toad rage books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Gr 3-6-Young Limpy just can't figure out why humans hate his kind so much that they gleefully squash cane toads flat on the road every chance they get. Determined to be a goodwill ambassador, he sets off to change people's minds, but meets with nothing but vilification until he and his hapless cousin Goliath hitch a truck to the city and become involved in the hoopla surrounding a major athletic competition, The Games. Humor, both outrageously broad...
2) Then
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
3) Once
Author
Series
Once series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.
4) Toad heaven
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Despite the opposition of Ancient Eric and Malcolm, Limpy goes on a quest to find a place where cane toads can be safe from humans and live in harmony.
5) Now
Author
Series
Once series volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
6) Puppy fat
Author
Series
Keith Shipley books volume 3
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
Keith worries about his separated parents and wants to improve their appearance so they will find new partners, but he realizes that he cannot change them into different people.
7) Water wings
Author
Pub. Date
[2012], p2003
Description
Pearl has a secret hidden in the family freezer, but Gran's dark secrets are buried much deeper. Pearl, Gran and Winston the guinea pig face some tough truths in this brilliant, funny and moving novel.