Kimberly Willis Holt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Tiger Ann Parker is forever being teased about her family by the girls in her class. Tiger knows her folks are different from others in their small town. They are mentally slow, she keeps her pain hidden as long as her strong, smart grandmother runs the household. Granny dies and Aunt Dorie Kay arrives, offering her a way out. Tiger Ann must make the most important decision of her life.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After bidding goodbye to her friends Michael and Nicole, who are moving away, Piper and her sisters spend winter break with their two sets of grandparents in Piney Woods, Louisiana, where Piper learns that the best adventures are the unexpected ones.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Ten-year-old Piper moves yet again when her father, who is a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy, gets assigned to Norfolk, Virginia, and although the move takes a bit of adjustment, she soon makes friends with the girl next door and catches up with old friends too.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fifth-grader Piper and her sisters are thrilled about their first-ever camping trip until they learn it will be at Halloween, but other Navy families join them, including an annoying new member of the Gypsy Club.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While her father, a Navy Chief, is on ship duty for six months, nine-year-old Piper stays busy with new neighbors, Christmas at a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Piper is sad about leaving her home and friends behind when her father, a Navy aircraft mechanic, is transferred yet again, but with help from her often-annoying sisters and a surprise from their parents, she finds happiness in their new home in Pensacola, Florida.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When she discovers the price of the coveted clubhouse, ten-year-old Piper and her fellow Gypsy Club members try to earn the money by creating a birthday-party-planning business.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young girl eagerly awaits the birth of her baby cousin, while growing more and more confused by the way her relatives answer her questions. When exactly is cousin Gregory going to be born? asks little Iris. Each family member has a different answer to her question. While she's waiting for what seems like forever, Iris thinks about all the exciting things she and her new cousin will someday do together. And given Iris' vibrant imagination, there's...
18) Mister and me
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
In a small Louisiana mill town in 1940, Jolene does not want her Momma to marry the logger who is courting her, but it seems that even her most defiantly bad behavior cannot make him go away.
20) My Louisiana sky
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.