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FROM: "Vivian Mortensen" <[removed]@park-ridge.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/3/04, 7:00 PM

A boy scout in my community wants to create books on tape at a local residential treatment facility for women who have developmental disabilities. He needs a list of books at a third to fourth grade reading level that would interest adult women. Everything I've reviewed at my library is too old. Does anyone have a source for relatively current materials?

Vivian Mortensen
Park Ridge Public Library
Park Ridge, IL 60068

FROM: "Marx, Charleen, JCL" <[removed]@jocolibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/3/04, 7:30 PM

How about the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne? I find them to be very entertaining and think that any age might enjoy them.

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A boy scout in my community wants to create books on tape at a local residential treatment facility for women who have developmental disabilities. He needs a list of books at a third to fourth grade reading level that would interest adult women. Everything I've reviewed at my library is too old. Does anyone have a source for relatively current materials?

Vivian Mortensen
Park Ridge Public Library
Park Ridge, IL 60068

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FROM: "Victoria Kemp" <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/4/04, 8:10 AM

1. books by Wendelin Van Draanen, specifically the Sammy Keyes mysteries.
2. Beverly Cleary
3. Judy Blume
4. Betsy Byars
5. Mary Downing Hahn
6. Louis Sachar
7. Kate DiCamillo
8. Bill Wallace
9. Patricia R. Giff
10.Sharon Flake: Money hungry and Begging for change
11. Harriette Gillem Robinet: Walking to the bus-rider blues
12. Linda Sue Park: Kite fighters
HTH
Viccy Kemp
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From: "Vivian Mortensen" <[removed]@park-ridge.lib.il.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 6:56 PM
Subject: Booklist for adults with a 3rd to 4th grade reading level

> A boy scout in my community wants to create books on tape at a local
residential treatment facility for women who have developmental
disabilities. He needs a list of books at a third to fourth grade reading
level that would interest adult women. Everything I've reviewed at my
library is too old. Does anyone have a source for relatively current
materials?
>
> Vivian Mortensen
> Park Ridge Public Library
> Park Ridge, IL 60068
>
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FROM: "Jessica E. Moyer" <[removed]@students.uiuc.edu>
REC'D: 2/4/04, 10:08 AM

Hilary McKay has some great books, that I think read aloud would be great
for this group. I especially enjoyed The Exiles series, The Exiles, The
Exiles at Home and the Exiles in Love. All of the books are about 4
quirky, but very funny sisters. In the first book, all four, who are big
readers, are "exiled" for the summer to Grandma's house where they are
denied any books, Grandma having decided that they need to get out more
and have fun outside. All three books are very funny and I think would
appeal to this group, esp if any of them had any sisters.

Jessica E. Moyer

M.S. in Library and Information Science
Librarian for the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International
Security (ACDIS) University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Phone: (217) 333 9173 Webpage: http://acdisweb.acdis.uiuc.edu/Library.html

Vice President, Special Libraries Association, Student Group
Chair, American Library Association Student Group International Committee
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Marx, Charleen, JCL wrote:

> How about the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne? I find them to be very entertaining and think that any age might enjoy them.
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> A boy scout in my community wants to create books on tape at a local residential treatment facility for women who have developmental disabilities. He needs a list of books at a third to fourth grade reading level that would interest adult women. Everything I've reviewed at my library is too old. Does anyone have a source for relatively current materials?
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> Park Ridge, IL 60068
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FROM: Lois Gordon <[removed]@sals.edu>
REC'D: 2/4/04, 10:14 AM

Try the Ohio Literacy Resource Center's "Recommended Trade Books for
Adult Literacy" Programs at:
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Resc/Trade/.

Select family literacy. When you select a title, there will be
information in the "general information" and "selected audience"
sections. While it won't give the specific grade, it will point in the
right direction.
--
Lois Gordon
Outreach/Adult Specialist
Mohawk Valley Library System
858 Duanesburg Rd.
Schenectady, NY 12306-1095
Phone 518-355-2010
Fax 518-355-0674
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www.mvls.info

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/4/04, 11:57 AM

I would highly recommend Ursula K. LeGuin's four "Catwings" books, which
recount the adventures of four (later five) kittens born with soft furry
wings.

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FROM: "Robin Deffendall" <[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/4/04, 12:30 PM

I second the vote for Catwings. We had a developmetnally delayed adult who
asked for that book monthly. She enjoyed reading them to her own cat.
Apparently the cat never got tired of them either.

Robin Deffendall
Branch Manager
Bordeaux Branch Library
Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
"The Very Best Place to Start for Learning and Discovery."

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Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 12:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Booklist for adults with a 3rd to 4th grade reading level

I would highly recommend Ursula K. LeGuin's four "Catwings" books, which
recount the adventures of four (later five) kittens born with soft furry
wings.

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FROM: "Diane Premo" <[removed]@mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 2/6/04, 9:44 AM

How about the biography series by David A. Adler? They are called "A
Picture Book of......" The series includes biographies of Eleanor Roosevelt
and Helen Keller among others. I'd say they were around 3rd grade level,
and they have very nice illustrations.

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From: "Marx, Charleen, JCL" <[removed]@jocolibrary.org>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 8:29 PM
Subject: RE: Booklist for adults with a 3rd to 4th grade reading level

> How about the Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne? I find them
to be very entertaining and think that any age might enjoy them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org on behalf of Vivian Mortensen
> Sent: Tue 2/3/2004 6:56 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Cc:
> Subject: Booklist for adults with a 3rd to 4th grade reading level
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> A boy scout in my community wants to create books on tape at a local
residential treatment facility for women who have developmental
disabilities. He needs a list of books at a third to fourth grade reading
level that would interest adult women. Everything I've reviewed at my
library is too old. Does anyone have a source for relatively current
materials?
>
> Vivian Mortensen
> Park Ridge Public Library
> Park Ridge, IL 60068
>
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