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Format:
Book
Title:
The stranger
ISBN:
9780395423318

9780758737144

9780329044695
Publication:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
Physical Description:
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
General Note:
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.
Summary:
The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season.
Reading Level:
640 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.7 0.5 69065.

Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.5 2 Quiz: 15740.

Accelerated Reader LG 3.7 0.5 69065.
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