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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers a delicious cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Lola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Lola's youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper.
3) Not a box
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
To an imaginative bunny, a box is not always just a box.
Author
Series
Monkey and Cake volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Monkey has a big box, which he tells Cake has a cat inside, but only when the box is closed; Cake suggest that maybe it is a dinosaur instead, and the two friends puzzle over how they can solve the problem of finding out what is in the box, if it is always empty when opened." --
Author
Series
Mud Flat volume 4
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a large box is delivered to Duncan while he is away, the other animal inhabitants of Mud Flat are consumed with curiosity about what might be inside.
6) The big box
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bill and his little sister Kay enjoy playing in a big box, which becomes in turn a car, a jet, and the engine of a train.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An imaginative young child has a wonderful time playing with a box he receives for his birthday. What's better than getting a brand-new toy as a birthday gift? Playing with the box it came in! Climb in for a flight across the ocean, a jaunt on a sailing ship, some sledding down a slippery slope, and, of course, a brief stint as a robot. Good thing the toy dog that came inside the box is happy to come along for the ride! The inimitable Leslie Patricelli...
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Beauregard has always had big dreams. He wanted to travel the world and see all the sites, but how could he possibly go around the globe if he was too scared to fly? With the help of one cardboard box and some amazing new friends, Beauregard goes on the adventure of a lifetime and realizes he is actually pretty brave after all!
Series
Explorer volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An anthology of short graphic works by such artists as Kazu Kibuishi, Dave Roman, and Raina Telgemeier, all on the theme of a mysterious box and the marvels, or mayhem, inside.
16) A box of bones
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After receiving a wooden puzzle box at a town festival, twelve-year-old Kallie figures out how to open the box and finds that her fate seems to be connected to a young bone carver from another time.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After finding a box just the right size to hide in, a little fox tries to play some tricks on his big friend, Pig, but things do not work out exactly as he planned.
20) Boxed in
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's Attic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Think outside the box-that's what Annie Dawson must do when she discovers a mysterious birchbark box in the attic of Grey Gables, the home bequeathed to her by her grandmother"--From publisher's description.
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