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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explains how to write a children's picture book, using the fictional story Webster's wish as an example. In the story, Webster, a goose who knows the alphabet, is tired of flying in V formation and tries to get the other geese to fly in the shape of another letter.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many indigenous-led movements across North America, this bold and lyrical picture book issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.
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English
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"Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: 'Does it have a butt?' Everything from sheep to ghosts to dinosaurs is subjected to this all-important question, and Dad is a never-ending source of answers. On a laugh-out-loud father-child ramble, we come to see that every butt, from a bullfrog's to a zombie's, has its own distinctive, and distinctively hilarious, quality."-- Provided by publisher
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Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In this wordless picture book, a student is accidentally left behind on a field trip to a volcano island."-- Provided by publisher.
A flower-loving student makes an unexpected discovery during their class field trip to a volcano island.
10) Twenty questions
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead--to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...
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How to catch-- volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A very clever snowman eludes the traps of the group of children who built him as a contest entry, while gathering items for a surprise.
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Tilbury House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Just 2 inches long full-grown, this little guy is the foundation of the Southern Ocean food chain... "Hi. What are you? You appear to be an egg. You are an egg sinking. For many days, you sink. You sink a mile down, and you keep sinking down... down... until..." The unidentified narrator follows one krill among billions as it pursues its brief existence, eating and eating while metamorphosing from one thing into another and trying to avoid being eaten....
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Turtle really likes standing in his favorite spot. He likes it so much that he asks his friend Armadillo to come over and stand in it, too. But now that Armadillo is standing in that spot, he has a bad feeling about it . . . This book is a meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and that funny feeling you get that there's something off somewhere, but you just can't put your finger on it. -- Provided by publisher....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
16) Very good hats
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Some people think hats are fancy things you can buy at a dressy store, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. In this book, acorns and raspberries are snug hats for your fingers, and an empty pudding cup is a good hat for a stuffed bear. Pajama pants make dangly hats, books can be dramatic hats, and bubbles make very fine hats as well (if temporary)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dragons love tacos volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explores the love dragons have for tacos, and the dangers of feeding them them anything with spicy salsa.
18) Corduroy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The classic original Corduroy story, issued in a larger board book format. A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
19) Rosie's walk
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English
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Although unaware that a fox is after her as she takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead him into one accident after another.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At 9 years old, Eugenie Clark developed an unexpected passion for sharks after a visit to the Battery Park Aquarium in New York City. At the time, sharks were seen as mindless killing machines, but Eugenie knew better and set out to prove it. Despite many obstacles in her path, Eugenie was able to study the creatures she loved so much. From her many discoveries to the shark-related myths she dispelled, Eugenie's wide scientific contributions led to...
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