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1) Pinduli
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pinduli, a young striped hyena, is hurt by the unkind words of Dog, Lion, and Zebra, but her clever trick in return promotes her clan's survival and spreads harmony throughout the savannah. Includes backmatter notes about hyenas and other animals of the African savannah.
2) How kind!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Hen gives Pig an egg, she sets off a chain of events that brings kindness to all of the animals on the farm.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era New York City, construction workers at the Rockefeller Center site help a family in need, a gift that is repaid years later in the donation of an enormous Christmas tree.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Minna does a lot of thinking about her project to do something kind, make a picture about what she did, and share it with her classmates, but finally comes up with an idea that spreads to the whole school.
Author
Series
Monk and Robot book volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe."--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.
Author
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Violet Steele returns to her parents' home in small-town Nebraska to pay off school loans. But her first social activity is the celebration of life for a woman she'd dreamt would someday be her mother-in-law.
Heath Banfield is haunted by memories of Violet leaving him in their youth. He ended up with a woman who never wanted motherhood, and he's become bitter and hard when it comes to love and trust. Now he's dealing with his mother's death. In...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Teaching your child about kindness can be challenging. In this addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books, young readers will learn how to treat others with kindness. Children will discover ways to implement traditional values and share God's goodness. The Berenstain Bears: Kindness Counts -- part of the popular Zonderkidz Living Lights™ series of books -- is perfect for: Early readers, ages 4-8 Reading out loud at home or...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. Iris doesn't know how to bake but she needs to...
18) The vulnerables
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez's ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past. Humor, to be sure, is a priceless refuge. Equally vital is connection with others,...
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