Carson Ellis
1) Du iz tak?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Readers are invited to imagine the dramatic possibilities to be found in the natural world, even the humblest back garden! With exquisitely-detailed illustration that will appeal to children and art-lovers alike, and a wonderfully playful invented language, we soon find ourselves speaking "Bug" ... Du iz tak? What is that?" --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful fable about the nature of love, from beloved, award-winning picture book creators Mac Barnett and Carson Ellis.
"What is love?" a young boy asks. "I can't answer that," his grandmother says, and so the boy goes out into the world to find out. But while each person he meets-the fisherman, the actor, and others-has an answer to his question, not one seems quite right. Could love really be a fish, or applause, or the night? Or could it actually...
3) Wildwood
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Prue's life shifts from ordinary to extraordinary when her baby brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows and she must embark into the Impassable Wilderness, a dense forest in the center of Portland, Oregon, with her friend Curtis in tow, where the pair will encounter warring creatures, peaceful mystics, and other dark-minded, powerful figures.
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a young's girl's midnight seance that awakens a long-slumbering, malevolent spirit, a band of runaway orphans teams up with an underground collective of saboteurs to rescue friends imprisoned in an industrial wasteland.
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Prue and Curtis are thrown together again to save themselves and the lives of their friends, and to bring unity to the divided country of Wildwood"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Shortest Day captures the magic behind the returning of seasonal light, the yearning for rituals that connect us with generations that have gone before -- and the hope for peace that we carry into the future." --from dust jacket.