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11001) Breath Like Water
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Expansive, romantic, and powerful." -- Gayle Forman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and I Have Lost My Way Susannah Ramos has always loved the water. A swimmer whose early talent made her a world champion, Susannah was poised for greatness in a sport that demands so much of its young. But an inexplicable slowdown has put her dream in jeopardy, and Susannah is fighting to keep her career afloat when two important people enter her...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Award nominee for Best Juvenile Mystery The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken head. Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans Philippa, Sam, and Thomas have grown up happily in Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders. But when a fourth child, Max, a knife-thrower, joins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A collection of five Elephant & Piggie adventures. For the third time ever, best friends Elephant and Pggie have five biggie adventures in one book! Gerald has a bird on his head! Should Piggie swoop in to help? Will rain ruin Gerald and Piggie's fun in the sun? Piggie teachers Gerald how to dance. But what will Piggie learn? Gerald has a big decision to make. Can he make it in time? Gerald is tired and cranky. Will his nap dreams come true?
Author
Language
English
Description
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers-Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams-along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history.
Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families,...
11006) The Year of the Rat
Author
Language
English
Description
This new edition is revised with a new bilingual translation in simplified Chinese.
Ralph the rat explores the world with the boy Bing. But when Bing's birthday party goes awry, can Ralph rescue him using traits that others frowned upon?
The third in the popular series introduces the twelve charismatic animals from the Chinese calendar. 2008 is the Year of the Rat.
11007) Tâpwê and the Magic Hat
Author
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful, poignant and poetic. This story will weave its way into the hearts and minds of readers for generations."
-Monique Gray Smith, author of My Heart Fills With Happiness
From beloved Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie comes a chapter book inspired by oral histories and traditions. On a prairie reserve, Tâpwê receives a mysterious gift from Kokhom (grandma)-and finds himself on an unforgettable adventure.
Tâpwê can't wait to spend...
11008) Pandemic
Author
Language
English
Description
The 2015 SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner for the Atlantic region!
Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna's circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn't about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1950s, a young Black teenager named, Mary White, traveled north from Virginia to work for Wendy Sanford's family as a live-in domestic worker for their summer vacation by a remote New England beach. Mary was fifteen, Wendy was twelve. As the Black "help" and the privileged white daughter, they were not, slated for friendship, but Wendy's parents kept bringing Mary back each summer and when Wendy and Mary, now adults, found themselves both...
11010) An Elephant & Piggie biggie!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For the first time ever, best friends Elephant and Piggie have five Biggie adventures in one book!
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Read the critically acclaimed #1 New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies in print. Same Kind of Different as Me was a major motion picture release by Paramount in fall 2017.Gritty with pain and betrayal and brutality, this true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love. Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the "Man" – in the 1960's – by hopping a train. Non-trusting,...
Author
Publisher
North South Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's springtime and bees, flowers, and love are in the air! When Mr. Squirrel's friend, the hedgehog, catches sight of an attractive lady hedgehog, he isn't sure what to do to win her heart. What a stroke of luck that he has a friend like Mr. Squirrel, who can help him.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Rosie can't wait to start kindergarten--she's had her pencils sharpened and her backpack ready for weeks. But suddenly, on the night before the big day, her tummy hurts. Rosie's mom reassures her that it's just butterflies in her belly, and she'll feel better soon. Much to Rosie's surprise, when she says hello to a new friend on the bus, a butterfly flies out of her mouth! As the day goes on, Rosie frees all her butterflies, and even helps another...
11014) Polar bear's underwear
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Polar Bear has lost his underwear and he asks his friend, Mouse, to help him find it.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As the hero of his own adventure in the Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go series, Thomas will be center stage and we will see the world through his young eyes. More playful and relatable than ever before, his competitive spirit will be readily apparent as he strives to be the Number One Tank Engine on Sodor through play, trial and error, and just enjoying being a kid.
11016) Peep and Ducky rainy day
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Peep visits Ducky on a rainy day, the little pals have no trouble finding things to do. Inside, there is a tent to build and a pillow fight to be had. And outside, with the help of galoshes and umbrella, it's fun to captain a boat--until a whoosh of wind and a clap of thunder sends them running back in!"--Publisher.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Home sweet pineapple": SpongeBob's house is destroyed. "Band geeks": Squidward impresses his rival, Squilliam by performing at a show. "Sandy, SpongeBob and the Worm": Someone needs to stop a giant worm before it eats Bikini Bottom. "Ripped pants": SpongeBob takes a joke too far. "Sandy's rocket": SpongeBob and Patrick launch Sandy's rocket. "Culture shock": The Krusty Krab is holding it's first-ever talent show. "MuscleBob BuffPants": SpongeBob...
11018) Nat for nothing
Author
Series
Nat enough volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Natalie is having a rough start to the school year. Each student has been asked to join an extracurricular activity, and Nat's two best friends have no trouble finding activities that interest them...So now Zoe and Lily are always together, and Nat's over it! Nat's feeling betrayed, and she still hasn't found a club to join. But when Nat meets a new student who's having the same difficulty choosing a club, they decide to create one together. Could...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American...
11020) The Dead Queens Club
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
If your school's homecoming king had a little too much in common with Henry VIII, would you survive with your head still attached?
You'd think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you're me-Annie Marck, alias Cleves-and you accidentally transform into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of the king himself? Life becomes the exact opposite of boring.
Henry has it all: he's the jock,...
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