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1) Stellaluna
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
3) Mel fell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"...follow Mel on her journey from downward fall to triumphant flight in this tale of self-confidence and taking a leap of faith."--
4) Wild wings
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.
Author
Publisher
Sylvan Dell
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Join Nicholas and his grandfather as they push aside the thoughts of decorating the Christmas tree to lovingly care for a cardinal trapped in the snow of a blizzard on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning finds Nicholas more concerned about the bird than opening his gifts.
6) Dog rules
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two dogs try to teach their new puppy to be a good dog. But instead of growling, it tweets. Instead of doing tricks, it eats a worm. Will the puppy ever learn the dog rules?
7) The aviary
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In late nineteenth-century Maine, isolated, eleven-year-old Clara Dooley gains a friend and uncovers a magical secret that changes her life when she learns to care for the once-feared birds in the aviary attached to the Glendoveer mansion where she lives.
8) Inch by inch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song.
9) Tom's tweet
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a cat finds a bedraggled baby bird that has fallen from its nest, an unlikely friendship develops between the two.
12) The odd egg
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Duck is trying to hatch the oddest egg of all.
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gerald the elephant discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-- two birds on your head! Piggie will try to help her best friend.
14) Bird watch
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Count backward from ten as you search for hidden birds (and insects and animals) in this seek-and-find picture book"--
16) I spy in the sky
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Invites young readers to guess which bird will be revealed using the given clues and a spy hole.
17) Birds
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Birds come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have much to teach us --
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A narrator sets out to prove that there is nothing like a puffin but discovers that many things, including a newspaper and a helicopter, are a little bit like one and that a penguin is very much like a puffin.
Author
Series
Nerdy Birdy volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
20) The fog
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When the fog arrives on his island, a bird with a passion for people watching sets out to discover if anyone else has noticed it taking over the island.
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