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2) Actual size
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses and gives examples of the size and weight of various animals and parts of animals.
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For years, Meg Boggs believed the narrative told to her by society: she thought that as a plus-sized woman, she could never be fit; she could never be strong; she could never love exercise; she could never be enough. But when Meg became a mom, she decided to rethink her preconceived notions and embrace her body for what it is, not what diet culture said it should be.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Go big or go home! Meet the biggest weirdos on Earth in this colosally cool collection from the team that brought you Pink Is For Blobfish. It's a big wide world, full of critters that are larger than life! Sure, there are the usual suspects: blue whales, polar bears, elephant seals . . . but others will take you by surprise. The giant snail, for instance, or the ginormous Atlas moth. Like Pink Is for Blobfish and Cute as an Axolotl, Big as a Giant...
7) Codzilla
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Bertie, a giant codfish, is tired of being bullied about his size, but when the other fish at school start calling him Codzilla, it really hurts. Being big isn't easy, but when a shark comes around with his mouth wide open, Bertie becomes everyone's hero..." --
8) Now I'm big!
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A little girl contrasts all of the amazing things she can do for herself that had to be done for her when she was a baby, from dressing herself to reading to her baby sister.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth. Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller--including gorilla-sized lemurs, 800-pound birds, crocodiles that weighed a ton or more--roamed the earth. These great beasts, or "megafauna," lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. What caused the disappearance of these...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that tigers are sleek, silent, and totally terrifying... most tigers, that is. But no one is afraid of Little Tiger. He s just too small and clumsy to frighten anyone.
11) Her body can
Author
Publisher
East 26th Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Her body is beautiful--strong, kind and wise. All bodies are lovely no matter their size. A book of poetic declarations of body positivity and self-love for all young girls."--Back cover.
12) Not little
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dot proves she is not little by standing up to a school bully.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"You probably know what your favorite animals look like, but do you really have any idea how big or small they really are? Could you picture the size of a tiger's face, or an elephant's tail, or an ostrich's egg? Life-Size Animals has pages and pages of life-size illustrations of different animals' tongues, teeth, claws, eggs, tails, and more. It encourages readers to compare the sizes of the different animals to themselves-seeing how long their tongues...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body, at least, most of the time, and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a Korean village where being strong and loud is valued, tiny Soe-in is ridiculed but when the sun disappears, Soe-in dares to find the spirit tiger and set things right. Includes note about the position of tigers in Korean culture.
Author
Series
Teeny Houdini volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tiny, impulsive Bessie Lee starts learning to become a magician to enter her school's talent show"--
19) I am just right
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A boy who is too big for his crib, his tricycle, and being picked up by his grandfather is just the right size for his bed, bicycle, and Grandpa's hugs.
20) Big Little Hippo
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Hippo cannot wait to grow up and complains that all the other animals are bigger than him, until he helps a small beetle and feels better about himself.
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