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Author
Series
Questioneers volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.
Author
Series
Willa of the Wood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
Author
Series
Ginny Goblin volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ginny tries to reach and open a box using a chair, then a grappling hook, then a catapult, while the narrator suggests ways to keep her away from it.
6) Windows
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Walking his dog at dusk, one boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in this lovely ode to autumn evenings, exploring your neighborhood, and coming home.
9) Just because
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
11) A penguin story
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Edna the penguin tries to find something in her surroundings that is not black, white, or blue.
12) I wonder
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this unusual text, young listeners and readers follow a group of diverse kids trying to make sense of the world as they see it.
15) Bee
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A magical striped suit lets a boy become a bee for a day.
17) Alien tomato
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious red orb appears one day, the vegetables are not sure what to make of it and they decide that it must be an alien tomato, but Gopher is not convinced.
18) Maybe
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three little monkeys, and their big monkey, are sat high up on their branch in the forest canopy. Ok, monkeys! I'm off, says the big monkey. Now remember. Whatever you do, do NOT go down to the mango tree. There are tigers down there. Mmm ... mangos! think the little monkeys. They LOVE mangos. Hmm ... maybe ... maybe they could just look at the mangos? That'd be ok, right?
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Esther the fairy doesn't believe in magic. But fairies are all about magic, despite Esther's best efforts to reveal the science of their world. This time around, though, she's got her fairy pals Clover and Fig, along with trusty sidekick Albert the bird, to help create a more science-oriented entry for their school's "Magic Fair" -- Pixieville's magical answer to a science fair, which has never gone well for Esther before. When the local pond disappears,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Elbert, one of five mechanical bears in the town's old clock tower, has disrupted the proper operation of the clock for the last time, and he is given twenty-four hours to assuage his curiousity about the world below before he will be allowed back in the clock tower.
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