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5) Ish
Author
Series
Creatrilogy volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.
6) My pen
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...
Author
Series
Bea Garcia volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When budding artist Bea Garcia's best friend moves to Australia and a loud, rambunctious boy moves into her old house, Bea must learn to make new friends.
11) Winter is coming
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Each day, from September through November, brings glimpses of forest animals seeking food in preparation for the onset of winter, from a fox sniffing the last apple on the ground to a flock of wild turkeys that finds nothing.
12) Journey
Author
Series
Journey trilogy (Aaron Becker) volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart's desire?
Author
Series
Magic shop books (Bruce Coville) volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg.
14) Quest
Author
Series
Journey trilogy (Aaron Becker) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the Caldecott Honor-winning Journey, much of Becker's energy was devoted to the story's exquisite backdrops. Now, in the second wordless book of his planned trilogy, the focus is on his characters. On a rainy day in a city park, the girl who starred in Journey and the boy introduced at the end take refuge by a doorway under a bridge. To their surprise, a king emerges from the door just long enough to pass the two a map before soldiers apprehend...
15) The Rithmatist
Author
Series
Rithmatist volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
16) Posibilidades
Author
Publisher
Titania/Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"Óscar utiliza el metro de la ciudad a menudo y hace meses que coincide con una chica que siempre está dibujando en un cuaderno amarillo. Le intriga el cuaderno, sus ojos, cómo sujeta el lápiz y lo que siente cada vez que se cruzan sin decirse nada.Valentina viaja de vez en cuando en metro y siempre dibuja a las personas que le gustan y cuyas historias querría conocer. Ha dibujado a multitud de desconocidos, pero hay uno al que encuentra especial,...
19) Kat's maps
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kat, who loves to make maps of all sorts of places and things, gives a special map to Jack.
20) A beach tail
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his father tells him not to leave the lion he is drawing on the beach, a little boy starts making a very, very long tail--and a trail to follow back.
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