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Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It is career day in Liam's third-grade class on the Ojibwa reservation, but Liam is having trouble deciding what he wants to do when he grows up, and he is not sure what to put in the essay he has to write.
Author
Series
Henry volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A beginning chapter book series based on the award-winning picture book, A Friend for Henry! Henry likes Classroom Ten. He likes how it is always the same. But this week, Henry's class will have a parade, and a parade means having Share Time on the wrong day. A parade means playing instruments that are too loud. A parade means this week is not like always. Join Henry as he navigates the ups and downs of marker missiles, stomach volcanoes, and days...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Lila, a worrier, moves to a new town, the what ifs only grow, and she feels alone and invisible until her teacher finds a creative and kind way to make Lila feel welcome and open to new experiences, a lesson that will stay with her long after second grade.
4) I am Book
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Meet 'Book' a plain old book with a yellow cover. Before the library closed, Book was the most popular pick at Rufus Elementary. Everyone wanted to check Book out. Now it's time to switch shelves. Book is convinced that the kids at this new school will feel the same. (Spoiler alert: Book is wrong. Very, very wrong.) After many failed attempts to change its pages to please its critics, Book soon realizes you can't please everyone and maybe being different...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jina and her classmates are determined to collect the most food for the local food pantry so they can pick out books for the library -- but when a classmate's home is damaged in a fire, the class votes to donate much of the food they collected to his family instead.
Author
Series
Buddy and Bea volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Buddy (who is reserved and thoughtful), Bea (who is boisterous and bossy) and the other second graders in Ms. Maple's class are trying to come up with a name for their class, but it is proving harder then they thought it would be.
Author
Series
Buddy and Bea volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It is the first day of second grade and already Buddy is disappointed because his class has a new teacher, not the one he wanted, and there is a new student, Bea, who is boisterous and much too pushy for the reserved Buddy -- and who insists that they are friends.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Sparrow Robinson blames herself for her elderly neighbor's accident, so she promises to take care of Mrs. LaRose's seven cats, all while trying to adjust to a new school--but things become complicated when she has to find new homes for all of the cats plus some unexpected kittens.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the big-gest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes. Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Kiki, a young African American Christian, is excited when Brittany and her popular friends ask her to sing with them in the elementary school talent show, but when the song they choose is one Kiki's parents feel is too grown-up, she must decide what is right for her.
Author
Series
Very worst ever volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A very unlucky kid must create a booth for his school carnival while avoiding disaster in the second book in The Very Worst Ever chapter book series!"--
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