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Author
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world -- and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every last child in the country!
2) Hotel dare
Author
Publisher
KaBOOM! a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Olive and her adopted siblings, Darwin and Charlotte, are spending the summer with their estranged grandma at her creepy hotel and it's all work and no play. They're stuck inside doing boring chores but they soon stumble upon an incredible secret... The simple turn of a knob transports them to a distant magical world filled with space pirates. Behind the next door are bearded wizards. Down the hall is a doorway to a cotton-candied kingdom. But once...
3) Measuring up
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cici has just moved from Taiwan to Seattle, and the only thing she wants more than to fit in at her new school is to celebrate her grandmother, A-m̀s, seventieth birthday together. Cici cooks up a plan to bring A-m̀ to her by winning the grand prize in a kids cooking contest to pay for A-m̀s plane ticket! Theres just one problem: Cici only knows how to cook Taiwanese food. And after her pickled cucumber debacle at lunch, shes determined...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her blockbuster phenomenon Wonder, R. J. Palacio presents an unforgettable story of the power of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war.
In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, audiences were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio presents Grandmère's heartrending story: how...
In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, audiences were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio presents Grandmère's heartrending story: how...
5) Las brujas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
El clásico de Roald Dahl en novela gráfica, que será adaptado al cine en 2020 por Guillermo del Toro y Alfonso Cuarón. Vuelve Roald Dahl, el mejor escritor de historias infantiles de todos los tiempos... ¡Y ahora en cómic! ¡Cuidado! Las brujas existen y se han disfrazado para pasar desapercibidas. ¡Parecen mujeres normales! Pero de normales no tienen nada. Estas brujas son malvadas y odian a los niños. Los odian tanto que deciden acabar con...
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