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1) FAMILIARIS
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble, again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's Northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start, and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dual narrative in which a woman finds a cookbook buried in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the cookbook's previous owner, a 1950s housewife. Dissatisfied with her own life, she becomes absorbed in learning the story--and the secrets--of the last woman who lived in her house.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013 -- as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods.
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Alice, who claims to be a Temporary Fairy, still has a lot to learn, such as how to make her clothes put themselves away in the closet. Caldecott Honor artist and bestselling author David Shannon's warm and funny new picture book introduces Alice, a mischievous little girl with a magic wand and a "No, David!" nose for trouble. Alice the Fairy uses her magic wand to change frogs into princes and dads into horses. She can also make leaves fall from...
8) I see a song
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1995], c1973
Language
English
Description
Brightly colored forms represent music played by the violin.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This enchanting, Gassian journey begins with "In Camera," an investigation into what is likely to develop when a possibly illicit collection of photographs becomes the object of a greedy salesman's loving eyes . . . In "Charity," a young lawyer, whose business it is to keep hospital equipment honestly produced, offers a simple gift and is brought to the ambiguous heart of charity itself. "Don't Even Try, Sam" tells of the battered, old piano Dooley...
11) Sloth slept on
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When three children find a mysterious creature sleeping in a tree in their backyard, they search through books and use their imagination to find out what it is.
12) Snowman surprise
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Chilly, her toy snowman, accidentally changes color, Doc McStuffins is ready to handle the problem.
13) Maya
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The electricity in Maya's house has gone out again. Worse, she is afraid of the dark -- and her fear has been even worse since her father died. Now it feels as if the darkness will never go away. Mayas mother distracts her with a legend about the banyan tree, which saved the world from the first monsoon by drinking up the floodwaters, and growing tall and strong. Later that night, unsettled by the noises around her, Maya revisits the story in her...
14) Tap to play!
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Blip asks the reader to help him reach the goal and win the game.
15) Grains of sand
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A young girl, depressed that her beach vacation is over, takes the sand from her shoes and plants it, imagining that is will sprout such scenes as a field of beach umbrellas and a crop of lemon ice cream.
16) Boat of dreams
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Rogério Coelho's family vacation on a Brazilian coastal village in winter, the characters of the old man and the young boy popped into his imagination and compelled him to create a story that took him almost seven years to complete. An old man and a seagull live on a deserted island. A young boy and his cat are lonely in a city. Between them, in a stoppered bottle, floats a piece of paper on which the man draws a flying boat and the boy...
18) Share
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Bunny's little cousin visits, her mother tells her over and over that she must share. But her cousin wants to do everything Bunny does. He wants to play with Bunny's bear, but he pokes and pulls little Ted. He wants to play dress-up, but he spills Bunny's beads all over the floor. Bunny tries to watch TV, but he blocks her view of the screen, and when Bunny tries to paint, he scribbles all over her artwork! But by the end, an exasperated Bunny...
19) Petra
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Petra is a little rock who believes she is a mighty mountain... until a dog fetches her for its owner, and she is tossed into a bird's nest. A mountain? No, Petra is now an egg! An egg of the world in a world of possibility.
20) 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.
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