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1) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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NYT - Children’s Chapter Books
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade E-Book
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade E-Book
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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.
4) I'm a frog!
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 20
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Piggie introduces his reluctant friend, Gerald the elephant, to the wonderful world of pretend.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he's seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for...
6) My garden
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. Each summer, Natsuki counts down the days until her family drives into the mountains of Nagano to visit her grandparents in their wooden house in the forest. One summer, her cousin Yuu confides to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Can the friendship of best friends Harold and Hog, a carefree elephant and a careful hog, survive a game of pretending to be Mo Willems's Elephant and Piggie?
Author
Series
Captain Underpants volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Harold and George turn fourth-grade teacher Ms. Ribble into the evil Wedgie Woman, she gives the wedgie of doom to unsuspecting people who stand in her way--including principal-turned-superhero Captain Underpants.
Author
Series
Cardboard kingdom volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again. In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be--imagine that!"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Pinkalicious meets her favorite author, she is inspired to write her own stories and can't wait to use her imagination in a school writing festival.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. This beautiful 75th anniversary edition includes the original picture book followed by a 32-page retrospective look with lively anecdotes, exclusive photographs, and archival material. Also features an essay by noted children{u2019}s book historian...
17) I see a song
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1995], c1973
Language
English
Description
Brightly colored forms represent music played by the violin.
18) Prince fly guy
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 15
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Buzz is writing a fairy tale for homework, and Fly Guy naturally assumes the role of a handsome prince, who fends off a giant and rescues a beautiful princess.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's the . . . SUN! When morning comes, a young boy must prepare for his day, faster than a speeding bullet. Follow along as he leaps tall buildings (jumps out of bed) in a single bound, dons his heroic uniform (his clothes), and faces his greatest weakness (Kryptonite-colored toothpaste). Then it's up, up, and away to daycare!
20) Harry's trees
Author
Language
English
Description
"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight... Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
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