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2023 Reading Challenge: A Reese, Jenna, Oprah, or Good Morning America Book Club Pick
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"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium-and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago"--
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old...
3) The mermaid
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random house LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Set in the ocean off Japan, this retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears stars Kiniro, a mermaid, who finds a baby octopus's breakfast, chair, and bed just right"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele. Since this is a story, the octopus has to want somethingmaybe to travel to faraway galaxies in a totally awesome purple spaceship. Then the octopus sets out to build a spaceship out of soda cans, glue, umbrellas, glitter, and waffles. OK, maybe the octopus needs some help, like from an adorable bunny friend, and maybe that bunny turns out to be . . . a rocket scientist? (Probably not.) But could something...
7) The octopus
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.
8) Roof octopus
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Nora hears a soft "tap, tap, tap" at her bedroom window she never expects it to be the tentacle of a very large octopus, but that's exactly what it is--an octopus on her apartment building. The octopus turns out to be a very neighborly sort of octopus, helping the residents to wash their cars or weed the window boxes, and Nora makes fast friends with him. But one morning, the octopus is nowhere in sight. Has he moved on already? And just when...
10) Up in the air!
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The PAW Patrol works to save an airplane with a broken wing and a baby octopus who has lost its mother.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When mommy octopus tells little Floyd that it is time for bed, he decides that his parents want help getting their baths and putting on their pajamas (not what Mommy-O meant)--soon all three are covered with water and bubbles, and his parents are so exhausted that they fall asleep before Floyd is in bed.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Super-villain Black Manta has created an army of octopuses to capture the underwater city Atlantis and destroy Aquaman--will he finally succeed or can Aquaman save his city?
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marshall, Skye, Rubble, and the rest of Nickelodeon s PAW Patrol take to the sea to rescue Cap'n Turbot's sunken boat. Will they save the day, or will a giant octopus leave them high and dry?
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The octicorn -- half octopus and half unicorn-- introduces himself and tells readers why, though strange and unique, octicorns make great friends.
19) OUT OF THE BLUE
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
During a school trip to the aquarium, Coral, a small girl with big dreams, finds a kindred spirit in a tiny octopus who knows being invisible is not always a bad thing.
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A small yellow octopus hatches from his egg and begins searching for something he is certain he is missing on an undersea adventure that leads to new friendships along the coast, an exploration of a sunken shipwreck and the discovery of a loving family"--
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