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Author
Publisher
WordSong an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Warning: this book has dragons, robot uncles, aliens, a combative mosquito and, most dangerous of all, more than 13.8 billion poems, conveniently fit into 64 pages of pure silliness. You may never stop reading!"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corpotation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this transcendent memoir, Windham-Campbell Prize-winning poet Ali Cobby Eckermann's gorgeous narrative unfolds against the verdant South Australian landscape, the pastoral setting belying the painful realities of a young girl estranged from her community. Told at first through the frank eyes of a child whose life is irretrievably changed after being forcibly taken from her family and later adopted by a German Lutheran family, 'Too afraid to cry'...
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
1989.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An elephant's eleventh birthday party is marked by eleven games preceding the banquet to be eaten at the eleventh hour; but when the time to eat arrives, the birthday feast has disappeared. The reader is invited to guess the thief.
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