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81) Blue rider
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a book without words, a child finds a book on a crowded city sidewalk and is transported beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural world.
82) The book jumper
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl discovers she is a book jumper--she can leap directly into books, meet the characters, and experience the world of the book"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Spencer loves books and reads one every night, sometimes aloud, then puts the book back in its place, but one morning his favorite book is missing, and the next day another, each replaced by a different object.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Storytime in the library becomes increasingly chaotic as first one chicken then a whole flock joins in and the librarian must come up with a creative solution so that everyone can enjoy the story.
87) Bliss
Author
Series
Bliss novels volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.
Author
Series
Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 3
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lola reads story books to her new baby brother Leo, and even though Mommy and Daddy are busy, they still have time to read to Lola at bedtime.
89) Talk nerdy to me
Author
Series
Bookish boyfriends volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Eliza Gordon-Fergus, daughter of famous scientists and expert rule-follower, is challenged by class-clown Curtis Cavendish, she realizes he makes her want to break all the rules.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
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Description
Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster, and the writer...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten book topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they...
93) The Book of Gold
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Isaac isn't interested in much, but when a mysterious shopkeeper tells him about a legendary book that holds the answers to every question ever asked, he embarks on a lifelong search for the Book of Gold"--
Author
Series
Charlie Joe Jackson's guide to-- volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through illustrations and simple, rhyming text, a book invites its reader to explore fluffy, furry, or squishy objects and creatures, both real and imaginary, that are found within its pages.
96) Pies & prejudice
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Four girls, and their mothers, continue their mother-daughter book club via videoconference between Massachusetts and England, reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and try to put friendship before romance.
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 5
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.
100) That Book Woman
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
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