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63) Chicks!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A family learns about raising chickens when they buy baby chicks from a local farm.
Author
Series
Chicken Squad volume 5
Publisher
Atheneum, Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Chicken Squad uncovers mysterious remains while digging a meteor/storm shelter, and they stop work to investigate just as a big storm is approaching.
66) Polish chicken
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What's that bird with the giant clump of feathers on its head? It's a Polish chicken! Beginning readers will learn all about these strange yet wonderful creatures in this delightful title. They will also learn basic information about Polish chickens, including what they eat and the story behind their wacky feathers. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken, until she learns something about the hen that makes her change her ways. Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother's farm except one - the elusive Miss Hen. In a hilarious battle of wits, the spirited narrator regales readers with her campaign to catch Miss Hen, but this chicken is "fast as a mosquito buzzing and quick as a fleabite." Our chicken chaser has her...
Author
Series
Minerva Louise volume 8
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Minerva Louise follows a farmer in a red hat from a snowy rooftop, down a "well," and into the house with the red curtains, where she finds a tree decorated with sparkling eggs.
Author
Series
Minerva Louise volume 9
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On her first Halloween, Minerva Louise the hen puzzles over costumes but enjoys her first taste of candy corn.
73) The Easter chick
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Hilda is worried when her beautiful egg does not hatch, until she hears a voice from inside asking when Easter will arrive and sets out to find the answer.
74) Brood: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Our nameless narrator stubbornly tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive and safe over the course of one savage winter in Minnesota. Woefully unprepared for the task, she battles the relentless predators, severe weather and unforeseen bad luck--all the while grieving a recent miscarriage, and coming to terms with her infertility and the accompanying uncertainty that her future holds. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel...
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