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Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Of her two granddaughters, Grandma Yvette clearly prefers Ruby Taylor's perfect -- and perfectly Jewish -- cousin, Sarah. They do everything together, including bake cookies and have secret sleep overs that Ruby isn't invited to. Twelve-year-old Ruby suspects Grandma Yvette doesn't think she's Jewish enough. The Jewish religion is matrilineal, which means it's passed down from mother to child, and unlike Sarah, Ruby's mother isn't Jewish. But when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The final book in the series has Liam and Carter's teams on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball® World Series. Cousins and best friends who grew up playing baseball together, Liam and Carter must now play against each other to achieve their dreams of winning the Series title! One cousin will win, and the other will lose.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Archie & Reddie are two fox friends who have wild adventures!"-- cover page 4.
Fox cousins Archie and Reddie are back, and their mission is to find Archie's favorite hat, which has mysteriously gone missing, so they can enjoy the Hat Day party with all their friends.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Carolina's summer -- and life as she knows it -- is upended when Papi loses his job, and she and her family must move from Puerto Rico to her Tía Cuca and Uncle Porter's house in upstate New York. Now Carolina must attend Silver Meadows camp, where her bossy older cousin Gabriela rules the social scene. Just as Carolina worries she'll have to spend the entire summer in Gabriela's shadow, she makes a friend of her own in Jennifer,...
145) In a glass Grimmly
Author
Series
Grimm series (Adam Gidwitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Companion to: A tale dark & Grimm.
Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Today, Amik is expecting her beaver cousins for a special visit, and she can't wait to show them her home. But as the visitors arrive, Amik suddenly realizes that her little sister, Nishiime, has disappeared. Where could she have gone? As Amik shows her cousins some of her favorite haunts, the reader also learns how beavers help all the other animals in the forest: they cut down poplar trees so deer have easier access to the leaves, they create canals...
Author
Series
Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 3
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In this third Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar Award nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies. Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a good bit of help from friends and family, to solve. With the Rorrim...
148) Swift Fox all along
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to be Mi'kmaq? And if Swift Fox can't find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she'll learn how to be Mi'kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mi'kmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox...
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Turtle is smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. So when Turtle's mother gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle heads off to Florida to live with relatives. Florida's like nothing Turtle's ever seen before, though. It's full of ragtag boy cousins, family secrets to unravel . . . and even a little bit of fun. Before she knows what's happened, Turtle finds herself...
151) Nacer bailando
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
"MeÌxico es el paiÌs de sus padres, pero no el de Margie. Ella ha logrado convencer a sus companÌeros de escuela que es cien por ciento estadounidense, igual que ellos. Pero cuando Lupe, su prima mexicana, va a vivir a su casa, la imagen de siÌ misma que habiÌa creado se deshace. La situacioÌn de Lupe no es faÌcil. Siente que su casa de MeÌxico no es un hogar desde que su padre...
Author
Series
Blue stars volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start. Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins but is sure that she and Maya will be instant BFFs. Meanwhile, introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan, and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts. Just when they start to feel at home, their...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate 110 years of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden with this vibrant, contemporary graphic novel retelling! Video games and tech are loner Mary Lennox's main source of entertainment and 'friends' in her Silicon Valley home. But when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, Mary's life is uprooted to New York City to live with an uncle she barely knows and, to her surprise, keeps a gadget-free home. Looking for comfort in this...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Lester's mysterious cousin Clara comes to stay with his family she insists on knitting him ugly sweaters and Lester must figure out how to accept the unwanted gifts without hurting his cousin's feelings.
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 8
Publisher
Tyndale
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Cousins Patrick and Beth are separated when they travel to Fiji to preach to the cannibals.
156) Maisy goes swimming
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Help Maisy get ready for the pool in this lift-the-flap, pull-tab book.
157) Muddy paws
Author
Series
Magic puppy volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Beth spends two weeks at her aunt's farm over the summer, her encounter with a magic puppy helps her make friends with her annoying cousin.
158) Problems in Plymouth
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth use the Imagination Station to go to Plymouth Colony in 1621 hoping to find Hugh and return him to his own time, they meet William Bradford, Myles Standish, and Squanto.
Author
Series
Like sisters volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When wedding guests and their dogs arrive at Seaview House, Natalia agrees to watch and walk all the guests' dogs but runs into trouble when one of the dogs goes missing.
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 7
Publisher
Tyndale
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth go to ancient Egypt, where they try to find ways to encourage Tabitha, a Habiru girl, and her people, who are being enslaved, to keep faith and hope alive, by exploring the tomb of her people's prince.
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