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Author
Series
Nellie Sue books (Rebecca Janni) volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nellie Sue hopes to make friends with her new neighbors by hosting a hoedown in her barn, but wonders if the "glitter girls" will be able to dance in their ballet slippers, rather than in dancing boots like hers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.
47) Faster! Faster!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A father and daughter spend a day at the park where daddy becomes an array of fast moving animals on which his daughter rides, from a dog and a rabbit to a horse and a cheetah.
48) Vroom!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a young girl's imaginary journey as she zooms in a race car past fields and forests to faraway lands before returning home to her own safe bed.
49) Prince fly guy
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 15
Publisher
Cartwheel Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Buzz is writing a fairy tale for homework, and Fly Guy naturally assumes the role of a handsome prince, who fends off a giant and rescues a beautiful princess.
51) How to
Author
Publisher
Simply Read Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Explores imaginative and whimsical ways of doing things, such as how to wonder, how to see the breeze, and how to be brave.
52) Time is a flower
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Depicts a child's imaginative vision of time as a sunbeam crossing a room, a spider spinning a web, the sun going down, or a wave hitting the beach.
Author
Series
Ladybug Girl volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lulu, who likes to dress in a ladybug costume, goes camping with her parents, brother, and dog Bingo.
Author
Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
57) Bird Boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new boy nicknamed Bird Boy by teasing classmates enjoys imaginative flights as various birds, gaining self-confidence and new friends.
59) What's an apple?
Author
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text shows all the imaginative things you can do with an apple.
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