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41) Leo can swim
Author
Series
Leo (Anna McQuinn) volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Baby Leo loves the water, so his father takes him to swim class with the other toddlers.
42) Dino-swimming
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Plant-eating dinosaurs compete against meat-eating dinosaurs at a swimming meet.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Swimming is a long thread that connects the Olympic heroes of today with the real and mythic ones of the past across more than ten millennia--a recorded history that begins in a cave in the Egyptian desert and sweeps across athletes and poets, statesmen and emperors, humans and gods; across the whole human experience, the entire human story. Splash! weaves a 10,000-year-old tale that begins in a bone-dry cave in the remote southwest corner of Egypt,...
45) Swim, Mo, swim!
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This photographic tale about Duckling the reluctant swimmer finds him resenting the pressure exerted by his patient Mama and Papa Duck, preferring to stay dry and take a nap before eventually deciding to join his siblings in the pond.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"¡A bucear Llama Llama! Luna Jirafa tiene la fantástica idea de pasar la tarde jugando en la playa. Fantástica excepto por un pequeño detalle... Llama Llama ¡no sabe nadar! Entonces, hace todo lo que un pequeño Llama haría: pide ayuda a su Mamá. ¿Podrán las clases de natación de Mamá Llama ayudar a su miedo del océano, o se quedará en la orilla todo verano?" -- cover page 4.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
50) Swim, Jim!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022
Language
English
Description
"Jim the crocodile finds the courage to face his fear of swimming in this funny and charming debut picture book for fans of Jabari Jumps and Jean Reidy's Truman! Jim the crocodile is scared of swimming -- or rather, of sinking. His family's swamp is just too deep, too dark, and too big. But maybe he could swim, if only there were a smaller swamp where he could try it on his own terms. Jim wiggle-waggles far and wide until he finds the perfect place....
51) The pool
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Bluey, Bingo, and Dad head to the pool. What could go wrong? Find out in this beautiful picture book adventure.
52) Splashdance
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ursula, a bear, and Ricardo, a human, are preparing for the water ballet competition. But a new regulation at the community pool--no bears--leaves Ursula cut from the contest. Luckily, she encounters a group of undaunted animal swimmers at a local pond, and Ursula and her new team figure out a way to participate in the competition and make sure everyone is welcome at the pool once and for all"--
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.
55) A mermaid girl
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Wearing her burkini to the community pool for the first time, Heba stands out more than she likes, but she shows her friends that she can swim and play the same way they can, even though her swimsuit looks different.
56) Together we swim
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, a young boy learns to swim in a pool with the example and encouragement of his family.
57) Our pool
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On a hot day, people come from all over the city to spend the day at the pool in this joyful picture book that’s a love song to summer, the city, community, and staying cool! Today is a pool day in the city! The sun is shining, so what are you waiting for? Friends and family. Kids and grandparents. Big bodies and small bodies. Everybody is welcome at our pool! Get ready for swimming and splashing, zigzagging and dunking, and racing and laughing."--...
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 4
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
'It's summer and Sunny is bored. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to babysit way more than Sunny wants to babysit. There's nothing good on TV. The only cool place that's cool (in a not-boring sense) is the community pool. Sunny loves going there - and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving frozen ice cream treats - with the assistance of the very sweet boy who works...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany--Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real, but the two teenagers are desperate to escape their lives...
60) It's pool time!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's summertime, and Emily Elizabeth is working on her swim skills. She wants to earn the Cool Kahuna Badge, and she needs to us three different strokes, swim in the deep end, and jump off the high dive. Emily Elizabeth knows that practice makes perfect. Luckily, she's got Coach Clifford to cheer her on! Will she make a splash at the Cool Kahuna swim contest?
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