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21) The Think-Ups
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What's there to do on a rainy day? If you are someone like Kiki, with a big imagination, you teach someone how to play the Think-Ups! Here's how to play: take turns thinking up any creature you like and, just like that, that creature (or several of them) will appear. In a blink, the house is filled with hopping, hungry, messy Think-Ups! Quick, Kiki! What are the rules for ending the game?
22) Quest
Author
Series
Journey trilogy (Aaron Becker) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the Caldecott Honor-winning Journey, much of Becker's energy was devoted to the story's exquisite backdrops. Now, in the second wordless book of his planned trilogy, the focus is on his characters. On a rainy day in a city park, the girl who starred in Journey and the boy introduced at the end take refuge by a doorway under a bridge. To their surprise, a king emerges from the door just long enough to pass the two a map before soldiers apprehend...
23) The rain sparrow
Author
Series
Honey Ridge novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stranger's arrival in a small Southern town stirs up old secrets and new dreams"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Jojo Moyes's Me Before You comes a beautifully written, heartwarming novel about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives. The Day We Met asks: Can you love someone you don't remember falling in love with? A gorgeous husband, two beautiful children, a job she loves--Claire's got it all. And then some. But lately, her mother hovers more than a helicopter, her husband Greg seems like a stranger, and her kids are like characters in a movie....
25) Hooked on you
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riley McAllister left Maple Falls, Arkansas hoping to make it big in New York as a mixed media artist. When her grandmother breaks a leg sliding into third base at a church softball game, Riley plans to convince her grandmother to sell the family yarn shop and retire. Hayden Price's chance to make it out of Maple Falls ended when he blew out his pitching arm during a minor league game. Stuck at the family hardware store, he's coaching the softball...
27) Raindrop, plop!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her dog find many things to count on a rainy day, both as they play outside and after they come home to a warm, dry house.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sent outside by their mother on a rainy day, a child is dismayed when their handheld game falls into the pond before they encounter giant snails, wet mushrooms, and other elements that awaken them to the sensory aspects of nature.
29) Sunny
Author
Publisher
Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Most people would say there is nothing good about trudging to school on a rainy day. Most people would say that being carried away by the wind and dropped into the middle of a tumultuous sea is a very bad sort of situation. No, most people wouldn't like that at all. But, Sunny isn't most people. Sunny likes to look on the bright side. And when things get exceedingly bleak? Well, isn't that what friends are for?--
Author
Series
Wildstone series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Six months after Lanie Jacobs' husband's death, it's hard to imagine anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie discovers she isn't the only one grieving his sudden passing. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded wife. Rocked by the infidelity, Lanie is left to grapple with searing questions. How could she be so wrong about a man she thought she knew better...
31) Rainy day!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's raining outside! Play Blue's Clues with Josh to find out what Blue wants to do on this rainy day"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With the distinctive sound of their bicycle bells, Chirri and Chirra are off on another whimsical adventure. In this new installment of the beloved series, the twins brave a rainy day together...after all, stormy weather is no match for their boundless energy and curiosity."--Provided by publisher.
34) About that kiss
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When sexy Joe Malone never calls after their explosive kiss, Kylie shoves him out of her mind. Until she needs a favor, and it's a doozy."--Back cover.
35) Rain school
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The key to her missing memories could bring relief--or unlock her worst nightmares. On a cold, rainy morning, finance journalist Ally Linden arrives soaked to the bone at her Manhattan office, only to find that she's forgotten her keycard. When her boss shows, he's shocked to see her--because, he explains, she hasn't worked there in five years. Ally knows her name, but is having trouble coming up with much beyond that, though after a trip to the...
39) Rainy day heroes
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It is too rainy outside for the Teen Titans to go to the beach, so Robin teaches the rest of the team new games to play while they are stuck inside.
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