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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never thought to look.Drawn from author Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this moving picture book portrays a family with a great deal of love and little money. Weaving together Kalia's story with that of her beloved grandmother, the book moves from the jungles of Laos to the family's early years in the United States. When Kalia becomes unhappy...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Pr Ltd
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An endearing story about a little girl who doesn't think she can. "Up there! The tree can be our ship!" one of Lou's friends exclaims when they decide to play pirates. "Ummm …" responds Lou. Usually she loves adventures. But this is new. Lou has never climbed a tree before. And she knows she can't do it. She doesn't even want to try. But this adventure does look fun, and when all her excuses run out, Lou realizes the bravest adventurers are those...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
6) Humbug witch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite looking the part, a little witch cannot seem to do the things that witches are supposed to do.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated discussion of what not to do around various dangerous animals, with warnings about petting a platypus, touching a tang fish, or pulling a python's tail.
10) A lucky thing
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of fourteen poems about nature, including "Calling the Sun," "Showing the Wind," and "Invitation from a Mole."
11) Little cloud
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little cloud becomes all sorts of things--a sheep, an airplane, trees, a hat--before joining other clouds and raining.
13) Miss Rumphius
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
19) Boot & Shoe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boot and Shoe are dogs that live in the same house, eat from the same bowl, and sleep in the same bed but spend their days on separate porches until a squirrel mixes things up.
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