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Author
Publisher
Tiny Owl Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mrs Cake puts together a delicious spread for her friends, but they are too distracted to notice. Along with the help of an attentive little boy and his cat, Mrs Cake tries to get their attention… but that doesn’t go quite to plan. Will she ever be heard above the hullabaloo? From celebrated author & illustrator Kate Milner, comes a bright, witty tale celebrating the importance of listening to everyone, not just those who shout the loudest.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
First Board Book Edition
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Grandma's arms you can go from deserts to forests and up through the sky. Come along on an adventure with a little girl and her grandma around the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in.
They didn't have much, but they had each other.
After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box...
They didn't have much, but they had each other.
After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box...
5) Troublemaker
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Trade Paperback Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
215 pages.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Jordan feels like he can't live up to the example his older sister set, or his parent's expectations. When he returns home from school one day hoping to hide his suspension, Los Angeles has reached a turning point. In the wake of the acquittal of the police officers filmed beating Rodney King, as well as the shooting of a young black teen, Latasha Harlins by a Korean store owner, the country is at the precipice of confronting its racist...
6) Switch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Gypsy Beaumont wakes up on her birthday, she finds that her magical ability is to see flashes of the future and past and that her mean non-magical grandmother is moving in with them.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Foolish love appears to be the birthright of the Roux family, which casts an onimous fate for its most recent progeny, twins Ava and Henry Lavendar. Henry is mute for much of his young life and Ava is born with the wings of a bird.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
10) The bell bandit
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
174 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Siblings Evan and Jessie must solve the mystery of a missing cherished family treasure while coming to terms with their beloved grandmother's unsettling behavior.
Author
Series
Doldrums volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Archer Helmsley's grandparents have finally returned home, but there are rumors they've brought a curse with them.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...
Author
Series
Myth-o-mania volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
167 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this story with a modern twist, Hades tells his own version of how he became King of the Underworld and Zeus became King of the Gods.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Author
Series
Pax volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill, forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
Author
Series
Little house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Author
Series
Myth-o-mania volume 2
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
167 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this modern version of the Greek myth, Persephone asks Hades for a ride to escape her overprotective mother, sneaks into the Underworld, and refuses to leave.
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a young girl discovers the magic in everyday transformations that take place around her.