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41) Wild about books
Author
Series
Springfield Zoo volume 1
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake. It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo. In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal-tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for...
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 13
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
H
Physical Desc
57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of being read. But what will happen when the book ends?
Author
Series
Five Little Monkeys volume 8
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mama has said it is time for "Lights out! Sweet dreams! No more reading in bed," but her five little monkeys cannot resist reading just a few more books to one another.
45) The book hog
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the 10 years since their parents disappeared to protect them. Now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy. First in the Books of Beginning series.
47) Once upon a book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Alice can go anywhere in the magical pages of her favorite book. So when it flaps its pages and invites her in, she is swept away to a world of wonder and adventure. But at the end of her imaginative journey, she yearns for the place she loves best of all."--
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporizer and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favorite flavored marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry....
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Turn any student into a bookworm with a few easy and practical strategies
Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she can't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year.
Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students
...Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Find a tree?a black tupelo or dawn redwood will do?and plant yourself. (It?s okay if you prefer a stoop, like Langston Hughes.) With these words, an adventure begins. Kwame Alexander?s evocative poetry and Melissa Sweet?s lush artwork come together to take readers on a sensory journey between the pages of a book.
53) I'm a librarian
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Tinyville Town preschool series stacks up in a whole new way with the addition of the fourth volume, I'm a Librarian the latest board book to feature one of the many diverse residents of the charming town. In Im a Librarian, readers get to know the town librarian as he helps a little boy find a favorite book. As the search progresses, fans of the series will recognize many other residents of Tinyville Town also visiting the library. From New...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
F
Physical Desc
19 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On "Read to a Pet Day" at the library, Biscuit plays with story time puppets, visits with friends, and listens to recorded books before a librarian helps him discover his favorite acivity of all.
55) After Eli
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living.
56) Mister Pip
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (7.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a remote tropical island where villages are overrun by rebel fighting, thirteen-year-old Matilda is introduced to the Charles Dickens classic "Great Expectations" by her white school teacher and becomes enthralled with the story's main character, with whom she feels a connection.
57) Checkout 19
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the "dazzling. . . . and daring" Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets-and dreams up-along the way. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer...
58) Again
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster books for young readers
Pub. Date
2013, c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
At bedtime, Cedric the dragon wants his mother to read his favorite book again, and again, and again.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities....
60) Bliss
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose Bliss wants to work magic in her family's bakery as her parents do, but when they are called away and Rose and her siblings are left in charge, the magic goes awry and a beautiful stranger tries to talk Rose into giving her the Bliss Cookery Booke.
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