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Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1967]
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Physical Desc
[33] p. col. illus. 21 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 275, [4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the adventures of Caddie and her brothers are still exciting over 60 years later. With each chapter comes another...
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
111 p. ill. 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
5) Savvy
Author
Series
Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
�2008
Physical Desc
499 pages
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--A magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
6) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 28
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Physical Desc
73 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their Magic Tree House back to a Hawaiian island of long ago where they make friends, learn how to surf, and encounter a tsunami.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Tom Wingo is a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling. He flies to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. He realizes that while trying to save her, this may be his last chance to save himself as well.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories tell of two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings...
12) Ginger Pye
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
68 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.
14) All adults here
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
15) The lemonade war
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Evan and his younger sister, Jessie, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Worse, Edison's slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues drive her health-and-fitness freak husband Fletcher insane. After the big blowhard of a brother-in-law has more...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
126 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.
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