Caroline Adderson
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Birthdays, hiccups, swim lessons, summer holidays-growing up is fun! This is the second collection of stories about Bruno, an imaginative boy with a humorous personality.
Seven-year-old Bruno is back and tackling problems with his trademark originality.
He defeats hiccups. He trades his mother for a new hat. He skillfully avoids math. And thanks to his special Flutter Kick, he easily advances to the next level-in swimming and in life! Bruno is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jasper John Dooley's beloved Nan is leaving on a cruise for a whole week! He feels so pththth. All he can think about is Nan missing out on their Wednesday card game, and whether it's raining where she is, too, and if she will ever come back. But each day something happens, from a stapling mishap to a hamster escape, and Jasper realizes that waiting for someone to return from an adventure takes forever ... unless you're having an adventure, too.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1890, Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov embarks on an investigative voyage to the Sakhalin Island penal colony, a gruelling six-month trip that could be fatal to someone suffering from tuberculosis. Everyone in Moscow knows he is escaping not only his current creative crisis but also the first woman the famously unattainable Chekhov has ever fallen in love with.
In this witty, colourfully peopled novel, celebrated...
Author
Language
English
Description
This special bundle unites two books, one of short stories and one novel, by one of Canada's premier short fiction writers. The Sky Is Falling deftly intertwines themes of first love, sexual confusion, and the dread of nuclear disaster with the comical infighting of a cast of well-meaning political activists, and the timelessness of the great Russian classics. A story for our own age of paranoia and terror, Caroline Adderson's witty, accomplished...
Author
Language
English
Description
Malcolm, an aging hairdresser, is reclusive and bitter. Alison, a salon apprentice, is dismissed by Malcolm for her embarrassing innocence. When their colleague is murdered by neo-Nazis, however, the two embark on an unplanned pilgrimage to Auschwitz. A moving and sharp-edged novel by the award-winning author of Ellen in Pieces.
6) I, Bruno
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Bruno is a boy with particular tastes and ideas. He will not, for example, eat anything green. He spends one day as Sir Bruno and another as the Queen. He is an entrepreneur and he understands the language of Car. Bruno is a boy worth knowing.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nicola's adorable little dog June Bug keeps getting into trouble. She steals the neighbor's turkey, yanks down the Christmas tree, and destroys Mom's almost-finished giant crossword. Everyone is mad, and it looks as though June Bug's days are numbered. Will doing a good deed make up for June Bug's bad behavior? Nicola certainly hopes so. And when she and June Bug come across a new nursing home in the neighborhood, it feels like a sign. They volunteer...
Author
Series
Izzy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isabel and Zoë love playing with Isabel's puppy, Rollo--especially when they play at Zoë's house because that's where the Baby Stealer (aka Zoë's older brother, Lionel) lives. The girls push Rollo around in a stroller until the Baby Stealer jumps out and scares the girls, then runs off with Rollo. It's a thrilling game that always has a happy ending--with two giggling girls reunited with their fur baby, safe and sound. But one day, Lionel won't...
Author
Series
Izzy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seven-year-old Isabel is an adopted, only child, who lives with her single mom and her nanny, Rosa. Isabel's best friend is Zoë. Zoë adores the shenanigans they get up to together, EXCEPT when it gets them into trouble, which does happen now and then! Getting into trouble is Zoë's idea of CATASTROPHE. Each time it happens, it means the friendship is on the rocks -- freeze-out time. Whenever this happens, it's really tough on Isabel, who desperately...
10) Norman, speak!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a family adopts a dog from a local shelter, they cannot understand why he doesn't respond to commands, until a chance encounter in the dog park reveals that their new dog only understands Chinese.
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At long last, it's Jasper John Dooley's turn to be Star of the Week. But events don't unfold quite the way he had expected. When his best friend, Ori tells the class about his new baby sister, no one is interested anymore in Jasper's show and tell. The week just goes downhill from there. Fortunately, with the help of his parents and friends--and a hammer and some nails-- by the time Friday arrives, Jasper John Dooley knows once again that he has what...
Author
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the “grownup virus” hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony by a neighbor who has a secret crush on him. A...
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jasper just wants to play knights and dragons but Isabel loves him and wants to plan their wedding.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 380L
Language
English
Description
Pierre and Paul are back for another adventure! Pierre speaks French and Paul speaks English, but that doesn't stop them from being friends and exploring together. Today is garbage day, so the duo sets out to find hidden treasures in the trash. Treasure map in hand, they encounter poisonous swamps, dark forests, a dragon, and even a tsunami! (Or maybe just a garbage truck driving through a puddle). When the tsunami sweeps away their treasure map,...
15) Pierre & Paul: avalanche! : a story told in two languages : une histoire racontée en deux langues
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Pierre parle Francais. Paul speaks English. But that doesn't stop them from sharing their adventures . De grandes aventures. Playful storytelling and simple phrases ease language learners into the story.
16) Star of the week
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Taking a turn as "Star of the Week" at school, Jasper John Dooley is upset by an unsuccessful show-and-tell presentation, a spotlight-stealing baby, and a classmate's shenanigans that send Jasper to the principal's office..
17) Left behind
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Feeling left behind when his beloved Nan leaves for a week-long cruise, Jasper John Dooley realizes that he will be less lonely if he has his own adventures, which include a stapling mishap and a hamster escape.
18) Eat, Leo! Eat!
Author
Lexile measure
AD 500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Sunday, Leo and and family gather at Nonna's house for a big lunch. Everyone is hungry--except for Leo. Then Nonna starts telling a story that includes the star-shaped pasta in her soup. The following week, she continues the story with a different kind of pasta, and Leo's appetite for the story--and Nonna's food--grows and grows.
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
All Jasper John Dooley was trying to do was practice his reading skills. He wanted to be ready for his turn to sit in the big, comfy chair at the library on Wednesday and read to Molly the Dog. But, even though Jasper was being so so so careful, the wonderful library book about toilet-paper-tube crafts accidentally falls into his bathwater and drowns. After that, he and his dad only make things worse by setting the book on fire and then shooting it...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At first Curtis isn't worried when his mother doesn't come home after her all-night shift at the gas bar. For a time Curtis manages on his own, looking after himself and his five-year-old brother. But then the credit card maxes out and the landlord starts demanding the rent. Just in time the boys make friends with cranky old Mrs. Burt who lives across the street. With the neighbor the boys go on an adventure. But will they ever return to their mother?...