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Español
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What does it take to be a grandparent? Is it baking cookies? Is it a rocking chair? Every grandchild knows what really makes a grandparent. Read this book and find out. This book has been translated into Spanish and allows for a wonderful shared reading experience for children who are beginning readers and is an excellent tool for building the confidence new readers need to embark on the adventures that await them while reading!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Families come in all shapes and sizes. Readers will learn all about families with two dads through everyday and relatable situations. They may just find out that a two-dad family isn't so different from their own!
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English
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Don't touch me here, don't touch me there my Mom said don't touch anywhere (STRANGER DANGER) is a short and straightforward story that tells about preventing abduction for children. Some children do not understand that strangers are not only mean; scary people but could be the nice man asking for help to find his dog or the pleasant woman asking for help to take her grocery into her house.Don't touch me here, don't touch me there my Mom said don't...
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English
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Grandparents have many different characteristics, but they all share one thing in common. This book about grandparents features bright illustrations that work with the simple text to help beginning readers understand the story and build foundational reading skills. Provide a shared reading experience for parents, children, and grandparents with this book that supports early childhood literacy.
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English
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What makes a grandparent? Beginning readers will find the answer to this question in this sweetly illustrated book that encourages a shared reading experience. The warm illustrations work in conjunction with the clear, simple text to help readers better understand the content and story. Children feel inspired to retell what they have learned as well as feel confident in their progressing ability to read and comprehend.
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English
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Families blend together for a variety of reasons. Widowed or divorced parents choose to remarry. An ailing or elderly relative can no longer live alone and moves in with his son's family. A family chooses to adopt a child. Economic circumstances force family members to combine households. Regardless of why it happens, creating a blended family is a process of transition that takes time, patience, humor, compassion, and a whole lot of conversation....
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English
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Ally isn't able to live with her mother. Instead she lives far, far away, on the other side of the country, with her gram and great-aunt. But one summer Ally goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in the "big city by the ocean" and gets to spend time with her mom. While exploring the shore, watching whales from the boat dipping into the salty water, Ally finds out something important: her mother loves to swim as much as she does.
This is a very personal...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.
12) Get That Ball!
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English
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Tom and his gran are playing penalty shoot-out when things go wrong and the ball escapes... Now, wherever it leads them, from the park to the highstreet and beyond to the depths of the ocean and way up high in the sky, Tom and Gran must "Get that ball!"
13) My grandparents
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
270L
Language
English
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Lenny follows Layla for a school project and learns what it is like to live with grandparents.
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English
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This tender tale shows that love can tie the loose ends together!For as long as Lesley could remember, she and her sister Evette spent their summers at Gram's house. One day, the girls and their mother move away from their home in Los Angeles and in with Gram in Chicago. The move is great for the girls but challenging for their mother. In Love Is a Sacrifice, a mother is faced with the difficult decision of raising her children alone or passing the...
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