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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as sure she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--
3) Bear and Bee
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Some people are a little bit strange or a little too loud, and just a little bit scary. But I bet, if you knew them, and knew their favorite things, you'd think that maybe, (probably) most people aren't so scary after all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they even yell. Sad, angry, and scared, the story's young narrator...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Chicken Little runs into the Big Bad Wolf (literally), her first instinct is to fly, like the other chickens, but she decides to investigate instead--and finds that this particular wolf is not interested in eating chickens, he is just looking for a place to call home.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"Usha lives in a town where the sun hasn't shone for as long as anyone can remember. Only her grandfather remembers its brilliance and tells Usha stories about the time before other people took the sun away, building a wall to keep it all to themselves. So Usha decides to do something, and sets off in search of the sun. When at last Usha reaches the wall, she tries to kick it down, climb it, yell her way through it--but the bricks don't budge. It's...
11) The ghoul
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The villagers are afraid of the "Ghoul." For years, they've tiptoed around the village for fear of disturbing it. The monster doesn't look like them, and it is believed to eat humans. One day, the brave Hassan embarks on a dangerous mission to face the long-feared Ghoul. When Hassan finally meets the Ghoul living on top of the mountain, he discovers that the Ghoul is just as terrified of people as they are of him. Hassan and the Ghoul realize that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Monster is excited to see what kind of creature will move into Vampire's old house on the block. He even starts practicing his welcome growl for the new neighbor. But when the moving truck pulls up, it's not a greedy goblin, an ogre, or a dastardly dragon that steps out. Instead, it's something even more terrifying than Monster could have imagined! Monster quickly rallies the other neighbors to unite against the new guy on the block. But what if the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new family moves in, and Franklin is afraid to make friends with them because they seem very different. Soon he realizes that he and his new neighbours have a lot in common after all" Cf. Our choice, 1998-1999.
14) A new friend
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Eight-year-old Sophie Mouse is excited to return to school after the long winter break, but there is a new student--a snake--and Sophie and the other animals are afraid to sit near him, much less ask him to play with them, because they have heard snakes are awful." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be. But what if everyone's life is different from how Milo first imagines it? This timely and important picture book is about how you can't really know anyone's story just by looking at them.
16) Best of all
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
In a village where everyone has been carved from wood, an uppity Miss Bess Stovall claims her maple "ancestree" is superior until the day a shunned willow fellow saves her life.
18) Spotty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Having been excluded from a party because his spots make him different, Spotty the bunny runs away from home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"As a New York-to-Missouri transplant in 1943, ten-year-old Susan Marcus discovers a world of prejudice right in her own backyard and makes a small but courageous stand toward equality"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
East Dragon and West Dragon are suspicious of one another although they have never met, but when the western king is captured in the Eastern Kingdom and West Dragon goes to rescue him, they find they have much in common.
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