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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
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Desribes the life of the children's book author and illustrator, conveying her life at Folly Cove, her love of dance, and how she was able to create images of machinery, including those used in her book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
NC 1280L
Language
English
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Randolph Caldecott is best known as the namesake of the award that honours picture book illustrations. In this inventive biography, a leading children's literature scholar examines the man behind the medal. Including drawing from Caldecott's very last sketchbook, it shows why Caldecott was indeed the father of the modern picture book.
27) The wishing game
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Language
English
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"A retired bestselling author hosts a one-of-a-kind competition, with high risks and high rewards--giving the winner a chance to change lives. Lucy Hart has come a long way since feeling the cold neglect of her parents, whose attention always centered around her chronically ill sister's needs. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, Lucy is able to share her love of books with bright, young students, and one in particular, a seven-year-old orphan...
28) Forget me not
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Language
English
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With a popular comic strip, card line, and children's cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighto should be in a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood lingers on. Even though she lives in the New Jersey house where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents since they moved to Florida five years agao. Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been killed in a car crash. While settling their affairs, Lucy begins to realize...
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English
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One reluctant heir...If anyone else had asked for his help publishing a naughty novel, Ash would have had the sense to say no. But he's never been able to deny Verity Plum. Now he has his hands full illustrating a book and trying his damnedest not to fall in love with his best friend. The last thing he needs is to discover he's a duke's lost heir. Without a family or a proper education, he's had to fight for his place in the world, and the idea of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 770L
Language
English
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Description
A whimsically illustrated guide to the inner life of dogs shares lighthearted insights into dog evolution and behavior while profiling common breeds and explaining what a dog experiences while looking at a sunset and smelling the ground.
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
This is the definitive look at how Tasha Tudor's life has created her art, how her art has shaped her life, and why it is essential to view them together to best appreciate her gracious legacy. Davis provides detailed biographical information, everything from the origin of Tasha' name to how she raised four children on her own, in order to illustrate the amazing connection between her life and work. A longtime confidant of Tasha Tudor, Davis details...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs followed with the WPA (Works Progress Administration) and Marvel comics. But it was...
33) More bears!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Language
English
Description
Before he can begin the story he wants to write, an author hears an insistent call for more bears and soon the pages are crawling with them.
34) Color chaos!
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When substitute principal Mr. Greystone prohibits colors at Hughes Elementary School, it takes a visit from illustrator Maurice Coleur to set things right. Includes information about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors and the color wheel.
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Language
English
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.
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Language
English
Description
A tale told from the parallel perspectives of two possible timelines considers the life of American expatriate Irena McGovern, who in one reality stays faithful to her disciplined American intellectual partner, and in the other runs off with an exuberant British friend.
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Series
Astrid the astronaut volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
A young girl is determined to be the first astronaut with hearing aids in space! Astrid can't wait for the school year to start so she can put her Astronomically Grand Plan into action! She and her best friend, Hallie, are going to be in their first year of Shooting Stars, a club dedicated to all things space. Astrid's big sister has told her all about it, and this year, there is a big, wonderful prize: a trip to a real-life space camp! But Astrid's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces the life and work of author and illustrator Edward Gorey and explains how, although it took him a long time to achieve all he wanted to do, he sought to be himself throughout his life.
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