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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before--in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are visionary. Inspired by the men in his family, he recognizes his...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his...
84) As brave as you
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires--literally"--
Scooping poop at his grandparent's house - that sure as heck wasn't the way eleven-year-old Genie expected to be spending his summer. But when his parents send him and his big brother, Ernie, to Virginia to experience the great (not!) outdoors, they're in for some big surprises. First, there are chores galore (picking peas, really?). Second, Grandpop just might...
85) A bird will soar
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Barney continues to recover from the chicken pox, Grandpa tells him the story of how Dr. Storkmeyer's head was shrunk during a jungle expedition.
88) Mamo
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Orla O'Reilly, the youngest in a long line of hedge witches, is compelled to return home after the death of her grandmother, Mamo. In the wake of her Mamo's passing, seas are impossible to fish, crops have soured, even Jo Manalo's attic is taken over by a poltergeist! And to make matter worse it appears that the cause is Mamo, or her mislaid bones that is. Can Orla shoulder the responsibility of quieting her Mamo's spirit, saving her hometown, and...
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A girl describes her family's annual visit with Mamaw and Papaw in West Virginia, then Abuela and Abuelo in Florida, especially the foods and cultural elements that make each kitchen unique.
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