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Author
Language
English
Description
For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime.' This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of life to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A grandfather and his grandson enjoy sharing knock-knock jokes, playing games, hot chocolate, watching movies, reading books, playing baseball and just spending time together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Handprint Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems on such important events in the history of the United States as the Pilgrims' landing in Massachusetts, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Seward's Folly, the San Francisco earthquake, and more.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Offers a collection of twenty-two poems about how to put a unique twist on ordinary school events, such as relating an adventurous story when late for school or making a sibling disappear as part of a science project.
17) Martian rock
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A group of Martians looking for life on the different planets in the solar system make a surprising discovery just as they are about to give up.
19) Food fight!
Author
Publisher
Handprint Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Late at night, after everyone in the house has gone to bed, all the food in the refrigerator, cupboards, and cabinets emerge from the shelves and have their own party.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
An older sibling imagines how much better it would be if brother Andy were a dog instead of a baby, doing tricks and being banished to the outside when he got too noisy.
