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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nina lives in San Francisco with her parents, and she loves visiting her two grandmas across the world. Follow Nina as her two trips unfold side by side: Young readers will love poring over the details of what is the same and what is different at Nana’s home in England and at Nenek’s home in Malaysia. In each place, Nina wears different clothes, plays different games, and eats different food. But so much about visiting Nana and Nenek is the same,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Each night, a young girl's Auntie Fatma puts her to bed, singing a lullaby filled with rich imagery of her home in Egypt. As Auntie Fatma sings, we are given a glimpse of modern Cairo, from boats making their way down the Nile to gentle calls to prayer from the mosques to young children joyfully playing soccer in the streets.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While resting on a stoop, Gogo smells something sweet and spicy on the breeze. It leads him to a place he's never been—a bustling night market where vendors sell delicious treats. As he wanders, sniffing for scraps, GoGo discovers something else as well: a little girl who has gotten separated from her parents. He knows he can help and guides her through the market . . . to where her worried parents wait for her—with open arms for their daughter...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
By now, you have probably heard the old folktale about a girl in a red cape gobbled up by a wolf. Here is the real story.
In this fresh retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, Little Red lives with her mother in a village near the Great Wall of China, wears a red silk hood, and practices kung fu. When she ventures through the woods to visit her sick grandmother, she encounters something much scarier than a wolf--a mighty dragon! But with her wits and...
6) Last Flight
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido, distributed by Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
On April 24, 1975 the last flight out of Saigon, Vietnam carried over 400 people to the United States, six days before Saigon’s surrender to the North Vietnamese Army.
Kristen Giang was a little girl, on that flight with family, and here in this story she shares all the emotions of the decision to flee from the perspective of someone eight years old; Playing a game of space-explorers to protect herself and her sister’s eyes from tear gas; sneaking...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father. Sadly, he was not alone. Everyone lost someone the day the big wave came. With the villagers silenced by grief, Makio's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, starts a mysterious project that helps the villagers heal. How? Mr. Hirota builds a phone booth on a hill, giving Makio and the villagers a chance to feel close to their loved ones again. Although the...