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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The whole family joins in a lively small-town celebration of Independence Day, including a parade, a picnic, music, and fireworks. An author's note explains the origin of the celebration of July 4th.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From her first bite, young Betty Bunny likes chocolate cake so much that she claims she will marry it one day, and she has trouble learning to wait patiently until she can have her next taste.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arthur is unhappy about going on vacation with his family, but he shows them how to make the best of a bad situation when they end up stuck in a motel because of rain.
14) Blackout
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
16) Stormy night
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Bear is frightened by a storm, but singing to his toy, Floppy, and being with his parents helps comfort him until the storm goes to sleep, and so does he.
17) Pumpkin fever
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p.: col. ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In simple text that teaches about shapes, Erin and her parents buy two wonderful, round pumpkins and while she and her father carve one into a jack-o-lantern, Mom prepares hers a different way.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Minerva wakes up in a bad mood and nobody notices, she spends an entire day behaving badly--until some loving advice from dad helps turn things around.
19) Too early
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text follow a family's morning routine from the perspective of the earliest riser in the house.
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mother shares with her child all the ways in which family members and friends were loving and welcoming before the child was even born.