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61) Stranger danger!: the reluctantly written, but absolutely necessary, book for today's boys and girls
Author
Publisher
Journey Stone Creations
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, explains to young readers that they should never go in a car, talk with, or accept gifts from strangers.
63) Heidi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Heidi is sent from her happy mountain home to a big city where she can go to school and be a companion for Clara, a wealthy, gentle girl who cannot walk. But the goats and the Grandfather are Heidi's only happiness and when she returns home, Clara soon follows to find health in the clean Alpine air.
64) My single mom
Author
Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My Single Mom is the story of a normal day in Kenneth's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Kenneth lives with just his mom. Who checks his homework? The after-school leader, Annie! Who makes his dinner? Mom! Who tucks him in at night? Mom! Lenny realizes love makes a family.
Series
Publisher
Berenstain Enterprises, distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 disc (70 min) : color video, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bears experience a series of seasonal lessons that help them stay safe and happy while steering through the many adventures that life holds. Come enjoy the original episodes as the Bear cubs learn how rewarding good manners can be, how to shine instead of worry, and why strangers can be a good or a bad thing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My Blended Family is the story of a normal day in Olivia's life. When classmate Lenny visits her home, he discovers Olivia has a stepmom and four stepsiblings. Who gets her snack? All the kids! Who helps with her homework? Eve and Tiffany! Who reads her bedtime story? Nora and Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
My Special Needs Family is the story of a normal day in Roxy's life. When classmate Lenny visits her home, he discovers Roxy has autism. Who taught her how to bowl? Dad. Who gets her snack? Roxy. Who makes her dinner? Mom. Lenny realizes love makes a family.
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 6
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and his future on the line, Theo must follow his keen instincts to do what’s right.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Counsels parents of school-aged children on how to overcome tendencies toward overprotectiveness to allow children to develop independence. --Publisher's description.
70) The raven and the dove, the big fish, and the stubborn donkey: stories of animals from the Bible
Author
Publisher
Paraclete Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the snake in the Garden of Eden to the lost sheep in Luke's parable, stories about fish and birds, rams and goats abound. We read about them, but they have no voice of their own. Here we allow the raven and the dove on Noah's ark, the big fish that swallowed Jonah, and the donkey on which Balaam rode, to be the narrators of their own stories, to inform us and help us to re-imagine our stories. We learn something about the intrinsic value of...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Author
Publisher
Checkerboard Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers will examine the history of artificial intelligence, leading scientists in the field, the Three Laws of robots, the singularity, Sophia the robot, and more before deciding for themselves!
Author
Publisher
Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cryptozoology: Could Unexplained Creatures Be Real? Readers will examine the history of Cryptozoology, Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster and more before deciding for themselves! Table of contents, fun facts, a glossary, and an index are included. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
74) Stripes
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Extended cut ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When John Winger loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labor of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Search of Mister Rogers pursues a rich understanding of this good, kind, sometimes strange, deeply influential, holy man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be evennow, in our own troubled time"--