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(0)Patricia Lakin
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of adorable Level 1 Ready-to-Reads, award-winning author Patricia Lakin and the ever-talented Brian Floca tell the story of two hamsters who live in a classroom as pets. Mo, a hamster who likes to know things, and Max, a hamster who likes to make things, team up to bust out of their cage and explore their art class/home during holiday time.
In each story, these furry friends learn about a holiday and make a tie-in craft that...
In each story, these furry friends learn about a holiday and make a tie-in craft that...
4) Park Here
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Carl the car loves to race and run at the park with his friends. But, when he follows the sign that says Park Here, it brings him to the wrong place! Can Carl and his friends figure out what went wrong and find their way to the real park?
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the furthest corner of a long-forgotten junkyard, Roscoe lives a life that suits him. But when a disaster sends three visitors to his gate looking for a new home, he finds that he can create more with others than he ever could on his own-and that together they can build an environment that's better for everyone. In each story in this series, the Tinkerers put on their engineering caps to come up with creative solutions to help others in their...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When construction puts a friend's concert at risk, the Tinkerers agree: the show must go on!
When road construction wakes Gus the groundhog from his hibernation a week early, the Tinkerers are more than happy to take him in. Before long, their new friend reveals that he has a special talent: he can play the ukulele! Every spring, Gus puts on a concert for his family and friends to celebrate the season, but this year, between the construction and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Tinkerers help an injured bird fly back to her family.
When Lucy the goose does a crash landing in Big River Junkyard, the Tinkerers need to find a way to get her back up and flying before her family migrates south for winter. Can they use technology to help Lucy get her confidence back?
Author
Language
English
Description
The pair of beavers who live next to Big River Junkyard don't agree on much. But when the factory upstream starts polluting the water, they both know something needs to change. Can the Tinkerers design a solution that will make them both happy? In each story in this series, the Tinkerers put on their engineering caps to come up with creative solutions to help others in their world. Along the way, they explore topics that align with Common Core and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Early one morning, a young boy wakes to the light of his alarm clock. He puts on his hearing aids and clothes, then goes to wake his father. Together they brave the cold as they walk down the dirt road that leads to the beach. Lakin's understated story reminds readers that sometimes the best way to communicate doesn't involve words, while Steele's watercolor illustrations show that beauty is never far away.
11) Rainy day!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four young crocodiles find all sorts of ways to keep busy on a rainy day.
13) Skateboards
Author
Series
Made by Hand volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers a look at a business owner who makes skateboards by hand, going into how he became involved in skateboards and demonstrating step-by-step how he carefully creates them.
14) Guitars
Author
Series
Made by hand) volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discover where the earliest guitars were made and how the instrument has evolved. Then come to the present day to meet Meredith Coloma, someone so passionate about guitars that she learned how to make them by hand"--
15) Bicycles
Author
Series
Made by hand volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes and learn how craftsman Aaron Dykstra makes one-of-a-kind bicycles by hand with this nonfiction book that's full of photographs and illustrations about his process. Aaron Dykstra of Six-Eleven Bicycles in Roanoke, Virginia, got his first job at a small local bike shop when he was fifteen and he spent the majority of his teen years riding and racing bikes. After a stint in the air force, Aaron realized his true passion was on...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the creative and subversive tactics the United States used to win the Revolutionary War, including sending secret messages, using invisible ink, and devloping ciphers.
18) Vroom, zoom, Bud
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bud enters a race and gets so distracted by a mud puddle he finishes last, but still has fun because he loves to be muddy.