Eve Bunting
Author
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Eve Bunting pens a tender tribute to maternal love. The love between mother and child is a deep, profound bond, and that is true whether the pair walks on two legs, flies through the air, or swims in the ocean. A mother knows how precious her child is. Through gentle, rhyming text, human and animal mothers tell their little ones why they love them, sharing what is beautiful and unique about their children. From wrinkly skin to...
42) Hurry! Hurry!
Author
Language
English
Description
Rooster is spreading the word: Hurry! Hurry! All the animals rush to the barn-and arrive just in time to greet the tiniest member of the farm family, hatching out of his egg.
Eve Bunting's simple energetic text and Jeff Mack's colorful art come together in a joyful book that's perfect for preschoolers.
43) Washday
Author
Language
English
Description
It is washday. 'Are you ready for work, Lizzie girl?' Grandma asks. 'I am,' Lizzie replies. It's hard for her to set aside her plans for a tea party, but she rolls up her sleeves. Together, Lizzie and Grandma haul the steaming washtub to the workbench and shave lye soap into the boiling water. They rub, rub, rub the clothes over the washboard, pull them through the wringer, and hang them out to dry. In the end, the satisfaction of a job well done,...
44) Jumping the Nail
Author
Language
English
Description
Dru and all her friends at La Paloma High School remember the story of the two students who jumped the Nail ten years ago. Dropping from the top of the steep cliff, they fell 90 feet to the California water below. They didn't survive. Now, Dru is horrified when Scooter and his girlfriend, Elisa jump the Nail. Scooter has a reputation for doing crazy things. But Elisa is not so daring; she just follows Scooter. Though the jump is successful, Dru begins...
Author
Language
English
Description
A unique retelling of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, focusing on the cart used to transport his coffin through the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, from Ebenezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College. The text also features the large number of people who walked the funeral route and were buoyed by MLK's positive influence, as well as Ada and Belle, the mules that pulled the cart. This title has Read-Along subtitles.
Author
Language
English
Description
It is washday. 'Are you ready for work, Lizzie girl?' Grandma asks. 'I am,' Lizzie replies. It's hard for her to set aside her plans for a tea party, but she rolls up her sleeves. Together, Lizzie and Grandma haul the steaming washtub to the workbench and shave lye soap into the boiling water. They rub, rub, rub the clothes over the washboard, pull them through the wringer, and hang them out to dry. In the end, the satisfaction of a job well done,...
47) Washday
Author
Language
English
Description
It is washday. 'Are you ready for work, Lizzie girl?' Grandma asks. 'I am,' Lizzie replies. It's hard for her to set aside her plans for a tea party, but she rolls up her sleeves. Together, Lizzie and Grandma haul the steaming washtub to the workbench and shave lye soap into the boiling water. They rub, rub, rub the clothes over the washboard, pull them through the wringer, and hang them out to dry. In the end, the satisfaction of a job well done,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beginning reader book containing three stories in which Frog shares a Thanksgiving feast with his woodland friends, celebrates his first Christmas, and rings in the New Year with a twist on tradition--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When leprechauns Ari, Boo, and Col need to place the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they cannot help getting into mischief along the way.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Big Bear outgrows his old boat, he gives it to Little Bear and builds himself a new one--just like it except bigger--until his friends start making suggestions that result in something very different.
55) Pirate boy
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Colin imagines himself in a series of adventures beginning with joining a pirate crew, his mother assures him that she will always be there to help if he needs her.
56) Pop's bridge
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
57) Whose shoe?
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A conscientious mouse tries to locate the owner of a single unclaimed shoe.
58) Tweak, tweak
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill., 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While out for a walk, Mama Elephant answers her child's questions about a monkey, a frog, a songbird, a butterfly, and a crocodile, all the while teaching about Little Elephant too.
60) The Banshee
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.