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1) Star Child
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Star Child wants very much to visit Earth, but his elders tell him that to do so he will have to be born a human child and endure an existence far different from what he has known.
4) Betsy Ross
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inch by inch, bit by bit, Betsy Ross clips, dips, and stitches the first American flag. Based on a sketch Betsy's friend George Washington gave her in 1776, the flag had 13 stripes and 13 stars, which Betsy showed George how to make with a single clip of her scissors. Includes an activity showing children how to make their own Betsy Ross star. Full color.
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stella would rather be a graceful pig ballerina than what she really is, a dog no one seems to like, but on the night of her ballet recital Stella learns that it is better to be herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before-in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are visionary. Inspired by the men in his family, he recognizes his...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
"From the great expanse of the darkening sky filled with stars, to the softening sounds of city and farm quieting down for the night, the perspective comes closer to reveal the end of day at home and then the child snuggling into bed"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Parents describe the breadth of their love for their children, including in soft sunlight and rain-drizzled night, by stars and firelight, and fall's red trees and winter's frost-etched breath.
14) Apple cake
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Thank you, hedge, / Thank you, tree. / Thank you, flower, / Thank you, bee. / Thank you, rain, / Thank you, sun. / Thank you, farmers, / every one. In this simple rhyming story from the author of Held in Love, a child says thank you for the gifts nature provides, from hazelnuts in the hedge to apples from the tree, eggs from the hens to milk from the cow. Eventually, the family has enough ingredients to make something special a delicious apple cake!...
15) Starlight sailor
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text follows a child whose wish on a star leads to adventure in a faraway land, where other children join in building a castle and seeking a dragon, then fall asleep under the starry sky.
16) Sunny-side up
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A child uses her imagination to make the most of a dreary gray day"--
A little girl who is very unhappy when her father says she cannot play outside on a rainy day uses her imagination to make the most out of being indoors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
We woke up in the usual way, but it was not a usual day. Out on the lawn, plain as could be, stood an orange wishing tree. "I wish!" I said. "I wish!" said you. And so our double wishes grew. Wishes are a magical part of childhood. Whether we wish on stars or blow out candles on a cake, our dreams matter. Nancy Tillman captures the wonder of wishes as only she can, with love.
18) Chrysanthemum
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
19) Here comes Ocean
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow a child through a day of surprises at the beach.
Author
Series
Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 8
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, stars in a fairy tale set in the winter wonderland of his imagination.
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