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1) Robinson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy who loves adventure.
A mysterious solo journey.
A remote island wilderness.
Cast away in this beautiful dreamlike story
and discover what surprises await.
Peter Sís blends a true story from his childhood
with the fictional adventure of Robinson Crusoe to create
a magical picture book filled with heart and imagination
that readers will want to return to again and again.
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Language
English
Description
A father's diary, an artist's memoir.
While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which was later locked in a red box. We weren't allowed to touch the box. The stories I heard as a little boy faded to a hazy dream, and my drawings from that time make no sense. I cannot decipher them. It was not until I myself had gone far, far away and received the message from my father that I became interested in the red box again...
In New York,...
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Series
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English
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Note to Readers: Double-tap on images with golden borders to see more!
Another delightful romp around Madlenka's city block
Madlenka wants a dog! She doesn't really care what kind, so long as it's a dog that she can put on a leash and walk around the block. But her mother and father say NO! What is Madlenka to do? It just takes some imagination... Madlenka's friends on the block all play along, remembering the dogs of their childhood, and in the...
4) Madlenka
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Series
Language
English
Description
A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world!
Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors-the French baker, the Indian news vendor, the Italian ice-cream man, the Latin American grocer, a retired opera singer from Germany, an African American school friend, and the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three-time Caldecott Honoree Peter Sis rides the rising tide of soccer enthusiasm to score another winner.
Madlenka-that cosmopolitan little girl whose city block is a world of its own-is back and ready to play! When she dribbles her brand new soccer ball out the door and around the corner, it seems that everyone wants to get in the game-the mailbox, a dog, even a parking meter, but especially all the neighborhood cats, and there are enough of them...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
*"Sís delivers an encomium to summer, to the power of learning, and to that beloved, creamy-cold treat." --Kirkus, starred reviewSavor summer anytime with this breezy, sweet and irresistible picture book from Hans Christian Anderson Award winner and three-time Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís!Dear Grandpa,Summer is going well. I am very busy. But don't worry, I am not forgetting about school! I read every day. I practice my math facts. And I am even...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"Caldecott Honoree and Sibert Medalist Peter Sís honors a man who saved hundreds of children from the Nazis. In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia-a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthur Fellow, and Andersen Award winner Peter...
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English
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"From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón and Caldecott Honoree Peter Sís: a transcendent picture book featuring the poem that will travel into space aboard NASA's Europa Clipper. As part of her tenure as US poet laureate, Ada Limón has written 'In Praise of Mystery,' which will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that launches to Jupiter and its moons in October 2024. Published here as Limón's debut picture book, this luminous poem is illustrated...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Baz has always dreamed about following his two older brothers out of his dusty little town, so when a stranger comes to his family's home and asks him to be a weaver's apprentice, Baz is eager to start his journey. But, when he reaches the village of Kallah and starts his apprenticeship, Baz learns that his master is very cruel. And when, the master trades Baz to a magician for a sword, Baz expects no better from his new owner. But, as Baz travels...
11) The Dreamer
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Language
English
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Pura Belpré Award WinnerA tender, transcendent, and meticulously crafted novel from Newbery Honoree, Pam Muñoz Ryan, and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter Sís!From the time he is a young boy, Neftalí hears the call of a mysterious voice. Even when the neighborhood children taunt him, and when his harsh, authoritarian father ridicules him, and when he doubts himself, Neftalí knows he cannot ignore the call. He listens and follows as it leads...