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821) Historias del Abuelo
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Español
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Act out the story of a blind boy who listens as his grandfather retells the stories of the boy's life of overcoming struggles. The roles in this leveled, Spanish-translated script are written at varying reading levels, allowing teachers to use differentiation strategies to assign specific roles to students who are at different reading levels. This feature allows all students to engage in the activity, participating, performing, and feeling successful...
822) Tortilla sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
While spending a summer in New Mexico with her grandmother, twelve-year-old Izzy makes new friends, learns to cook, and for the first time hears stories about her father, who died before she was born.
823) The sky inside
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Martin lives in a "perfect world" under the protective dome of suburb HM1, where every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. And it's all about to come crashing down because a stranger has come to take away all the little children, including Martin's sister, Cassie, and no one wants to talk about where they have gone. Martin has a choice either to remain in the dubious safety of HM1, or to break...
824) Emma's question
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Emma's grandmother, who takes care of her after school and takes her out for bagels on Wednesdays, gets sick and has to go to the hospital, Emma is afraid that she will die--but she is also afraid to talk about her fear.
826) Easter in Lagos
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English
Description
A colorful holiday picture book, which captures the festivities, traditions, and excitement of Easter in Lagos, a modern African city.
It's Easter Sunday in Lagos. People are excited and celebrating. But Eyitomi misses her Grandma. In a heartfelt letter, she gives her grandmother Seven Reasons Why She Should Spend her Next Easter in Lagos. But Mummy and Daddy have a surprise of their own.
Readers of all ages will love reading a little girl's account...
827) Lector de Scholastic, Nivel 2: El autobús mágico vuelve a despegar: Vuela con el viento (Blowing
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Language
Español
Description
Based on the new Netflix series The Magic School Bus: Rides Again , Ms. Frizzle's class tries to build a house that will not blow down.
The Spanish edition of The Magic School Bus: Rides Again: Blowing in the Wind! The Magic School Bus heads to the forest to learn about aerodynamics. Ms. Frizzle's class is putting on a play of The Three Little Pigs.The kids want to build a house for their play that even a super-powered fan can't blow down. So Ms....
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Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mira comes from a chaotic, artistic, and outspoken family in which it's not always easy to be heard. As her beloved Nana Josie's health declines, Mira begins to discover the secrets of those around her and also starts to keep some of her own. An incredibly insightful, honest novel exploring the delicate balance of life and death, but keeps the celebration of friendship, culture, and life at its heart.
829) Hope
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For the young girl in Hope, weekends at her great-aunt Poogee's are the best. Aunt Poogee makes incredible fried chicken, tells great stories, and knows lots of interesting people. But this visit takes an unexpected turn when the pair encounters an ill-mannered friend. It takes Aunt Poogee's special touch to heal a child hurt by words of ignorance and disrespect.
830) Everything I Was
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Language
English
Description
Irene's father is "downsized". When he can't find work, her family's lifestyle-and her mother's spending-catches up with them. What begins as the most disastrous summer of Irene's life takes a surprising turn, and Irene must decide what she wants for herself after losing everything she was.
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Language
English
Description
Audio narration brings the story to life in this enhanced eBook, while word-for-word highlighting text makes it easy for the reader to follow along.
Dolores of the amazing Madrigal family has an incredible gift, she can hear a pin drop from miles away. Dolores enjoys listening to the wonderful sounds of the Encanto. However, one morning Dolores wakes up and notices something is missing, but what? Join her as she travels around the Encanto in search...
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Language
English
Description
Audio narration brings the story to life in this enhanced eBook, while word-for-word highlighting text makes it easy for the reader to follow along.
Everyone in the Encanto is thrilled when Isabella opens a greenhouse as a way to share her gift of creating flowers. Before long, the busy greenhouse is filled with happy customers, as members of the family pitch in to help. One morning a group of children arrive at the greenhouse with a plant in distress....
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English
Description
Tonight there is a celebración for New Year's Eve.
Rafa has been counting down the hours 'til they leave.
It's New Year's Eve in Spain, and Rafa is excited to stay up for the first time ever to celebrate with his familia at the plaza. There'll be fireworks and música and . . . grapes? Rafa finds out that he needs to eat a small grape with each of the twelve midnight chimes to bring luck in the New Year. Can he do it? Will he even make it to midnight?
Rafa...
834) The Return
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Language
English
Description
A young woman gets on the bus and rides out of the big city. She arrives in the countryside, where she is as big as a giant, looming over a tiny house, a garden and her tiny grandmother. The cabbages and the apple trees are far below. Her grandmother smiles up at her in her yellow hat. The young woman bends down to give her little grandmother a big kiss, and then she smells her grandmother's cooking. She has returned home. When they sit down at the...
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Language
English
Description
When Christian learns his great-grandfather helped build the A-bombs dropped on Japan, he wants to make amends … somehow. While attending the funeral of his great-grandfather, ninth-grader Christian Larkin learns that the man he loved and respected was a member of the Manhattan Project, the team that designed and created the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War. On a school trip to Japan, Chris meets eighty-one-year-old Yuko,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Grandpa-a fishing connoisseur-moves to the city to live with his family, it doesn't take him long to notice that there is nowhere to fish. Unfazed, his granddaughter proposes they pretend to fish out a window . . . until they actually catch something: a Flying Litterfish! Soon the two are catching all kinds of fish: Laundry Eels and Signfish, a Constructionfish and a Waste-muncher. It's all in good fun, until the skyfishing attracts the attention...
837) Wild Geese Flying
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Language
English
Description
A little boy named Alex learns about the wild geese who fly in the sky over the coastal waters of North Carolina. By day, his grandfather introduces him to the traditional art of carving decoys of ducks and geese in his workshop, and by night, the geese take Alex on a fantastical adventure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For one young boy, it's a perfect summer day to spend at the beach with his family. He scours the high tide line for treasures, listens to the swizzling sound of barnacles, and practices walking the plank. But mostly he waits for high tide. Then he'll be able to swim and dive off the log raft his family is building. While he waits, sea birds and other creatures mirror the family's behaviors: building and hunting, wading and eating. At long last the...
839) The Kin
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Language
English
Description
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli's dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives...
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Language
Français
Description
Hibiscus, fillette créole, vit sur une île avec son oncle Balaou, gardien de phare. Souffrant de solitude, celui-ci connaît une forte déprime. Surgit alors Claudia Vitriolovsky, une puissante femme d'affaires, qui veut transformer le village en site touristique. Prête à tout, elle espère profiter de la faiblesse de Balaou pour acquérir le phare. Hibiscus pourra-t-elle déjouer les plans de Claudia et sauver l'âme de son île? À ses ctés,...
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