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61) Peeping Beauty
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a family of chickens waits for the final egg to hatch, Mama reads favorite fairy tales.
64) Let me finish!
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A young boy wants to read his favorite books without interruption, but the creatures around him keep spoiling the ending!"--
67) Blue rider
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a book without words, a child finds a book on a crowded city sidewalk and is transported beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural world.
68) One girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the idea of empowering girls around the world to demand their right to education, one girl lights a small spark which catches fire and eventually lights up the whole world.
70) The storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard's will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart"--
71) The lonely book
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Once popular, an increasingly shabby library book grows lonely until a young girl rediscovers it, but when it becomes lost again both the book and the girl wonder if they will have a happy ending.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grader Trip Kindleman, who does not like to read very much, is hit on the head by a heavy box and becomes a character in a series of different books--from a sports story to a science fiction novel to an adventure tale--his view of reading is changed forever
75) Surf's up
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While his friend Bro reads his book, Dude takes him to the beach, but when they get there Dude wants to know how the story ends.
77) Laugh out loud
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Imaginative middle schooler Jimmy follows his dream to start a unique book company while he is still a child.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Polly loves words, writing, and telling stories, so when she finds a fancy book on her doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing and Spelling Department for Polly Diamond" she is thrilled; and when she finds that anything she writes in it actually happens she is really excited--but Polly soon realizes that she has to be very careful what she writes because that kind of power can be dangerous.
Author
Language
English
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