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Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
25) Terrible storm
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A child's two grandfathers relate their boyhood experiences of the "terrible blizzard of 1888," during which each was stuck for three days doing what he disliked the most.
27) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza, an unattractive woman with a magical voice, learns to balance her appearance with her talent, meanwhile, her singing attracts both Prince Ijori, who cannot resist it, and Queen Ivi, who plots to use it to benefit herself.
28) The Giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Alex is a marvelous little boy who is just like other people in some ways, such as getting angry sometimes, but also unique because of his special laugh, his grizzly hugs, and his own interesting thoughts. Includes activities.
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Celebrate exactly what makes you YOU in this new book that champions self-expression and self-love. Whether silly, curious, sad, or glad, Wonderful You! reminds kids to be proud to be themselves, and to embrace the many faces of YOU. With beautiful artwork featuring an array of kids and lovely text, this book will encourage the youngest of readers to celebrate what makes them unique every single day"--
33) Purplicious
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of her favorite color.
34) Mac and Cheese
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two cats that are as different as night and day are nevertheless best friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tillman weaves rich illustrations and comforting language to promote in children a deep sense of their own worth. Before the tale ends, children will be wiggling their toes and whispering their names in joyous celebration of their own unique wonder.
40) The Doll People
Author
Series
Doll people volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.