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1) The getaway
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley and his family escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation, but sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous creatures all threaten their vacation.
Author
Series
To the rescue series volume 4
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When something goes wrong on the farm, Ernie the duck is determined to help out, but no matter how hard he tries, nothing goes quite as he plans.
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 11
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Hank enters a robot-building contest at school and hopes to win a trophy, despite getting a late start, with help of Frankie, Ashley, and Jaden, a new friend and robot expert.
Author
Series
Henry books (Davide Cali) volume 4
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry and Ali tell their teacher a wild outer space tale to explain why they do not have their homework on the solar system.
8) Wombat
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Burrow into the unseen world of the wombat and play with words in this creative romp"--
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Big Volcano and Little Volcano live side by side in paradise, but when a silly bird drops a coconut (or two) on Little Volcano's crater he blows his top.
10) Monkey-Cam
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Through a video camera positioned on the monkey's head, readers can follow along from the monkey's point of view as it slides down a giraffe's neck, meets a lion by mistake, and shares a coconut with a friend! Go, Monkey, go! Dan Yaccarino's bright art and Margie Palatini's simple text create a dynamic world that beginning readers will want to visit over and over again!"-- Publisher's website
Author
Series
My weirdtastic school volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A special guest has arrived at Ella Mentry School! Professor Pitt is the president of a local art museum and has all sorts of wacky ideas about art. A.J. thinks it's all a total snoozefest... until the piece he turns in for an art assignment gets praised as a work of genius! Suddenly, Professor Pitt is introducing A.J. as the next big thing to happen to the art world. What could possibly go wrong?"--
12) Seals are jerks!
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lorelei is shocked to learn that her favorite animal, seals, actually eat penguins, so she sets out to do some in-person research--and discovers that in nature things are complicated.
Author
Series
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Crabby is expecting just another boring day in the ocean, but Plankton decides to throw a best friends party--and even Crabby's long list of things he wants at the party will not deter him.
14) The baddies
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A troll, a witch, and a ghost compete to see who can scare the little girl who is new to the their neighborhood, but her courage and kindness defeats them all.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From acclaimed author-illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake comes a humorous picture book about the empowering possibilities of growing up and a child's imagination! Akira has a problem: He is too small to open packages by himself. He still needs grown-ups to help him. But one day, perhaps one day soon, he’ll be able to open so many things without anyone’s help—and not just packages. When that time comes, he’ll make amazing discoveries and maybe...
16) Puppy-cam
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Experience the world from a puppy's perspective via the video camera on its head.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The last kids may have escaped the forbidden fortress by the skin of their teeth, but there isn't much to celebrate. Thrull has what he needs to complete the Tower, Rezzoch will most certainly come to Earth, and the world as they know it will cease to exist. Except Jack's Cosmic Hand is now even more powerful than he realized, and it might just be able to stop the inevitable from happening. To get the answers he seeks, he'll need to travel farther...
19) Peck, peck, peck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Pecking his way through the door of a house, an intrepid little woodpecker busily raps on a rhyming sequence of indoor objects, from a hat and a mat and a racket and jacket to a teddy bear and a book called Jane Eyre.
Author
Series
Once upon a Tim volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Tim and his friends flee the hazardous Sea of Terror and head toward the city of Atlantis in pursuit of King Neptuna's stolen trident.
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