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Questioneers (Chapter books) volume 1
Description
When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Rosie is working with Aunt Rose and her friends, the Raucous Riveters, on designing a new invention, but when her designs keep failing, Rosie starts to lose hope until her friends Iggy and Ada offer some help
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Dead Sea squirrels volume 3
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Description
Michael learns that--like the Thessalonians in the Bible--he will prosper if he works hard when Pearl the 2,000-year-old squirrel helps him study for his math test.
4) Plunked
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Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch, and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
48 p. ;
Description
Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
8) D.W. flips!
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
D.W., a young aardvark, discovers that lots of practice eventually helps her master the new routine in her gymnastics class.
9) The red hat
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Publisher
Disney * Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Once upon a time, high atop the world, there lived a boy named Billy Hightower and the wind. When a new neighbor appears--a girl in a red hat--Billy Hightower can hardly wait to meet her and introduce himself. But the wind has other ideas"--
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Betty Bunny books volume 4
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When a young rabbit quits soccer after a disappointing first game, her family encourages her to keep trying.
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Series
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Confident Frannie convinces cautious Pepper to give skateboarding a try, but Pepper's attempts are not all smooth sailing. Luckily, she has a supportive and enthusiastic friend to cheer her on and help her realize her potential"--
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help.
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
Adriana, Jimena, and Martina are three girls with dreams and invisible wings to help them achieve them, but first they must face a band of villains who try to weigh them down with doubt, insecurity, unfair treatment, and social expectations.
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Series
Clorinda the cow books volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Using determination and vision, Clorinda the cow and her friend Hop the pig build a variety of flying machines, hoping to fulfill her desire to take flight.
15) SumoKitty
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Description
A hungry cat gets a job hunting mice at a sumo training center (heya), but once the mice are gone he continues to stuff himself until he is too fat to chase the mice that have returned--so he decides to train with the sumo wrestlers, and SumoKitty becomes a scourge of mice and an inspiration to the wrestlers.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. In "A Love Picture," a middle-aged woman, already no stranger to loss, consults a WWII news reel to determine the fate of her son. The harrowing but transcendent "The End of Days" imagines life in another pandemic as artist Egon Schiele and his wife, both stricken with the Spanish flu, spend their...
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Series
Questioneers volume 2
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Description
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
18) Spin
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
As she rides her bike up and down steep slopes, a little girl reminds herself that if she just keeps moving she will eventually climb her mountain.
19) Izzy Gizmo
Author
Series
Izzy Gizmo volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Izzy Gizmo loves to invent but gets frustrated when her inventions fail to work properly, so when she finds a crow with a broken wing her grandfather urges her to persist until she finds a way to help.
20) La la la
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Follows a singing girl's fruitless search for a friend in her world, until one night when her song is finally heard by someone who understands.
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