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Language
English
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On Wednesday, Thelma is bored-so she decides to become a queen. She makes the royal announcement on Thursday and chooses the royal pets on Friday. But she needs a castle to keep the pets, and royally qualified trainers to tame them, and of course someone to clean up after the messes. It's enough to give a queen a royal headache. And when Thelma realizes that there aren't enough beds to hold her royal staff, she flings off her crown and decides that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After the sight of a night sky filled with stars makes eight-year-old Uma feel very small, she asks people how they think about infinity and gets a variety of answers before realizing the comfort in knowing that some things go on forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A pampered queen sets out in a hot air balloon with her butler, James, in search of the perfect cup of tea and after stopping in Japan, India, and England, she returns home knowing exactly what she has been missing.
4) Please, Papa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice learns the importance of saying "please" as well as that this magical word will not lead to everything she wants.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Grandpa explains that the golden rule is a simple statement on how to live that can be practiced by people of all ages and faiths, then helps his grandson figure out how to apply the rule to his own life.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird," and "cupcake," as a way to feel more comfortable in her new school and new country.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yoon, a Korean American, is excited to hear about Santa Claus and Christmas at her school, but her family tells her that such things are not part of their Korean tradition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mary Cassatt was a headstrong, determined girl. She wanted to be an artist in 1860, a time when proper girls certainly weren't artists. It wasn't polite. But Mary herself wasn't polite. She pursued art with a passion, moving to Paris to study, painting what she saw. Her work was rejected by the Salon judges time and time again. One day, the great painter Edgar Degas invited her to join him and his group of independent artists, those who flouted the...