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Kyo Maclear
2) Operatic
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Charlie is tasked to find her perfect song for a music class assignment, she discovers the music of Maria Callas, and tries to follow the singer's example in life regarding her best friends and Emile, her crush.
4) Hello rain
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young girl experiences a rain storm from seeing the storm roll in, to splashing in the puddles, and then finally watching the sun coming back out.
5) Flo
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
While the other pandas try to rush her from one activity to another, Flo enjoys relaxing, stopping to smell the roses, and really seeing the world around her.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Vanessa's sister, Virginia, is in a "wolfish" mood -- growling, howling and acting very strange. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her up, but nothing seems to work. Loosely based on the relationship between author Virginia Woolf and her sister, painter Vanessa Bell.
9) Story boat
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When a little girl and her younger brother are forced along with their family to flee the home they've always known, they must learn to make a new home for themselves--wherever they are. And sometimes the smallest things-- a cup, a blanket, a lamp, a flower, a story--can become a port of hope in a terrible storm. As the refugees travel onward toward an uncertain future, they are buoyed up by their hopes, dreams and the stories they tell--a story...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Three months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a...story...
12) The Liszts
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Liszts make lists. They make lists most usual and lists most unusual. They make lists in winter, spring, summer and fall. They make lists every day except Sundays, which are listless. Mama Liszt, Papa Liszt, Winifred, Edward, Frederick and Grandpa make lists all day long. So does their cat. Then one day a visitor arrives. He's not on anyone's list. Will the Liszts be able to make room on their lists for this new visitor? How will they handle...
13) Julia, child
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A fictional story about Julia Child as young girl in which she and her best friend Simca have many cooking adventures.
14) Spork
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Spork, whose mom is a spoon and his dad is a fork, tries to fit in with the other utensils, but finds that he is never chosen at mealtimes and seems destined to spend his life in the drawer.
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