Carmen Agra Deedy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state"--
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book presents an illustrated tale of a gift of fourteen cows given by the Maasai people of Kenya to the U.S. as a gesture of comfort and friendship in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One dawn the Moon hears the laughter of children waking up and she yearns to see them, but the day belongs to the Sun and he will not trade places; so the Moon tempts him with stories of the stars and two come up with a compromise that explains why the moon can sometimes be seen in the daytime.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.
Sumario en español: En este recuento chistoso de un folktale cubano, una cucarachita se entrevista a sus pretendientes para decidir quién para casar.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London's Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance.