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Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.
2) Room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
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Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.
6) Owl babies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three owl babies whose mother has gone out in the night try to stay calm while she is gone.
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Series
Where are the children? volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
"Nancy Harmon had fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, the hostile front-page newspaper stories and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her red hair sable brown, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now she was married again, had two more beautiful children, and the terrible pain had begun to heal...until the morning when she looked in the back yard...
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Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Llama Llama's mother takes good care of him when he has to stay home from school because he is sick, but when Mama Llama begins to feel sick, too, Llama Llama knows how to take care of her.
10) Son
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Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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When the young girl washes up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved into her belly. Stolen. Claire had had a son. She was supposed to forget about him, but that was impossible. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. And so her journey began. But here in this wind-battered village Claire is welcomed as one of their own. In the security of her new home,...
12) Someday
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Description
A mother reflects on the all the milestones, from walking in a deep wood to holding someone else's hand, that her child will achieve during life.
13) Koala Lou
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A young koala, longing to hear her mother speak lovingly to her as she did before other children came along, plans to win her distracted parent's attention.
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Series
Llama Llama (Picture books) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Llama Llama becomes overwhelmed as Christmas preparations progress, until his mother reminds him of the real gift the holiday brings. Rhyming text.
17) The blessing
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Description
Single mother Amy cannot date David because she has no one to look after her child. So to free her, David has his gay brother, Jason, move into her house, only to see Jason fall in love with Amy as well.