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Author
Series
The Little Prince volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On this broiling-hot desert planet, only carapodes-wondrous giant tortoises-can safely move around and deliver mail and resources to the lonely cities perched far apart on rocky ledges.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A boy, a dog, and an old man are lonely before the boy plans a rally, the dog looks for a boy, and all the townspeople run to the old man's aid when lightning strikes his home and something miraculous happens.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Orphan Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, sour and miserable. With the help of a clever robin and her new friend Dickon, Mary discovers a neglected garden and a lonely boy named Colin. Together the children bring life to the garden and joy to one another.
Author
Series
Hill Hawk Hattie volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, eleven-year-old Hattie, still grieving over the death of her mother and lonely for her absent father, moves in with her grandmother in the city of Kingston, New York, to be educated and learn about polite society, and, while there, discovers the fate of her missing grandfather.
Author
Series
Spindlewood tale volume 1
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After running away from an orphanage, Pip arrives in the walled city of Hangman's Hollow, where children must hide to avoid imprisonment by citizens or danger from evil creatures in the surrounding forest, but new friend Toad asks his help in finding a lone girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It all started when a girl named Phoebe skipped a rock across a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and she used it to make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a nine-year-old daydreamer really forge a connection? Indeed they can, and that's how Phoebe and Her Unicorn unfolds. This beautifully drawn comic strip follows...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The poetry of Langston Hughes pulses with the rhythms of jazz and blues, and the language of the streets. In describing the everyday lives of African Americans, he became the leading African-American poet of the world. Jodie A. Shull s insightful and highly readable new biography sheds light on one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance and introduces another generation to his extraordinary outpouring of poetry, short stories, novels,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"At the Animal Rescue Friends shelter, everyone is looking for a way to belong¿́¿kids and animals alike. Welcome to Animal Rescue Friends, where any stray can find a friendly face¿́¿furry or otherwise. This first collection of middle-grade comics includes five tales of found family: A lonely girl living in the suburbs finds happiness with a stray pit bull; a protective mama ferret and her six kits learn to trust a shelter volunteer; a shy boy...