• Goodbye Friend! Hello Friend!

    by Cori Doerrfeld Year Published: 2019

    (Kindergarten)

    Change and transitions are hard, but Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! demonstrates how, when one experience ends, it opens the door for another to begin. It follows two best friends as they say goodbye to snowmen, and hello to stomping in puddles. They say goodbye to long walks, butterflies, and the sun...and hello to long evening talks, fireflies, and the stars. But the hardest goodbye of all comes when one of the friends has to move away. Feeling alone isn't easy, and sometimes new beginnings take time. But even the hardest days come to an end, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.

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  • The Day You Begin

    by Jacqueline Woodson Year Published: 2018

    (1st Grade)

    There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you.
    There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.

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  • Me and Mama

    by Cozbi A. Cabrera Year Published: 2020

    (2nd Grade)

    On a rainy day when the house smells like cinnamon and Papa and Luca are still asleep, when the clouds are wearing shadows and the wind paints the window with beads of water, I want to be everywhere Mama is.

    With lyrical prose and a tender touch, the Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honor Book Mama and Me is an ode to the strength of the bond between a mother and a daughter as they spend a rainy day together.

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  • The Ember Stone

    by Katrina Charman Year Published: 2017

    (3rd Grade)

    Perodia is threatened by Thorn, a powerful vulture, who is using magic to spread a terrible darkness--but when a young owl named Tag, and his best friend, the squirrel Skyla, rescue a golden egg from Thorn's Tiger bats they may have found the key to Perodia's salvation: the last firehawk, guardian of the ember stone.

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  • A Boy Called Bat

    by Elana Arnold Year Published: 2017

    (4th Grade)

    For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises, some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat's mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a stray baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he s got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific pet.

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  • Becoming Naomi Leon

    by Pam Mu?oz Ryan Year Published: 2004

    (5th Grade)

    When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.

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