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1) Is that you, Eleanor Sue?

Author

Tusa, Tricia

Publisher

Roaring Brook Press

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

Description

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A little girl who plays dress-up to fool her mother every Saturday dons disguises and rings the doorbell, but when her mother gets in on the act, along with Grandma, anything can happen.

2) Fred stays with me

Author

Coffelt, Nancy

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

Description

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A child describes how she lives sometimes with his mother and sometimes with his father, but his dog is his constant companion.

3) The magic hat

Author

Fox, Mem

Language

English

Description

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A wizard's hat blows into town, changing people into different animals when it lands on their heads.

4) The ballad of Valentine

Author

Jackson, Alison

Publisher

Dutton Children's Books

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

Description

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An ardent suitor tries various means of communication, from smoke signals to Morse code to skywriting, in order to get his message to his Valentine.

5) Camilla's new hairdo

Author

Tusa, Tricia

Publisher

Farrar, Straus, Giroux

Pub. Date

1991

Language

English

Description

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Camilla stays in her tower, giving herself exotic and interesting hairdos, until the day she has an unexpected visitor.

6) The end of the beginning: being the adventures of a small snail (and an even smaller ant)

Author

Avi

Publisher

Harcourt

Pub. Date

c2004

Language

English

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Avon the snail and Edward, a take-charge ant, set off together on a journey to an undetermined destination in search of unspecified adventures.

7) Treasure map

Author

Murphy, Stuart J

Series

MathStart level 3

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c2004

Language

English

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An old map leads the members of the Elm Street Kids' Club to a buried time capsule. Annotation. Matthew has found a treasure map, and soon the Elm Street Kids' Club is off on a quest. The map guides them into a wonderful, magical world, but it's the real-life math skills of understanding distance, scale, direction, and symbols that will help Matthew, Sheri, Meg, Danny, and Jed -- with some assistance from Petey the parrot -- find a treasure hidden...

8) Jan has a doll

Author

Earl, Janice

Series

Green Light reader

Publisher

Harcourt

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

Description

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Jan's father surprises her with a doll that looks like her.

9) A meal of the stars: poems up and down

Author

Jensen, Dana

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

10) Lemonade for sale

Series

Reading rainbow volume 138

Publisher

GPN

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

Description

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The Elm Street Kids' Club decides to sell lemonade to earn money to fix up their clubhouse. They monitor their success by tracking daily sales. In this math-based episode, LeVar takes viewers to the American Stock Exchange, for a closer look at the economics and challenges of running a business. We also explore two very different kinds of companies: a for-profit business and a non-profit organization.

11) In a blue room

Author

Averbeck, Jim

Publisher

Harcourt Inc

Pub. Date

c2008

Language

English

Description

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Young Alice can only sleep in a blue room. She soon discovers bedtime can be full of magic--especially if there is a blue moon nearby. Full color. Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.