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1) The pearl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the...
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the...
Author
Series
Pig the pug volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, Pig is a greedy pug, who insists on always winning, and throws a tantrum if anything thwarts him--until one day he swallows not only all his food, but his bowl as well and when his friend Trevor saves him he learns a valuable lesson on sharing.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While creating his Christmas list, little Trevor tries to include everything, from night-vision binoculars to an invisible robot that is easy to hide, but he ends up learning that there is more to the holiday than just the gifts.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message in his wake, the siblings and their respective partners must come together for a cross-country road trip to fulfill his final wish and--more importantly--secure their inheritance. But time with your family can be tough. It is for everyone. It's even harder...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence - controversial, difficult, but Edenic - is upended when the ambitious young developer...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"This little pea is hungry! So hungry it swallows a sprout, slurps up some soup, munches the bread, gobbles the cake, noshes the pickle, guzzles the cheese, drinks all the tea, and even chomps down the table its all served on. After all that, it needs to sleep. But whose dinner did it steal? And whose mattress is the now-humungous pea resting under?"--Provided by publisher.
13) Carina Felina
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Carina Felina is an arrogant cat with an appetite so huge that she eats everything and everyone who crosses her path as she ambles through Havana--until a small crab outsmarts her and saves the day.
14) I want that nut!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mouse and Chipmunk covet the same nut"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
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