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"The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and NAACP Image Award winner Stacey's Extraordinary Words, from political leader Stacey Abrams and artist Kitt Thomas. Stacey's favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books. On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in English, so they begin sharing books and...
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Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly. Listen as you read along with this book and CD set.
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My weirder school volume 11
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"Story time goes to the dogs when Ella Mentry School gets a therapy dog to help kids with their reading skills"--
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Questioneers volume 5
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2024 FPPL Disability Pride Children's Selections
Art Appreciation for Youth
Picture Books Focused on Inclusion and Access (SCPL-YS)
Art Appreciation for Youth
Picture Books Focused on Inclusion and Access (SCPL-YS)
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When Miss Greer asks each child in the class to write a story, second-grader Aaron, who loves to draw but struggles with reading, creates a story using pictures.
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First, find a tree - a black tupelo or dawn redwood will do - and plant yourself. (It's okay if you prefer a stoop, like Langston Hughes.) With these words, an adventure begins - an adventure into the world of reading. Kwame Alexander's evocative poetry and Melissa Sweet's lush artwork come together to take you on a sensory journey between the pages of a book. Now, sleep. Dream. Hope. (You never reach the end) --
10) Spellbound
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Books of Elsewhere volume 2
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Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
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My weird school graphic novel volume 02
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"A.J. and his friends have the chance to win a trip to Dizzyland--if they can finish 5,000 books first. Dr. Carbles, the evil president of the Board of Education, doesn't think they can do it. But the Ella Mentry School kids are nothing if not determined! Will they achieve their theme park dreams? Or does Dr. Carbles have other plans for the school?"--
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Polly Diamond volume 1
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Polly loves words, writing, and telling stories, so when she finds a fancy book on her doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing and Spelling Department for Polly Diamond" she is thrilled; and when she finds that anything she writes in it actually happens she is really excited--but Polly soon realizes that she has to be very careful what she writes because that kind of power can be dangerous.
16) One girl
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Inspired by the idea of empowering girls around the world to demand their right to education, one girl lights a small spark which catches fire, and eventually lights up the whole world.
17) Fly by night
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Fly by night volume 1
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Mosca Mye and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man, Eponymous Clent.
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye's father insisted on teaching her to read - even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye has died,...
18) Nightjohn
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Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
19) Storybound
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Shy, twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is suddenly transported by a mysterious book into the Land of Story, where characters from books hope to be cast into a tale of their own, and Una attends the Perrault Academy while trying to discover why she is there.
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Forbidden library volume 1
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When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must go live with Uncle Geryon, a mysterious old man she's never heard of, with an impossibly massive library that holds much more than books.