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• Make Way for Readers

  Sierra, Judy,

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  "Animal toddlers arrive for storytime with Miss Bingo the flamingo." Recommended for PreS-K || AR 2.0 || Lexile AD490 || Reading Level M.

• My New Mom & Me

  Galindo, Renata,

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  "When the puppy comes to live with his new mom, he is nervous. His new mom has stripes and he doesn’t. But his mom says she likes that they look different. The puppy's new mom does all the things other parents do: she plays with him, takes care of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Hear a Pickle

  (and Smell, See, Touch, and Taste It, Too!)

  Isadora, Rachel,

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  "Children explore their five senses, learning what they can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste." Recommended for Grades PreS-1 || AR -- || Lexile 240 || Reading Level H.

• They All Saw a Cat

  Wenzel, Brendan,

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  "In simple, rhythmic prose and stylized pictures, a cat walks through the world, and all the other creatures see and acknowledge the cat." Great for discussions on perspective and point-of-view. Recommended for Grades PreS-3 || AR 1.9 || Lexile…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• School's First Day of School

  Rex, Adam,

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  "It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself". Recommended for Grades PreS-1 || AR 3.3 || Lexile 580 || Reading Level N-O.

• The Barefoot Book of Children

  Strickland, Tessa,

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  "Despite different clothes and homes and languages, we are all more alike than different". Recommended for Grades PreS-2 || AR -- || Lexile -- || Reading Level --.

• A Family Is a Family Is a Family

  O'Leary, Sara,

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  "When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways but the same in the one way that matters most of all." Celebration of diverse families and the love they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words

  Rocha, Ruth,

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  "A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as such a child would: as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to go to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep

  Sayre, April Pulley,

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  Backyard scientists get ready! "Squirrels wrestle, climb, and sleep in a celebration of these fascinating animals." Recommended for Grades PreS - 2 || AR -- || Lexile 230 || Reading Level H.

• Maybe Something Beautiful

  Campoy, F. Isabel,

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  "Mira lives in a gray and hopeless urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and togetherness to Mira and her neighbors." Recommended for Grades PreS-2 || AR 2.8 || Lexile AD580 || Reading…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Circle

  Baker, Jeannie,

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  "Each year, bar-tailed godwits undertake the longest unbroken migration of any bird, flying from their breeding grounds in the Arctic to Australia and New Zealand and back again." Recommended for Grades PreS-2 || AR 3.3 || Lexile 610 || Reading…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fabulous Frogs

  Jenkins, Martin, 1959-

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  "Looks at all kinds of frogs, from exotic species to the common greenish-brown specimens found in backyards, discussing their characteristics, life cycles, and habitats." Recommended for Grades PreS-2 || AR 3.4 || Lexile AD520 || Reading Level N.

• Also An Octopus, Or, A Little Bit of Nothing

  Tokuda-Hall, Maggie,

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  "It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele. Since this is a story, the octopus has to want something--maybe to travel to faraway galaxies in a totally awesome purple spaceship." A story great for writing exercises involving imagination,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Otters Love to Play

  London, Jonathan, 1947-

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  "Its spring, and a litter of baby river otters emerges from a den . . . to play! Follow the otters through the seasons as they chase one another, slide down a mudbank, jump in a pile of leaves, and learn to swim." Informational, school-age picture…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Voyage in the Clouds

  the (mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785

  Olshan, Matthew,

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  "A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a French man who rode in a balloon across the English Channel". Recommended for Grades K-2 || AR 3.4 || Lexile -- || Reading Level --.

• The Cookie Fiasco

  Santat, Dan,

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  "There are only three cookies and four hungry friends to share them with. This is not good. This is not equal!" A beginning reader. Recommended for Grades K-2 || AR 1.4 || Lexile 290 || Reading Level I.

• Wonderfall

  Hall, Michael, 1954-

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  "Follows the story of a single tree through the changing of the seasons from fall to winter, as people, animals, and vehicles pass in front of the tree, celebrating holidays, playing in the leaves, and building nests. Includes blended words."…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Among a Thousand Fireflies

  Frost, Helen, 1949-

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  "How can a firefly find the one, among so many? Exquisite photographs and poetic text evoke a sense of mystery and magic." Recommended for Grades K-3 || AR -- || Lexile NP || Reading Level -- .

• When Green Becomes Tomatoes

  Poems for All Seasons

  Fogliano, Julie,

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  "A book of poetry moving through the seasons". Illustrated. Recommended for Grades K-3 || AR 4.9 || Lexile NP || Reading Level --.

• Whose Hands Are These?

  a Community Helper Guessing Book

  Paul, Miranda,

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  "Asks young readers to identify the occupation of each community helper from the type of tasks they perform and explains how these helpers work together to keep communities clean and safe and people healthy." Recommended for Grades K-3 || AR -- ||…Read moreRead more of this annotation