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Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
Historical Fiction for Kids
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Fun Family Read-Alouds for 2nd Grade and Older
Historical Fiction for Kids
Realistic Fiction for Kids
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In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Stick Dog and his hungry pals have found plenty of tasty treats at Picasso Park before. But it's never looked like it does on this dark, dark night. Strings of white lights, colorful fireworks, and an endless buffet of amazing food have transformed the park into a food-snatching wonderland. There's a party going on, and Stick Dog, Mutt, Poo-Poo, Stripes, and Karen are ready to crash it. But how will they do it?
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"Ruth David was growing up in a small village in Germany when Adolf Hitler rose to power in the 1930s. Under the Nazi Party, Jewish families like Ruth's experienced rising anti-Semitic restrictions and attacks. Just going to school became dangerous. By November 1938, anti-Semitism erupted into Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, and unleashed a wave of violence and forced arrests. Days later, desperate volunteers sprang into action to organize...
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"It's Froggy's birthday, but no one has remembered. His parents don't seem to realize it's his special day, and none of his friends are at home to wish him a happy birthday. Will Froggy celebrate his birthday all alone? Has everyone really forgotten?"--Provided by publisher.
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"On a warm summer afternoon, inquisitive young Alice tumbles down a rabbit-hole into Wonderland. In this strange, unforgettable world, Alice meets the anxious White Rabbit and the grinning Cheshire cat, joins a mad tea-party with the Hatter and the March Hare, plays croquet with the frightening Queen of Hearts and encounters many other iconic characters that have captured the imagination of children for generations. Lewis Carroll's surreal tale has...
13) Dear friends
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Eleni Klarstein has been friends with Sylvie Bank forever, but when Sylvie's end-of-summer birthday party also marks the end of their friendship, Leni feels lost. She doesn't know what went wrong, and she starts to think about other friendships that have come to an end. Leni tries to reconnect with her former friends to try to figure out what happened in hopes of winning Sylvie back, but she soon learns that sometimes relationships change and it's...
15) Ted's party bus
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Ted drives a bus around town picking up guests, but no one will tell him whose party it is.
17) The big one-oh
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Determined not to be weird all his life like his neighbor, Charley Maplewood decides to throw himself a tenth birthday party, complete with a "house of horrors" theme, but first he will have to make some friends to invite.
18) The misfits
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Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.
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Echo Reef has been invited to a popular party by Pearl to go see her favorite under-the-sea boy band, the Rays. However, Echo can't go to a party her best friend, Shelly, is not invited to, but now she has the dilemma of missing out on a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the Rays. Only by convincing Pearl to invite Shelly will everything work out the way Echo wants.
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