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Sonia and the Super-Duper Disaster

Sonia's adventure-filled story with worry-fighting gadgets helps kids learn how to cope when it...

Pre-K - 4th
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Don't Hug Doug (He Doesn't Like It)

Written by Carrie Finison and Illustrated by Daniel Wiseman

Doug doesn't like hugs. He thinks hugs are too squeezy, too squashy, too squooshy, too smooshy. He...

Pre-K - 2nd
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Peeny Butter Fudge

Written by Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison and Illustrated by Joe Cepeda
There is no one like Nana in the whole wide world. She is the best. Nana knows how to take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra special!
Pre-K - 3rd
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Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

Written by Kat Zhang and Illustrated by Charlene Chua
Amy loves to make bao with her family. But it takes skill to make the bao taste and look delicious.
Pre-K - 3rd
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Bright Star

Written by Yuyi Morales

With the combination of powerful, spare language and sumptuous, complex imagery characteristic of...

Pre-K - 3rd
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Benji, the Bad Day, and Me

Written by Sally J. Pla and Illustrated by Ken Min

Nothing seems to be going right for Sammy today. At school, he got in trouble for kicking a fence...

Pre-K - 3rd
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Bear's Bad Day: Bullies Can Change (Funny Bone Readers ™ ― Dealing with Bullies)

Written by Wiley Blevins
Bear lived in a cave all alone, but when he goes out in the forest to find friends, he is gruff and...
K - 3rd
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20891

Scrubba Dub, Carlos (I See I Learn, Book 16)

Written by Stuart J. Murphy
Carlos loves playing in the mud, building with clay, and drawing with chalk, but he doesn't like...
Pre-K - K
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Nina Nandu's Nervous Noggin (Animal Antics A to Z)

Written by Barbara deRubertis
Nina Nandu has just moved to a new neighborhood, and she does NOT want to go to a new school. But...
K - 4th
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Picnic! A Day in the Park

Written by Joan Holub
Summer is the perfect time for a picnic -- and everyone knows that ants love a good picnic...
Pre-K - K
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Summer Days and Nights

Written by Wong Herbert Yee
On a hot summer day, a little girl finds ways to entertain herself and stay cool. She catches a...
Pre-K - 2nd
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Bugs! (Rookie Reader)

Written by Patricia & Fred McKissack & Mike Cressy
A fun look at BUGS!
K - 2nd
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The Magic School Bus® Takes A Moonwalk (Scholastic Reader Science Level 2—The Magic School Bus)

Written by Joanna Cole
Ms. Frizzle's class is taking a special nighttime hayride to learn about the moon. But when a cloudy...
Pre-K - 3rd
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It's Not Fair/¡No es justo!

Written by Rebecca Gomez and Illustrated by Roberta Collier-Morales
Charlie really, really wants to go to Mexico with Mama for his vacation. But it's Luis and Pilar's...
K - 2nd
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Angel Child, Dragon Child

Written by Michele Maria Surat and Illustrated by Vo Dinh Mai
Ut, a Vietnamese girl attending school in the United States, is lonely for her mother left behind in...
Pre-K - 3rd
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I Have a Cold (Hello Reader! Level 1)

Written by Grace MacCarone
A young boy describes what it is like to have a bad, bad cold--something every young reader can...
Pre-K - 1st
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Hello, Doctor (Rookie Reader)

Written by David F. Marx
A little boy does everything the doctor tells him to do when he goes for his check-up. Rookie Reader...
K - 2nd
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17731

Just For You Level 1: The Low-Down, Bad-Day Blues

Written by Derrick D. Barnes
An early literacy series presented in three levels, to build reading confidence. Features...
K - 1st
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A Farmer's Life for Me

Written by Jan Dobbins and Illustrated by Laura Huliska Beith
A busy family and their friends spend a day working and playing on the farm. From milking the cows...
Pre-K - 2nd
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Written by Judy Blume
The story of 9-year-old Peter Hatcher’s relationship with his 2-year-old brother Fudge, who is...
3rd - 7th
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Birds

Written by Kevin Henkes and Illustrated by Laura Dronzek
A little girl watches birds from her window, noting in vivid detail their size, color, shape, and...
Pre-K - 3rd
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Dear Juno

Written by Soyung Pak and Illustrated by Susan Kathleen Hartung
The touching story of how Juno, a little boy in America, writes to his grandmother using pictures...
Pre-K - 2nd

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