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Author
Description
Fulfilling her mother's dying wish, anthropologist Susannah Connolly travels from her lifelong home on the Connecticut shoreline to the fabled French Camargue, to see its famous white horses, find a mysterious saint linked to her family's history, and fall in love with an American journalist-rancher with a spirited but troubled daughter.
2) Wish
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"A father wishes his 9-year-old son would be well enough to play catch. The son wishes to see his father play in a major league baseball game. They all pray for a successful bone marrow transplant before cancer ends the boy's life, but first, they need to find a donor"--
3) Art
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
A boy named Art creates lines, squiggles, dots and whole new worlds in this imaginative and rhyming book from the creator of Mutts.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"This must-read book is an innovative and deceptively simple journey of words that rhyme (or don't) with parfait. Each page turn brings on the laughs as the clever story bounces from an uneaten parfait to seemingly random characters, including a duck, a toupe-wearing Shar-pei, horses playing Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkay, and even. . . Abraham Lincoln. Throughout, bestselling artist Avery Monsen ( All My Friends Are Dead) packs fun seek-and-finds, giving...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When Sharko calls for a boat, Hippo pulls out a goat. He wants a pole, but Hippo gives him a pail. And instead of bait, a beet and a boot! Hippo's coat pockets seem to have everything except what Sharko asks for!"--Jacket flap.
Author
Description
"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A dazzling wordless picture book celebrates creative problem-solving, teamwork, and the sun-splashed wonder of a day at the beach. The creators of the acclaimed Over the Shop evoke a perfect summer beach day -- and themes of creativity, cooperation, flexibility, and persistence -- all without a word in this sun-warmed, salt-stained delight of a story. A busload of beachgoers spills out onto the sand for a day of fun and frolic. Three siblings begin...
9) Worser
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
Author
Series
Lone McGantry western volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The dying request of an old friend sends former Indian scout Lone McGantry on a perilous journey from the barren Nebraska Sandhills to the ragged, snowy peaks of the Colorado Rockies. Danger dogs his trail right from the start, beginning with a pack of vengeful brothers out for his blood. Along the way, Lone crosses paths with a gang of ruthless robbers and also learns that a bounty placed on his head by a misguided cattle baron is responsible for...
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