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1) Purplicious
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her classmates make fun of her for still liking the color pink, a little girl feels all alone, but then a friend shows her the power of pink.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here are twenty-six dinosaurs as they have never been seen before. Dramatic paintings and fascinating new information provide young dinosuar lovers with the latest facts about familiar dinosaurs such as Maiasaura, Stegasaurus, and Tyrannosaurus rex, and introduces newly discovered creatures such as Quaesitosaurus, Riojasaurus, Xenotarsosaurus, and Zephyrosaurus. Running, fighting, jumping, slashing, nesting, and sleeping - these are the dinosaurs...
3) Blue Goose
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Farmer Gray goes away for the day, Blue Goose, Red Hen, Yellow Chick, and White Duck get together and paint their black and white farm.
5) The gray day
Author
Series
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a rainy day, a young artist struggles to find inspiration--until she remembers all the things she loves that are black and white.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Featuring illustrations based on Chinese painting techniques, a retelling of the mythological animal race that led to the twelve signs in the Chinese Zodiac traces the proclamation of the Jade Emperor and the respective efforts of thirteen animals.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2000,c1959
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eloise in Moscow showcases the highly undiplomatic exploits of our favorite precocious 6-year-old as she paints the town red with her beloved Nanny. Adults will relish this glimpse behind the Iron Curtain, complete with a foldout spread of the Kremlin that is positively suitable for framing ("Here's what they/ have in the Kremlin/ armor Easter eggs/ icons/ and clocks," "Ivan is terrible/ and is watching in this tower"). The usual pink, black, and...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From her imaginative childhood to her career as an illustrator, designer, and animator for Walt Disney Studios, Mary wouldn't play by the rules. At a time when studios wanted to hire men and think in black and white, Mary painted twinkling emerald skies, peach giraffes with tangerine spots, and magenta horses that could fly.
Author
Publisher
Vermont Folklife Center
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Daisy, an eight-year-old black girl living in rural Vermont in the 1890s, is given a black doll by her teacher and becomes uncomfortable that her skin is a different color from that of her classmates, until she finds the courage to speak from her heart.
12) Jacob Lawrence
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American painter who used his art to tell stories about the lives of individual Blacks and historical events important in the lives of his people.
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Behind Sami, the Syrian skyline is full of smoke. The boy follows his family and all his neighbours in a long line, as they trudge through the sands and hills to escape the bombs that have destroyed their homes. But all Sami can think of is his pet pigeons--will they escape too? When they reach a refugee camp and are safe at last, everyone settles into the tent city. But though the children start to play and go to school again, Sami can't join in....
14) Ragtime Tumpie
Author
Publisher
Joy Street Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St. Louis in the early 1900s.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The people who live among the high peaks of the Himalayas tell stories of a mysterious animal called the gray ghost. To see one, you'd have to be very lucky indeed. Join a zoologist in the Himalayan mountains as he searches for the elusive creature. With her pale gold and silver-gray coat painted with black rosettes, she blends so well into the boulders, it's no wonder she's thought of as a ghost of the mountains. But the fortunate few who spot her...