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2) Nightjohn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back--came back to teach reading. Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery...
3) Booked
Author
Series
Crossover volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
8) You can read
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text explains how reading can take place anywhere, from the playground to the opera, and can even take readers on adventures.
Author
Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When You Open a Book is a stunning ode to the world's grandest adventure of all: reading a book. Gorgeous artwork by Italian illustrator Sara Ugolotti depicts dragons, forests, pirates, merfolk, lollipop trees, lemonade tides, and more as a child journeys through page upon page of the written word.
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Wait--are you reading this book? Even though the cover asked you not to? Well, if you're going to read it, then you'll have to follow the rules, or you're going to have WAY too much fun. And you don't want to have FUN, do you? DO YOU?! That's what I thought. So definitely, positively, DO NOT read this book!
13) Max can read!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Max figures out how to assemble his new gift even though the instructions for putting it together are written in Bulgarian.
17) Once upon a book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Alice can go anywhere in the magical pages of her favorite book. So when it flaps its pages and invites her in, she is swept away to a world of wonder and adventure. But at the end of her imaginative journey, she yearns for the place she loves best of all."--
19) The reader
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While her parents sleep and other children play outside, a young girl begins to read, reveling in how books can take her anywhere and allow her to do anything.
20) Hug this book
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A group of children demonstrate all the silly, imaginative, and interesting things that readers can do with this book.
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