Alexandra Boiger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Max and Marla are best friends. And aspiring Olympians! With their eyes on the prize, they know exactly what it'll take to reach sledding success: preparation, practice and perseverance.
Olympians in training, Max and Marla show us how dedication, persistence and friendship will always lead to sucess!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
School is out for the summer, and Max and Marla are off to Australia! Max has always wanted to see koalas, after all. He makes sure to pack his camera for the trip, so that he can capture every moment and remember this vacation. Off they head by air and by sea, with Max looking for just the perfect shot along the way. But when he keeps missing the amazing sights while focusing his lens, Marla knows that she needs to step in. In this final story in...
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tallulah takes ballet lessons and eagerly awaits her coveted tutu, which, she learns, she must work hard to earn.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tallulah is thrilled to play a mouse in a professional production of The Nutcracker and works very hard to be the most marvelous mouse of all, but opening night brings some surprises.
Author
Series
Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what's right, even when they have to fight to be heard. In early 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren's refusal to be silenced in the Senate inspired a spontaneous celebration of women who persevered in the face of adversity. In this book, Chelsea Clinton celebrates thirteen American women who helped shape our country through their tenacity, sometimes through speaking out,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Violet is very helpful when she visits her mother's office, and gives pointers on delivering the mail (be sure to decorate it with extra stamps and stickers), helping the boss with his big presentation (like a show-and-tell for grown-ups), and making business cards (after clearing the paper jam in the copier).
16) Clover's luck
Author
Series
Magical Animal Adoption Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Clover, who wants to change her bad luck, accepts a position at a pet adoption agency unlike any other and soon finds herself in a world of fairy horses, dragons with temperamental snouts, wizards, princesses, and, unfortunately, witches.
17) All of us
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ME can be WE. YOU can come, too. In a lyrical text that travels the globe, National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine shows young readers how the whole world is a community made up of people who are more similar than we are different.
Author
Series
Magical Animal Adoption Agency volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Clover and Oliver must work together to save the animals at the Magical Animal Adoption Agency when the creatures start losing their magic"--
Author
Series
Magical Animal Adoption Agency volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Clover receives a mysterious egg at the Magical Animal Adoption Agency"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Rosalind Franklin loved science, but when she was young, there weren't many woman scientists. Still, she persisted in pursuing her dreams, becoming a scientist and playing a key role in the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA (what we're all made up of). Though her male colleagues took credit for her work at the time, we now know just how important her discoveries were to figuring out what our DNA looks like and how it works! In this chapter...