Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
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SRC 2024: Books for Little Kids and Kids with One-word Titles
Challenge yourself this summer by reading a book with a one-word title.
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- Presents delightful animals jumping, including a frog, a rabbit, and a fish.
- Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry…
- Sun loves playing soccer but after seeing his brother, Pablo, making art he goes on an adventure with a fox and reconnects with his creative side.
- A group of kids forced to “unplug” at The Oasis wellness camp—where they instead find intrigue, adventure, and a whole lot of chaos.
- Szymanski specializes in writing materials that support both teachers and students in meeting national and state science standards, but she considers her “real” job to be helping students connect science to everyday life.
- Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindle family—the family he’s lived with for years. Despite the family's…
- Pedro Martin's grown up in the U.S. hearing stories about his legendary abuelito, but during a family road trip to Mexico, he connects with his grandfather and learns more about his own Mexican identity in this moving and hilarious graphic memoir.
- Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado…
- After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
- Charlie Reese has a list of all the ways there are to make a wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with…
- A starfish named Little Hoshi struggles to find happiness in her underwater ocean world and wishes she could be a star in the sky, but with the help of her ocean friends, she discovers the shine within.
- Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three menacing horsemen who take his father away. When a pony shows up at his door, Silas makes the courageous decision to leave his home and embark on a perilous journey to find his father.…
- A book with peek-through holes that let a child view the changes in a tree throughout the four seasons.
- A picture book that celebrates friendship--new friends, old friends, friends for a little while and friends for a lifetime.
- You'll meet tons of different species, find out fascinating info on shark anatomy, and bite into 100 awesome shark facts in this Level 3 reader that's perfect for fluent readers.
- Learn fun and cool facts about shiny things in this Level 3 reader!
- Big or small, similar or different-looking, there are all kinds of families. Some have one parent, some have two, and many include extended family.
- Love can be seen every day, everywhere, and everyone can show it.
- Red is on her way through the woods to visit Grandmother when she meets the Big Bad Wolf. What are that Wolf and all of those woodland creatures up to? This version of the classic folktale ends a bit differently.
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