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2001) Nishga
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Language
English
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Description
"From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking and emotionally devastating autobiographical meditation on the complicated legacies that Canada's reservation school system has cast on his grandparents', his parents' and his own generation. NISHGA is a deeply personal and autobiographical book that attempts to address the complications of contemporary Indigenous existence. As a Nisga'a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in...
2002) Earthling!
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bud gets on the wrong school bus he finds himself at Cosmos Academy on another planet, where Earthlings are considered extremely dangerous--can he conceal his identity as a native of Earth and still manage to find his way home?
2003) Off to kindergarten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A young boy lists all the things he will have to take with him on his first day in kindergarten.
2005) Beat the clock
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Amelia Bedelia's school, the whole town throws a party and a secret time capsule that was buried an entire century before will finally be dug up and opened.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
On her very first day of school, Sophie is reluctant to make friends with the other children, preferring to play with two squash she grew in her garden--but when a particularly persistent boy named Steven gives her a packet of seeds as an apology for accidentally ripping her picture, she realizes that it just takes time to grow a friend.
2007) Lost inside my head
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vincent wishes he was like everyone else, but his ADHD makes his thoughts turn to chaos... until he learns he can be himself and focus his light on what he wants to see.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this charming debut about first love and second chances, a young girl gets caught between the boy next door and a playboy. Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
Mansfield, Massachusetts, is the last place seventeen-year-old Edie Price wants to spend her final summer before college. It's the home of wealthy suburban mothers and prima donnas like Edie's cousins, who are determined to distract her from her mother's death with cute...
2009) Freda stops a bully
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Max makes fun of Freda's shoes, but Freda soon learns how to cope with his bullying.
2010) The secret box
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Language
English
Description
A young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place.
2011) Hearts unbroken
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louise Wolfe breaks up with her first boyfriend after he makes a racist remark about her Native American heritage, and begins covering the multicultural casting of the new school play and the racial hostilities it has exposed.
Author
Series
Lunch Lady volume 8
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When eccentric photographer Stefani DePino comes to Thompson Brook to take school pictures in the midst of an acne epidemic, Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch learn that Stefani is using them to break into the world of high fashion.
2013) Comics Squad: detention!
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An anthology of comics by well-known graphic novelists on the theme of detention.
2014) Biscuit loves school
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Festival, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher
Language
English
Description
Biscuit is a very curious puppy and when he is allowed to come to school he has a great time playing, learning and exploring. Lift the flaps to see all the fun Biscuit has.
2016) Scarlet's tale
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Language
English
Description
Born with a long, fluffy, fuzzy, furry tail, young Scarlet discovers how scary it can be to stand out from the crowd on her first day of preschool, where new friends and her own enthusiasm lead to a celebration of individuality.
2017) My first day
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Language
English
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Description
Rhyming text and colorful illustrations invite readers to follow a little bear as he experiences all the firsts that a first day of school brings, including his first story, his first friend, and his first school snack.
2018) Bobbo goes to school
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bobbo, a stuffed animal, is thrown on top of a school bus, he travels to school and enjoys adventures before making his way back to his owner Lily.
2019) Come tumbling down
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are...
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