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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Afraid that she is crazy, thirteen-year-old Mia, who sees a special color with every letter, number, and sound, keeps this a secret until she becomes overwhelmed by school, changing relationships, and the loss of something important to her.
2) Listen
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A lyrical picture book intends to inspire empathy by showing how everything and everyone on Earth is connected.
4) Hello ocean
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Julie can't wait to go to the park and feed the ducks with her big sister, Tara. There's only one problem. Her little brother, Ian, who has autism, wants to go, too. Ian doesn't have the same reactions to all the sights and sounds that his sisters have, and Julie thinks he looks silly. But, when he wanders off on his own, she must try to see the world through his eyes in order to find him.
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"A girl with a disability explores every facet of the ocean during a day at the beach. A girl spends an entire day exploring the seaside with her mom. A keen observer, she sees the ocean as both "big" and "small" and both "sparkly" and "dull. It's also "dotted and spiraled and wavy and straight." Her ocean is full of sounds -- it "splashes and crashes" and "laughs and hums." But, at times, it's silent. She is inspired to examine and celebrate every...
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In the title story, a middle-aged academic who had been an anti-apartheid activist embarks on an unadmitted pursuit of the possibilities for his own racial identity in his great-grandfather's fortune-hunting interlude of living rough on diamond diggings in South Africa, his young wife far away in London. "Dreaming of the Dead" conjures up a lunch in a New York Chinese restaurant where Susan Sontag and Edward Said return in surprising new avatars as...
10) Sometimes
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The things that a child feels are different from time to time, but they are all okay.
11) Hot dog
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[2022]
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"A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air"--
12) Double blind
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Kendra Michaels volume 6
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"Kendra Michaels is reluctant to help the FBI with the most recent case they've brought to her...until she hears the details: The body was found just blocks away from Kendra's condo. The man was carrying an envelope with Kendra's name on it, and inside was an SD card with what appears to be an innocuous video of a wedding reception. And just one week before the attempted delivery of this mysterious video, the groom in the video was murdered. As the...
14) Rain
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
16) The scent keeper
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"Erica Bauermeister, the national bestselling author of The School of Essential Ingredients, presents a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives. The Scent Keeper explores the provocative beauty of scent, the way it can reveal hidden truths, lead us to the person we seek, and even help us find our way back home"--
19) David smells!
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[2005]
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Very simple text presents scenes with David which give examples of the five senses.