Jane Yolen
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life!
Mrs. Noah kept birds. She kept many a variety of birds, ravens and robins, eagles and eiders, cockatoos and crows. But out of all the birds she kept, her favorite were her doves. When the flood comes, Mrs. Noah brings them onto the ark. But there is a special mission for the doves.
2) Giant Island
Author
Publisher
Flashlight Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this wondrous book by award-winning fantasy author Jane Yolen and award-winning fantasy illustrator Doug Keith, two children and a dog explore the coves and caves of a tiny island. Under the watchful eye of Grandpa, the kids are thrilled to discover ahuge surprise: the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and wind-swept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem"--
3) Owl Moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
4) Love birds
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shy and quiet boy wanders his new home town, listening to the birds, until he meets a fellow bird lover and friend.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience a magical story of ele-friendship and one disappearing elephant's ele-fate.
Discover the unlikely—and entirely unforgettable—friendship between Flora, an elephant calf stolen from her African home, and David, the circus impresario and magician who adopts, trains, and ultimately liberates her, in this tale freely inspired by actual events.
With a minimum of language—only 22 words in all—but a maximum...
Discover the unlikely—and entirely unforgettable—friendship between Flora, an elephant calf stolen from her African home, and David, the circus impresario and magician who adopts, trains, and ultimately liberates her, in this tale freely inspired by actual events.
With a minimum of language—only 22 words in all—but a maximum...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna Mary brings books to children and adults in Appalachia during the Great Depression.
There were no libraries in the backwoods of Kentucky in the 1930s. Librarians there and throughout the South delivered books to families by horseback and mule, sleeping outdoors or sheltering in barns when they could, going from farm to farm in remote areas. In this story, a woman named Anna Mary stands in for all the real-life horseback librarians
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest, to a horrific concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's...
It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Not since The 10th Good Thing About Barney or I'll Always Love You has there been such a peaceful and inspiring book to help children and adults cope with the loss of a pet. The talented multiple-medalist Jane Yolen takes on this difficult subject with her usual grace and poetic sensitivity, focusing not on the death as much as the life in the last day of an older cat named Tiger Rose. Tiger Rose's kitten days are long...
Author
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
This lyrical bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and to sleepy children, safe in their beds.
As a mother describes how different species of birds nest, secure and cozy with their mama birds, she tucks her own child into bed with the soothing refrain — "you nest here with me" — easing her little one and readers alike to slumber. Accompanied by beautiful artwork by award-winning illustrator Melissa Sweet, mother and daughter...
As a mother describes how different species of birds nest, secure and cozy with their mama birds, she tucks her own child into bed with the soothing refrain — "you nest here with me" — easing her little one and readers alike to slumber. Accompanied by beautiful artwork by award-winning illustrator Melissa Sweet, mother and daughter...
12) A kite for Moon
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At first, the dinosaurs try to bring home all manner of wild beasts, but in the end, they learn to bring home an appropriate animal from a shelter or pet store and to love and care for it with attention.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It is not always easy for a dinosaur to learn how to be kind, but with a liitle practice, and keeping other people firmly in mind, he can become a one-of-a-kind, very kind dinosaur.
17) Monster Academy
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It is the first day of school at Monster Academy, where all the monsters go, and the lesson for the day involves counting missing teeth, and Vic the vampire is sad because he still has both fangs--until Jo, a troublemaking student who whirls like a dervish but is actually a human, gives him an apple at lunch.
Author
Publisher
Handprint Books, an imprint of Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyme, a bear settles on the narrator's porch, and is soon followed by many other woodland friends, until the porch collapses under the weight--but bear and his friends repair the damage and almost everybody is invited to lunch.