Friendship

Elementary (X) - Friendship (X)

The Report Card

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Copies: 5

True or False?

Fifth grader Nora Rose Rowley is really a genius.

True.

But don't tell anyone.

Nora always gets average grades so she can forgo the pressure-cooker gifted program or Brainiac Academy.

But when Nora gets one hundred percent fed up over testing and the fuss everyone makes about grades, she brings home a terrible report card just to prove a point.

Lexile: 
700L
The Report Card

Bink and Gollie: Two For One

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The fair is in town and these two very different girls -- but best friends extraordinaire -- use teamwork to navigate its many wonders.

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Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:14
Bink and Gollie: Two For One

Nora's Chicks

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Copies: 7

Nora and her family have just arrived from Russia and are making a new home on the American frontier. The prairie is very different from the forested hills Nora is used to. Most of all, it’s lonely. Papa has the cows he sings to as he milks them. Baby brother Milo has a dog to follow him wherever he goes. But Nora has no one and nothing to call her own until Papa brings home a dozen chicks and two geese. Nora names each one, and they follow her everywhere — even to church! But what will happen when one of her beloved chicks goes missing?

Lexile: 
AD490L
Nora's Chicks

Hooray For Amanda and her Alligator

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Sometimes Amanda surprises Alligator with books... sometimes Alligator eats them. But what happens when Amanda brings home a special surprise? Narrated by Cher Willems with Mo and Trixie Willems.

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Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:12
Hooray For Amanda and her Alligator

I Want My Hat Back

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Bear's hat is gone. None of the animals have seen it. He is starting to become despondent, until his memory is sparked by a deer who asks just the right question.

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Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:09
I Want My Hat Back

Lemonade In Winter

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A lemonade stand in winter? Yes, that's exactly what Pauline and John-John intend to have.

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Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Length: 
00:12
Lemonade In Winter

Ant and Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends in Winter

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Copies: 7

Brrrr! The leaves are off the trees, and frost is on the ground. It's time for bugs to hunker down and hide out for the winter.

But Ant isn't ready to hunker down. Ant isn't ready to be all by herself for months on end. The thought of a long chilly season without her best friend, Honey Bee, is enough to make Ant shiver with dread. Can Ant brave the cold for one last surprise visit before the snow flies?

Whatever the outside weather might be, a friendship is going to have hot days and cold ones. Just as Ant and Honey Bee!

Lexile: 
640L
Ant and Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends in Winter

Binny for Short

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Copies: 7

By the time Binny is eleven years old she has lived in two worlds. A child's world, and a time-to-start-growing-up-now world. An easy world, and a hard world. The first world held Binny; her mother and father; her big sister, Clem; and her little brother, James. And Max, the best dog in the whole world. But after her father's death, money was tight, and Binny's world became cramped apartments with no room for Max. So horrible Aunty Violet stepped in and gave Max away.

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Lexile: 
680L
Binny for Short

Fort

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Copies: 6

"This is the 100 percent true story of the summer I - Wyatt Jones - was eleven and built a fort in the woods with my friend Augie Valerio. It isn't the story I handed in to my teacher about how I spent my summer vacation. See, there's stuff that happened that you can't really talk about in school. Not unless you want to get into trouble. Plus, there are things in here like dead squirrels. and squirrel guts. There are weapons, too: a slingshot, a pellet gun, and a pocketknife. I'm just warning you, in case that kind of stuff bothers you.

Fort

Lost in the Sun

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Copies: 6

Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when a freak accident on Cedar Lake left one kid dead, and Trent with a brain full of terrible thoughts he can't get rid of. Trent’s pretty positive the entire disaster was his fault, so for him middle school feels like a fresh start, a chance to prove to everyone that he's not the horrible screw-up they seem to think he is.
If only Trent could make that fresh start happen.

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Lexile: 
700L
Lost in the Sun

Anne of Green Gables

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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

Anne of Green Gables

The Velveteen Rabbit

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By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.

The Velveteen Rabbit

Un gnome a la mer (French)

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Tout au milieu de l’océan, là où l’horizon a le dos rond, voguait un bateau blanc. Ainsi commence la merveilleuse histoire du petit gnome à la mer et de son ami Nicolas…
Un délice pour ceux qui savent rêver.

Un gnome a la mer (French)

Hello, Universe

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Acclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly’s Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships.

Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani (hero). “Readers will be instantly engrossed in this relatable neighborhood adventure and its eclectic cast of misfits.”—Booklist

Lexile: 
690L
Hello, Universe

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

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Copies: 6

Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone know he can barely read or write. But those troubles don't compare with grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle family's orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, can't understand why Lieutenant Baird won't believe the story Mason has told about that day.

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Lexile: 
310L
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

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