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Miss Rumphius (Unabridged)

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As a child, great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful - and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.

Author:

Barbara Cooney

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

680L

Length:

00:09

Frog and Toad Together (Unabridged)

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Frog and Toad are always together. Here are five wonderful stories about flowers, cookies, bravery, dreams, and, most of all, friendship.

Author:

Arnold Lobel

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

450L

Length:

00:19

Frog and Toad Are Friends (Unabridged)

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From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other - just as best friends should be.

Author:

Arnold Lobel

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

400L

Length:

00:25

Frog and Toad All Year (Unabridged)

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In winter, spring, summer, and fall, Frog and Toad are always together. Here is a wise and wonderful story for each seasonof the year - and one for Christmas, too.

Author:

Arnold Lobel

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

300L

Length:

00:21

Days With Frog and Toad (Unabridged)

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Good friends like Frog and Toad enjoy spending their days together. They fly kites, celebrate Toad's birthday, and share the shivers when one of them tells a scary story. Here are five funny stories that celebrate friendship all day, every day.

Author:

Arnold Lobel

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

320L

Length:

00:28

Tikki Tikki Tembo (Unabridged)

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This folktale explains why Chinese people no longer choose long names for their children.

Author:

Arlene Mosel

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

AD1090L

Length:

00:09

Penny and Her Song

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Copies: 7

When Penny comes home from school, she is ready to sing her song. But the babies are sleeping, and Mama and Papa are worried that Penny will wake them up. Oh, but it is a good song, a really wonderful song...and Penny wants more than anything to sing it. What do you think will happen?

Author:

Kevin Henkes

Tink

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Copies: 7

We first met Tink when he came to live in Crow Cove as a young boy in Eidi. Now hard times have come to the little settlement, and their food supply is dwindling. Tink, with the help of a newcomer to Crow Cove, saves his friends from starvation by learning how to fish and also learns important lessons about the complexities of human nature, the importance of compassion, and his own valued place in his community. Tink is a strong new addition to the much-acclaimed Children of Crow series.

Author:

Bodil Bredsdorff

Lexile:

760L

I'm Still Scared, Book 6

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Copies: 7

Since the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, second grade has been hard on Tomie. Normal, everyday activities such as Tomie's first music lesson and Miss Leah's dance classes go on as usual. But now his class has to go to the spooky furnace room for air raid drills. And at home his family hangs thick black curtains on the windows so that the enemy won't see the house's light. Tomie's mother is there to comfort and explain the confusion, and Tomie feels better. He even goes Christmas shopping with Dad as usual. But the day-to-day effects of the war are always there.

Author:

Tomie dePaola

Things Will NEVER Be the Same, Book 5

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Copies: 7

Tomie has his own diary - it's his best Christmas present ever! All through the year exciting things happen and Tomie writes about them in his diary - sledding down the steep hill on his new Junior Flexible Flyer, being a pirate in the dance recital, and starting second grade with real art lessons at last! Then one Sunday morning Tomie's family hears news on the radio that changes everything. Master storyteller Tomie dePaola takes us back to 1941 and lets us experience what life was like growing up in the dePaola household.

Author:

Tomie dePaola

Lexile:

700L

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