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Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a creepy and warm-hearted mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets. Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job in the affluent suburb of Spring Brook, New Jersey as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: his crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown Crayon. Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. Blue needs a break from coloring all those bodies of water. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking -- each believes he is the true color of the sun. What can Duncan possibly...
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Series
Ellie McDoodle volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Ellie pet-sits for her neighbor's African grey parrot Alix, about whom she is writing a report, while her family argues over whether to get a cat or a dog, and her little brother accidentally lets Alix out of his cage, all of which is chronicled in Ellie's ever-present sketchbook.
6) Ish
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Series
Creatrilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"The kids in Room 3B are asked to draw posters of things that they love, and one of them will get to share his or her poster on TV"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Louise loves art more than anything. Imagine her delight when a new neighbor, Andie, moves in... and she loves art too! It's the best day ever. But liking the same thing doesn't always mean you agree on it. Can they overcome their creative differences? Sometimes friendship, like art, can require collaboration.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Amelia Bedelia suggests that her Mom, who is feeling blue, go on a play date while Amelia Bedelia is doing the same, and then enlists her friends to help make chalk drawings on the house, sidewalk, and more to brighten Mom's day with her favorite things.
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"After a long, cold winter, doors finally open, and children spill out like candies from a box. Amanda is the last one out of the apartment building, with a carton of chalk in her hands. On every inch of the pavement outside, the children draw pictures of flowers and trees, mushrooms and snails, and a few very unexpected things. It's a concrete garden. Their creativity, unfettered in the open air, brings something beautiful, something hopeful, to...
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