Alice B McGinty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Eight children from eight different countries express their thanks for many special things including the sun that colors the sky, breezes that lift kites, clouds that paint cotton pictures and send rain, and sparkling stars that "shine like Mommy's eyes."
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Documents the 1930 Satyagraha protest movement, describing how Gandhi led a twenty-four-day march to the sea to demonstrate against Great Britain's salt tax while offering insight into his beliefs about non-violent civil disobedience.
10) The sea knows
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Rabbi Ruben loves his synagogue. But he doesn't love the creaking floorboard, leaking sink, or drafty windows. Surely, he thinks, he can fix it up so it feels cared for, like a happy home! But Rabbi Ruben doesn't know much about home repair, so when his creative fixes--challah dough plugging a drippy faucet, tablecloths blocking a window draft--make things humorously worse, it'll take his whole congregation banding together to remind him what really...
13) Step by step
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On the morning he is to start school, a nervous little boy is reassured by his father's advice to handle problems step by step.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Venetia Burney's grandfather reads aloud from the newspaper about a new discovery--a "ninth major planet" that has yet to be named--her eleven-year-old mind starts whirring. She is studying the planets in school and loves Roman mythology. "It might be called Pluto," she says, thinking of the dark underworld. Grandfather loves the idea and contacts his friend at London's Royal Astronomical Society, who writes to scientists at the Lowell Observatory...