Mac Barnett
1) Telephone
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Language
English
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Description
In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!
3) Extra yarn
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
4) Oh no! Not again!: (or how I built a time machine to save history) (or at least my history grade)
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When she does not get a perfect score on her history test, a young girl builds a time machine to remedy the situation.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Primary)
Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Primary)
Description
Overview: Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary - and finding it in a manner you'd never expect.
6) John's turn
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Every Friday, in the cafeteria, one of the kids gets up in front of the whole school and does something. A performance. Today it's John's turn."--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Paxton accidentally discovers the magic word that grants his every wish, he learns that having it all might be fun at first but ultimately there are consequences for being selfish.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Follow a magnificent polar bear through a fantastic world of snow and shockingly blue sea. Over the ice, through the water, past Arctic animals and even a human...where is he going?"--
11) Triangle
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Triangle plays a trick on Square, Square plans to reciprocate but runs into trouble when he tries to enter the triangular doorway of Triangle's home.
12) Noisy night
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises"--
13) Just because
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
14) What is love?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A boy sets out to find someone to answer a question that he asks his grandmother, and eventually his quest leads him back home.
15) Twenty questions
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead--to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...