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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return. Includes author's note about immigration from Mexico to the United States, and Nahuatl and Spanish glossaries.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Enthralled by her grandmother's story of seeing and hearing whales singing in the sea long ago, Lilly hopes to see them herself and to hear their mysterious songs.
5) The toymaker
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What good is a toy that will wind down? What if you could put a heart in one? A real heart. One that beat and beat and didn't stop. What couldn't you do if you could make a toy like that? From the moment Mathias becomes the owner of a mysterious piece of paper, he is in terrible danger.
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
American edition.
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When huntsmen, mountaineers, and other adventurers fail to bring the king a silver-scaled moon dragon, little Alina not only locates the beautiful, singing creatures, she determines to protect their secret rather than collect the king's reward.
