Jonathan Bean
Author
Language
English
Description
Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long building project is here. And at every step their lucky kids are watching and getting their hands dirty, in page after page brimming with machines, vehicles, and all kinds of house-making activities! As he imagines it through the eyes of his older sister, this is Jonathan Bean's retelling of his own...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mom and Dad are going to make the new house themselves, from the ground up. From empty lot to finished home, every stage of their year-and-a-half-long building project is here. And at every step their lucky kids are watching and getting their hands dirty, in page after page brimming with machines, vehicles, and all kinds of house-making activities! As he imagines it through the eyes of his older sister, this is Jonathan Bean's retelling of his own...
3) Big snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A young girl narrates her family's move from the city to the country, where they have bought a piece of land and live in a trailer while they build a house from the ground up, with help from relatives and friends.
Author
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln both considered small business the backbone of American democracy and free enterprise. In Beyond the Broker State, Jonathan Bean considers the impact of this ideology on American politics from the Great Depression to the creation of the Small Business Administration during the Eisenhower administration. Bean's analysis of public policy toward small business during this period challenges the long-accepted definition...
8) Real cowboys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Real cowboys are gentle, patient, and creative as they move hundreds of cattle, make camp, and dream under the stars.
10) Mokie and Bik
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
For two rambunctious twins, living on a boat means always being underfoot or overboard.
Author
Series
Emmy and the rat series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Emmy discovers that she and her formerly loving parents are being drugged by their evil nanny with rodent potions that can change people in frightening ways, she and some new friends must try everything possible to return things to normal.
13) At night
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A sleepless city girl imagines what it would be like to get away from snoring family members and curl up alone with one's thoughts in the cool night air under wide-open skies.
Author
Series
Emmy and the rat series volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Emmy and her rodent friends must fend off the evil former nanny, Miss Barmy, as they search for Ratty's missing mother.
Author
Series
Emmy and the rat series volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Emmy wants to be an ordinary girl, but the evil nanny Miss Barmy, now a rat, has trapped five of her former charges and when she uses them to steal jewels belonging to Emmy's parents, it is up to Emmy, Joe, and their rodent friends to stop her.
16) One starry night
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
One starry night, as all sorts of animals watch over their young, Mary and Joseph watch over their baby boy, Jesus, in Bethlehem.
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This collection of ten stories features caring, adventurous, and silly boys whose stories can each be read aloud in five minutes flat. Fearless, fun, determined, daring, kind, and independent... these boys rock! Whether you're looking for a compassionate role model, a quick pick-me-up, a jolt of inspiration, or just a giggle, this treasury has all that and more!