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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #14 - Armchair Travel
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While chasing a dumpling, a little lady is captured by wicked creatures from whom she escapes with the means of becoming the richest woman in Japan.
3) Rapunzel
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A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
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Caldecott medal book volume 1958
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Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine. Describes the enchanting beauty of the island in rain, fog, sunshine, and hurricane.
6) Drummer Hoff
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A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.
8) Mei Li
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After spending and eventful day at the fair held on New Year's Eve, Mei Li arrives home just in time to greet the Kitched God.
11) Hello Lighthouse
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Historical Fiction
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"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--
14) Watercress
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Realisitic Fiction
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
15) Many moons
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Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.
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This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-fourth president, Barack H. Obama. Hilariously illustrated by Small, this celebration by St. George shows us the foibles, quirks and humanity of forty-four men who have risen to one of the most powerful positions in the world.
19) A ball for Daisy
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A wordless picture book showing the fun a dog has with her ball, and what happens when it is lost.