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1) The big game
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Language
English
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Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
3) The book hog
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Stacey's favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books. On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in English, so they begin sharing books and stories to practice. Soon, more students start to join them. Books take the group on magical adventures and reveal other worlds and cultures -- but best of all, they bring...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
Author
Series
Good Knight (Easy readers) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The three little dragons have agreed to take care of the old wizard's cats while he is away, but their inability to read his instructions causes problems until their friend, the Good Knight, saves the day.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder-especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself-but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade"--
9) Bluefish
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.
11) Zooman Sam
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
13) Push
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Language
English
Description
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
14) Meet the teacher
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this book, beginning readers are introduced to a variety of teachers and the tools they use to help their students learn.
15) A story for Bear
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.
18) Wolf!
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
19) Close to famous
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
20) Read me a story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story.
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