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1) Rules
Author
Language
English
Description
Frustrated with a life that revolves around the needs of her autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a "normal" existence but instead finds her world further complicated and enriched by friendship with a young paraplegic
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mia is spending her summer with her grandmother in a small Maine town, expecting it to be an oasis of stability in her changing life, but there is a new know-it-all boy next door, and soon she finds herself competing with Cayman in identifying an injured bird of prey--and pretty much everything else.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
Author
Series
Hot Rod Hamster (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A hamster, with the help of a canine junkyard dealer and his mouse assistants, builts a hot rod and drives it in a race against some very large dogs
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Selma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
8) Touch blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population
Author
Series
Book buddies volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
68 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ivy was Anne the librarian's doll when she was a young girl. But now she has moved to Anne's library to be its newest Book Buddy--a toy that can be checked out just like a book. Ivy isn't sure she wants to be borrowed, though. She'd rather go back to just being Anne's favorite toy. Fern, a child who visits the library with her stepfamily, also wishes things could go back to the way they were, when Fern had her dad all to herself. When Fern takes...
10) Jelly Bean
Author
Series
Shelter pet squad volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
No pets are allowed in the apartment where Suzannah and her family live, so she volunteers at a local pet shelter and plays with the dogs and cats there--but when a child whose family is moving brings in her pet guinea pig, Jelly Bean, Suzannah promises that she will find him the perfect home.
11) Paloma
Author
Series
Shelter pet squad volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of sato puppies, homeless dogs of various breeds from Puerto Rico, has arrived at the animal shelter, and second grade volunteer Suzannah immediately falls in love with one puppy, Paloma--but it is her job to get the puppy ready for adoption, a separation that could easily break her heart.
Author
Series
Hot Rod Hamster (Picture books) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Fearless Franco's famous Monster Truck Mania has come to town, and Hot Rod Hamster and his friends are searching for the very best ride at the fair.
13) Merlin
Author
Series
Shelter pet squad volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When second-grader Suzannah arrives to volunteer at the animal shelter she finds that the newest arrival is Merlin, a mischievous ferret with a talent for hiding and stealing shiny things, so the Shelter Pet Squad needs to find a home that is a perfect match for a ferret.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Newbery Honor author, Cynthia Lord, comes the heartwarming true story of the author's own journey in fostering two amazing bunnies, illustrated with photos and drawings"--