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The classic story of a mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave

2) Peter's chair

Author

Keats, Ezra Jack

Series

Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.

3) The goat in the rug

Author

Blood, Charles L

Series

Language

English

Description

Jimmy's Boa
Reading rainbow book

Geraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping and carding to the dyeing and actual weaving.

4) The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash

Author

Noble, Trinka Hakes

Series

Publisher

Dial Press

Pub. Date

[1980]

Physical Desc

[32] pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book - Children's

Description

Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.

5) Gregory, the terrible eater

Author

Sharmat, Mitchell

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book - Children's

Description

Reading rainbow book
Pied Piper book

A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice.

6) Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain: a Nandi tale

Author

Aardema, Verna

Series

Language

English

Description

World of nature
Reading rainbow book

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain

7) Chickens aren't the only ones

Author

Heller, Ruth

Series

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Pub. Date

[1981]

Physical Desc

44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Language

English

Description

A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.

8) Regards to the man in the moon

Author

Keats, Ezra Jack

Series

Language

English

Description

Lerner natural science book
Reading rainbow

With the help of his imagination, his parents, and a few scraps of junk, Louie and his friends travel through space

9) Cactus

Author

Bix, Cynthia Overbeck

Series

Publisher

Lerner Publications Co

Pub. Date

1982

Physical Desc

48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

Describes the special parts of the cactus plant and how they work together to enable the plant to survive in the desert by storing water

10) A chair for my mother

Author

Williams, Vera B

Series

Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
Reading rainbow book
Read-With-Me

Language

English

Description

Commander Toad books
Break-of-day book
Reading rainbow

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

11) Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes

Author

Yolen, Jane

Series

Publisher

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Pub. Date

c1982

Physical Desc

64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Language

English

12) Paul Bunyan

Author

Kellogg, Steven

Series

Publisher

William Morrow & Company

Pub. Date

1984.

Physical Desc

40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Language

English

Description

I can read book
Reading rainbow book

Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.

13) Wagon wheels

Author

Brenner, Barbara

Series

Publisher

Harper and Row

Pub. Date

1984, c1978

Physical Desc

64 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act

14) Astronuts: space jokes and riddles

Author

Keller, Charles

Series

Publisher

Prentice-Hall

Pub. Date

c1985

Physical Desc

[60] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

15) Imogene's antlers

Author

Small, David

Series

Book, Book - Children's, Kits - Children's

Language

English

Formats

Description

One Thursday Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes.

16) Koko's kitten

Author

Patterson, Francine

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Language

English

Description

The real life experience of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died

17) Mama don't allow: starring Miles and the Swamp Band

Author

Hurd, Thacher

Series

Publisher

HarperTrophy

Pub. Date

1985

Physical Desc

[40] p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.

Language

English

Description

Miles and the Swamp Band have the time of their lives playing at the Alligator Ball, until they discover the menu includes Swamp Band soup

18) Maps and globes

Author

Knowlton, Jack

Series

Pub. Date

c1985

Language

English

Description

A brief history of mapmaking, a simple explanation of how to read maps and globes, and an introduction to the many different kinds of maps there are; for ages 7-10.

19) Best friends

Series

Family literacy fun
Reading rainbow volume 043
First 5

Publisher

GPN

Pub. Date

1986-2004

Physical Desc

1 videocassette (approximately 30 min.), 1 DVD (approximately 30 min.), 1 book (1 volume : color illustrations ; 27 cm), 1 package of bilingual postcards, 1 bilingual activity sheet based on the Reading Rainbow episode (in backpack).

Language

English

Description

Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2
Let's-read-and-find-out science. Stage 2
Reading rainbow book

A girl feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer.

20) Germs make me sick!

Author

Berger, Melvin

Series

Language

English

Description