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1) Pumpkin soup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Cat and the Squirrel come to blows with the Duck in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their pumpkin soup, and they almost lose the Duck's friendship when he decides to leave them.
2) Delicious
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With no pumpkins to be had for their favorite soup, Cat and Squirrel, with reluctant help from Duck, make other kinds of delicious soups but fussy Duck proves very difficult to please.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From her downstairs apartment in suburban London, Emma has often overheard the everyday life of the seemingly perfect family upstairs--Steph, Paul and teenage daughter Freya--but has never got to know them. Until one day, she hears something that seizes her attention: Freya has vanished and the police are questioning Steph and Paul about their life. Do either of you have any enemies? Anyone who might want to harm or threaten you? The effects of Freya's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Staus Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but while Cat and Squirrel head straight to the salt store, Duck pauses at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and her husband, Adam, have been best friends with another couple, Cora and Scott, for years. The four are practically family at this point--they vacation together, co-own a beach cottage, and their young children are inseparable. So Lucy is devastated when, while looking at a colleague's photos of a trip to the Maldives, she spots a picture of Scott, apparently on a luxurious holiday with another woman. Lucy is determined to protect her best...
Author
Language
English
Description
Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organizing principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of "arms and the...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When the rescuers meet the boat, there are only two people left: a little one and a bigger one. The bigger one remembers the uncertainty of the trip across the ocean, but the little one has stopped thinking about all that. Can the little one and a very special butterfly help the big one move forward?"--
10) Tatty-Ratty
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Molly's stuffed rabbit gets lost, she and her parents imagine all the adventures it is having before returning home.
11) Villette
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
One morning, Ben finds an envelope containing a very special invitation to come and see the Gee Museum -- a dusty old place under threat of closure. However, once inside he discovers all sorts of incredible things like talking owls, dancing bees, magical bottles, witches, and of course, a hippo at the end of the hall. But most importantly he discovers a connection to his father and the family he never even knew he had. And now he has something important...
16) Dog biscuit
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl eats a dog biscuit by mistake and worries about the consequences. Includes recipe for "human-being treats."
17) The other guest
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a shocking death at a luxurious Italian resort, two very different women must question everything-and everyone-they love in order to untangle truth from lies in this twisty, captivating read"--
18) The house cat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A house cat struggles to return to his home after one of the families in the house take him away.