Patricia Polacco
21) G is for goat
Author
Publisher
Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A rhyming celebration of goats and their antics, from A to Z.
22) Emma Kate
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Emma Kate and her best friend share many activities, such as homework and soccer practice, and even have their tonsils out at the same time!
30) Pink and Say
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a Black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops.
31) Mrs. Mack
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse.
32) Oh, look!
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Three goats visit a fair but run home after they seem to encounter a troll.
33) John Philip Duck
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duckmaster of the Peabody Hotel.
36) Pink y Say
Author
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Larnel doesn't know his neighbor, Mrs. Katz, very well, until he asks her to adopt an abandoned kitten. Mrs. Katz agrees on one condition: that Larnel help her take care of the kitten she names Tush. When Larnel starts spending more and more time with Mrs. Katz to help with Tush, Mrs. Katz tells him stories about coming to America from Poland and about the good times she spent with her late husband. As Larnel grows to love Mrs. Katz, he also learns...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author'smemories of her art teacher.
39) Bully
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grade friends Lyla and Jamie, both new to their school, stand up for each other when a clique of popular girls bullies them online.