Toni Buzzeo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"From a very young age, Sue Hendrickson was meant to find things: lost coins, perfume bottles, even hidden treasure. Her endless curiosity eventually led to her career in diving and paleontology, where she would continue to find things big and small. In 1990, at a dig in South Dakota, Sue made her biggest discovery to date: Sue the T. rex, the largest and most complete T. rex skeleton ever unearthed. Named in Sue's honor, Sue the T. rex would be placed...
4) Whose Boat?
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Smoke billows up.
Cool water flows.
Whose boat is that?
Do you know?
This nonfiction ode to boats features six kinds of workers and their boats-a patrol boat, a tugboat, a car ferry, a lobster boat, a lifeboat, and a fireboat-with important parts properly labeled. The answer to each inquiring refrain lies under a gatefold, engaging the reader in an informative guessing game. With lyrical (and factual!) text by New York Times-bestselling author...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Motivated by a challenging situation and his supportive father, Little Loon finally learns to dive. It's time for diving lessons, but Little Loon is too nervous. When Papa shows him how to tuck in his feathers and dip down into the water, Little Loon rushes away without trying. But then-gruffle, snuffle, growl!-things become even more startling when Papa's not close by. And as Little Loon hears the reassuring call of his father, he's finally ready...
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When well-mannered Elliot reluctantly visits the aquarium with his distractible father, he politely asks whether he can have a penguin - then removes one from the penguin pool into his backpack. The fun of caring for a penguin in a New England Victorian house is followed by a surprise revelation by Elliot's father.