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Author
Series
Willow Falls series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly before her thirteenth birthday, shy and withdrawn Tara is sent to stay with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her parents' hometown of Willow Falls, where she makes friends and becomes involved with an elderly buyer and seller of collectibles, who seems to be trying to give Tara some kind of mysterious message
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over . . . buttons?!...
5) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling
10) In a jar
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Llewellyn, a little rabbit who collects ordinary things in jars, meets a young girl named Evelyn, he joins with her to capture the extraordinary.
11) The collectors
Author
Series
Collectors volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Van has always been an outsider. Most people don't notice him. But he notices them. And he notices the small trinkets they drop, or lose, or throw away--that's why his collection is full of treasures. Then one day, Van notices a girl stealing pennies from a fountain, and everything changes. He follows the girl, Pebble, and uncovers an underground world full of wishes and the people who collect them. Apparently not all wishes are good and even good...
Author
Series
Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Van Markson embarks on a quest to rescue his best friend from a dangerous wish collector"--
14) Canned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fergal Banfield, an eccentric lad who collects cans, is surprised to find some unexpected--and even alarming--things in a few of his treasures, and when he meets Charlotte, another collector, they begin an investigation that leads them into dangerous territory
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lawrence the fox accompanies his father into the forest to collect something to take to his school show-and-tell, and while briefly lost and alone, Lawrence encounters the beauty of nature and finds exactly what he needs.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Jumbeelia, an eight-year-old giant, climbs down a beanstalk and collects some "iggly plops," the little people of children's stories, she treats them like toys, unaware that she is endangering their lives
17) The puddle pail
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his older green brother suggests that he collect things, Ernst, a young blue crocodile, comes up with an unusual choice: puddles
18) Hetty's 100 hats
Author
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hetty is so fond of hats she decides to collect one hundred of them by her birthday
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Maggie finds treasure wherever she goes. Whether it's a button, a feather or a shiny stone, she picks it up and takes it home. At first the neighbors and city workers are grateful to Maggie for cleaning up; the mayor even gives her an award. But over time Maggie's collection grows bigger and bigger, until it spills out of her house and garden in an unsightly mess. Her parents tell her "Enough treasure!" and eventually even Maggie realizes that something...
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