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Second Grade: Recommended Books |
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The Barnabus project
by Terry Fan
"In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure"
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Mina
by Matthew Forsythe
Mina, who lives in a hollowed-out tree stump on the edge of the forest, must choose between trusting her father and listening to her own instincts when he brings home a suspicious surprise from the woods. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Read the book, lemmings!
by Ame Dyckman
A latest laugh-out-loud picture book by the best-selling creators of Wolfie the Bunny and Horrible Bear! features an exasperated Arctic fox who tries to get his lemming charges to stop leaping off cliffs long enough to realize that cliff diving may not be as natural to them as they believe. 30,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Drawn together
by Minh Lê
Struggling throughout a visit with his grandfather when they cannot speak each other's language, a young boy discovers their mutual love of art and storytelling during a shared session of drawing that helps them form a bond beyond words. Illustrated by the Caldecott Award-winning artist of The Adventures of Beekle. 35,000 first printing
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Home is in between
by Mitali Perkins
Immigrating to America, a young girl navigates between her family's Bengali traditions and her new country's culture
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Nana Akua goes to school
by Tricia Elam Walker
An evocative celebration of cultural diversity finds young Zura participating in Grandparents Day at her elementary school by introducing her classmates to her West African grandmother, who explains to the students why her traditional facial tattoos are special. Illustrations.
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Someone builds the dream
by Lisa Wheeler
A sumptuous tribute to the dedicated and talented people who construct our world combines spare rhymes with high-detail spreads depicting laborers who use their skills and hard work to build homes, farms, amusement parks and other structures. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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InvestiGators
by John Green
On their first mission together, alligator detectives Mango and Brash must uncover the clues, crack the case, and corral the crooks before the criminals wriggle out of their grasp
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Baloney and friends
by Greg Pizzoli
Follows Baloney the pig as he tries to do a magic trick, plays a video game, goes swimming, and gets involved in other activities with his best friend, Peanut the horse, along with Bizz the bee and Krabbit the grumpy rabbit
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Sir Ladybug
by Corey R. Tabor
Sir Ladybug, who never turns down a quest, and his trusty friends must put their heads together to come up with the perfect plan to rescue a caterpillar from the clutches of a monster (a hungry chickadee). 12,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Willa the wisp
by Jonathan Auxier
One day eight-year-old Auggie, the caretaker of the rare animals in the Fabled Stables, ventures into the swamp to save a new rare creature, the wisp
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The wild robot
by Peter Brown
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants
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The mailbox in the forest
by Kyoko Hara
First-grader Mayu finds a mailbox in the forest near her grandparents' house and begins corresponding with a mysterious friend, but can they continue writing and receiving letters when Mayu returns to the city?
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Esmé's birthday conga line
by Lourdes Heuer
"Esmé lives with her grandparents on the uppermost floor of the topmost best building. It's her birthday. Mimi and Pipo gave her a beautiful guitar. But they didn't plan a birthday party...With the help of her cat, El Toro, and a lot of help from her neighbors in the topmost best building, the irrepressible Esmé gets the birthday party of her dreams"
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Polly Diamond and the magic book
by Alice Kuipers
A little girl who loves words, reading and writing believes that her dreams have come true when a magic book appears on her doorstep and makes everything she writes happen in real life, before unexpected consequences show her that what she writes and what she means may not be the same thing.
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The middle kid
by Steven Weinberg
"Takes readers through a day in the life of a middle kid, and all the challenges and advantages of a life in-between"
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The boy who dreamed of infinity : a tale of the genius Ramanujan
by Amy Alznauer
A picture book tribute to the mathematical genius from 19th-century India describes his childhood investigations into the concept of infinity, his indelible role in modern mathematics and the author’s father’s remarkable discovery of Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook. Illustrations.
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What's in your pocket? : discovering treasures in nature
by Heather L. Montgomery
"A science educator honors children's curiosity and pockets full of "stuff" by introducing nine scientists who collected natural treasures when they were young. Collecting, sorting, and playing with shells, stones, and other objects taught these young people how to observe, classify, and discover"
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Many : the diversity of life on Earth
by Nicola Davies
A follow-up to the award-winning Tiny Creatures combines lyrical text and lavishly detailed illustrations to introduce the vast diversity of life on Earth and explain how it is all part of a beautiful and complicated pattern that must be preserved for the benefit of all.
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