Brian Floca
1) Locomotive
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
2) Locomotive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a visual exploration of America's early railroads, examining the sounds, speed, and strength of the fledgling transcontinental locomotives and the experiences of pioneering travelers.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ode to the essential workers keeping the country operating during the Covid-19 pandemic"--
4) Five Trucks
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Language
English
Description
Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
An exciting day at the races highlights the letters of the alphabet as a variety of automobiles burn fuel speeding through the curves of the track.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Max and Mo, two class hamsters, return to school and are placed in the Art Room, they use supplies found there to spell out their names for the students. Includes directions for making a nametag using household items.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When it starts snowing one school day, Max and Mo, the art room hamsters, watch the "Big Ones" outside making snowmen, and they decide to make one too, in a book that includes instructions for making a paper snowman.
11) Poppy's return
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
12) Ragweed
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
CHRISTMAS COLLECTION. While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
14) Poppy and Rye
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
182 p., map : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
15) Poppy
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Bks
Pub. Date
[c1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
160p illus
Language
English
Description
Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Elizabeth, an elephant seal, who decided to live in Christchurch, New Zealand instead of in the open seas.
17) Ereth's birthday
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
180 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
Author
Publisher
Flash Point
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind the creation of "Appalachian Spring," describing Aaron Copland's composition, Martha Graham's intense choreography and Isamu Noguchi's set design.