Pizzoli, Greg
Summary: The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: Katherine Paterson is back - A new novel from the author of Bridge to Terabithia - based on a completely true historical event. A historical novel about a young Cuban teenager who volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign that taught those throughout the impoverished countryside to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Paterson 2017Green, Tim
Summary: Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION GREHale, Bruce
Summary: When Clark the Shark has a loose tooth, he has to go to a dentist, but Clark has heard that the dentist is scary.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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Summary: A woman explains to her son how she grew up in a remote village where almost no one could read and write, but she found a way to learn how when her sister began getting letters from a young doctor who used to live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VASBattle-Lavert, Gwendolyn
Summary: "A son teaches his father how to write his name so he can vote for the first time in this historical tale filled with warmth and strength by Coretta Scott King Honor winner Colin Bootman's expressive oil paintings. In a new author's note, veteran teacher and author Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert expands upon the obstacles facing African American voters in the aftermath of the Civil War and the fight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BATBauer, Joan
Summary: Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Childrens Books 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC BAUBishop, Sylvia
Summary: Property Jones and her family are in dire straits when they win a drawing for the greatest bookstore in England but the previous owner was hiding something nearly as big as Property's secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BISBuzzeo, Toni.
Summary: Mrs. Skorupski, school librarian at Liberty Elementary, encourages fourth-grader Robert to search for information using tools such as the online catalog to find what he needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Upstart Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BUZHest, Amy.
Summary: Harry sits on the porch with Mr. Joe Baker, an African American who is one hundred years old but can still dance and play the drums, waiting for the school bus that will take them both to the class where they are learning to read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HESKinsey-Warnock, Natalie.
Summary: Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KINLowry, Lois.
Summary: Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LowrySapphire
Summary: A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1996
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Summary: "Stacey's favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books. On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading in English, so they begin sharing books and stories to practice. Soon, more students start to join them."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABRHaseley, Dennis.
Summary: A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Whistle/Harcourt 2002
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Summary: In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UNDMcKissack, Pat
Summary: In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCKPizzoli, Greg
Summary: The Book Hog loves books and has a large collection, although he never learned to read.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2019
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Summary: After realizing that the Underwear Dragon misbehaves only because he cannot read, Sir Cole and his would-be assistant, Claire, are determined to help the fearsome beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2021