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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Nevada Reading Week Grades PreK - 2
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Description
Whats in a name? For one little girl, her very long name tells the vibrant story of where she came from and who she may one day be. If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; José, the grandfather...
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
1968.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names.
7) Just Mabel
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mabel learns to appreciate her name and, together with a good friend, finds a way to cope with critical classmates.
10) What's your name
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What’s your name? Maybe you’ll find it in this effervescent picture book—an ode to an important part of each of us from the creator of The Favorite Book. Everyone has one . . . or maybe a few. So what’s in a name? What does it do? Names hold power. They can be a greeting, provide comfort, act as a warning, or honor our ancestors and heroes. Sometimes growing into a name, or selecting a new one, can take a little time....
11) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
Author
Series
Monster and Boy volume 2
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
To cheer up his best friend Boy, who just found out he is getting another baby sister, Monster takes him on a surprise adventure to learn about how monster babies are born and get their names.
13) Nameless queen
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the city of Seriden, the thief called Coin is Nameless -- she has no family, no legal rights, and no standing in society -- but she inherits the throne and the power and danger that come with it.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue that this heroine is not as stupid as she seems: according to legend, cunning Wiltshire residents caught hiding contraband in a pond capitalized on a reputation for ignorance by claiming they were...
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