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Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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When Grandma comes to visit, and his parents leave them alone, the boy's grandmother encourages him to imitate a jaguar, until completely transformed they venture out into the night, exploring the world from a new perspective, and with a new freedom--until it is difficult to distinguish imagination from reality.
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Kids: Chapter Books for Beginner Readers Grades K-3
Kids: Family Read Alouds for Chapter Book Readers
Kids: Family Read Alouds for Chapter Book Readers
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As the youngest in her family, Dory really wants attention, and more than anything she wants her brother and sister to play with her. But she's too much of a baby for them, so she's left to her own devices -- including her wild imagination and untiring energy. Her siblings may roll their eyes at her childish games, but Dory has lots of things to do: outsmarting the monsters all over the house, escaping from prison (aka time-out), and exacting revenge...
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Charlie and Mouse volume 1
Language
English
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Charlie and Mouse, two young brothers, enjoy a day out together, attending an imaginary party and collecting rocks.
10) One boy watching
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"This lyrical picture book follows one boy's early morning bus ride to school and the many things he observes"--
Author
Series
Dory Fantasmagory volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Dory the rascal turns learning to read into a hilarious adventure through the power of imagination
Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. But now the class is learning to read, and it's proving to be a challenge for Dory. While Rosabelle can read chapter books in her head, Dory is stuck with baby books about a happy little farm....
Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. But now the class is learning to read, and it's proving to be a challenge for Dory. While Rosabelle can read chapter books in her head, Dory is stuck with baby books about a happy little farm....
14) Moonflower
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
15) Dream on, Amber
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English
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Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now she fills in the frustrating gap in her life with imagined conversations, and writes letters to Bella that seem to come from their father.
16) Harry's trees
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English
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"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight...Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
17) Imagine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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In an autobiographical poem in prose, the former United States Poet Laureate recalls his early years as the son of migrant farm workers, his schooldays, and his career, and assures readers that if he could, they can imagine a different life.
18) My dad is a tree
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A little girl convinces her dad to be a tree all day long, no matter what, even in the rain, in this imaginative picture book that encourages playing pretend and pays tribute to parents"--
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"Ware can't wait to spend summer "off in his own world"--dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being left alone. But then his parents sign him up for dreaded Rec camp, where he must endure Meaningful Social Interaction and whatever activities so-called "normal" kids do. On his first day Ware meets Jolene, a tough, secretive girl planting a garden in the rubble of an abandoned church next to the camp. Soon he starts skipping Rec, creating...
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