Children's Festival of Reading: Erin Entrada Kelly

1) Hello, universe

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Series

Thorndike Press large print mini-collections

Formats:

Book, Children's Audiobook CD, Large Print

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Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia is deaf, smart, and loves everything about nature. Kaori is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can concentrate on basketball. They aren't friends. But when Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well, Kaori, Gen, and...

2) We dream of space

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Series

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

Formats:

Book, Children's Audiobook CD, Large Print

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Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...

3) Maybe maybe Marisol Rainey

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Series

Maybe Marisol volume 1

Formats:

Book, Children's Audiobook CD

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"Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard named Peppina...but she's way too scared to climb it. Will Marisol find the courage to climb Peppina? Maybe"--

4) Those kids from Fawn Creek

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Formats:

Book, Children's Audiobook CD

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The twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious hair, the other seventh graders do not know what to think.

5) You go first

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Formats:

Book, Children's Audiobook CD

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Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.

6) The land of forgotten girls

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

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Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.

7) Blackbird fly

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.

8) Lalani of the distant sea

Author

Kelly, Erin Entrada

Formats:

Book, Children's Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

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"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--