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1) Perfect the pig

Author

Series

Reading rainbow book

Pub. Date

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Language

English

2) Raccoons and ripe corn

Author

Series

Reading rainbow book

Pub. Date

uuuu

Language

English

3) Hill of fire

Author

Lewis, Thomas P

Series

Reading rainbow book
I can read history book

Publisher

Harper

Pub. Date

[1971]

Physical Desc

63 pages : color illustrations ; 22-23 cm.

Language

English

Description

Read Description

An easy-to-read account of the birth of Paricutin volcano in the field of a poor Mexican farmer.

4) Pet show!

Author

Keats, Ezra Jack

Series

Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 7
Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

Read Description

When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.

5) Max

Author

Isadora, Rachel

Series

Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

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Max finds a new way to warm up for his Saturday baseball game--his sister's dancing class.

6) Mitchell is moving

Author

Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman

Series

Ready-to-read
Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

Read Description

A dinosaur's exuberance about moving cools considerably when he realizes how much he misses his next-door friend.

7) Wagon wheels

Author

Brenner, Barbara

Series

I can read book
Reading rainbow book
I can read history book

Physical Desc

64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.

8) The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash

Author

Noble, Trinka Hakes

Series

Reading rainbow book

Publisher

Dial Press

Pub. Date

[1980]

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.

9) The banza: a Haitian story

Author

Wolkstein, Diane

Series

Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

Read Description

A small goat finds that the banjo given to her by a little tiger protects her from harm in an unexpected way.

10) Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain: a Nandi tale

Author

Series

Picture Puffins
Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

Read Description

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

11) Three days on a river in a red canoe

Author

Williams, Vera B

Series

Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

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Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe.

12) Bea and Mr. Jones: story and pictures

Author

Series

Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Tired of kindergarten, Bea Jones trades "jobs" with her father, who works in an office.

13) A chair for my mother

Author

Williams, Vera B

Series

Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

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A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

14) Everett Anderson's goodbye

Author

Clifton, Lucille

Series

Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies.

15) Simon's book

Author

Drescher, Henrik

Series

Reading rainbow book

Publisher

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books

Pub. Date

[1983]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Simon flees from a friendly monster with the aid of some drawing pens and a bottle of ink.

16) How my parents learned to eat

Author

Friedman, Ina R

Series

Reading rainbow book

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

[1984]

Physical Desc

30 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

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An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

17) Mama don't allow: starring Miles and the Swamp Band

Author

Series

Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

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Miles and the Swamp Band have the time of their lives playing at the Alligator Ball, until they discover the menu includes Swamp Band soup.

18) Rock collecting

Author

Series

Reading rainbow book
Let's-read-and-find-out books

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

[1984]

Physical Desc

28 pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 23 cm.

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks.

19) The tortoise and the hare: an Aesop fable

Author

Series

Reading rainbow book

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

[1984]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

20) Truck song

Author

Series

Reading rainbow book

Pub. Date

[1984]

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Rhymed text and illustrations describe the journey of a transcontinental truck.

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