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'I Can Read!' Leveled Readers Series
Description: A collection of leveled readers for beginning young readers published by Harper Collins. #kids #teachers #earlyreaders #earlylearning #earlychildhood #preschool
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Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Baby Bird
by Robin Jones GunnMrs. Rosey Posey is an eccentric grandmotherly character created by bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn. Mrs. Rosey Posey tells stories to the neighborhood children and teaches them how God loves and cares for them. A lesson in God's care for us. Rachel finds a baby bird that has fallen from its nest. "No one else saw it," she tells Mrs. Rosey Posey. But MRS. Rosey Posey knows that someone else did see it.
Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Hidden Treasure
by Robin Jones GunnThe children in Mrs. Rosey Posey’s neighborhood are playing pirates. Mrs. Rosey Posey gives them a treasure map to follow. This imaginative book helps young readers discover what an invaluable treasure God’s Word is.
Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Yum-Yummy Birthday Cake
by Robin Jones GunnChildren learn the importance of saying they’re sorry in Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Yum-Yummy Cake. But that’s not the only lesson learned. They will also discover the meaning of forgiving and loving people when they wrong us. This fanciful story will make young readers hungry for more!
Inspector Hopper's Mystery Year
by Doug CushmanIntroducing Inspector Hopper, a grasshopper with a feel--and feelers--for mysteries, this I Can Read Book follows two bug sleuths as they unravel the mysteries of the insect world. An I Can Read Level 2 book.
Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery
by Doug CushmanAunt Eater loves mystery stories so much that she sees mysterious adventures wherever she looks
Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower
by Peggy ParishAmelia Bedelia is in trouble again! This time she is in charge of a surprise wedding shower for Miss Alma. With the help of her scatterbrained cousin, Amelia Bedelia ices the fish with chocolate frosting, sticks prunes all over the hedges, tramples on Mrs. Rogers's best tablecloth-and turns the entire party into an uproarious shambles!
Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy ParishFrom dressing the chicken to drawing the drapes, Amelia Bedelia does exactly what Mr. and Mrs. Rogers tell her to do. If things get a bit mixed up, well, that's okay. When Amelia Bedelia is involved, everything always turns out perfectly in the end!
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy ParishAmelia Bedelia, who knows very little about baseball, stands in for a sick player during a game.
Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor
by Herman ParishAn I can read book. Amelia Bedelia always does what she's told. So when Mr. Rogers tells her she should run for Mayor Thyomas's office, she pics up her skirts and dshes off to City Hall. She knows just what she'd do in the mayor's shoes (polish them, of course). With Amelia Bedelia in the race, politics will never be the same.
Thank You, Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy ParishMrs. Rogers is glad Amelia Bedelia can help get everything ready for the guests. Stripping sheets, taking spots out of dresses, and checking shirts are just some of what Amelia does.
Come Back, Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy ParishBecause she does exactly as she is told, Amelia is fried from one job after another.
Small Wolf
by Nathaniel BenchleyA young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land. As the author notes: Although this story is about Manhattan, Small Wolf and his father could be any of the American Indians who were displaced from their homes and hunting grounds by the white men.
George the Drummer Boy
by Nathaniel BenchleyMore than two hundred years ago, Boston belonged to the British. George was a drummer boy with the King's soldiers there. He wanted to be friends with the people of Boston. But they did not like the soldiers. They shouted and threw things at them. One night, George and the other soldiers were sent on a secret mission. They crossed the river and headed toward Concord. George had no idea that this was the start of the American Revolution. In this I Can Read Book, Don Bolognese's vibrant pictures capture the drama and humor of Nathaniel Benchley's exciting story.
Sam the Minuteman
by Nathaniel Benchley"Get your gun" Sam's father said. "The British soldiers are coming this way "Sam's father was a Minuteman. Sam was ready in a minute. Father and son rushed to the village green. Other Minutemen were already there.
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express
by Eleanor Coerr and Don BologneseBased on actual events in the legendary rider's life, this exciting adventure story of Buffalo Bill will have youngsters galloping along with Bill as he encounters the many dangers on the trail. Beginning readers will enjoy discovering what life was really like on the Pony Express in this action-packed story.
The Big Balloon Race
by Eleanor CoerrAriel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her win it.
The Josefina Story Quilt
by Eleanor CoerrA historically based, affectionate story of good and bad times on a nineteenth-century wagon-train journey. Coerr packs strong emotions into the story, which is detailed and eventful enough to create vivid historical setting within the confines of a beginning-to-read format. In Children's Editors' Choices for 1986, Notable 1986 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies, and The USA Through Children's Books 1985.
The Long Way to a New Land
by Joan Sandin"We will go to America!" It is 1868, and Carl Erik's family faces starvation in Sweden. As their hopes fade, they must endure a journey over land and sea to reach a better life in a new country thousands of miles away.
The Golly Sisters Ride Again
by Betsy ByarsThe Golly Sisters, May-May and Rose, share further adventures as they take their traveling show through the West.
Surprises
by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Megan Lloyd'These thirty-eight poems offer beginning readers a chance to try some verse. With drawings that pack a lot of action, a friendly book that will connect with everyday lives and lend a little music along the way. ' --BL. Notable Children's Books of 1984 (ALA) Best Books of 1984 (SLJ) Children's Books of 1984 (Library of Congress)
A Pet for Me
by Lee Bennett Hopkins and Jane ManningFrom a devoted mutt giving "sloppy doggy kisses" to a tarantula munching happily on a cricket lunch, this lively collection of twenty poems celebrates the relationship between children and their pets. Popular poet and noted anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together many of today's best children's poets -- including X. J. Kennedy, Alice Schertle, and Karla Kuskin -- in this delightful festival of friendship. Jane Manning's bright and richly textured art cheerfully complements these playful poems.
Weather
by Lee Bennett HopkinsA collection of poems describing various weather conditions, by such authors as Christina G. Rossetti, Myra Cohn Livingston, and Aileen Fisher.
The Boston Coffee Party
by Doreen RappaportDuring the Revolutionary War, times are hard in colonial Boston. Greedy Merchant Thomas is overcharging for sugar. Then he locks up all the coffee so he can overcharge for that too! Young Sarah Homans wants to teach him a lesson. Merchant Thomas is about to attend a party he won't soon forget.
My Parents Think I'm Sleeping
by Jack PrelutskyThese 16 rollicking rhymes show young readers that a child's life begins at bedtime. Ages 4-8 So my parents think I'm sleeping, but that's simply their mistake, I have got them fooled completely, I am really wide-awake. From watching shadows dancing on a wall, to reading books by flashlight under the covers, to sneaking downstairs to grab that last piece of chocolate cake, master poet Jack Prelutsky shows readers that a child's life begins at bedtime!
Wagon Wheels
by Barbara BrennerShortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.