Shirley Parenteau
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
It's 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, where she is living with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Francisco. But Mama's new husband doesn't think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Lexie's class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As the night becomes still, one big frog lets out his croaking song, followed by two tiny friends, until groups of as many as ten frogs have all joined in, in voices of all sorts, but when a car passes near, all songs are silenced.
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Series
Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Big Brown Bear gets his four fellow bears into their cozy, warm beds without much trouble, but in the middle of the night a strange sound frightens them awake.
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Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 3
Description
Four little bears covered in mud do not want to take a bath.
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Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Four chairs. Four adorable bears. All is well until Big Brown Bear shows up -- what a stare -- and wants a seat. Can these clever bears put their heads together (among other things) and make space for one more?
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Series
Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The little bears are ready to play in the snow, but when they discover that their sled is too small to carry them all, Big Brown Bear's idea just might save the day.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"When eleven-year-old Chiyo Tamura is sent from her home in a small Japanese mountain village to a girls' school in the city of Tsuchiura, she never imagines that she will soon be in Tokyo helping to welcome more than twelve thousand Friendship Dolls from America--including Emily Grace, a gift to her own school. Nor could she dream that she'd have an important role in the crafting of Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight Japanese dolls to be sent to America...
8) Dolls of war
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In 1941, eleven-year-old Macy James lives near the Oregon coast with her father, the director of a small museum. Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight exquisite friendship dolls given to America by Japan in 1926, is part of the museum's collection and one of Macy's most treasured connections to her mother, who recently passed away. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, many of Macy's neighbors demand that Miss Tokyo be destroyed. When her brother joins the...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When Big Brown Bear and the four little bears notice that the trees are shimmering in the wind with spring blooms, they know just how to spend the day: a picnic. The blustery weather is perfect for flying kites, and the bears can't wait to frolic under the cherry blossoms with the busy bees and eat a lunch of bread with honey. It's time to send the kites up into the air but the winds are so strong, they carry the little bears up off the ground and...
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Series
Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Little bears Floppy, Fuzzy, Yellow, and Calico secretly prepare a birthday cake and gift for Big Brown Bear, whose curiosity is piqued by delicious smells.
11) Bears in a band
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Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The little bears pick up their instruments and play a noisy song. They don't care if the notes are wrong. But uh-oh, Big Brown Bear is fast asleep. Will their lively music wake him up?"--Dust jacket flap.
13) Bears and boos
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Series
Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
It's Halloween and Big Brown Bear and the four little bears are very excited. But will there be enough costumes for everyone?
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