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Author
Series
My weird school volume 11
Language
English
Description
First the school bus gets a flat tire, and then Mrs. Kormel is totally lost in the middle of nowhere! Mrs. Kormel is the weirdest bus driver in the history of the world, and she's driving everyone crazy!
2) Gibberish
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades K & 1
Back-to-School Picture Books: 2022
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
Back-to-School Picture Books: 2022
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
Formats
Description
When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sounds like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
3) The pledge
Author
Series
Pledge trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian kingdom where the classes are separated by the languages they speak, Charlaina "Charlie" Hart has a secret gift that is revealed when she meets a mysterious young man named Max.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A child learns different creatures are not being rude when they do not reply, they simply do not speak the same language, so from then on the child, the bee, the fish, and the lion sit by the tree, share stories and work together to never misunderstand each other.
Author
Series
Jose and el perro volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jos�e is confused when his newly adopted dog does not understand his Spanish commands.
Author
Publisher
Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
All around the world, children on their grandmothers' farms listen to the chickens cluck in their own languages. Explore world languages and different cultures as you meet grandmothers' chickens in the United States, Mexico, Kenya, Japan, India, and France in this book that celebrates cultural diversity.
13) Pie in the sky
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Food For Thought: Elementary and Middle Grade
TAB 2020 : Dorothy Hamm
Food For Thought: Elementary and Middle Grade
TAB 2020 : Dorothy Hamm
Description
"Sometimes life isn't a piece of cake... When Jingwen moves to a new country, he feels like he's landed on Mars. School is torture, making friends is impossible since he doesn't speak English, and he's often stuck looking after his (extremely irritating) little brother, Yanghao. To distract himself from the loneliness, Jingwen daydreams about making all the cakes on the menu of Pie in the Sky, the bakery his father had planned to open before he unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Back-To-School Picture Books
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Latinx Authors: Picture Books
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Latinx Authors: Picture Books
Three, Four Tell Me More: Let’s Be Friends and First Day of School
Description
"English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
16) One & everything
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages--and the imperative to preserve them. Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story ever. It called itself the One and started to consume every other...
Author
Publisher
Blue Dot Kids Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a new friend arrives who doesn't speak your language? A young girl searches for the words to help her friend feel welcome and happy in her new home, and along the way learns about differences and similarities in countries and words. The two forge a strong bond while they each learn the other's language, exploring the world around them."--Publisher marketing.
18) Bla-bla-bl�a
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Es el primer d�ia de clase de Dat en un nuevo pa�is. Dat y Ma han hecho una larga traves�ia para llegar aqu�i, pero Dat no sabe hablar el idioma. Para Dat, todo lo que dicen todas las personas a su alrededor, desde el conductor del autob�us escolar hasta sus nuevos compa�neros de clase, suena a blablabl�a. �C�omo har�a Dat nuevos amigos sin poder hacerse entender? Por suerte, en la clase de Dat, hay una compa�nera muy amigable...
19) Talking leaves
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
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