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Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
660L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
600L
Language:
English
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Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving pageant.
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
590L
Language:
English
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Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
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Series:
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they have learned.
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Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date:
2011
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
580L
Language:
English
Description:
When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
From the moment Gooney Bird makes her grand entrance at the Watertower Elementary School, her fellow second-graders are immediately intrigued. After all, it's not every day that a new student shows up to Mrs. Pidgeon's classroom wearing pajamas and cowboy books! Her colorful fashion sense, exuberant personality, and "absolutely true" stories land her at the center of attention most of the time. Join Gooney Bird as she greets every new challenge with...
7. Gooney Birds
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Publisher:
Annie's
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Stitch a colorful jungle full of birds! The six adorable bird patterns in this book are made with Deborah Norville Everyday soft worsted-weight yarn and are stuffed with fiberfill. Designs include Ophelia Ostrich, Percival Pelican, Tyrone Toucan, Pierre Parrot, Orson Owl, and Bernard Buzzard.
Author:
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Points: 2
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
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Publisher:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date:
[1989]
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Points: 0.5
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Searching for fun in his snowy polar world, Little Penguin dances with the gooney birds, cavorts at the Walrus Polar Club, and narrowly escapes being eaten by a whale.
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Publisher:
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date:
2002
Accelerated Reader:
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Points: 0.5
Language:
English
Description:
Searching for fun in his snowy polar world, Little Penguin dances with the gooney birds, cavorts at the Walrus Polar Club, and narrowly escapes being eaten by a whale.
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Series:
Polly Diamond volume 3
Language:
English
Description:
Disappointed that the new class pet is just a hamster, Polly uses her magic book, Spell, to conjure up a more interesting pet--and than has to figure out how to resolve the resulting topsy turvy chaos.
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Publisher:
Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Old technology survives and even thrives on the challenges of a new planet populated by ancient human spirits. Kesbe Temiya, a freelance flyer, accepts a commission to deliver an ancient but restored C-47 (a Gooney Bird, in twentieth century parlance, named The Gooney Berg by its new owner) to a collector of rare aircraft on the planet Oneway. Dropped off by a starship, Temiya gets sidetracked by bad weather, rescued by a mysterious figure riding...
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Publisher:
Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
The Anatomy of Baseball Nicknames is filled with a selection of over seven hundred monikers given athletes, mostly in the game of baseball, that will make for an enjoyable read whether you are a fan of "America's Game" or not. Be it "the Left Arm of God" or "the Octopus" or "the Gooney Bird," all of these have been tagged to significant ballplayers in their major league careers. Besides the major leagues, which date back to the late 1800s, there is...
17. Tori-Shima
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Publisher:
Trafford Publishing
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
The sky darkened as in the middle of a summer thunderstorm. Millions of birds had taken to the air after the first shell had landed on the tiny island of Lava Rock of Tori-shima. Yes, the sky darkened from gooney birds and terns that were nesting on the rocky prominence you could hardly call an island. The birds circled our ships in their vast multitudes and continued as our ships continued to shell the rocky shore. Shell after shell exploded in a...
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Publisher:
Tannenberg Publishing
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
This is a most excellent chronological history of the iconic DC-3 (Douglas Commercial aircraft, third model), also known as the C-47 (Cargo) in the US Army Air Forces and R4D in the US Navy, Good Old Gooney Bird, Dear Old Dakota, and Grand Old Lady. She was noisy, drafty, easy to fly, and utterly dependable. One thing Donald Douglas demanded was that she hold her altitude on one engine. She became the luxury airliner of the late 1930s and made air...
19. Angels Three Six
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Publisher:
Books in Motion
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Strap into a mortar-fired parachute, a rocket powered ejection seat and fly with Col Chuck Lehman in the fastest single engine jet fighter ever built, the F-106 Dart. Feel the exhilaration of hurtling through the blue at a mile every 2.35 seconds, the "G" forces and the satisfaction of keeping the bad guys out of our airspace. You'll laugh at some of these stories, sweat out a few and ask, "How could he have been so stupid?" in others. These confessions...
20. Skytrain
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Publisher:
Skyhorse
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
The legendary Douglas DC-3 airliner was a technological breakthrough that changed the course of both civilian and military aviation. In the 1930s, passenger air travel was expensive, uncomfortable, and frequently unreliable. That began to change with the appearance of the handsome, thoroughly modern DC-3, the twenty-one-passenger twin-engine propeller-driven creation of Donald Douglas and his young California company. The first production models were...