Kevin Henkes
1) Junonia
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English
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The week of her tenth birthday, Alice and her parents go to Sanibel Island, Florida, just as they do every year, but this time some of the people who are always there are missing and some new people have come, which unsettles Alice, who wants things to be exactly the same as they alway are.
8) Oh, Sal
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English
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Four-year-old Sal cannot find a gift she recieved from Santa, her new baby sister still does not have a name and takes up all of Mama's attention, and her brother Billy is annoying, but Sal finds her own strengths over an eventful Christmas season with her family.
10) Waiting
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Five friends sit happily on a windowsill, waiting for something amazing to happen. The owl is waiting for the moon. The pig is waiting for the rain. The bear is waiting for the wind. The puppy is waiting for the snow. And the rabbit is just looking out the window because he likes to wait! What will happen? Will patience win in the end? Or someday will the friends stop waiting and do something unexpected?--Publisher.
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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First edition.
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English
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text introduce such basic concepts as adjectives, adverbs, daytime, and nighttime as they follow five elephants marching from dawn to dusk.
12) Wemberly worried
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English
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A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.
13) Lilly's big day
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English
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When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.
15) Chrysanthemum
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English
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Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
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Penny (Kevin Henkes) volume 4
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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First edition.
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English
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Penny has a new sled, but will it ever snow?
19) Owen
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English
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Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.
20) Jessica
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Ruthie does everything with her imaginary friend Jessica; and then on her first day at kindergarten, she meets a real new friend with the same name.