Brian Floca
1) Locomotive
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
3) Five trucks
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Language
English
Description
Five different trucks do five different jobs to get an airplane ready for takeoff.
4) Lightship
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
8) Poppy
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Language
English
Description
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner * ALA Notable Book * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice * School Library Journal Best Book
In the second book in the Tales of Dimwood Forest by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi, a tiny deer mouse named Poppy dares to stand up to a tyrannical owl. The story is accompanied by inviting illustrations from Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca.
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...9) Ragweed
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Language
English
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Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
10) Poppy's return
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
11) Ereth's birthday
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
12) Marty McGuire
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When tomboy Marty is cast as the princess in the third-grade play, she learns about improvisation, which helps her become more adaptable.
13) Poppy and Ereth
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Series
Language
English
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Description
After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
World-renowned swimmer and author Lynne Cox and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Brian Floca team up to bring us this inspiring story of an elephant seal who knew exactly where she belonged. Here is the incredible story of Elizabeth, a real-life elephant seal who made her home in the Avon River in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Elizabeth decides to stretch out across a two-lane road, the citizens worry she might get hurt or cause...
16) Ragweed & Poppy
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hilarious story! Adventurous golden mouse Ragweed is on a freight train leaving the city of Amperville. On his journey he meets Lotar, a young, annoying, and lost raccoon who's desperate to reunite with his...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After visiting a great ape sanctuary, Marty and her friends set out to raise the money to "adopt" a chimpanzee by organizing a talent show at school and starting a pet-sitting business in Marty's basement--which soon gets out of hand.