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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Young Alma is trying to write her very long name on her paper–Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela– and it doesn’t fit. She doesn’t hesitate to air her frustration to her father who regales his daughter with the stories behind each name. “Then you decide if it fits,” he tells her. Cuddled together in a chair looking at photo albums, Alma learns about every family member from Grandma Sofia who loved poetry to Candela her other grandmother...
5) The name jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the tale of Rumpelstiltskin's childhood and youth, explaining why his name is so important, how he is able to spin straw into gold, and why a first-born child is his reward for helping the miller's daughter-turned-queen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight [distributor]
Pub. Date
2011, c2005
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.
Author
Series
Ghoulia volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book #3 in this fully illustrated, not-so-spooky chapter book series starring everyone's favorite little zombie
Ghoulia, Auntie Departed, and Tragedy the greyhound are back for another adventure at
Crumbling Manor! They're preparing for the annual Dead but Not Departed New Year's Eve
party. A young ghost arrives, and he seems to be fading away. Turns out, the ghost has forgotten his own name and is in danger of vanishing entirely-all because there's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
Author
Publisher
The Innovation Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saddened by her classmates' and teacher's mispronunciations of her name, a girl is empowered by her discovery that names are like songs when she and her mom celebrate the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names.
Author
Series
Monster and boy volume 3
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
To cheer up his best friend Boy, who just found out he is getting another baby sister, Monster takes him on a surprise adventure to learn about how monster babies are born and get their names.
18) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged, 10th Anniversary
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name, one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
20) Frankly, I'd Rather Spin Myself a New Name!: the Story of Rumpelstiltskin as told by Rumpelstiltskin
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the classic fairy tale from the point of view of Rumpelstiltskin, who spins straw into gold (for cash payments), but really dreams of having a son to raise.
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