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Author
Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rosa is excited when her new cousin, Benji, is born, but when Grandma wants to remove a beloved armchair, Rosa puts her foot down and insists that the chair, just like Benji, is a member of the family.
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
Author
Series
Rosa books (Vera B. Williams) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.
Author
Series
Bears (Shirley Parenteau) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Four chairs. Four adorable bears. All is well until Big Brown Bear shows up -- what a stare -- and wants a seat. Can these clever bears put their heads together (among other things) and make space for one more?
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad's lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune of family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it--with an opportunist, a priest and his former servant all in pursuit.
9) ¡Cataplof!
Author
Series
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
Español
Description
En ocasiones ser una silla no resulta nada fácil. Y menos cuando se vive con la señora Julia. Pero ¡todo tiene un límite! Y es increíble lo mucho que se consigue con astucia y un poco de imaginación.
Sometimes, being a chair isn't easy, particularly when you live with señora Julia. But, there are limits to what a chair can put up with.
11) Chairs
Author
Publisher
Conran Octopus
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
336 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
The practicality of the chair is often superseded by its desirability as an emblem of style, status, craft and even art. Examines more than 100 chairs, and their iconic status, designers, historical facts, overall style, design details and ergonomic properties.
12) The perfect seat
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Eager to read together, a parent and child search for the perfect seat.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 pages
Language
English
Description
In this story based on true events, a treasured wooden chair is passed down from family to family, with each new owner carving the word "welcome" in a new language.
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Before the baby arrives a couple orders a rocking chair, and as the family grows and changes, the rocking chair is always there, a center of love and continuity.
15) Murderball
Publisher
Distributed by Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. These men have been forced to live life sitting down, but in their own version of the full-contact sport, they smash each other in custom-made gladiator-like wheelchairs. Tells the story of a group of world-class athletes unlike any ever shown on screen. In addition to smashing chairs, it will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled.
Author
Publisher
Mulberry Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st Mulberry Spanish-language ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 25 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Después que un incendio destruye su casa y todo lo que poseen, Rosa, su madre y su abuela ahorran hasta que logran comprarse un sillón grande y confortable para que las tres puedan disfrutarlo.
17) The puffy chair
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After finding a vintage Lazy Boy recliner online, just like the one that used to grace his childhood living room, a man decides to buy the chair and deliver it to his father as a surprise birthday gift.
18) Nonna's porch
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grandmother's proch is a quiet place in the countryside where she can sit, and rock, and enjoy the stillnesss of nature.
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