A big guy took my ball!
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Name: A big guy took my ball! /
Author: Willems, Mo.

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Willems, Mo.

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New York : Hyperion Books for Children, [2013]

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9781451797756 (Paw Prints), 9781423174912 (hardcover), 1423174917 (hardcover), 9781368025508 (hardcover), 9781536422177, 1536422177

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LC Subjects

Animal fiction.
Animals -- Juvenile fiction.
Elephants -- Juvenile fiction.
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Gerald (Fictitious character from Willems) -- Juvenile fiction.
Play -- Juvenile fiction.
Readers (Publications)
Swine -- Juvenile fiction.
Whales -- Juvenile fiction.

Other Subjects

Pigs -- Fiction.

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Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

56 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Accelerated Reader

LG
Level 1, 1 Points

Lexile code

Lexile measure

270

Notes

Description

Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.

Target Audience

AD270L Lexile

Target Audience

Decoding demand: 12 (very low) Semantic demand: 42 (medium) Syntactic demand: 38 (low) Structure demand: 73 (high) Lexile

Study Program Information

Accelerated Reader AR LG 1 0.5 158336.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (Style Guide)

Willems, M. (2013). A big guy took my ball! (First edition). Hyperion Books for Children.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Willems, Mo. 2013. A Big Guy Took My Ball! Hyperion Books for Children.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Willems, Mo. A Big Guy Took My Ball! Hyperion Books for Children, 2013.

UCL Harvard Citation (Style Guide)

Willems, M. (2013). A big guy took my ball! First edn New York: Hyperion Books for Children.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (Style Guide)

Willems, Mo. A Big Guy Took My Ball! First edition, Hyperion Books for Children, 2013.

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