Anne Carter

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1) Beauty and the beast

Author

Pub. Date

c1986

Description

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

2) The shepherd's granddaughter

Author

Carter, Anne

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6

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Amani longs to be a shepherd like her grandfather, Seedo. Like many Palestinians, her family has grazed sheep above the olive groves of the family homestead for generations, and she has been steeped in Seedo's stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos--and the wolf that once showed him the path there.

3) Tall in the saddle

Author

Carter, Anne

Pub. Date

1999.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1

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After playing cowboys with his father, a little boy determines to find out where Dad goes when he leaves for work every morning.

4) Circus Play

Author

Carter, Anne Laurel

Pub. Date

2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1

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When Mom's trapeze act steals the show, the least her upstaged son can do is make sure that the child performers stay true to the grand traditions of the Big Top.

5) What the kite saw

Author

Carter, Anne Laurel

Pub. Date

2021.

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"In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away. Without his father and brother, the young boy's life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can't stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can't stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank's spotlight...