02835cam a2200481 i 4500 2634658035 TxAuBib 20251204120000.0 170210s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016286200 9781554988082 hardcover 155498808X hardcover 9781554988105 1554988101 (OCoLC)980557043 TxAuBib rda Krishnaswami, Uma, author. Book Uncle and me / Uma Krishnaswami ; Illustrations by Julianna Swaney. Berkeley : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2016. 149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "Original edition published by Scholastic India Pvt. Ltd. in 2012"--Copyright page. Every day, nine-year-old Yasmin borrows a book from Book Uncle, a retired teacher who has set up a free lending library next to her apartment building. But when the mayor tries to shut down the rickety bookstand, Yasmin has to take her nose out of her book and do something. But what can she do? The local elections are coming up but she's just a kid. She can't even vote! Still, Yasmin has friends -- her best friend, Reeni, and Anil, who even has a black belt in karate. And she has grownup family and neighbors who, no matter how preoccupied they are, care about what goes on in their community. Then Yasmin remembers a story that Book Uncle selected for her. It's an old folktale about a flock of doves trapped in a hunter's net. The birds realize that if they all flap their wings at the same time, they can lift the net and fly to safety, where they seek the help of a friendly mole who chews a hole in the net and sets them free. And so the children get to work, launching a campaign to make sure the voices of the community are heard. 580L Lexile. Decoding demand: 87 (very high) Semantic demand: 99 (very high) Syntactic demand: 84 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.8 2 184100. 20251204. Reading Juvenile fiction. Elections Juvenile fiction. Girls Juvenile fiction. Libraries Juvenile fiction. Communities Juvenile fiction. Books and reading Juvenile fiction. Friendship Juvenile fiction. Swaney, Julianna, illustrator.