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Gr 36Eleven-year-old Cordelia Sullivan has put the pieces together. Her mother owned a soft, silky black coat, read her stories about selkies, loved the ocean, and showed Cordelia and her sisters the way to an enchanted island. Her mother and the black coat are missing, so the obvious conclusion Cordelia draws is that ...
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Maria Lili's mouth is watering for the stew she makes with her grandparents every weekend. But on this particular Saturday, it seems that the aroma of cilantro mingling with cassava, green plantains, vegetables and chicken will exist only in the girl's imagination. There is no money and nothing in the larder but a doze...
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The creators of the delightful That New Animal (2005) employ a similar level of empathetic tale-spinning and endearing character artin this story of adog named Dumpling, who is missing the crucial canine heightened sense of smell. Poor Dumpling finds it hard to relate to her fellow pups, and when she and her family mov...
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PreSchool-Grade 2—George is a lovable and dependable basset hound whose humans have always been happy to have him around. When a stray comes into their lives, though, things suddenly change. Zippity runs, fetches, swims, and chases, and he zooms circles around George, who feels left out and displaced. Unfortunate...
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A Small Tall Tale from the Far Far North by Peter Ss chronicles the life of Czech folk hero Jan Welzl who, as legend has it, left his home 100 years ago headed for the Arctic illustrated with maps, storyboard vignettes (relating how the explorer enlarged a cave, for example, built a kayak and made a tent) and stunning ...
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According to one little boy, his dad is just about the coolest thing since sliced bread. Equally at ease jumping over the moon and banishing the Big Bad Wolf, this fearless father, in his hideous brown plaid bathrobe and blue-striped pajamas, seems capable of anything. The awe and admiration in his son's tone are grati...
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Gr 1-4In 1940, four boys found a tunnel beneath a tree in the French countryside. Looking for buried gold, they came upon, instead, the most famous prehistoric art of all time, the Lascaux cave paintings. This book tells their story, concentrating on the days of discovery and the boys' gradual sharing of the cave's sec...
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...this a fun read-aloud and a real child pleaser. School Library JournalKids won't be able to resist. . . BooklistMary Casanova's books include the popular One-Dog Canoe and The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town, also illustrated by Ard Hoyt. She lives near Ranier, Minnesota. Ard Hoyt has illustrated several picture books,...
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Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 1A sleepy sleepy boy is fast asleep in his sleepy sleepy bed along with everything else in his sleepy sleepy house until music comes drifting in, in ever louder tones. Then the child and his surroundings gradually come alive, dance, and shake to the beat, and drift back to sleep as the n...
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Grades 2-3--Students who are having difficulty with math will enjoy this lighthearted story. Third-grader Wilson Williams needs to pass all the times-table tests by March 16th in order to get an ice-cream cone from his teacher. While the child is talented in art, he is envious of his friends Laura and Josh, who have co...
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PreS?A winning quartet of board books. In a style reminiscent of Dav Pilkey's work, Kitamura has created four animal characters, each faced with a decision: where to sleep, what to drink, how to bathe, and what to eat. Resolving these dilemmas requires hilarious experimentation (the cat curling up in the saucepan is a ...
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PreSchool-Grade 3"There once was a Robot with a broken heart," begins this metaphorical story that's likely to appeal more to adults than to children. The other robots cannot fix him, so he ends up on the junk heap. A tired, shivering Bluebird (of happiness, perhaps?) comes along, prompting the Robot to shelter her and...
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When class bully Irwin taunts Violet about her fat knees (they're not) or deadly sewer gas smell (she doesn't), all she wants to do is shrink away. The thought of being in the class play about the solar system makes her itch and scratch and twirl her hair. But when she's alone or with her best friend, Opal, Violet is a...
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PreSchool-Grade 2-Two image-filled poems by O'Neill, the author of Hailstones and Halibut Bones (Turtleback, 1961), appear together in a picture-book format. In the first section, rhyming verses evoke the hustle and bustle of a busy day, "Bus honks and bells,/Dishes and shoes,/Whirring of tires and/Crackle of news." Th...
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Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 5Set in 1867, this story of the fictional S.L. Clemens uses verse to describe the excitement that the brief docking of the packet brought to otherwise tranquil towns along the mighty Mississippi. The terse, highly descriptive text features an ABB rhyme scheme with a catchy rhythm and ...
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PreSchool-Grade 3-In this original story, Peter befriends and frees a seal girl after she is captured by a greedy oysterman who wants her to teach him the language of the sea. The story ends abruptly, leaving readers with a feeling that something is missing. The brief text does not contain enough details to explain wha...
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The Spanish galleons which plied between the Orient and the Americas in the seventeenth century sometimes carried strange cargo. The records of the period note that a White Deer was brought across the Pacific to Mexico to be reshipped across the Atlantic to the King of Spain and presented to him with a golden collar ar...
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Text: English, Yiddish (translation); Title: Stories for Children (English and Yiddish Edition)
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After expressing how death affects a child in her acclaimed first novel, The Friends, Yumoto offers a different variation on the theme, in this sensitively wrought story. Her language, musically translated once again by Hirano, is quiet yet foreboding, much like the calm before a storm. Through a first-person narrative...
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With this story of a hurried man who boards a sluggish train, Cyrus (Tangle Town) conjures the feeling of being unable to escape a bad dream. Corporate drone Edwin Blink is late for work; drizzle blurs his owlish glasses. Rather than board the sleek purple express train, he inadvertently boards a coach towed by an alga...
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K-Gr 3Star Child is "a flame of vapor, invisible and timeless," living somewhere far off in outer space where he longs to visit the distant planet Earth. Told in a small pretty volume, his story consists mainly of his elders' explanation of what he will experience if he is born as a human and lives on Earth. "Here it i...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-Sasha and her grandfather live in a shop in old Moscow where he carves boxes to sell and she decorates them. When mice destroy her rag doll, Grandfather Boxer whittles a little wooden figure and then makes a box of the same shape in which to store it. Sasha paints them both to look like matrioshkas...
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Hofmeyr and Daly, previously partnered for The Stone: A Persian Legend of the Magi, again join forces to weave a colorful picture book from one of the world's oldest storytelling traditions. Key figures in Egyptian mythology spring to life in Hofmeyr's vivid narration: the bud of a lotus flower breaks through the surfa...
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It looks like Molly's eponymous stuffed rabbit may be missing for good, but the girl takes comfort in imagining a picaresque future for him: a circuitous journey home that includes encounters with the Three Bears, Cinderella, fierce pirates, a friendly dragon and the Man in the Moon. But Tatty Ratty makes Errol Flynn-l...
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"Pure enchantment from start to finish. Shulevitz uses text as spare as a December landscape to cast a spell of winter magic [and] works a bit of visual alchemy as the tale progresses." --Starred, "Publishers Weekly""Outstanding . . . filled with humorous touches . . . Youngsters will joyfully join the boy in his winte...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2-This pleasing blend of history and legend tells the story of a man who brought sparrows to America in the 1860s. John Bardsley loved these birds, though they were considered pests in England. He wound up in Philadelphia, where countless inchworms plagued the plants of the city. Bardsley journeyed b...
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Kate Banks is the author of many acclaimed books for children, including the Boston Globe- Horn Book Award winner The Night Worker. She lives in the South of France.Gabi Swiatkowska has illustrated many notable books for children, including My Name Is Yoon, for which she received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Awa...
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Steig has created a story and pictures as richly inventive as his applauded Abel's Island, Yellow and Pink, The Amazing Bone and all his other picture books. Beautifully written and illustrated by paintings reflecting the sunny colors of spring, the adventures of Solomon the rabbit lad start when he discovers he can me...
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Grade 13Rotten Ralph has his future planned out. He's designed his own baseball card, embellished his uniform with the words Superstar #1, and practiced how he'll sign autographs and give interviews with the media. He hasn't worked on his hitting, throwing, or running skills though. After tryouts, Ralph's owner, Sarah,...
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Click here for a larger imageClick here for a larger imageClick here for a larger imageClick here for a larger imageThis simplified version of Deisen and Hanna's The Pout-Pout Fish (2008) is appropriate for babies and toddlers . . . Simple and sweet, this tale offers the lesson that sometimes, all that's needed for a t...
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The hip rhythms and tongue-twisting humor in this jazzy, poetic, fun-to-read-aloud book make it a keeper your child will want to read over and over again. Cricket Magazine onlineGetting the beat and the tongue-twisting phrases just right takes some practice, but the outcome is well worth the effort. SLJChildren will ch...
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In Bogacki's (Cat and Mouse) visually voluptuous but narratively disjointed tale, a downy baby blue bird is curious about the world beyond his nest, yet fearful of flying. His mother unwittingly hits on an inspiration for his flight: one night, in an attempt to coax her inquiring offspring to sleep, she tells him that ...
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Grade 8 UpCloseted high schooler Kit Webster hopes to take a vacation from reality by accepting one of the leads in a school play called Talk. Opposite Kit is popular drama queen Lindsay Walsh, who falls for him while they're onstage and dumps her meathead boyfriend. He blames Kit and homophobic epithets ensue. At the ...
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Grade 4-8This book is a glorious celebration and an accurate account of the birth of the New York City subway, which opened in 1904, the most ambitious transit system of its time. After much planning, construction of the first phase of the network took four and a half years and required dismantling and reconfiguring mu...
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In the vein of This Plane and This Train, Paul Collicutt explores all things seaworthy in This Boat, with vessels that "break through ice" and "[sail] on top of a bridge." The informative end papers showing specific boats (e.g., the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier, the SS Titanic) are a bonus. Copyright 2001 Cahne...
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Grade 2-6?According to the source notes, this story of the three Magi is based on versions of the tale heard by Marco Polo on his travels. The wise men are amazed by the beautiful star that appears in the night sky. Jasper thinks it's a planet; Melchior, a comet; Balthasar says, "It's a mystery. We must consult our cha...
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The story of Galileo is at once inspiring and troubling. The brilliant astronomer was a celebrated scientist who was showered with honors and patronage until his greatest discovery--that the earth circled the sun rather than the other way around--proved to be too much of a threat to prevailing orthodoxy. Peter Sis, aut...
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Grade 5–7—This humorous adventure, a sequel to The Runaway Princess (Farrar, 2006), captures readers' attention from the start and doesn't let go. Meg is an unconventional princess who has a mind of her own. When her pet dragon, Laddy, flies away, she is determined to go on a quest in search of him. Her par...
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Trains in fiesta-bright hues zip through a picture book debut that uses the iron horse to demonstrate simple opposites and contrasts: "This train is in the country./ This train is in the city"; "This train carries passengers./ This train carries freight." The art is highly stylized, and its colors are souped-up: even t...
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PreSchool-Grade 3. When the silly mayor of Tangle Town can't open his door (he's pushing when he should be pulling) and calls for help, confusion and trouble follow. The mayor tells a policeman he's getting plenty of blisters, but as the news spreads through Tangle Town, blisters get misinterpreted as blasters, plaster...
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PreS-Gr 2On Wednesday, Thelma is bored, so she decides to become queen. She announces her coronation; assembles the royal pets, including a sheep, a bear, a cat, and a duck; and hires assistants. Of course, queens need carriages and a proper castle, and with all those pets, an animal trainer. It is all quite overwhelmi...
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This is Hatchet for the post-Katrina generation, and its sure to find an audience. Booklist A harrowing tale of survival ... A page-turner that will have readers watching where they step and looking up into trees, long after the slithering and snorting end. School Library JournalA fast-paced adventure traces 13-year-ol...
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Gr 7 UpThe author taps into the anxiety, insecurity, and hurt that people experience when they think that they are giving more love than they receive. Arden Huntley's nave understanding of relationships partially comes from her mother, who taught her in word and by example that one person always takes care of the other...
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Grade 1-3Using a beautifully balanced format that combines panoramic illustrations with a storylike narrative, Cherry imagines the life cycle of a mangrove over a period of more than 100 years, from propagules (sprouting seeds) to a single tree to a tangle (a cluster of trees) to an island. As the unusual tree slowly i...
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PreSchool-Grade 1In this Australian import, some things aren't as scary as they seem. The story is told in rhyme, with mixed-media cartoon illustrations. "Six little rabbits/Down by the lake/Munching on carrots/And chocolate cake" hear a mysterious, frightening "Plop" in the water. Five of them flee the forest, and are...
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Caldecott Honor artist Peter Sis (Tibet Through the Red Box) unlocks the mystery of his native Prague with The Three Golden Keys (1994). When his wayward hot air balloon alights in the city of his youth, a young man journeys through memory-laden streets in search of the keys that will open the padlocks now bolted to hi...
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Gr 3-6Everyone has heard of Amelia Earhart, but she was not the only young woman fascinated by flight in the early 1900s. Elinor Smith began talking flying lessons in 1921 when she was only 10 years old. At 16, she was the youngest person in the U.S., man or woman, to earn a pilot's license. The climax of this picture-...
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This is a brilliant book, full of history, mystery, and laughs. It reminded me of my small-town childhood, although my small town was never as delightfully weird as Norvelt. Dave BarryA bit of autobiography works its way into all of Gantos's work, but he one-ups himself in this wildly entertaining meld of truth and fic...
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First-time kids' book author (and bona fide Iowan farm-resident) Jill Esbaum tells the homespun story of a long-suffering sister and a ne'er-do-well younger brother who visit their Granny after a big tomato harvest.Annabelle knows that she's in trouble from the moment Mama drops her and Willie off at Granny's farm: "Ma...
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PreSchool-Grade 2Collicutt's colorful book is at once an easy reader, a concept book, and a space primer. Introducing all types of rockets while comparing them as opposites, it will find many usesand many readers. Space enthusiasts will be able to manage the simple text and garner even more information from the detaile...
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Gr 5-7-Though the year 1812 rings ominously in the ears of any American history student, for Anikwa and James it is simply their 12th year, one that they expect will unfold like those that came before it. Anikwa, a member of the Miami tribe, and James, the son of traders living just outside Fort Wayne, have an easy fri...
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The narrator, a boy in a red T-shirt, jeans, and a green baseball cap, tells the story in an engaging, accessible voice . . . Drummonds ink-and-watercolor illustrations bustle with detail and activity. Some are full spreads, many are horizontal or vertical panels. An authors note explains that while Drummond was workin...
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PreSchool-Grade 1A girl's love for drumming lands her in a swamp full of crocodiles (and then helps her find a way out of it). Wilsdorf captures the verve and action of the tale in vibrant colors and broad strokes. Maybelle's orange dress and shock of bushy orange-brown hair reflects her energy as she goes drumming aro...
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In the simple language of youngsters, it conveys what it is like to share everything while at the same time realizing how comforting it is to have someone to share things with. The simple, almost impressionistic art graces the pages with bright splashes of color and pattern. SLJ Starred ReviewYum's deceptively quiet te...
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From the moment she sees it, Stella wants to capture the one-legged pigeon and make it her pet. Enlisting the reluctant help of her neighbor Gerald, she begins planning how she might catch the bird, which she has already named Harvey. Trouble is, her older brother Levi and his friends also want to get ahold of the pige...
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Gr 9 UpImmediately after graduation, Jess and her best friend, Chunk, embark on a road trip from San Jose, CA, to Chicago. Trans teen Jess has tried to fly under the radar, but now she's ready to show her true self. Where better to make her debut than a surprise appearance at her transphobic dad's wedding to her mom's ...
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"Presented in a clear and direct writing style, the story has an emotional power that is similar to that in Patricia Polacco's Pink and Say. Stark's realistic paintings are remarkable both for their artistry and their meticulous attention to historical accuracy. This book deserves a place in most collections." - School...
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Grade 3-6Intermingling excerpts from the poet's writings with her own well-written prose, Ray has created an appealing look at the people and events that both propelled Neruda toward his writing career and shaped his political ideals. She focuses primarily on two influential women: his stepmother who, raising him from ...
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PreSchool-Grade 1Colorful, large, and realistic paintings of trucks will entice readers who love big rigs. Similar in approach to Collicutt's This Car (2002), This Plane (2000), This Boat (2001), and This Train (1999, all Farrar), this book begins with a child playing with a toy bulldozer. The simple text explores a fe...
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Katherine Applegate: Your alter-ego Jackie Gantos is back! Of all his hysterical new antics in From Norvelt to Nowhere, which scene did you have the most fun writing?Jack Gantos: Thats a tough question. There are so many good scenes. There is the harpoon scene, and the pistol escapade, and the over imbibing, the creepy...
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Grade 4-7Randall Mackey, 11, has a secret: he knows who left a baby on the doorstep of a local church, but he can't tell because he wants to protect an elderly neighbor. What transpires is a battle between the white minister's wife, who wants the infant, and black Miss Frieda, who is authorized for foster care and beli...
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Yums latest resembles a photo album and follows a little girl offering up a historical tour of the house she shares with her parents, grandparents, and cat. She starts at the beginning, when her mothers parents arrived from far away with just two suitcases in hand. On one side of the spread (here and throughout the boo...
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PreSchool-Grade 2--A curious tiger swims across a river and roams the forest looking for adventure. Frightened by the cry of a small animal, he climbs a tree. A group of dhoti-garbed village men discovers him and decides to capture him. After placing a large net around the tree, they blow horns and bang drums to create...
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Gr 4-6-Set in a fantasy version of the Middle Ages and shot through with medieval-style magic, this is the story of 11-year-old Trinket, who takes to the road, accompanied by Thomas the Pig Boy, after her mother dies. She is in search of her father, a traveling storyteller who left when she was little. As she journeys,...
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...the varied images, atypical seascapes, and account of how one individual was able to realize her goal to see these wonders should spark the imaginations of countless budding scientists. ScienceNivola's mixed-media paintings are undeniably lovely, with myriad shades of blue bathing familiar and mysterious forms of se...
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...this small volume is well designed for readers who are moving up to chapter books. Booklist OnlineJane Schoenberg has crafted a lovely transition an easy-to-read chapter book with a few simple drawings. USA TodayEach story neatly encapsulates a dilemma to which most young readers will be able to relate. There are en...
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ANDREW LANE once worked for a classified department of the British government and has been an ardent Sherlock Holmes fan since the age of ten. He has written numerous spin-off novels based on the BBC sci-fi television series Doctor Who and is the author of The Bond Files: An Unofficial Guide to the World's Greatest Sec...
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The quirky crowd from Way Down Deep (2007) returns in this sweet sequel. Ruby, who mysteriously appeared as a toddler in the Appalachian town, is now 10 and still living with Miss Arbutus, who runs the boarding house. There are some new guests, including Rubys grandmother, who is learning to read; little Rita, who lost...
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Repackaged, with Weber's full-color spot illustrations to add visual interest, this should make for agreeable, alternative holiday read-aloud. Kirkus ReviewsThis new edition of a story first published in 1984 includes unobtrusive spot illustrations done in an inviting folk-art style; readers will feel as though they're...
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PreS-Gr 2Stanton is a street photographer and creator of the New York Times best seller Humans of New York (St. Martin's, 2013). That book consists of an array of photos of a spectrum of people Stanton encountered on the street, accompanied by impromptu interviews. Here, his photographic eye is once again masterly, but...
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Fuchs's (Ghost of the Southern Belle) light-dappled, impressionistic oil paintings provide a dramatic backdrop to this picture book-biography of 19th-century sharpshooter Annie Oakley. As a child, Annie helped support her impoverished Ohio farming family with her hunting skills and, at 20, outshot a professional, Frank...
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The other river creatures (frogs, dragonflies, storks, and hippos) consider Solomon a pest, nuisance, and pain. This delights Solomon until he is shooed away by the biggest hippo. He then becomes glum: Poor Solomon. No one wants to play. But soon another rowdy crocodile (possibly a sibling, if that works for your young...
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Gr 4 UpAs in his works about other restless souls who charted their courses by the stars and pondered big questions (Columbus, Galileo, Darwin), Ss's picture-book biography of the famous French aviator and author comprises multiple layers. Trim but informative sentences ground the pages where text appears ("When he was...
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Starred Review. Grade 4-8Benjamin, a Spanish Jew, left his native town of Tudela in 1159 to embark on a 14-year journey across the Middle East. His Book of Travels, written in Hebrew, recounts his grueling, often-dangerous journey through what is modern-day France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and ...
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K-Gr 3This deceptively simple and original picture book recounts an event that happened to the author's grandfather when he was four years old. In 1914, Antonio Willie Giroux lived in a logging hotel run by his mother in the forest by Gowganda Lake in Ontario. Lively and bustling, the hotel catered to travelers and out...
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HProfiling American composer Charles Ives, Gerstein (The Wild Boy) plies an artistic style as densely and consciously layered as one of Ives's compositions. The illustrations provide an instant visual connection to the music, which attempts to encompass the sounds of everyday life: Gerstein overlays his spry pen-and-wa...
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Grade 3-5English's rich descriptions and insights bring readers into the world of six inner-city third-grade students. In perceptive free-verse poems, they talk about their school day. Lamont loves school: "I can give my teacher a new flower/And we can both be happy all over again." For Tyrell, however, the experience ...
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Gr 2-4Third-grader Kelsey Green reads constantlyeven during math class. When the principal calls for a reading contest, Kelsey's obsession with books increases and her competitive spirit kicks inbut not in positive ways. First, she becomes suspicious that another student is lying about how many books he's read because ...
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PreS-Gr 1In his second semi-autobiographical picture book, Bean introduces young audiences to one family's homeschooling experience. The well-paced narrative draws clear connections between the details of a traditional school environmentwith a teacher, a cafeteria, and classroomsand a homeschool settingMom and Dad are ...
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In this engaging bit of frippery, Shulevitz takes a walk on the nonsensical side, concocting a tall tale about the inhabitants of Pickleberry. The Emperor and his twin brother, the janitor, share the kingdom with 26 and a half citizens ("The half was an invisible fellow with a big mustache whom everyone knew and who sp...
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Deborah Diesen is the New York Times bestselling author of The Pout-Pout Fish, named by Time Magazine as one of the Ten Best Childrens Books of 2008, and The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark. Diesen grew up in Midland, Michigan, and started writing poems at a young age. She has worked as a bookseller and a librarian,...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2An industrious girl in a red dress sits high above the earth on a cloud with her pet cat. She watches the world and sings while she spins thread "from trails of shooting stars, white clouds, and spiderwebs hung with dew." She uses "the colors of the morning" to dye the thread and begins to weave. As...
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A rural family and its neighbor face potential disaster as a tornado heads for their homes in this suspenseful though ultimately reassuring picture book. Natt and Lucille enjoy a sultry summer day eating Popsicles and pretending to be royalty. As they dart through the yard, a serious storm kicks up and brings them indo...
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With Walk the Dark Streets, author Edith Baer continues the story of the Bentheim family she began in A Frost in the Night. In this sequel, Baer, herself a survivor of the Holocaust, chronicles the life of Eva, a child of bourgeois Jewish parents in the fictional German town of Thalstadt during the early years of World...
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Quick--name five noteworthy children in U.S. history. If you're like most, you probably stalled after Sacagawea and Pocahontas. Young people have always gotten short shrift when it comes to the record of American history. And yet, wouldn't the study of history be far more compelling to students if they could relate to ...
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Gr. 5-8. Twelve-year-old Jamie Monaghan finds the war exciting until an incendiary bomb destroys his bedroom while he, his parents, and the neighbors are huddled in their makeshift bomb shelter. Now his parents no longer simply talk about sending him to safety away from Liverpool; his father makes arrangements for him ...
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Gr 9 UpA romantic's romance novel, this second volume in Rutkoski's saga picks up where The Winner's Curse (2013) ended. Kestrel, a member of the Valorian ruling class, is engaged and will one day rule the empire. Meanwhile, Arin, Kestrel's former slave, is the leader of the Herrani people, and his subjects are starvin...
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Hilmo creates afamily, a town and a mystery thatreaders will not soon forget...A story aboutthe meaning of home, justice and love, beautifully told. Kirkus Reviews, starred; Title: With a Name like Love
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A British team uses a train ride as a metaphor to describe the transition from waking to sleeping in this luxurious picture book. Despite the encouragement of the other passengersAdescribed in a locomotive rhythm ("teachers and jugglers, zookeepers, shopkeepers, writers and fighters, with babies in bundles and piglets ...
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PreSchool-Grade 1A spirited young girl, accompanied by her shaggy dog, describes how she plants some seeds, cares for them, and then enjoys the flowers and trees that make the "whole round world" beautiful. Each verse details a particular action and ends with a refrain that evokes the title: "I've got a little water ca...
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Nature and civilization collide in this thought-provoking picture book based on the story of a boy discovered living alone in the mountain forests of southern France in 1800. Hunters are first to see the boy scampering in the woods, where he had survived on plants and berries and the icy mountain-stream water. Captured...
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Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 1This delightful twist on the frequently explored topic of pets displaced by infants will tickle children's funny bones. The story is told from the points of view of the descriptively named Marshmallow and FudgeFudge. This doggie duo dislikes the intruder in their home, whom they refer t...
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PreSchool-Grade 2When Adle meets her younger brother after school, she cautions him not to lose anything on the way home. The children take a leisurely route, visiting friends, a street market, a park, and two museums. Predictably, Simon leaves an item (his drawing, hat, knapsack, glove) behind at each location. Set in...
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PreSchool-Grade 1–Nellie, a stray cat, wishes on a star for a warm home and good food. A crow, wanting to have some fun at her expense, gives her a ball and tells her that it is a magic star that will make her wishes come true. As Nellie wishes on the ball, it rockets away with her chasing after it. It leads her ...
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PreSchool-Grade 1A small mouse almost gets away with stealing a large platter of delicacies laid out for a party, but at the last moment a watchful cat springs into action. The whole tray overturns on top of the feline, flattening him, while the mouse scampers safely back to his hole with a big slice of Swiss cheese. I...
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As 17-year-old Kestrel comes to know Arin, the Herrani slave she purchased on a whim, she puts both herself and him at risk. Arin, 19, also finds himself falling for this daughter of the Valorian general who conquered his homeland. A Herrani uprising briefly reverses their roles of owner and slave until the Valorian em...
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A nattily clad cast of petite pioneers, with the compressed, spool-shaped bodies and outsized heads characteristic of Gerrard's work, gambols across the wry spreads of this verse adventure about an 1850 wagon trip to the West. When Buckskin Dan rides into town praising the riches of the frontier, recalls the amiable na...
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Journalist Ferreira's somewhat awkward yet timely first novel centers on 11-year-old Vusi Ngugu, who lives with his extended Zulu family in post-apartheid South Africa. His kin's subsistence lifestyle contrasts dramatically with the privileged existence of the nearby white farmers. One day, Vusi, accompanied by Gillett...
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Themes of accepting change and learning to let go are woven into this winning tale of boy and dog. School Library JournalSturdily conveyed, the lessons are telegraphed on each pageit stand out are the deftly folded-in gun lessons and easy acceptance of the way of life they accompany. Kirkus ReviewsCynthia DeFelice is t...
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PreS-Gr 1Elephant is worried. It shows in his eyes. He has accidentally sucked up all the words in Gracie's favorite book. When he presents the blank-paged book to his friends, they don't know what to do. Instead of making words, Seal spins the letters around his nose, Monkey throws them around, and Alligator eats them...
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