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15,600 | 2 | Eve Bunting has writtenover two hundredbooks for children, including the Caldecott Medal-winning Smoky Night, illustrated by David Diaz, The Wall, Fly Away Home, and Train to Somewhere. She lives in Southern California.; Title: A Day's Work | [
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15,601 | 11 | Allen Say was born in Yokohama, Japan, in 1937. He dreamed of becoming a cartoonist from the age of six, and, at age twelve, apprenticed himself to his favorite cartoonist, Noro Shinpei. For the next four years, Say learned to draw and paint under the direction of Noro, who has remained Say's mentor. Say illustrated hi... | [
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15,602 | 13 | This innovative picture book/chapter book hybrid vividly brings to life the childhood of noted American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820). The youngest of 10 children in a Quaker family, Benjamin becomes inspired at the age of seven and draws pictures every chance he gets. When quill and paper aren't enough, a Native A... | [
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15,603 | 12 | Phonics in Action; Title: Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Hardcover Student Edition Continous Stroke Level 3 1998 | [
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15,604 | 1 | PreSchool-K. This companion to the author's Do Pigs Have Stripes? (Houghton, 1996) presents a series of questions and answers. Children will catch on quickly to the silliness of the inquiries ("Do horses bark?") and will easily guess the responses ("No, dogs do") when the page is turned. The comfortingly predictable fo... | [
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15,605 | 12 | Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Hardcover Student Edition Level 4 1998; Title: Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Hardcover Student Edition Level 4 1998 | [
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15,606 | 12 | Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Softcover Student Edition Continous Stroke Level 1 1998; Title: Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary: Student Book (consumable/continuous stroke) Grade 1 1998 | [
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15,607 | 0 | Author and illustrator Calef Brown is a blue elephant, we're told on the back flap of the book, and we half-believe it, judging from this exuberant, unforgettable collection of 14 ultra-hip rhyming stories about everything from sleeping fruit to a funky--and we mean funky--snowman. In comical folk-art paintings, bathed... | [
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15,608 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3APart legend, part history, this original tale evokes the early Polynesian explorers' finding and settling of the Hawaiian Islands. Four brothers, each of whom has a special love and skill, set out on an adventure to find the island below a star they see in the northern sky (Arcturus). Traveling in ... | [
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15,609 | 13 | Precision and poetry characterize this singular volume, which introduces the hand tools in a wood- and metal-working shop as the builders construct a carousel. Each spread presents one implement, from Ruler to Chisel to Saw, along with a haiku-like description: "Hammer is a hitter, a beater, a pounder, a nailer./ Hamme... | [
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15,610 | 16 | PreSchool-K?The African-American family from Falwell's Feast for 10 (Clarion, 1993) returns in this seasonal counting book. From "1 star for the top of the Christmas tree" to "10 hands string the popcorn chains," the children and adults join together to prepare for the celebration. They then repeat the numbers from "1 ... | [
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15,611 | 12 | Used like new; Title: Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary, Level 2 | [
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15,612 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 2AOne evening, Sedrick Van Pelt hears a tapping on his study window and discovers an enormous red bird peering in at him. Fleeing in fear, Sedrick stumbles and falls, but the giant creature poses no immediate threat. A visitor from another planet, Feathers loves bread of any kind. In time, however, t... | [
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15,613 | 16 | PreSchool-Grade 2. In spare, poetic prose, Fletcher describes the twilight of mornings and evenings, those two brief times of day that often seem to have magical qualities. He personifies dawn and dusk and uses images and metaphors to evoke their special qualities and events. The full- and double-paged oil paintings de... | [
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15,614 | 15 | Most children are captivated by snow, but how many go on to make it their lifework? This beautiful biography, winner of the 1999 Caldecott Medal, tells the true story of a Vermont farm boy who was mesmerized by snowflakes. Wilson Bentley was fascinated by the six-sided frozen phenomena, and once he acquired a microscop... | [
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15,615 | 2 | Resentful of her new stepmother, Laura clings to a family heirloom, a "memory string" of buttons taken from special garments. As her father and her stepmother, Jane, paint the porch, Laura sits apart and fingers each button, loudly telling her cat about her great-grandmother's first "grown-up dress," her father's Gulf ... | [
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15,616 | 16 | Ages 5^-8. In this original picture book, Anna's eating a bowl of alphabet cereal when she discovers that the letters in her spoon can rearrange themselves to spell two different words. Anna becomes a "word wizard," making the changes happen at will. When she finds a little lost boy, she adds an m and turns his tears i... | [
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15,617 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 1. Bearsie Bear isn't in his warm bed very long when he hears a knock on the door. The cold evening brings Moosie Moose asking for a warm place to sleep. As soon as those two get settled, Cowsie Cow comes knocking, also looking for shelter. She is followed by Piggie Pig, Foxie Fox, and Goosie Goose. Por... | [
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15,618 | 2 | Gr. 5^-8. When his grandmother suddenly dies, 13-year-old Gordy and his younger sister must move from Grandville back to College Hill to live with their older brother's family. Under his grandmother's steady influence, Gordy had turned his life around, but he soon finds trouble in his old town. Friends egg him into a n... | [
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15,619 | 12 | The revised, 21st-century edition of The American Heritage Children's Dictionary, designed for ages 8 and older, doesn't contain the words "plethora," "treacle," "metaphor," or "reciprocal." What use is it, then? you may ask yourself, but that's a question that many kids could answer for you. The letters are large enou... | [
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15,620 | 2 | Like all best friends, George and Martha do everything together--go to the movies, play at the beach, and just hang around not doing much of anything. No matter that they happen to be gigantic hippopotami, they learn the same lessons humans do about the ups and downs of true friendship. George and Martha teach each oth... | [
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15,621 | 0 | Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco s effort to keep the city s cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spiri... | [
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15,622 | 2 | Grade 4-8-Fletcher follows members of a sixth-grade class through a day when their substitute teacher never shows. The students decide not to report that they are alone and to run the class by themselves. Personal issues are woven into the day's events. Rachel has been mute since a classmate who had an annoying, unrequ... | [
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15,623 | 12 | Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Hardcover Student Edition Level 5 1998; Title: Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Hardcover Student Edition Level 5 1998 | [
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15,624 | 0 | Lester's (Imagine; Yikes!) winsome art is the cornerstone of this alphabet cum story book, an Australian import. Readers follow Alice and her stuffed horse Aldo from the time they "awake" to "breakfast in bed," until they "visit the vegetables" and?as bedtime approaches?"yawn in their yogurt" and "sleep all night long"... | [
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15,625 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 5ALarge watercolor and black-ink drawings illustrate the life cycle of the American bald eagle. The dramatic but straightforward text begins with the first of two eagle eggs hatching and follows the development of both nestlings until they are able to feed themselves, fly, and undertake winter migrat... | [
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15,626 | 0 | Hahn (Stepping on the Cracks) mines her mother's reminiscences of growing up in Baltimore before WWI to create this nostalgic chapter book. Though set in a bygone era of gas street lamps and horse-drawn delivery carts, these episodes in the year Anna turns nine have timeless themes. Anna's efforts to eavesdrop are thwa... | [
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15,627 | 0 | Library Binding. Inside Front Cover has "This Book is the Property of" student issue stamp.; Title: Holt McDougal Library, Middle School with Connections: Individual Reader Island of the Blue Dolphins 1998 | [
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15,628 | 15 | George and Kiesler (The Great Frog Race and Other Poems) team up for another close look at the natural world with poetry that invites readers to meditate on trees. This time the visual delights described in George's poems slightly outshine the illustrations. The best of Kiesler's oil paintings are breathtaking: a trio ... | [
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15,629 | 5 | Kindergarten-Grade 3. Jones has expanded an Aesop's fable into an adventure. Mouse's first foray out of the hold of the sailing ship where he lives with his family leads to a disastrous encounter with a cat and a plunge into the sea. Washed up on an island, he escapes from one dangerous animal after another until he is... | [
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15,630 | 0 | Fans of Cushman's previous medieval novels (Catherine, Called Birdy; The Midwife's Apprentice) may be disappointed with this historical adventure set in "Blood and Bone Alley" in the town of Chipping Bagthorpe. Unlike Catherine and Brat, heroines whose combination of rebelliousness and resourcefulness made them instant... | [
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15,631 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 2-An ordinary employee might begin looking for other employment when she hears her boss talking about a drop in business and a possible layoff, but Pinky Pig is no ordinary wage earner. She works after school to earn money to buy a new clarinet, and she's not about to give up her job easily. Realizing t... | [
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15,632 | 2 | In this stylized primer, characterized by an old-fashioned coziness, the Hassetts (Charles of the Wild) tally no fewer than 40 felines and sum up with a gentle sting. The kitty quantifying begins when elderly Nana Quimby spies a single black-and-white cat atop a leafy, lichen-green tree. Nana calls the firehouse for as... | [
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15,633 | 2 | "A quiet but powerful novel that will provoke thoughtful introspection." -- ReviewMarjorie Cowley has taught prehistoric archaeology to students of all ages, but now devotes her time to writing for young people. For Clarion, she has written Dar and the Spear-Thrower, about a boy living during the Ice Age. Ms. Cowley li... | [
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15,634 | 2 | A group of school children respond to the illness and death of the narrator's best friend, Rudi, by helping to build a pond in his memory. Based on a true story. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: Rudi's Pond | [
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15,635 | 2 | Pamela Zagarenski is the winner of two Caldecott Honors. The books she has illustrated have also been Booklist Editor's Choices, Horn Book Fanfare and Bulletin Blue Ribbon books, winners of Bank Street's Claudia Lewis Award, and translated into many languages. As well as illustrating picture books, she creates ... | [
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15,636 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 3. As he did in Stranger in the Mirror (Houghton, 1995), Say uses a glimpsed reflection to probe the ramifications of recognition. In the earlier title, the subject was aging; here, Say turns to adoption. When readers first encounter Allison, she is opening a package containing a red kimono just like th... | [
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15,637 | 11 | Covering more historical ground than in her lauded photo-essay Growing Up in Coal Country, Bartoletti highlights the roles that children and young adults played in American labor strikes during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bartoletti has a gift for collecting stories with telling details; her dense but highly rea... | [
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15,638 | 1 | First published nearly 40 years ago, Zolotow's ingenuous paean to spring, a time "when everything lovely begins once again," indeed feels reborn with Craig's (Angelina Ballerina) winsome illustrations. Combining full-page spreads with smaller panels and spots, her ink, watercolor and colored-pencil art draws from a sum... | [
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15,639 | 15 | Root (Aunt Nancy and Cousin Lazybones), no stranger to folktales, takes her inspiration for the title character from a German fairy tale figure, Mother Holle. Beginning in the spring, this wisp of a tale traces the heroine and her "snow-white flock" of geese through the four seasons. The prose gently foreshadows the cl... | [
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15,640 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 1?The frog family depicted in Time for Bed, the Babysitter Said (1987) and To the Tub (1997, both Houghton) is back. This time little Joe's long-suffering parents attempt to take him to a fancy restaurant for lunch. The irrepressible preschooler is in constant motion despite the repeated refrain, "We're... | [
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15,641 | 12 | Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Softcover Student Edition Continous Stroke Level 3 1998 [paperback] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN [Jan 24, 1998]; Title: Houghton Mifflin Spelling: Softcover Student Edition Continous Stroke Level 3 1998 | [
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15,642 | 11 | READING AND VOLCABULARY STRATEGIES; LESSONS; SKILL WORKSHOPS; GEOGRAPHY ACTIVITIES;; Title: Build Our Nation: Workbook for Reading and Review | [
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15,643 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-The illustrator of Margie Palatini's Piggie Pie! (Clarion, 1995) again struts his imaginative stuff with a mishmash of fiends ranging from a blue-jeaned cyclops with lobster claws to an alligator in a green fright wig. The narrator relays in rhyme the reasons and methods for dispensing with these p... | [
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15,644 | 1 | Grade 3-5-Begun in 1925, this fantasy was roughly finished later, but set aside in favor of sequels to The Hobbit. Here, at last, two Tolkien scholars present it, with five illustrations by the author sandwiched between a long, minutely detailed introduction and padded but sometimes illuminating endnotes. Changed from ... | [
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15,645 | 15 | Fans of Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure may wish that Brown had likewise dedicated this picture book to the singular ride that made history for his subject. Instead, the author's informal chronicle of astronaut Armstrong's life focuses primarily on his childhood, then skips ahead to his milestone flight in the final spr... | [
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15,646 | 0 | Like most of this season's Hanukkah offerings, Howland's (ABCDrive!) uses the holiday as flavoring rather than the principal ingredient. Her agreeable outing combines a classic fairy tale plot with a shtetl setting and a touch of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. A girl does a kind deed for an old woman, who gives her a magic... | [
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15,647 | 16 | Kindergarten-Grade 2?As in his Biggest, Strongest, Fastest (Ticknor & Fields, 1995), Jenkins once again uses striking colorful paper collage illustrations to explore a topic. Here, he delves into the greatly varied marvels of the world, presenting the highest mountain, the hottest spot, the wettest place, the most ... | [
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15,648 | 16 | "A is an alligator with its mouth wide open, B is a big blue bird, C is a crab with two clamping claws...." You get the idea. It's never too early to get your babies chewing on books and ruminating on the alphabet, and children of all ages enjoy the company of H.A. Rey's intrepid monkey, Curious George. In this board b... | [
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15,649 | 2 | In their appealing first book, the authors offer a smooth retelling of an Ojibwe tale, weaving a number of melodic foreign words into their narrative. At the center of the legend, which explains the origin of the ma-ki-sin waa-big-waan, or lady slipper flower, is a courageous girl who braves a fierce snowstorm to cure ... | [
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15,650 | 2 | Say's masterfully executed watercolors tell as much of this story about a young woman's challenging transition from America to Japan as his eloquent, economical prose. Raised near San Francisco, Masako (her American friends called her May) is uprooted after high school when her parents return to their Japanese homeland... | [
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15,651 | 2 | First novelist Eboch accomplishes quite a feat here: he manages to make the bloodletting rituals and human sacrifice practices of the Mayans the central point of this novel, yet creates a character readers will care deeply about: Eveningstar Macaw. Eveningstar, a resourceful and spunky girl, lives in a lavish city of g... | [
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15,652 | 1 | Hans Augusto Rey was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1898. As a child, he spent much of his free time in that city's famous Hagenbeck Zoo drawing animals. After serving in the army during World War I, he studied philology and natural science at the University of Hamburg. He then married Margret Rey and they moved to Montma... | [
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15,653 | 5 | The team behind Good Night, Dinosaurs here grants a happy ending to the tale of a heroine whose search for a mate traditionally ends with his death. In Sierra's comical version, a beguiling butterfly tests her suitors by asking them to sing. She listens patiently as the cricket "clicks," the frog "croo-ahs," and with a... | [
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15,654 | 2 | In this fourth book of Meddaugh's Martha series, the mild-mannered pooch who derives the power of speech from alphabet soup takes herself for a stroll. When someone calls her a "good dog," she ingenuously replies, "What other kind of dog is there?" She soon has her answer when she meets Bob, a hulking, bearlike mutt wh... | [
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15,655 | 18 | Collard (Animal Dads) sets the clock back 1000 years as he looks at a dozen civilizations at the turn of the last millennium. One spread is devoted to each of the locales, which include central and southern Europe, where people suffered from a lack of formal education and strong central government; the Middle East and ... | [
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15,656 | 13 | Christelow escorts readers behind the scenes for a fascinating peek at the creative process in this companion to What Do Authors Do? Here she tracks the efforts of two fictitious artists, showing their different approaches to illustrating the same story ("Jack and the Beanstalk" serves as the example). Christelow funne... | [
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15,657 | 2 | Grade 3-7-A pictorial history of the one-room schoolhouse in the United States. Bial briefly discusses the emergence of public education in Massachusetts in 1647, and notes that the demands of rural life had an impact on the form of education on the frontier and led to the development of this type of facility throughou... | [
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15,658 | 11 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-When a city street undergoes gentrification, its elegant residents are disdainful of unfashionable Mr. Crockett, who moves in and cleans up the smallest, least-desirable brownstone on the block. They don't approve of him washing windows; they don't approve of him planting a spindly little pine tree... | [
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15,659 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 3AThis familiar and amusing tale reads just as well in Spanish as it does in English. Class 207 just won't behave. Although Miss Nelson asks her studentsArather sweetlyAto be good, they refuse to listen. They'd rather shoot spitballs and fly paper airplanes. Then, one day, a substitute dressed all in bl... | [
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15,660 | 2 | Toestomper is the kind of big, ugly bully kids run and hide from, and his lowlife friends, the Rowdy Ruffians, are no better. So what happens when a bunch of darling baby caterpillars start following Toestomper around asking for help?Finding their big-eyed pleas almost impossible to resist, Toestomper is captivated by ... | [
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15,661 | 2 | Hans Augusto Rey was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1898. As a child, he spent much of his free time in that city's famous Hagenbeck Zoo drawing animals. After serving in the army during World War I, he married Margret Rey and they moved to Montmartre for four years. The manuscript for the first Curious George books w... | [
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15,662 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 1-These two books take a familiar, favorite character and create an imitation of his curiosity, but without the Reys' usual spark and attention to detail. In Hot Air Balloon, George is playing with an anchor rope and the balloon takes off with him aboard. It blows quite close to the nose of George Washi... | [
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15,663 | 1 | Grade 4-6-Arnold's readable, informative book, which looks at a giant marine predator that cruised the Miocene and Pliocene seas for millions of years, will grab shark lovers and dinophiles alike. Though no complete megalodon skeleton has been discovered to date, the author has compiled the data from numerous partial f... | [
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15,664 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 1-These two books take a familiar, favorite character and create an imitation of his curiosity, but without the Reys' usual spark and attention to detail. In Hot Air Balloon, George is playing with an anchor rope and the balloon takes off with him aboard. It blows quite close to the nose of George Washi... | [
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15,665 | 5 | Norwegian-born storyteller Lunge-Larsen scoured her homeland's literary landscape for this stellar collection of nine troll tales, many of which will be unfamiliar to American children. Ugly, greedy, fierce and dimwitted, trolls provide admirable subject matter, and Lunge-Larsen spins her stories with enthusiasm. The o... | [
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15,666 | 18 | Kimmel's compelling account presents the arresting tale of Sir Ernest Shackleton's doomed 1914 expedition to traverse the continent of Antarctica, for a slightly younger audience than Jennifer Armstrong's Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World (Children's Forecasts, Jan. 25). Kimmel's chronicle contains considerably fewe... | [
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15,667 | 2 | This first novel set in 17th-century Korea centers on 12-year-old Jade Blossom, daughter of one of the king's advisers. With all the temerity of a 1990s girl, Jade plays tricks on her brother (with the help of her cousin Willow), and her yearning to see the world outside of her family's walled household ultimately lead... | [
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15,668 | 2 | Grade 2-5-Fans of Louis Sachar's "Marvin Redpost" books (Random) or Suzy Kline's "Orp" series (Putnam) will tap into Lewis's sense of humor. Third-grader Morgy MacDougal-MacDuff has just moved with his family from California to Puckett Corner, MA. He has difficulty understanding his classmates' accents and regionalisms... | [
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15,669 | 1 | Hans and Margret Rey created many books during their lives together, includingCurious George, one of the most treasured classics of all time, as well as other favorites likeSpottyandPretzel.But it was their rambunctious little monkey who became an instantly recognizable icon. After the Reys escaped Paris by bicycle in ... | [
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15,670 | 1 | Grade 4-7-Field guides that offer tips on identification. Backyard Birds features types "...you are likely to see where you live"; Birds of Prey, the "...swift and often silent hunters..."; Bizarre Birds, North American birds with a unique characteristic; and Shorebirds that can be found "...near the bodies of fresh wa... | [
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15,671 | 15 | As they did in Prairie Town, the Geiserts explore the changing rhythms of a community throughout the year in written and visual detail, and the results are fascinating. During the fall harvest, trucks, trains and barges carry the town's goods around the world. But come Halloween, the residents are ready to take a break... | [
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15,672 | 1 | Grade 4-7-Field guides that offer tips on identification. Backyard Birds features types "...you are likely to see where you live"; Birds of Prey, the "...swift and often silent hunters..."; Bizarre Birds, North American birds with a unique characteristic; and Shorebirds that can be found "...near the bodies of fresh wa... | [
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15,673 | 15 | By the light of the final full moon of autumn, Possum kicks off a celebration with his friends. PW called it "a merry illumination of the moon-glowing, green-growing, bug-buzzing profusion of a seasonal last hurrah." Ages 4-8. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc."Hunter's enchanting debut combines bewitching ... | [
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15,674 | 11 | Invited to Antarctica in 1996 to study Ad?lie penguins, biologist and artist Webb (illustrator for A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America) returned with the makings of this intriguing if sometimes verbose journal. Peppered with piquant watercolor, gouache and graphite illustrations, the diary entri... | [
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15,675 | 1 | Hans Augusto Rey was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1898. As a child, he spent much of his free time in that city's famous Hagenbeck Zoo drawing animals. After serving in the army during World War I, he studied philology and natural science at the University of Hamburg. He then married Margret Rey and they moved to Montma... | [
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15,676 | 2 | "Myers handles typical childhood issues with a humorous touch, and her characters are believably drawn. This first chapter book will appeal to readers looking for funny books or stories involving animals." Booklist, ALA"A short, enjoyable story about friendship and school problems. Lisa gets into trouble on her first d... | [
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15,677 | 18 | Grade 4-8-This competent and attractive title presents a unique approach to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which is receiving much publishing attention as its bicentennial approaches. Patent encapsulates the journey of the Corps of Discovery while focusing on the major wildlife species that the voyagers encountered. T... | [
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15,678 | 2 | Grade 4-8-In the late 19th century, government-supported boarding schools were created to educate and assimilate Native American children into the overriding white culture. Cooper examines the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, one of the best known of the boarding schools, and some of its former students. The fou... | [
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15,679 | 2 | As he did in Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure, Brown once again salutes a spunky heroine who made history, this time focusing on Mary Anning's archeological finds and their relevance to prehistoric research. He drives home the point that 200 years after her birth in 1799, Mary Anning and her contributions continue to inf... | [
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15,680 | 1 | Grade 4-7-Field guides that offer tips on identification. Backyard Birds features types "...you are likely to see where you live"; Birds of Prey, the "...swift and often silent hunters..."; Bizarre Birds, North American birds with a unique characteristic; and Shorebirds that can be found "...near the bodies of fresh wa... | [
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15,681 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-Newcomers as well as fans of Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog (1995) and Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat (1997, both Houghton) will be pleased with the fast-paced adventures in this beginning chapter book. A trip to "The Vet," the mistaken identity of "The Strange Rock" (really a turtl... | [
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15,682 | 2 | Ages 5-9. Like La Mariposa (1999), this picture book in both English and Spanish tells one story from Jimenez's award-winning autobiographical collection, The Circuit: Sto ries from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997). The boy Panchito dreams of getting a red ball for Christmas; but there's no work and no money for pres... | [
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15,683 | 1 | The five little monkeys and their mama have had it with their "rickety, rattletrap wreck of a car." It's time to sell this old heap. Mama makes a "For Sale" sign and goes inside. But her ever-helpful children worry that the car is too icky, sticky, and slimy, and take matters into their own industrious hands. "I know!"... | [
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15,684 | 1 | Hans Augusto Rey was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1898. As a child, he spent much of his free time in that city's famous Hagenbeck Zoo drawing animals. After serving in the army during World War I, he studied philology and natural science at the University of Hamburg. He then married Margret Rey and they moved to Montma... | [
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15,685 | 12 | Literature book for junior high students. Includes lessons in literature and English.; Title: McDougal Littell Language of Literature: Student Edition Grade 6 2001 | [
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15,686 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2-Well written, with very attractive color drawings and endpapers, these introductions give brief descriptions of the physical features and behavior of each animal. Their small size and informative content will make them useful for nature field trips with young children. Both titles contain 10 double-pa... | [
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15,687 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 3-A shy rat who can't pronounce his r's rises to the occasion and outsmarts a new student who terrorizes the classroom. An ego booster for any child who has ever been bullied or teased, with illustrations that exude charm and personality. (May) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.The team resp... | [
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15,688 | 13 | As the introduction explains, the watercolor paintings that accompany this special edition of the very first Curious George story made their way out of Paris on the back of Hans Rey's bicycle, as he and his wife, Margaret, narrowly escaped the German occupation. By way of Spain and Brazil, Rey and his work came to the ... | [
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15,689 | 2 | PreSchool-K-This classic lullaby, thought to have originated during slavery in the American South, is carefully illustrated with one double-page spread for each line. The pictures are rendered in pastels and are dominated by rich hues of the blues, purples, and yellows found in evening skies. Mother, the source of life... | [
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15,690 | 10 | Grade 2-6-A windfall of facts about Everest and the daring mountaineers who have attempted to reach its summit. Breathtaking cut-paper collages capture the dramatic vistas and the frightening realities of high-altitude climbs. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.Gr. 3^-5. The author-artist who gave us Biggest... | [
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15,691 | 2 | Grade 5-8-An outstanding collective biography of women and girls who changed the world with their inventions. Thimmesh surveys unique and creative ideas that were both borne of necessity or were simply a product of ingenuity and hard work. Included are Bette Nesmith Graham, who invented Liquid Paper, known more commonl... | [
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15,692 | 11 | As in their Mountain Town, River Town and Prairie Town, Bonnie and Arthur Geisert explore yet another unique community in Desert Town. Timeless Saturday night gatherings and folks swapping stories at the local (air-conditioned) grocery store share space with panoramic spreads of storefronts along the railroad in the Ge... | [
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15,693 | 2 | The team behind So Far from the Sea adds a layer of interest to this tale of a boy's ambivalence toward the arrival of a new sibling a baby adopted from Korea. "I can hardly wait," David's mother says, when the family receives news of Jin Woo's impending arrival. David is not so eager: "I can wait. I could wait longer.... | [
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15,694 | 11 | Grade 1-3-A rural town nestled in the Rockies receives the same treatment that the Geiserts accorded to two previous locales in Prairie Town (1998) and River Town (1999, both Houghton). From the first snowfall through a calendar year and back to winter again, careful observers can follow small-town life through both an... | [
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15,695 | 11 | Most of the people you will meet in this book lived long ago in places that may seem very different to you now. But they all had feelings just like yours and faced many of the same challenges you will face in your life. And whether they were great leaders or ordinary people, their decisions and actions helped shape Cal... | [
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15,696 | 13 | PreSchool-K-Two stories with broad appeal presented in an oversized book. Both texts have delightful rhythm and cadence and beg to be read aloud or chanted. In "Mr. Lion's Marching Band," an array of animals strut in bright red uniforms with matching caps and gold epaulets. Each musician's stance suggests movement in h... | [
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15,697 | 1 | Bennett Gibbons is a very fortunate calf. His parents are prominent members of their herd and noted socialites. They live in a beautiful apartment and give Bennett everything he could want. Indeed, young Bennett is the luckiest little calf in the neighborhood. Problem is, he's the only little calf in the neighborhood. ... | [
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15,698 | 13 | HInformed and lively, Koscielniak's (Hear, Hear, Mr. Shakespeare) fact-filled excursion through music history is just the ticket for budding musicians and music-lovers at large. Deceptively breezy prose and pictures trace the various eras in the development of the modern orchestra, starting with the instrumental groups... | [
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15,699 | 0 | PreSchool-Grade 2?Elephants swim gracefully, holding their trunks out of the water as snorkels. But what do other animals do? Sixteen wonderfully diverse animals, each with its own way of dealing with water, plunge, paddle, and propel themselves across the double-page spreads. Richly textured, full-color paper collages... | [
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