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16,100 | 2 | Grade 1-5Where's the angels? Where's the love? This is the haunting refrain underscoring this fictional account based on a newspaper story about an old man who found a newborn in a Los Angeles Dumpster. Johnston's lyrical, free-verse narrative describes how Joseph, an African American, hears a whimper frail as life and... | [
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16,101 | 13 | Grade 1-4-Mirette and Bellini are stateside in this adventure. Readers meet the duo on deck of the SS Magnifique bound for New York, where the famous wire walkers intend to cross Niagara Falls. On board, they befriend a Polish orphan who is traveling in steerage. Upon their arrival at Ellis Island, Bellini and Mirette ... | [
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16,102 | 11 | Berger (Grandfather Twilight) offers a pretty but vacuous riff on the originally satirical question "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" by positing dreamy worlds within worlds of tiny, pin-dwelling angels. Her story opens with the question, "What if there was a city on a pin?"; the accompanying art shows ... | [
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16,103 | 13 | Thriller-writer Duncan, whose picture book I Walk at Night described a cat's nocturnal prowlings, raises a few hairs (not too many) in this high-spirited circus romp. Cartwheeling along to a familiar rhythm, hyperbolic verses introduce a trapeze artist and strongman, a little clown named Bop and his petite friend Gisse... | [
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16,104 | 18 | Chronicling the daring wartime activities of a Dutch friend and neighbor, Talbott (We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story) overcomes a mildly strained narrative by virtue of his freshly conceived and powerfully rendered paintings. The story itself commands attention. Jaap Penraat is barely out of his teens when the Nazis invad... | [
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16,105 | 11 | Soto (Too Many Tamales; Baseball in April) sizes up the eponymous adage just right in this picture-book peek at a large Mexican-American family. As the youngest son in a household of growing kids, Rigo often gets stuck wearing frayed and ill-fitting hand-me-downs. So he's especially thrilled to receive a pair of brand-... | [
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16,106 | 0 | With her typically light touch, Fritz (You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?) presents a brief and colorful biography of the aristocratic young Frenchman who played an integral role in the American Revolution. Bored with the leisurely life of a court nobleman and longing for glory, the 19-year-old marquis defied not ... | [
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16,107 | 13 | "Trains are trips. And trips are adventures. And adventures are new ideas and romance and you can't ever know what in the world will happen which is exactly why you are going." This is precisely the species of serendipity that bounces and leaps through the pages of Maira Kalman's picture book Next Stop Grand Central, a... | [
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16,108 | 0 | In this retelling of a Tibetan parable, Berger (Grandfather Twilight) features two people on their way to the holy city of Lhasa. An old woman sitting alongside the road to Lhasa (dressed in burgundy and yellow, the holy colors) tells an impatient man on a speedy horse who asks how far it is to Lhasa, "Very far.... You... | [
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16,109 | 2 | Gr 5-8-Eleven-year-old Jaynell Lambert often slips into the junkyard beside her house and sits behind the wheel of a salvaged car, "driving" herself wherever her imagination will take her. It is the summer of 1968 in a desolate Texas town, and her recently widowed grandfather has left his homestead to move into the Lam... | [
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16,110 | 5 | Spirin's (The Sea King's Daughter) breathtaking illustrations for this retelling are so engrossing that readers may notice the fluidity of the text almost as an afterthought. His watercolor and tempera paintings have a hazy yet magisterially detailed look that seems to jump straight out of fairyland. The style in place... | [
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16,111 | 14 | PreSchool-Grade 1-Kirk uses the familiar bouncy rhymes of "Humpty Dumpty" to spin out a tale of an unlikely friendship. When young Humpty's mother reluctantly agrees to let him go to King Moe's birthday parade ("but be careful, OK?/I don't want my egg getting/scrambled today!"), the excited little egg climbs up on his ... | [
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16,112 | 1 | Grade 24Johnnie tells of his first bear-hunting expedition in the Alaskan Wilderness with his dad and their "knowledgeable" dog, Swift. On the third day of their trip, a grizzly crashes out of the woods and attacks them. When Johnnie's father shoots and misses the bear and instead breaks his leg, he tells his son to ta... | [
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16,113 | 0 | Hispanic holiday customs take center stage in this exquisitely wrought story. Lupe and Roberto are to play Mary and Joseph in the Christmas pageant in their village outside Santa Fe, but their truck gives out in a snowstorm. A mysterious couple steps in at the last minute to take their places. DePaola's talent for craf... | [
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16,114 | 5 | Gr. 7-10. Barron brings his Lost Years of Merlin saga to a resounding, satisfying close with this fifth volume. Although Merlin's mastery of his powers continues to grow, he now faces a particularly daunting challenge: Fincayra and the Otherworld will soon come together and Rhita Gawr, warlord of the spirit world, and ... | [
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16,115 | 13 | Moss's (Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin) occasionally strained yet spirited rhyming narrative introduces 10 youngsters, most with alliterative monikers (Belinda Blore, Calvin Crum, Mel Mackelroy, etc.), who aspire to play different instruments. Practicing at their open windows in neighboring houses, the kids create quite the c... | [
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16,116 | 0 | Verla Kay employs the format she used to such strong effect in Gold Fever and Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails to describe the journey to the New World in Tattered Sails. Dan Andreason's dimly lit illustrations depict the land they're leaving and the ship's hold, as well as the home awaiting them: "One room cabin,/ Rush be... | [
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16,117 | 2 | Grade 4 Up?Carle shares a bit of himself in this collection of vignettes. In his words, "The stories...from various places and times...have three things in common: animals or insects, friends or relatives, and me." Nineteen short stories, each no more than three pages and sparsely illustrated by the author, allow reade... | [
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16,118 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 2--After a bath, "Scuba bunnies/Long to see/What's beneath/The deep blue sea." Donning wet suits and snorkels, the rabbits dive into a gentle, imaginative adventure. "Across the waves upon the tide," they encounter sharks, dolphins, whales, otters, and a sunken pirate ship. Upon their safe return home, ... | [
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16,119 | 0 | First published in the U.S. in 1994, They Followed a Bright Star, based on a poem by Spanish poet Joan Alavedra, illus. by Ulises Wensell, returns to print. This lyrical, radiantly illustrated story tells of those like the fisherman and plowman who, less dramatically but no less powerfully than the shepherds, served Je... | [
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16,120 | 2 | PreSchool-KA stuffed penguin that has been a child's constant companion since infancy tells this cozy story. When new toys appear at Danny's birthday party and threaten Pangoo's status, he runs away to find a new home. First, he heads for the penguins at the Central Park Zoo. Once there, though, he sees that he doesn't... | [
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16,121 | 2 | Grade 2-5–When Ming arrives in San Francisco from China, he is met at the dock by his older brother Shek, a character first introduced in Coolies (Philomel, 2001). Disappointed that Brother Wong isn't there as well, Ming discovers that times aren't good, and that Wong is again working for the railroad. Shek is ru... | [
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16,122 | 1 | The grass may be greener in the country, and the carpets softer in the city, but--as the two amiable mouse couples in Brett's rich interpretation of the timeless fable finally resolve--"There's no place like home." Brett's ( The Mitten ; Trouble with Trolls ) version of how they arrive at their wise conclusion serves u... | [
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16,123 | 0 | The creators of Livingstone Mouse and Warthogs in the Kitchen travel back to 1773, when King George III's export tax on tea precipitated the Boston Tea Party. Ably targeting her audience, Edwards pares down the historical data. The narrative unspools in a singsong imitation of "The House That Jack Built," which plays u... | [
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16,124 | 11 | Henny doesn't know what to do. Every morning the irksome gnomelike Tomten steals her egg and takes it home to cook in his kettle and gobble up for breakfast. But when she sees Goosey-Goosey sailing by with a gaggle of goslings, Henny is suddenly galvanized to do something. Will she never have chicks of her own? She con... | [
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16,125 | 15 | Kindergarten-Grade 2–All is peaceful in Cactus Canyon until a gang of coyotes brings trouble. "Ornery and full of mischief," the creatures terrorize the cottontail, cactus wren, quail, and antelope squirrel. When they're unsuccessful in capturing any of their prey, they turn on one another and start to brawl unti... | [
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16,126 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2-This prolific author and illustrator has once again produced a small treasure. A young armadillo digs his burrow in an orange grove, pleased that its entrance will be clearly marked by a big, bright fruit that has fallen to the ground. He goes out on grub-hunting forays every day, either ignoring his ... | [
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16,127 | 2 | Eric Carle first published The Very Hungry Caterpillar in 1969, fully intending to create a series of interactive creature books for children. The beloved busy spider, quiet cricket, and lonely firefly books followed, but the artist's quest was not truly complete until The Very Clumsy Click Beetle was born. Carle, who ... | [
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16,128 | 11 | Tired of books about the presidency that present themselves as history books? Author Judith St. George--along with Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator David Small--has created a book about the presidency that's serious fun. The basic theme is that anyone can be president: a fat man (William Howard Taft) or a tiny man (... | [
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16,129 | 1 | Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 2... | [
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16,130 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 3--The African elephant, the blue-tongued skink, and the zebra butterfly are among the numerous creatures whose different traits are revealed by their popular names. This simple survey begins with the proposition that there's much to discover in an animal's name. Many possibilities are posed in singl... | [
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16,131 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3–When José sees Rosita, he can hardly wait to ask her for una cita, but the bonita girl requires her vaquero to have mucho dinero. So, with the help of his horse, Feo, José enters the rodeo hoping to win the necessary funds. After a successful ride on a dangerous bronco, he is ri... | [
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16,132 | 2 | Grade 1-3--Gracie has always had a special relationship with her Aunt Roo, who is mentally challenged, and the two spend endless hours playing together. However, as Gracie grows up, goes to school, and makes new friends, she is forced to recognize that her aunt is different from other grown-ups. When a new friend comes... | [
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16,133 | 2 | In three breezy stories, Kasza (Don't Laugh, Joe!) captures the intermittent bickering, one-upmanship and affection integral to friendship. The title characters are two young hippos who are "best friends... well, most of the time." After a spat about who will save the other from the villains in a game of make-believe, ... | [
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16,134 | 2 | This season, several series get new additions. Younger brother Robbie comes up with a plan to improve his mother's mood and saves the rest of the unsuspecting family in When Mommy Was Mad by Lynne Jonell, illus. by Petra Mathers. Framed in white, Mathers's colored-pencil vignettes once again use a minimalist approach t... | [
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16,135 | 0 | A 5-year-old Tomie worries over the health of his baby sister, learns to read in one weekend (with a pilfered schoolbook), and helps his father pave the new driveway (to a too-fine polish!). In the spirit of his earlier memoirs, the Newbery Honor-winning 26 Fairmount Avenue and Here We All Are, author Tomie dePaola rec... | [
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16,136 | 2 | Lisle's (Afternoon of the Elves) blend of gentle fantasy and tough reality features two motherless children spending the summer with their dithering but well-meaning great-aunt. Nine-year-old Olivia and her five-year-old sister, Nellie, have just lost their mother. Their father, a traveling salesman, cannot cope with s... | [
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16,137 | 5 | Compared to their horror-laced Western cousins, these Japanese ghost tales "distill the essence of what is mysterious in life in order to remind us of the dreamlike-'ghostly,' if you will-reality of all things," writes Martin in his apt introduction. The 10 wonderfully, eerily told tales he shares here rely not on terr... | [
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16,138 | 16 | Another song worth singing, Eric Carle's Today Is Monday, begins with string beans on Monday and spaghetti on Tuesday. Different animals eat their way through the week, teaching the names of the days as they go.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilli... | [
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16,139 | 2 | The feisty series inaugurated in Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon is not just for middle graders any more--with these two volumes, Danziger and Ross introduce their winning heroine to beginning readers as well. Making Amber younger and showing the Brown family before divorce, Danziger simplifies her prose style without redu... | [
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16,140 | 2 | Grade 3-6A story set in Belgium during World War II. Professor Solomon is intrigued by a beautiful painting, The Lady, displayed in the window of the antique shop owned by Willys papa. Entering the store to make their purchase, the professor and his son, Max, meet Willy, and the two boys soon become inseparable compani... | [
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16,141 | 0 | Grade 2-4-During the late 1800s and early 1900s, thousands of children from East Coast cities were shipped by train to the Midwest and given to whomever would take them. This illustrated poem follows three siblings' journey from their parents' death to a city orphanage to their new homes. The poem is written in short, ... | [
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16,142 | 5 | Polacco (Rechenka's Eggs; Babushka Baba Yaga) again uses old-world Russia as the backdrop for a timeless, vigorously illustrated tale, this one a variation on The Fisherman and His Wife. Here it is a young girl who rescues an enchanted creature, a wren, which offers to grant her a wish. Content, she requests nothing, b... | [
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16,143 | 2 | Grade 1-3-Eight amigos return for their third book together. Each creature heads to the park, bringing along a different item-roller skates, a soccer ball, a kite, a football, and a baseball bat. Deciding that they want to play something together, the animals start a baseball game with Cat's bat. Trouble quickly ensues... | [
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16,144 | 16 | A toddler greets the day with games of peekaboo in Isadora's (Nick Plays Baseball) ebullient offering. Rendered in thick, silky pastels, the opening spread introduces an African-American child snuggling in bed, looking straight out of the picture. In the background, the sun beams through the open window, softens the ed... | [
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16,145 | 11 | "Santa never comes here to this neighborhood," says Willy, a Hispanic boy who lives in a high rise. Nevertheless, Willy secretly e-mails Santa a request to visit his dejected best friend: "My pal Carlos is in a wheelchair now and could use a good surprise." Carlos, meanwhile, lobbies Santa on Willy's behalf. Santa inde... | [
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16,146 | 14 | This fresh-baked version of the traditional nursery story is brought to you from the creative and award-winning ovens of Jan Brett. Best known for such favorites as The Mitten and The Hat, she has illustrated many other familiar folktales. Her intricately detailed paintings, with their pretty, illuminated borders, are ... | [
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16,147 | 2 | Molly Lou Melon may be tiny, clumsy, buck-toothed, and with a voice "like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor," but she doesn't mind. Her grandmother has utmost confidence in her, and tells her at every turn to believe in herself. "Sing out clear and strong and the world will cry tears of joy," Grandma says.... | [
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16,148 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3 - Luke wants to join his older brother and his friends in their stickball game but they think he's too small. The boys live in the shadow of Ebbets Field, where the great Jackie Robinson plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers in this summer of 1951. When Luke finally gets a chance to substitute, he strikes... | [
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16,149 | 20 | Grade 1-5-Places sacred to Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians, and Muslims are the focus of this striking tour of 28 religious sites around the world (omitting only the South American and Australian continents). After a two-page introduction to the five religions covered, the dual-level text begins. For younger reader... | [
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16,150 | 0 | As elegant as any imperial treasure, this sumptuously illustrated book showcases Spirin's (The Sea King's Daughter; Philipok) near-magical artistry. Here he adapts three Russian fairy tales to coin his own version of the story of the tsar's son and his quest for the dazzling firebird. This prince receives aid from a bi... | [
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16,151 | 0 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-This sweet story follows a little girl and her parents as they drive around town on a Sunday looking for a bathroom. Elya uses the trip to introduce readers to a bit of Spanish vocabulary: "Pap checked the bakery-la panader'a,/ but it wasn't open because of the d'a." The book concludes with a gloss... | [
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16,152 | 11 | PreSchool-Grade 2 - On Thanksgiving Day, the firefighters at Station 1 are busy preparing a holiday dinner. While two of them are grocery shopping in the morning, a call comes in over their cell phone and they rush out, leaving behind a full shopping cart. After they've put out the fire, they go back to the store, help... | [
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16,153 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2--In a rhythmic and rhyming text, a six-year-old expresses his feelings about his family's impending relocation. He likes his neighborhood, his school, and his friends, and has doubts about living in a place called Little Rock. As the movers carry out boxes, he feels powerless to stop them: "And I thin... | [
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16,154 | 0 | Jamie O'Rourke, the laziest man in all of Ireland, is back. Last time we saw him, he was confronting a giant leprechaun-charmed potato (Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato). Now, this indolent Irishman has been left in charge of the house while his hard-working, long-suffering wife Eileen goes to visit her sister for a w... | [
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16,155 | 11 | In this winsome import from France, Ichikawa (Nora's Castle) tells how the very first bear came to Africa. When a family of tourists "from far, far away" visits his African village, Meto is fascinated by the teddy bear the young daughter holds and remarks, "I have never seen this kind of animal before--it is not from o... | [
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16,156 | 11 | Having made a bilingual foray to the market in Eight Animals on the Town, Raton (Mouse), Gato (Cat) and friends now tackle the culinary arts and add 33 Spanish vocabulary words in Eight Animals Bake a Cake by Susan Middleton Elya, illus. by Lee Chapman. Each animal brings one ingredient to the cake-baking session (reci... | [
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16,157 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3This fable begins at the marketplace, when a young father chooses a new basket for his family. Told from the point of view of the basket, the story proceeds as the baby boy grows up, the man's wife dies, and the son marries and has a family of his own. Through the years, the basket carries infants, ... | [
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16,158 | 0 | Thanks to jaunty typography and a slim vertical format, this book packs a visual wallop. Its basis is a cumulative series of adjectives, all in praise of a pet. "I've got a dog," announces a boy. "A red dog./ A big red dog..../ And he's slobbery!" Most every spread introduces and repeats a descriptive word and assigns ... | [
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16,159 | 2 | With their subtle coloring and lush detail, Spirin's watercolors add luster to the old-world charm of one of the Russian-born artist's own boyhood favorites, a children's story by Tolstoy. Philipok longs to go to school with his older brother Peter but must stay at home with Grandma. When Grandma falls asleep, however,... | [
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16,160 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 4-A rhyming romp that introduces readers to numbers and vocabulary in Spanish. Eight animals each go to the market and purchase critter-appropriate supper supplies. "First comes a mouse. He's a rat-n./N#mero uno, out on his own./Off to the market he hurries for cheese./'Since I'm a rat-n, I'd like qu... | [
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16,161 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 4–Two African-American siblings sit on the front stoop of their apartment building on a summer day wondering what to do for fun. After spying on their mother and the "blah blah ladies" and trying to cool off with swiftly melting snow cones, Mimi and Joe make their way through the sizzling stree... | [
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16,162 | 2 | Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 5Soonie's great-grandma was only seven when she was sold away from her parents in Virginia and sent to South Carolina. All she had was a piece of muslin from her mother, two needles, and bright red thread. She was raised by Big Mama, who cared for the plantation children and at night ... | [
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16,163 | 2 | Grade 2-5-Readers may recall from What Pete Ate from A-Z (Putnam, 2001) that this dog eats anything. That gets him into a pickle when he visits his owner at school. Poppy Wise narrates as Pete eats the math teacher's pants. Mr. Grompi Spitzer promptly sends them to the principal's office, where the pup eats an encyclop... | [
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16,164 | 14 | Celebrate the joy, beauty, and magic of Christmas with this giant treasury of Jan Brett's best-loved, bestselling books. Universally renowned for her exquisitely framed, highly detailed picture books, Brett captures the essence of winter wonderlands in her stories about hedgehogs, trolls, reindeer, and tow-headed child... | [
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16,165 | 3 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-This goofy spin on a classic nursery rhyme begins with two siblings in desperate need of some water for their fish tank. "Jack and Jill went up the hill;/it took them quite a while./Jack looked in the well and screamed,/'A giant crocodile!'" Their mother laughs at the notion of a talking croc and m... | [
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16,166 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-This long-winded faux folktale concerns "a tribe of bears called the Brunov" who are "only the size of your thumb!" One year, four little bears set out in search of sunshine and warmth instead of staying safely at home and sleeping through the winter. So, Urso Brunov, the "Little Father of All Bear... | [
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16,167 | 2 | After hitting the big city for the first time in Spike in the City, the black-and-white pooch has his first overnight away from home in Spike in the Kennel. He realizes that the kennel is not so bad after all when he sneaks out at night to play Frisbee with the other dogs.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, In... | [
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16,168 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 3-In 1905, eight-year-old Harriet Peters became the youngest climber ever to reach the summit of Longs Peak in Colorado. Guided by Enos Mills, the man later responsible for the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park, spunky Harriet braved the elements to reach the top of the mountain, spurred on by th... | [
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16,169 | 0 | Once again, Laroche (Bridges Are to Cross) uses minutely detailed cut-paper and paint to create three-dimensional pictures with remarkable depth and height, too, since his theme is lighthouses. Fearrington's (Christmas Lights) refrain gives the book its narrative structure: "Blink flash, flash. Swirl around, twirl arou... | [
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16,170 | 2 | PreSchool-A superficial glimpse at a day in the life of two young siblings and their parents. The twins are introduced in the following manner: "One baby,/baby two./Baby. Baby./We love you!" Neither the text nor the artwork (except for a variation in clothing and hairstyle) creates any sense that these children are ind... | [
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16,171 | 11 | Spare collage work and Sufi wisdom tell the tale of a boy in search of knowledge. Three-time Caldecott winner Ed Young (Lon Po Po) returns here with a simple, cyclical story about giving, receiving, and unexpected rewards.The boy (in a red, marbled robe and cute blue construction-paper shoes) hopes to gain knowledge fr... | [
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16,172 | 0 | Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 3–A beautifully written and illustrated story from the creators of The Other Side (Putnam, 2001), set during World War II. Ada Ruth waits for the return of her mother, who left home in search of a job. "They're hiring colored women in Chicago since all the men are off fighting i... | [
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16,173 | 11 | PreSchool-Grade 2-When Spike, a charming black-and-white dog, takes his first trip to the city, he stays close to his owner, Shannon, not at all sure he likes it there. He howls when someone steps on his tail in the elevator, steps in gum, and is snubbed by a dog sporting a Mohawk haircut and spiked collar. Then he cat... | [
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16,174 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1In the attic, beloved Christmas tree ornaments, some of which Grandma Lily has had since childhood, wonder why the woman doesn't take them down and hang them on the tree, as she always has. When it becomes clear that Lily is gone, the ornaments hold their own celebration in a dollhouse, but it just isn... | [
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16,175 | 1 | Grade 1–3—Urso Brunov, the "Little Father of All Bears," is "mighty in battle/strong as an elephant/fierce as a lion/and wise as the wisest old owl of the forests." Tiny in stature but formidable in spirit, he and his bugle are called by the Silvery Moon Lady and led by Old Uncle Wind to aid two missing pol... | [
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16,176 | 0 | PreSchool-Grade 2Young Nell celebrates her August birthday and that night, she asks, "When'll my birthday come back?" "The holidays," said Mom," will help you keep track." Thus begins a year's worth of days that the child and her family celebrate. Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc., are accompanied by rhyming cou... | [
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16,177 | 6 | Brian Jacques's The Tribes of Redwall Badgers, illus. by Peter Standley, reveals the animals' secret societies. A pullout poster and badger quiz is also included in this tidy booklet. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.; Title: Tribes of Redwall: Badgers | [
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16,178 | 1 | Title: Mice Squeak We Speak <>Binding: Board Books <>Author: TomieDePaola <>Publisher: PutnamPublishingGroup; Title: Mice Squeak, We Speak Board Book | [
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16,179 | 1 | There might be more noticeable peace dividends from the close of the cold war, but surely none cuter. The whole world can count itself lucky to have Valeri Gorbachev, veteran Soviet illustrator, who here brings back the cast of Where Is the Apple Pie? for a smart, playful, and memorable numbers book."What happened to y... | [
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16,180 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3It's early evening in a quiet suburban neighborhood. After staying at a friend's house an hour longer than she was supposed to, young Sarah decides to walk home quickly and sneak into bed so that Dad does not find out. On the way, she encounters a huge multi-eyed spider, an enormous flying bat, an o... | [
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16,181 | 2 | Grade 1-4-When an eight-year-old boy receives a skateboard as a birthday present, he also gets a big surprise. A gleam appears in his mother's eye and before he knows what's happening, she puts on a helmet and skips out the door to take a spin on his new set of wheels. As his friends look on aghast, Mom zips down the s... | [
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16,182 | 0 | The ABCs explode in a creative flurry of color and cadence in this stimulating mix of contemporary abstract images and playful jazz lingo. Shahan's (Feeding Time at the Zoo) alliterative text incorporates music jargon in each dynamic spread. Saxophone S is swingin,' so scuff your shiny shoes. Shimmy and shake to the sc... | [
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16,183 | 2 | Everyone thinks Eugene "Mean Gene" Esterhause, the school bully, is trouble "with a capital T." Everyone but Mr. Lincoln, that is, "the coolest principal in the whole world," who is determined to reach the boy after he's caught calling an African-American first-grader a racist name. Mr. Lincoln enlists Eugene's help in... | [
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16,184 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2In this dynamic picture book, personified foods fight a battle over good nutrition. Following the wisdom of the Great Food Guide tacked on the wall, the various edibles that form the pyramid have always tried to remain in balance. Then, dangerous interlopers overrun them and take over the top level ("T... | [
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16,185 | 0 | Grade 7 Up - An exciting novel set in 10th-century England. In this sequel to The Edge on the Sword (Putnam, 2001), which ended as King Alfred's daughter, Æthelflæd, was about to marry Ethelred of Mercia, Tingle moves a few years forward to tell of Æthelflæd's 16-year-old daughter, Ælfwyn.... | [] | Train |
16,186 | 18 | Starred Review. St. George (So, You Want to Be President?) offers readers another engaging foray into U.S. history as she chronicles the journey of one of the nation's most hallowed documents. "The Declaration of Independence has had more homes than a traveling circus." Though lengthy and far-reaching in scope, the acc... | [
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16,187 | 0 | Knock knock. Who's there? More trolls to add to Brett's (Christmas Trolls; Trouble with Trolls) canon. Apparently, the trouble with trolls is that they're always making trouble. Luckily, they never get any smarter. In this Arctic story, a shy Finnmark girl fends off lurking trolls with help from a traveling boy and his... | [
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16,188 | 1 | PreSchool-In a simple, circular text with colorful pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, Gorbachev tells the rather complicated story of what happens to an apple pie. After a goat buys it, robbers steal it, and so begins the saga in which a wary pig asks a cumulative series of "where" questions prompted by his frie... | [
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16,189 | 15 | Grade 6-10-In this ecological comedy, Michael, 16, is spending the summer in Vermont with his grandparents' old friends from the 1960s and working as an intern for their magazine, The Earth's Wife. Walt and Nora are famous for their pro-environmental beliefs. They don't eat meat or use air-conditioning, they ride bikes... | [
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16,190 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2-Another enjoyable installment in a series of books about a lovable pet. When Spike's family discovers a steak missing from the barbecue, Dad's favorite boots chewed up, overturned trash cans, and a dug-up flowerbed, the dog is blamed and sent off to obedience school in disgrace. However, after he grad... | [
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16,191 | 2 | Jonell (Mommy, Go Away!) here reenacts the events of September 11 through the eyes of an animal who perhaps can help young readers to shoulder their fears. Mole wears a hard-hat, carries a lunch pail and lives in a burrow with his molewife and babymole. Softly shaded pastels portray their warm haven filled with comfy c... | [
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16,192 | 16 | PreSchool-Grade 1-At night, mice wearing numbers emerge one by one from the kitchen clock. Ready to play, they prepare for a rollicking party with birthday cake served on the good china, but they have to be wary of Max the cat. Predictably, the feline awakens, with readers becoming aware of this fact before the rodents... | [
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16,193 | 0 | Grade 6 Up–Duncan is eager to rise to the call of the fiery cross when the men of clan MacDonald follow their chieftain and Bonnie Prince Charlie into war. His father goes, but permits the 13-year-old and his grandfather to accompany them only as far as the meeting place. They return to the farm bursting with tal... | [
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] | Test |
16,194 | 1 | Kindergarten-Grade 2Spirin tells the story of his wife and young son bringing home a crow with a broken wing. The full-page watercolor paintings of the artist's studio and his Moscow neighbors and cityscape are modern but have an old-fashioned feel that suggests a tale of long ago and far away. Martha is nurtured by he... | [
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16,195 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2--Gorbachev's amiable animal characters return, this time to discuss the perils of traveling. When Pig reveals his desire to take a big trip far away, Goat asks how he will get there. Unfortunately, for every wonderful mode of transportation that Pig suggests, Goat imagines some dire consequence. Pig c... | [
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16,196 | 15 | Kindergarten-Grade 2–In this jovial introduction to the field of robotics, a brief, rhymed text describing robot maneuvers is paired with fast facts touting current and proposed uses for their services. From robofish that count their living counterparts to microrobots that may someday travel the bloodstream to re... | [
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16,197 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 3The poignancy of two boys who can be friends only at night is revealed brilliantly in both text and rich watercolor art. Willie's dad, a starter in the Negro leagues, expects that his son will pitch in the majors. Abe's Jewish grandfather, a violinist in the old country before World War II, is sure ... | [
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16,198 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1-A traditional street chant has been given an expanded lyric and music in this picture book. Each page has one line of rhyme that dances and stretches across the page. Children will have lots of fun as they sing, chant, and clap along with the rhythmic text. "Miss Polly has a dolly who is sick, sick, s... | [
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16,199 | 0 | In 1863, as the Civil War rages, Anna Sunday, a motherless 12-year-old disguised as a boy, bravely sets out with her younger brother from her Pennsylvania home into Rebel territory to find their father, a Union soldier who has been shot. They travel with only their cousin's old horse, Samson, who responds to commands g... | [
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