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34,800 | 0 | "This is a book about mean people," opens the mother-son team's second collaboration (after The Big Box). The narrative begins as a series of statements about cruelty, but Lemaitre (Emily the Giraffe) cleverly fashions the declaratives as thoughts belonging to an intelligent bunny narrator with a diminutive canine side... | [
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34,801 | 2 | Preschool-Kindergarten--In this simple yet elegant board book, an African-American woman celebrates her love for her child throughout the seasons. "You are my joy/Lulled by the sound of/Icicle chimes/And water rhymes/Tap-dancing on sidewalks." Johnson's dreamy watercolors, rich with natural details and a cozy home, are... | [
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34,802 | 5 | For graduates of D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, these installments of the Tales from the Odyssey series deftly distill episodes from Homer's epic. Osborne (the Magic Tree House series) opens the first volume as Odysseus receives King Agamemnon's orders to join the fight against Troy, and bring home the Greek queen, H... | [
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34,803 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 4-A story of differences and similarities, compassion and generosity. Reenie and her mom, who are black, love to fish from the banks of the aptly nicknamed Jim Crow River. Peter and his dad, who are white, fish at the same river. However, the two families never speak to one another because, as the gi... | [
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34,804 | 5 | Grade 3-9-Closely following Book 12 of the Odyssey, Osborne relates the tale of Odysseus and his men as they travel back from the Land of the Dead to Circe's Island. Circe warns Odysseus of dangers ahead; he and his men soldier on to the seas of the monster Scylla, where six men are viciously eaten, as Circe had foreto... | [
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34,805 | 2 | Lynne Ewing is a screenplay writer who also counsels troubled teens. She is the author of the first two books in the Daughters of the Moon series: Goddess of the Night and Into the Cold Fire. Ms. Ewing lives in Los Angeles, California.; Title: Night Shade (Daughters of the Moon) | [
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34,806 | 18 | Gr 4-7-A fictionalized account of one of history's greatest knights. The book opens as six-year-old William Marshal, the youngest son of an English lord, is taken captive by King Stephen in 1152. The ruler threatens to kill the child if the father does not surrender all his wealth. When the man refuses to pay the ranso... | [
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34,807 | 2 | It's off to dog-training class for everyone's favorite Westie in McDuff Goes to School by Rosemary Wells, illus. by Susan Jeffers. McDuff hits it off with the new neighbors' dog, Marie, but makes no points with Marie's French-speaking owners when he won't get off of their sofa; he is enrolled in school to learn basic c... | [
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34,808 | 18 | Gr 4-6-Tanaka's brief account of the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is not of the quality of some of her previous titles. In three rambling chapters and an epilogue, four people are introduced and followed: Peter Nottage, a Caucasian seventh-grade boy; Mitsuo Fuchida, Commander of the Japanese Fleet; George D... | [
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34,809 | 11 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-Using a family outing as a backdrop, Wilson-Max introduces young readers to a handful of Swahili words. A brief introduction provides a map of Africa and identifies Kenya as one of its countries. It also presents a brother and sister who live there and speak English and Swahili. They wear western-s... | [
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34,810 | 2 | Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 3A dynamic portrait of the freed slave whose physical and spiritual strength made her one of America's most powerful abolitionist voices. Andrea Pinkney explains how slave owners saw the robust Belle Baumfree as a profitable asset and sold her away from her parents at age nine. This e... | [
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34,811 | 18 | In this elegant pictorial biography of Martin Luther King Jr., author Doreen Rappaport combines her spare, lyrical text with King's own words for an effective, age-appropriate portrayal of one of the world's greatest civil rights leaders. From King's youth, when he looked up to his preacher father and vowed one day to ... | [
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34,812 | 2 | Myers revisits the theme of flight he explored in his mythically inspired Wings, this time with a more earthbound lesson in friendship. As a lone boy sits high atop his apartment building, he observes "a twisting river of birds flying patterns above my house." An emerald-green background emphasizes the boy's downcast e... | [
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34,813 | 2 | "After Papa died, Mama stopped dancing," opens this affecting tale narrated by a Cuban child who misses the evenings of the past. Sofia remembers when her parents danced together and "Papa held the beat, and Mama, the rhythm," and the sensation they created at the annual Havana carnival, where the crowd marveled at the... | [
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34,814 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 4As they did in Happy to Be Nappy (1999) and Be Boy Buzz (2002, both Hyperion), hooks and Raschka have created a verbal and visual celebration. This time the subject is skin, both what it is and, more importantly, what it is not. "The skin I'm in/is just a covering./If you want to know who I am/you h... | [
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34,815 | 16 | Colorful die-cut tabs on the side of Van Gogh's World of Color correlate to actual artwork from the painter and invite youngsters to study color concepts. Critical questions and quotes appear on each spread. "Orange," for example, shows the painting Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase and asks "Why do you think these flowers... | [
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34,816 | 2 | If Pulitzer Prize-winning Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and her son Slade hope to reach children with their rhyming message of personal freedom and individuality, they may have missed the mark. But if even a few excessively controlling grownups learn to "let children be children," this big, colorful picture book might s... | [
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34,817 | 2 | Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 4This book consists of interviews with the children from 15 different families, including mixed-race, immigrant, gay, lesbian, and divorced, as well as single parents and families for whom religion is a focal point. The children may be adopted, have special needs, be only children or ... | [
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34,818 | 2 | This stunning volume celebrates all things boy. The creators of Happy to Be Nappy set the stage with the bold opening sortie: "I be boy" appears on the left of the spread, paired with a deceptively simple layering of rectangles in blue line that pulsates on the page; opposite, a thoughtful-looking fellow, all elbows an... | [
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34,819 | 0 | Grade 5-8At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will enable him to live forever. The key to his success lies in a mysterious book with blank pages that can only be read by desperate, green-eyed people. Master Bashcroft, e... | [
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34,820 | 11 | *Starred Review* In her first book for children, award-winning poet Storace moves the story of Rapunzel to a sun-drenched Caribbean island teeming with magic. In this tropical retelling, a young fisherman's pregnant wife craves sugar cane. After a long search, the fisherman finds a sugar-cane patch and helps himself, b... | [
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34,821 | 16 | Julie Aigner-Clark, founder, is the full-time mother of two little girls and is also a former teacher. She conceived the idea for the Baby Einstein Company out of a desire to provide baby-friendly exposure to music, art, and poetry for her own children.; Title: Baby Einstein: Jane's Animal Expedition | [
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34,822 | 16 | Julie Aigner-Clark capitalizes on her bestselling concept as she moves from videos to board books, prepping preschoolers for the Ivy League. Language Nursery teaches eight phrases such as "Hello, duck," and "I love you, lamb" in Spanish, French, Japanese and Hebrew. Color-coded text differentiates the languages; the pr... | [
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34,823 | 0 | Grade 2-6 - Amid the plethora of Holocaust children's literature emerges yet another picture book that uses the themes of exodus and freedom associated with Passover to contrast the reality of Nazi-occupied Europe. The narrator is a French boy whose family lives openly as Catholics, but secretly observes their Jewish f... | [
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34,824 | 2 | Julie Aigner-Clark, founder, is the full-time mother of two little girls and is also a former teacher. She conceived the idea for the Baby Einstein Company out of a desire to provide baby-friendly exposure to music, art, and poetry for her own children.; Title: Baby Einstein: Babies | [
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34,825 | 2 | Based on a Czech opera that was performed 55 times by children in Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp, Brundibar is an odd, urgent little tale of a brother and sister who are desperately trying to get their hands on some milk for their sick mother. They race to the village center, only to discover that they need money t... | [
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34,826 | 0 | Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the best-selling series The Magic Tree House. She has also written many acclaimed retellings of myths and folktales and works of historical fiction.; Title: Tales from the Odyssey: The Land of the Dead - Book #2 | [
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34,827 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 1Emily and her classmates are back, and children follow them throughout their kindergarten year through charming vignettes and enchanting illustrations. Each oversized spread offers a learning experience, whether readers are singing number songs with Emily and Diane Duck, making Valentine cakes with Emi... | [
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34,828 | 2 | A world-renowned cultural critic, feminist theorist, and intellectual, bell hooks is a distinguished author and professor of English. She has written several acclaimed children's books includingBe Boy Buzz,Skin AgainandHappy to Be Nappy, all illustrated by Chris Raschka.Chris Raschka received a Caldecott Medal forThe H... | [
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34,829 | 0 | Wells returns to the plucky heroine she introduced in Yoko with this wistful story about the green-eyed kitten and her far-away grandparents. Yoko writes weekly to Japan to her beloved grandmother, Obaasan, whose garden is visited each year by migrating cranes. Yoko's grandfather, Ojiisan, inspired by the winged visito... | [
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34,830 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 2Mrs. McBloom is retiring after 50 years of teaching, and it's time to clean up Room Five for her successor. But that's easier said than done. The classroom has become an ecosystem with trees and animals coexisting peacefully with odd mittens, sneakers, and piles of books. It's a magical mess. Eventu... | [
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34,831 | 0 | Grade 3-6Educators will welcome this story, based on a true incident, about slaves who commandeered a Confederate ship and sailed to freedom. A present-day boy introduces the tale, which is told from his great-great-grandfather's point of view. Robert Smalls is the real pilot of the ship, even though the captain calls ... | [
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34,832 | 0 | Grade 5-9Burnings of homes and warehouses and fears of a slave uprising fuel massacres of black people in New York during the mid 1700s. Phoebe's master, an assemblyman, is kind to the young teen and has done much to help and protect her and his other slaves from any finger-pointing by neighbors and the local magistrat... | [
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34,833 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 1-Black line illustrations partially filled in with color appear on pastel pages in these slight stories. In Doggy Dog, Raschka tries to show all the things a dog is not: a cat, a lampshade, etc. The book concludes with the statement that Doggy Dog is just that, a dog. In Goosey Goose, readers are warne... | [
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34,834 | 13 | Kindergarten-Grade 3-In this paean to pork puns, Palatini presents the story of Stanley Snoutowski, a young pig who longs to see his name in lights. Encouraged by his friend Mary, he moves to New York City and experiences the typical struggles many young actors go through: cattle-call auditions (with actual cattle, of ... | [
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34,835 | 2 | PreSA toddler who has been raised in the mountains takes a trip with her father to the city. Perched in a backpack on her daddy's shoulders, Izzy observes the teeming urban scenes that swirl around them. Each enormous double-page illustration is accompanied by a "Wow!" and a one-word description of the location ("Wow! ... | [
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34,836 | 16 | Julie Aigner-Clark, founder, is the full-time mother of two little girls and is also a former teacher. She conceived the idea for the Baby Einstein Company out of a desire to provide baby-friendly exposure to music, art, and poetry for her own children.; Title: Baby Einstein: Numbers and Shapes Discovery Cards | [
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34,837 | 2 | Gregg and Evan Spiridellis are the founders of JibJab Media, an award-winning studio that has produced animation, children's books and toys. The Spiridellis brothers and jibjab.com attained great popularity during the 2004 presidential election with their political spoof songs and animation shorts. The brothers have be... | [
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34,838 | 2 | K-Gr 4-In a format similar to Martin's Big Words (Hyperion, 2001), Rappaport uses quotations from Helen Keller to provide the framework for this picture-book biography. A great design, incorporating the words in large type, makes this book visually striking. Large scale paintings, rendered in watercolor, pencil, and go... | [
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34,839 | 5 | PreS-Gr. 2. Books in the new, inexpensive paperback Fairy Tale Classics series are extremely uneven, and it's no surprise that authors aren't identified. The texts are bland and generic; the art is greeting-card style with glamorized, idyllic African American characters who bat their eyelashes and smile and smile. Kids... | [
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34,840 | 17 | Shange (I Live in Music) offers a streamlined, clearly affectionate account of the life of Muhammad Ali, who, she says in an introductory note, continues to inspire "hope and courage." Her portrait effectively reveals the fighter's personality, re-creating conversations between young Cassius and his parents and later q... | [
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34,841 | 1 | On a Fourth of July picnic with his human family, McDuff, a beloved but trouble-mongering white terrier, inadvertently allows "silent invaders" (namely, ants) to make off with the entire contents of the lunch basket. Luckily, McDuff has a way with strangers (and their picnic baskets), and in no time flat, he's finagled... | [
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34,842 | 2 | PreSchool-GrSmith and Freeman, who previously collaborated on A Wild Cowboy (Hyperion, 2004), have created another tale that celebrates the power of imagination. After arriving at their destination on moving day, a boy and his younger sibling turn an empty box into a rocket ship and pretend to blast off. The story begi... | [
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34,843 | 5 | Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the best-selling series The Magic Tree House. She has also written many acclaimed retellings of myths and folktales and works of historical fiction.; Title: Odyssey #4: The Gray-eyed Goddess | [
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34,844 | 11 | Artwork inspired by Aboriginal paintings illustrate this Australian folktale about a battle of wits between Snake and Lark. Ages 4-7. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.; Title: The Singing Snake | [
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34,845 | 13 | Grade 5-8Using a combination of simple prose, song lyrics, and illustration, this heartfelt picture-book biography traces Lennon's life from his childhood to his death. Striking in both its simplicity and complexity, it captures this enigmatic singer, artist, songwriter, and folk hero in a way that will move and fascin... | [
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34,846 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2-In first-person narrations, three children anticipate happy reunions with their parents, who are on active military duty abroad. Heavily sentimental language appears throughout, as when one little boy wonders, "Who is bringing chicken soup to my daddy when he has a cold?" and "Is he cozy and warm?" Th... | [
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34,847 | 17 | Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed books for middle grade readers, including the novels Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club pick, and With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America series. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighter... | [
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34,848 | 2 | K-Gr. 3. The book jacket, featuring a picture of a bottle with a rolled map plugging the opening, is the first intriguing image in this story of a young boy's strange journey. The bottle arrives in a package; when the boy removes the map, wind blows out of the bottle, whisking him across the sea and through the city wh... | [
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34,849 | 5 | Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the best-selling series The Magic Tree House. She has also written many acclaimed retellings of myths and folktales and works of historical fiction.; Title: Tales from the Odyssey: Return to Ithaca - Book #5 | [
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34,850 | 11 | Ages 3-8. This anthology binds together seven picture books previously published by Jump at the Sun. The range is wide--a biography of Willie Mays, a scary ghost story, a meditation about prayer--and the illustrations vary from watercolor, scratchboard, and collage to computer-generated art. The artists include lesser-... | [
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34,851 | 11 | *Starred Review* Award-winning illustrator and first-time author Nelsons history of the Negro Leagues, told from the vantage point of an unnamed narrator, reads like an old-timer regaling his grandchildren with tales of baseball greats Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and others who forged the path toward breaking the race ... | [
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34,852 | 2 | "My mama calls me girlpie," begins this tender riff on the ties that bind. "Daddy's honey bun chocolate dew drop." When the winsome girl at the story's center breaks a dish ("Everything I do cannot be right. 'Cause there is no all the time right"), her parents are quick to forgive her. Here, the tale makes an abrupt tr... | [
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34,853 | 2 | One sunny day on Merryhill Farm, all the trucks are busily toiling, including Trundle the Tractor and Bee-Bee the Backhoe. All, that is, except for one rusty old forgotten fellow: Dumpy the Dump Truck. Relegated to the weeds behind the barn, Dumpy has been gathering dust and mouse nests for a long time. And it looks li... | [
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34,854 | 2 | PreSBeginning at his toes, a little girl laboriously climbs up her father until she is perched triumphantly on top of his head. Along the way, she provides practical advice on making this a successful procedure: "Remember, the Daddy Mountain must wear a shirt. Because if you grab hold of his skin, he'll get mad." Altho... | [
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34,855 | 1 | Milo the magician is a mess. Not only does he botch his card tricks and tangle his rope tricks, but he can't even manage the old standby: pulling a rabbit from a hat. Spurred on by his manager's fury, Milo heads out of the city to find himself a rabbit. Dangling a carrot over his top hat, our magnificent magician captu... | [
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34,856 | 7 | Grade 5-7-In this episode, Devin and Frankie once again go through the library's zapper gates, this time to be transported to London in 1872 just in time to accompany Phileas Fogg on his journey. While the description of the librarian will cause media specialists to wince, the message that reading is important and can ... | [
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34,857 | 2 | The favorite feline stars in Rosemary Wells's Yoko & Friends School Days series, which debuts with two titles, Mama, Don't Go! and The School Play, illus. by Jody Wheeler. In the first, Yoko won't let Mama leave the classroom until her classmate gives her courage. In the second, an unhappy Yoko is assigned the role... | [
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34,858 | 14 | Victorious in the schoolyard and rescued from the barn, this huggable red dump truck still keeps chugging along--much to the relief of a stressed-out Santa Claus.The team of Julie "Mary Poppins" Andrews Edwards and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton delivers another sweet, simple story from good ol' Merryhill Farm. It's... | [
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34,859 | 12 | In the same spirit as Baby Einstein's Poems for Little Ones, Baby Santa's Christmas Joy puts playful poetry alongside large pictures of brightly colored, easy-to-recognize scenes--perfect for small eyes and short attention spans. And in keeping with Baby Einstein's multisensory approach, Christmas Joy also includes a 2... | [
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34,860 | 18 | Gr. 6-12. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling to desegregate public schools, this volume collects stories, memoirs, and poems about the history and impact of Brown v. Board of Education. The contributors, well-known writers for young people, were themselves young in 1954, and they speak ... | [
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34,861 | 2 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-Samuel Moss, a 12th-generation Grizzly Scout, wants to earn his place in his family's Album of Scouting Greatness (you have to be in it to even look at it). He has his badges for ninja training, thermonuclear dynamics, Bigfoot tracking, and a host of others, but now he must earn his Moon Frog badge... | [
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34,862 | 2 | Kristina Evans is a poet and grade-school teacher in Harlem, in New York City. When Ms. Evans is not in fromt of a classroom, she likes to spend time with her husband, Bryan Collier, watching as their young daughter wonders at the world, one day at a time.Bryan Collier received a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott Kin... | [
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34,863 | 7 | Kids can count on more chuckles than chills in this lighthearted spoof of Bram Stoker's timeless tale, which launches the Cracked Classics series. When Devin and Frankie (short for Francine) disrupt their sixth-grade English class, the teacher assigns to them an oral report on Dracula. Spunky narrator Devin complains t... | [
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34,864 | 2 | The chatty debut installment of the From the Files of Madison Finn series introduces a high-strung and contemplative heroine who pronounces herself "allergic" to change. The summer before seventh grade, Madison is still reeling from her parents' divorce a year earlier. With her two best pals, Aimee and Egg, away at cam... | [
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34,865 | 0 | Roland Smith is the author of Zach's Lie, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers; Cryptid Hunters; Thunder Cave; Jaguar; The Last Lobo; and Sasquatch. He lives outside of Portland, Oregon, with his wife Marie, who also writes children's books.; Title: Sasquatch | [
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34,866 | 5 | Mary Pope Osborne is the author of the best-selling series The Magic Tree House. She has also written many acclaimed retellings of myths and folktales and works of historical fiction.; Title: The Final Battle (Tales from the Odyssey, Book 6) | [
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34,867 | 2 | Grade 2-4-The African-American child introduced in Willimena and the Cookie Money (Hyperion, 2001) is back for another adventure. She has been looking forward to third grade at Harriet Tubman Elementary because she will have the nicest teacher in the school. However, there's been a change, and she is assigned to Mrs. S... | [
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34,868 | 0 | Grade 5-7-Frankie (short for Francine) and Devin, champion goof-offs of Palmdale Middle School, are hiding out to avoid an English test on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and accidentally lose the school library's prized Mark Twain autograph when it falls through a pair of old security "zapper gates." The two friends know... | [
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34,869 | 0 | Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed picture books, works of nonfiction, and novels. Her fiction for middle-grade readers includes Solo Girl, Raven in a Dove House, Silent Thunder, and Let It Shine, a Coretta Scott King Honor winner. She is also the author of the picture books Alvin Ailey, Duke Ellington,... | [
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34,870 | 2 | Barbara Cooney's books for children have been loved by generations. Among the acclaimed books she wrote and illustrated are Eleanor, Island Boy, and Miss Rumphius.; Title: Lost Treasures: The Kellyhorns - Book #1 | [
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34,871 | 5 | McMullan (I Stink!) presents a playful take on fractured Greek myths in this first installment of the Myth-O-Mania series. Narrator Hades accuses his younger brother, Zeus, of being a "myth-o-maniac (That's old-Greek-speak for `liar.')" and here "[sets] the record straight." He explains how he and Zeus, along with thei... | [
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34,872 | 7 | Grade 8 UpBeing a Visigoth warrior from another dimension does not make it easier for Obie when the bullies attack him at school, but as the immortal 15-year-old tries to conform to modern-day Los Angeles, he finds the constrictions on his powers frustrating. When his evil aunt kidnaps his roommate, Obie travels back t... | [
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34,873 | 0 | Mary Calhoun was born in Iowa, where she worked for several newspapers and wrote many books for young readers. She now lives in Colorado.; Title: The House of Thirty Cats | [
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34,874 | 13 | Kindergarten-Grade 3—Ryder, the author of many lyrical science-based books, enters more playful territory in this picture book. Taking the traditional folk song "Buffalo Gals" as an inspiration, she and Francis have created an exuberant animal fantasy. Buffalo Flo gets an invitation to "come out tonight and dance... | [
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34,875 | 7 | Grade 9 UpOnce again readers meet the Sons of the Dark. In the previous installments, two of the four teens discover their talents and learn how strong the pull is from their native world, Nefandus. Now Kyle is acting oddly, and his blackouts are causing him to wake up more and more frequently in the midst of bizarre s... | [
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34,876 | 2 | Like Madison Finn, author Laura Dower enjoys her laptop computer and loves to drink root beer. Laura has written more than sixty books for kids. She lives in New York with her husband and three children.; Title: To Have and to Hold (Madison Finn Super Edition #1) | [
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34,877 | 0 | Award-winning adult author Adam Gopnik's first children's book, an adventure set in modern day Paris starring an American boy who finds himself at the center of a war between window and mirror spirits, is an mixed bag of fantasy, technology and history that doesn't quite hang together as a whole. One January evening, e... | [
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34,878 | 0 | Jean Marzollo has written more than 100 children's books, including the award-winning I SPY series. With a graduate degree from Harvard, she has taught school, written books about teaching and parenting, and was the editor of Scholastic's Let's Find Out kindergarten magazine for 20 years. Jean lives in upstate New York... | [] | Test |
34,879 | 11 | Starred Review. Ive known rivers:/ Ive known rivers ancient as the world, Hughess poem begins; like the poem, Lewiss radiant watercolors convey great depth. Rivers all over the worldthe Congo, the Euphrates, the Nile, the Mississippibecome the stage for portraying the experiences of black people throughout history. As ... | [
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34,880 | 2 | Grade 4-6-An enjoyable sports story about 11-year-old fraternal twins Dusk and Dawn and an opportunity to win a million dollars by shooting a goal after a Montreal Canadiens hockey game. The prologue, told in a dialogue, consists of an argument between the siblings concerning who will tell the story best. Ultimately, D... | [
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34,881 | 0 | Rappaport (Martin's Big Words) relays the wrenching yet ultimately uplifting story of one brave black family in rural Mississippi in the 1960s. Sharecroppers on a cotton plantation, Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter believed that "a good education would get their children out of the cotton fields." In 1965, under a new fed... | [
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34,882 | 16 | Julie Aigner-Clark, founder, is the full-time mother of two little girls and is also a former teacher. She conceived the idea for the Baby Einstein Company out of a desire to provide baby-friendly exposure to music, art, and poetry for her own children.; Title: Baby Einstein: Violet's House: A Giant Touch-and-Feel Book | [
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34,883 | 0 | Jean Marzollo has written more than 100 children's books, including the award-winning I SPY series. With a graduate degree from Harvard, she has taught school, written books about teaching and parenting, and was the editor of Scholastic's Let's Find Out kindergarten magazine for 20 years. Jean lives in upstate New York... | [
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34,884 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 2Gray captures the sights and sounds of an idyllic summer day in the country. Nonna holds the central place in the activities as she rocks on her porch and knits a blanket that incorporates scenes from her surroundings. A singing cardinal, a munching fawn, and a chattering chipmunk add their noises to t... | [
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34,885 | 0 | Grade 6 UpIn free-verse narratives, one biblical and one modern, teenagers Ishmael and Sam introduce themselves and relate their parallel problems with their fathers. Abraham is exiling Ishmael, son of his Second Wife, now that elderly Sarah has finally had a son. Sam's dad has left Sam's mother for a younger white wom... | [
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34,886 | 2 | Julie Aigner-Clark, founder, is the full-time mother of two little girls and is also a former teacher. She conceived the idea for the Baby Einstein Company out of a desire to provide baby-friendly exposure to music, art, and poetry for her own children.; Title: Baby Einstein: What Floats: Splash & Giggle Bath Book ... | [
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34,887 | 2 | PreSchool-Good toilet training books seem as scarce as a clean public restroom in Times Square, and, unfortunately, this book won't alleviate the problem. A parade of needy children is joined by a group of wise mice that guides the youngsters to the bathroom and back. Encouraging phrases will assist reluctant children:... | [
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34,888 | 1 | PreSchool-Grade 2 - Bouncy, alliterative phrases describe the characteristics of all kinds of canines in this humorous ode to man's best friend: "Nobody's/diggier/than a dog - /a bury-the-bone dog,/a shake-a-paw dog." Or "Nobody's/mightier/than a dog - /a ruff-'n'-tumble dog,/a guard-the-yard dog." The short verses are... | [
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34,889 | 21 | PreS. Kirk's takeoff on "The Gingerbread Man" features a roly-poly snowman looking like a first cousin to the Pillsbury doughboy. He runs away from his creators, young Nick and Kara, and races past a couple who wants to adopt him and a circus owner who would like to make him a star. The monkeys at the zoo want him to s... | [
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34,890 | 13 | Jean Marzollo has written more than 100 children's books, including the award-winning I SPY series. With a graduate degree from Harvard, she has taught school, written books about teaching and parenting, and was the editor of Scholastic's Let's Find Out kindergarten magazine for 20 years. Jean lives in upstate New York... | [
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34,891 | 11 | Kindergarten-Grade 3Lady Liberty takes a stroll across America in search of the immigrants who passed by her on their way to other parts of the country. She ends up in San Francisco, but she is lonely for Manhattan: "She missed her home, where hope was born." New Yorkers, in turn, send a sack full of mail imploring the... | [
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34,892 | 0 | PreSchool-Grade 1-"I am a boy, a wild cowboy/A real live buckaroo." These words of a small child evoke the idioms of the West and offer a joyful reminder of the power of imagination. The boy packs his "cowpoke stuff," mounts his horse (a piggyback ride with Mom), and blazes a trail out West to Grandma's house, where he... | [
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34,893 | 16 | PreS-Gr. 2. The letter Z abandons its allotted spot in the City Zoo sign and heads off in Agee's innovative alphabet book. Children can track the red Z's journey past an Alien, over a Bridge, into some Cake, and over Hurdles until the red-letter moment when it finally finds its way to its similarly colored friends and ... | [
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34,894 | 2 | PreSchool-Grade 3-"In Sooey, South Dakota,/in a sloppy, stuffy sty,/there's an itchy ol' straw bed/where the Bed Hogs pile high." Little Runt is squished, squashed, and buried beneath his siblings and his parents and he's had enough. One by one, he kicks each family member out of bed-Rose, "the reigning beauty queen," ... | [
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34,895 | 0 | Grade 2-4?More than anything, Alison wants a puppy for her birthday, but Mom, Dad, and brother Mike all agree that it's a bad idea. Puppies bark, make messes, and dig holes. But she persists and when she sees a young dog squeeze under his fence, she ties a rope to him and heads for home. After her parents insist that s... | [
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34,896 | 11 | Kindergarten-Grade 3?A felicitous adaptation of a cautionary tale told originally as a warning against leshon harah (slander/gossip). A widow without children, "Yettele had a lot of time for minding other people's business," and mind it she does! Not only does she spread rumors from one neighbor to another, but she alw... | [
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34,897 | 14 | PreSchool-Grade 1A dark-skinned youngster paints handprint turkeys, decorating them with sequins, feathers, glitter, and paper scraps. After he collects them in a Popsicle-stick pen, a cartoon fox threatens the flock, which is saved when the artist turns a fist covered with purple paint into a stumbling block, allowing... | [
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34,898 | 13 | Kindergarten-Grade 2-This rather slight picture book follows a "House That Jack Built" pattern and quickly becomes tiresome. One cannot sustain interest with the awkward refrain, "which was conquered in flight in 1903." Edwards does employ a clever device to help tell the Wrights' story-little mice scampering across th... | [
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34,899 | 1 | 2004: by Rosemary Wells - Children's Classic.; Title: McDuff's Hide-and-Seek: Lift the Flap/Pull the Tab Book | [
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