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PreS-Gr 2Yoon's latest entry in her series has the protagonist setting a goalto be the first penguin at the North Pole. Map in hand, pack on back, and his neck cozied with his signature orange scarf, Penguin sets off, but not before Yoon hints at the surprise ending by showing his penguin friends busy sewing, weaving, ...
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PreS-Gr 2There are only a handful of words in this book; the most important one is Moo. Punctuation, repetition, and rhythm give it multiple meanings as readers turn the pages, which are joyfully illustrated with splashy gouache primary colors. It is hard to imagine a more expressive cow than this title's cartoon bovin...
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Following a traumatic head injury, 12-year-old Cat knows what its like to be missing pieces of yourself. Then shes accepted at I-CAN, a miracle treatment center for neurological disorders in the Florida Everglades. Things seem strange right away: the small number of patients (only six), the isolated island facility, th...
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Gr 13In a lifetime of music making, folksinger Pete Seeger (19192014) brought people together to sing for social justice. Reich's enthusiastic picture book biography opens with a glimpse of the singer inviting an audience to join in, as he did so often, perhaps most memorably at Barack Obama's first inauguration, in 20...
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"Although its impossible to talk about her without mentioning her iconic husband, Krull makes sure Coretta remains front and center . . . packed with plenty of information in an engaging, conversational tone, and Freemans expressive full-color illustrations do a great job of portraying Coretta in a wide variety of mome...
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VICKI COBB is the author of more than eighty-five non-fiction books for children, including I Face the Wind a Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor book. After early careers as a laboratory researcher and science teacher, she became a full-time writer.www.vickicobb.comwww.inkthinktank.comBARBARA LAVALLEE is the illustra...
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Reagan's tough, wised-up voice and her burgeoning romance with Matt are the engines that keep Lord's engaging debut moving along. Publishers WeeklyLord successfully adapts classic elements of adult romance novels into a love story gentle enough for younger readers. Kirkus ReviewsLord's debut provides an insightful take...
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FRANOIZE BOUCHER lives in Paris and formerly worked in fashion. She loves to play with words and color, and has published several activity books.; Title: Don't Worry, Be Happy! Or Else!
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Gr 4-7-In this sequel to The Friendship Matchmaker (Walker, 2012), seventh-grader Lara Zany finds herself back in her role as Potts County Middle School's Friendship Matchmaker. Although she promised her Official Best Friend, Tanya, that she was out of the matchmaking game, she can't resist meddling. When new student M...
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Yoon's cute, boldly lined characters and graphic compositions tell the story in a series of spots, full-page images, and thought bubbles. This picture book, like many before it, proves that love comes in many forms. Booklist, on Penguin and PineconeCrisp illustrations that capture a genuinely loving heart . . . a stron...
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History, romance, and witchcraft make for a combination that is sure to lure readers into the story, the first in a new series about witches in nineteenth-century London. The book will appeal to those who were fans of Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle series and the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. VOYAA successful blend of Re...
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While readers may suspect that reading won't actually make them taller than the Eiffel Tower or turn them into instant ping-pong stars (thanks to the "magic vibes" books give off at night), they'll certainly understand that books can be a lot of fun. Publishers WeeklyFranoize Boucher lives in Paris and formerly worked ...
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RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH is the author of the YA novels Does My Head Look Big in This?, Ten Things I Hate About Me, and Where the Streets Had a Name. Her books are published around the world and she regularly gives talks and workshops at schools and writers' festivals. Randa lives in Sydney, Australia, where she works as a l...
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A tasty treat sure to please. School Library Journal, on Even Aliens Need SnacksReaders will delight in the parade of rainbow-hued, tentacled aliens lining up for 'Swiss cheese donut holes' and 'turnip-side-down cake.' Inky nocturnal backgrounds provide an excellent contrast to the glowing cast of spooky-silly creature...
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PreS-Gr 1Fred is a dog that isn't quite ready for bed. He climbs a tree, dives into a mud puddle, races out of his bathtub sopping wet, and clutches a book expectantly in his mouth. After one last ditch effort to sleep in his owner's bed, a smiling Fred is finally tucked into his own pad with a bone and ball. Ismail's ...
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The very fine drawings show this friendly great animal, his habits and behavior to perfection. . . . Simple, interesting, and informative. Associated PressFrancine Jacobs is the author of 24 books for children, including the Reading Rainbow Feature Selection Sam the Sea Cow, illustrated by Laura Kelly and Lonesome Geor...
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Beautifully textured paintings extend across each double-page spread, showing the forest in the central panel, with images of the other contemporary events in the side and lower margins. BooklistLinda Vieira has written The Ever-living Tree, Grand Canyon, and The Seven Seas for Walker & Company. She lives in Indian...
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The diary format and first-person voice contribute authenticity and vitality to the text, with colorful paintings adding interest. Booklist.Pritchett's richly colored paintings have a formal, period look befitting the text. Publishers Weekly; Title: Pilgrim Voices: Our First Year in the New World
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Readers follow a 15-year-old boy, winner of the two-day, 158-mile Jr. Iditarod, in this photo-essay. "Dusty's stamina, courage and sportsmanship shine through," wrote PW. Ages 8-12. (Sept.) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.This appealing photo-essay details the story of a 15-year-old Alaskan boy as he prep...
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Leo enjoys his somewhat perilous night job working at a toy store; "This humorous tale of a misunderstood insect offers a comical new perspective on micro-level R&D," said PW. Ages 5-8.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.KEVIN O'MALLEY is the co-author and illustrator of the popular Miss Malarkey serie...
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Cornelia Meigs was a prolific children's book author who began her career in 1915 and continued to write into the 1970s. She won the Newbery Medal in 1934 for Invincible Louisa, her biography of Louisa May Alcott. She lived in Havre de Grace, Maryland, at the time of her death in 1973.; Title: Swift Rivers (A Newbery H...
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Michael McCurdy's plain-spoken text and understated pale palette of blues, lavenders and greens suit his story.... McCurdy captures not only the elemental fears but the daily grubbiness of the adventure. The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Pepper SinklerA dramatic introduction to Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Atlantic ...
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PreS-Gr 1-A delightful story told from the point of view of Mr. Wolf on his birthday. Four and twenty black birds wake him up at seven o'clock, tweeting, "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?" The three little pigs each slam the doors of their respective houses at eight o'clock, the dish runs away with his spoon at eleven, and t...
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An inviting and accessible introduction to plant growth and scientific observation. School Library JournalA practical and understandable example of scientific observation for budding young naturalists. This is an ideal book. Kirkus ReviewsAnne Rockwell is an acclaimed creator of innumerable children's books, including ...
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Full-color photos, bold headings, and clearly presented large-type text combine to create exciting introductions to creatures of the seashore. School Library Journal.Entries in these volumes will elicit a gushing response. Bulletin of the Ctr. for Children's BooksKathy Darling has written more than 100 children's books...
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With the help of her 15-year-old niece, Karen Gravelle hits her mark with this accessible guide for adolescent girls. Frank and at times funny, the book focuses on changes that occur during puberty, specifically those accompanying menstruation. Though the scope is, intentionally, not as comprehensive as many handbooks ...
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The book's well-written text is right on the mark for the age group. A world map locates various frogs in rain forests on five continents on the colorful end-papers. Booklist.Although many books on tropical rain forests include information about tree frogs, none concentrates on these animals to the extent that Patent d...
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Few books so concisely summarize the Japanese advance and the American response to it, while none provides the same depth of insight into the conditions faced by these Navajo. . . . An important story, compellingly told. Kirkus (pointer review)A fascinating account that sheds light on a little-known contribution of the...
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In this poignant picture book, children find out how hard the Civil War was on the South, particularly on one little girl, Addie, whose father dies, leaving the family to struggle to find food and wrestle with their grief. . . . Beier's pastoral watercolor paintings reflect both the mood and the ambience of a difficult...
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Young readers will come away from this beautiful book with lessons about their own journeys. Scruffy's perseverance, combined with the text's conversational tone, makes the story accessible to a wide range of readers. Kirkus ReviewsMinnesota photographer, Jim Brandenburg, began his career as a natural history photograp...
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The sinuous bodies of snakes are highlighted in vivid paintings that dominate every page of this introductory title .... The book is clearly written and well organized .... The paintings are realistically rendered .... Young herpetologists should find [it] very satisfying. School Library JournalStriking graphics and a ...
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RICHARD HORNE is a designer of books, album covers, magazines, and greeting cards, and the author of the bestselling 101 Things to Do Before You Die. Before he is old and boring he would like to walk in dinosaur footprints in Utah. He lives in London, England.www.101thingstodo.co.ukHELEN SZIRTES is an editor and holds ...
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Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 3Daniel is the bravest boy in the world, able to face spiders, snakes, and thunderstorms...but he just doesn't like dogs. When his aunt goes on vacation and leaves her pet, Bandit, with his family, he stays in his room and refuses to come out. Later that night, he needs to use the bathro...
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Laura Leuck is the author of five books for children, including My Monster Mama Loves Me So and Goodnight, Baby Monster. She lives with her two sons in Princeton, New Jersey.S. D. Schindler has illustrated more than fifty books for children, including The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe, by Tony Johnston, and A Cod's Tale, by...
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Grade 5-9Green Jasper begins where Blood Red Horse (Walker, 2005) ended. With King Richard imprisoned and supposed dead, there is turmoil in England in the 12th century. Will and Gavin de Granville have returned from the crusade older, wiser, and scarred from battle, Gavin having lost an arm. His betrothed, Ellie, has ...
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Grade 6-9-Ayer covers the development and dispersement of the Anasazi civilization in a workmanlike manner, from the prehistoric Basket Makers to the historic Pueblo peoples. She describes the methods used by archaeologists to unearth physical evidence of the Anasazi culture and how such relics can lead to theories abo...
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Ward's high-intensity hues and kente-patterned borders suit the subject matter like a custom-made, bright silk kente robe. Publishers WeeklyWard's lush paintings are wonderful .... This book is important in that it is the first to convey an understanding of kente cloth history and cultural significance for a young audi...
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Like Richter's Friedrich (1970) for older readers, this picture book dramatizes the Holocaust from the point of view of a gentile child who watches the mounting persecution of a Jewish friend. Translated from the French, the story is narrated by Helen, who remembers herself at nine years old in 1942 when the Nazis occu...
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Grade 3-6-A unique combination of nature craft, art theory, and field guide, attractively packaged. The bulk of the book is an enjoyable album of collage animals cleverly and realistically formed out of leaves in an array of sizes, shapes, and autumnal colors. Each white page is graced by a single easily identifiable c...
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Grade 6-9-In spite of occasional awkward transitions and unclear pronoun antecedents, Fleming's account of the man who was always on the lookout for a money-making scheme is fast-paced and engaging. While the book is essentially a chronological coverage of Barnum's life, the chapters that relate his exploitation of, an...
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ANNE ROCKWELL is a beloved name in books for preschoolers. She is the author of Big Wheels, The Toolbox, Backyard Bear, and Little Shark and over 100 books for young readers.; Title: Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night
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PreSchool-Grade 1 Two best buddies go to the playground and discover that their favorite pieces of equipment don't work as they expect them to. After Elephant sits down opposite him, the seesaw sends Mouse flying. When Mouse jumps on a swing, it wraps around the upper bar, and when Elephant takes a turn, it breaks. Jus...
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Grade 5-8?In 1878, when a yellow-fever epidemic strikes Memphis, Eli Mahoney witnesses the death of his mother and younger sister and is deserted by his father. He is determined to flee the city, but his plans are interrupted by Grace, the "Graveyard Girl," and the recently orphaned Addie, who painfully reminds him of ...
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Gr 13Each year, a boy spends the summer with his grandmother in her apartment in Spanish Harlem listening to her records. Grandma is given two tickets to a live concert by a nephew, a percussionist in a well-known Puerto Rican band. When the lead singer dedicates the last song to her, the child is surprised to see ever...
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Diane Mayr is a public librarian and the author of several books for children. She lives in Salem, New Hampshire.Laura Rader is the author and illustrator of more than one hundred books for children, including Santa's New Suit and the popular What to Expect series by Heidi Murfoff. She lives in Los Angeles, California....
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PreSchool-Grade 2AHelene-Angel has to wait for her older brother Mauricio to walk her home from school. Neither of them like this arrangement. One day the Hawks, a gang of white thugs, beat up Mauricio and spray white paint on Helene-Angel's face. "I was dripping white. Really itchy, stinging white paint covered me whe...
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In this Hitchcockian thriller-within-a-thriller, "Andrew shook as he opened the cover of a spooky book." The sepia pages show a girl opening the same tome. Odd coincidences continue. If lightning startles the girl, a flash surprises Andrew. Stranger still, they both scan the mirror image of this very volume. McElligott...
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Debut author Orie, who grew up on an Oneida reservation, describes this book as a song, "a celebration of the circle of life-the return of morning to night as well as of each cycle of the seasons." Pitched in a soothing cadence, her narrative poses a series of questions, asking readers if they have heard, seen or exper...
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DEBBI CHOCOLATE is the author of more than twenty picture books, including The Piano Man, which received the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, and Talk, Talk: An Ashanti Legend, winner of the Parents Choice Award. She lives outside Chicago with her family.; Title: The Piano Man
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K-Gr 2-The day after Friday is "Dadurday" at Mimi's house until her father's work schedule changes, and she is incredibly disappointed. When the twins arrived, Saturday became a time for Mimi and Dad to make silly-shaped pancakes, ride bikes to the library, and play in the rain. Now Saturday is "BADurday," "MADurday," ...
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PreSchool-K-Eleven cats-from curious to proud to happy and lazy-adorn the pages of this simple book. There are only 22 words in the whole book, descriptors for this display of Kimble's decorative folk art, for example, Mat cat; Clean cat. Created in historical milk-paint colors, these stylized cats painted on distresse...
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With illustrations reminiscent of old schoolroom posters, this picture book filled with sound effects describes two siblings en route to visit a friend. As they make their "quiet way to Wyatt's house," they listen to the "CRINCH CRINCH CRINCH!" of autumn leaves under their feet and the "SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH" of the whi...
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In Galileo's Treasure Box (1987) by Catherine Brighton, young Virginia finds the tools of her father's work: two clear pieces of glass (that, combined, would create the modern telescope), a blue glass, a red glass and a feather. An afterword explains their significance; Brighton's artwork, rendered with a Renaissance p...
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British artist Uff's attractive debut children's book presents a charming chubby-cheeked girl and the people and things she cares about. The appealing art features bright backgrounds behind Lulu and her family, who appear in full-frontal views. The text is similarly direct: "This is Lulu. Hello, Lulu." "Look at Lulu's ...
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Following the same format used in their In the Village of the Elephants, Schmidt and Wood combine simple, informative prose with action-filled photos to capture a true-life story. TJ and his mother travel from their home in Denver to Vietnam for a reunion-TJ's mother fled that country as a 10-year-old in 1975, as the w...
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Like the wolf of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, this book's smooth-talking outlaw insists he is misunderstood. The bad dog, dressed burglar style in a turtleneck and beret, says his troubles began with a deceptive ad for "free-range chickens." He and his partner in crime, a bulldog named Butch, speed away in ...
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Two unlikely friends--one from Antarctica, the other from an African jungle--meet by chance when a cruise ship puts in at the South Pole. Marco Monkey and Polo Penguin hit it off and, after visiting each other's homelands, attempt to find some middle ground that is "neither too hot for Polo nor too cold for Marco." Alt...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3-In a home filled with 1930s-style furnishings, a brother and sister hear music playing and search for the source. The music, shown in the form of small groups of curlicues and dashes, leads the children through the house to the attic, where they discover an old cathedral-style radio. Opening a litt...
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Dan McCann was a television news producer for ten years before becoming a writer. Once, when his son's red balloon got away from him in the wind and shot skyward, Dan told him it was off to the moon. That's when the thought of a "rescue mission" occurred to him. Dan lives with his wife and three children in Omaha, Nebr...
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I.Q., the pet mouse in Mrs. Furber's classroom, yearns to be an ordinary student. From his cage on a counter, he enjoys storytime ("Some books made him laugh, and some made him cry. But he loved them all"), studies the alphabet and teaches himself to read. His greatest wish, however, is to be chosen Student of the Week...
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Gr. 5-8. Troubled by the constant battling among city-states in ancient Greece, King Iphitus consulted the Oracle of Delphi, who suggested a nationwide athletic event to bring enemies together to honor the gods through friendly competition. Blacklock's text is direct and informative, if brief. Descriptions of how the g...
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PreSchool-Grade 2-Another attractive collaboration by Rockwell and Halsey. A young narrator describes the mating ritual, nest building, and feeding and brooding habits of a pair of blue jays that her class watches in a fir tree outside the window. The children's observations are enhanced by additional tidbits of inform...
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Grade 3-5-This personal photo-essay highlights the joy of being a wildlife photographer and the importance, if not critical need, to save the North American prairie and its inhabitants. The book features moving, lively writing with a strong pro-Nature Conservancy message. The excellent photography is clear, colorful, i...
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Grade 1-4Although many childrens books explore the wonders of tropical rain forests, few of them even mention their temperate counterparts. Wright-Frierson deftly weaves personal observations with scientific information in this fine introduction to the rain forest of Washingtons Olympic Peninsula. Her combination sketc...
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Ages 4-5. Not every child is eager to start school, but this record of a little boy's preview school visit, from a veteran author-illustrator, will go a long way toward dispelling such hesitancy. The classroom-to-be seems dauntingly large to the prospective kindergartner, but after visualizing what he's going to be lea...
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PreSchool-Grade 3-Snuggly bundled from head to toe and carrying an oversized backpack, a young traveler sets out across a frozen landscape. The child bravely pushes on through swirling snowflakes, slipping and sliding through the knee-deep drifts, and finally falls to the ground with a theatrical, "Can't go on." When a...
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Gr. 5-8. The arresting jacket art will draw casual readers as well as student researchers to this dynamic book from the author and illustrator of Olympia: Warrior Athletes of Ancient Greece (2001). Blacklock talks about who made up the army, how they were organized, the equipment they used, and their highly successful ...
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Grade 3-5-Readers who take a good look at dirt through Bial's eyes (and his camera lens) will never again look down on this rich, lifeful, life-giving "element." The readable, informative text introduces dirt dwellers from the tiniest protozoans through myriad invertebrates to the mammals and reptiles whose burrows aer...
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overlong overcoat, Henry can't do anything right. Every time he tries to draw a straight line, for example, "it turned out wiggly." Amy, on the other hand, does everything right; she can even write her own name. But there's the rub: "Deep down, Amy wished everything she did wasn't so perfect." When Henry and Amy bump i...
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PreSchool-Grade 3-At the beginning of this imaginative picture book, a girl finds a fossil ("I found a stone/that once was bone"). The action then jumps back in time to trace the life, death, and fossilization of the flying reptile whose remains she has discovered. The rich, rhyming text flows smoothly, lyrically descr...
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Grade 5-8. The well-established team of Hyde and Forsyth has collaborated again, this time creating an interesting and useful guide. Unlike many juvenile books that focus on a single disease or group of related ailments, this unique volume provides age-appropriate, thorough coverage of many major diseases and disorders...
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"[A] sure bet for toddler story hours." -- BooklistCaroline Uff has always found it easier to communicate with pictures than with words. When she isn't writing and illustrating her own books, Caroline works as a greeting card designer. Her first Lulu book, Hello Lulu, was followed by Lulu's Busy Day. Caroline lives in ...
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MATTHEW McELLIGOTT is the author of several books for children, including The Lion's Share, Absolutely Not, and Backbeard and the Birthday Suit. He teaches at Sage College and also visits elementary schools around the country. He lives in New York.www.mattmcelligott.com; Title: Absolutely Not
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Grade 3-6-An interesting alternative for children who love horror stories. These 12 tales from the Northeast Woodland Native American nations are based on legends and mythical creatures from eight tribes. The authors use their own styles to tell about a wide variety of monsters while remaining as close as possible to t...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2-The crew of Backbeard's ship, Five O'Clock Shadow, has thrown him a birthday party, and a good time is had by all-scratching, spitting, breaking bottles, and singing. When the festivities are over, Backbeard is filthier than usual and decides that he needs a new suit of clothes. The shop in town is...
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Grade 2-4?Shed's full-page paintings, soft-edged and golden-hued, are memory images, perfect for Hall's story of a family dairy in the early years of this century. Paul, "the milkman's boy," joins his family in bottling and delivering the raw milk by horse and wagon. Changes come to the Graves Family Dairy when their s...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2This hapless teacher and her class were first introduced in Testing Miss Malarkey (Walker, 2000). In this, the fifth book, they are off to the science center. There is very little in terms of story here, and less in the way of character development. Finchler and O'Malley follow the students as they ...
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Kindergarten-Grade 2This simplistic story falls flat. JieJie describes how she and her little brother watch their parents and their aunt and uncle enjoying mahjong all day long and into the evening. As youngsters, the siblings use the tiles for building or learning to count in Chinese. Finally, after they have grown up...
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PreSchool-Grade 2-Through offbeat humor and a simple rhyming text Hebson tells of a young boy's obsession with robots: "I see robots everywhere./With metal shoes/and springs for hair." From buying items at "Bolts 'R' Us," such as "Uncle Jon's Baby Oil for Sensitive Tin," to getting their hair done with a blowtorch and ...
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Margery Cuyler has written more than thirty books for children. Among her recent titles are Big Friends, Skeleton Hiccups, and Please Say Please! Penguin's Guide to Manners. Margery lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and two sons.Jean Cassels has illustrated more than fifty natural history books for child...
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Grade 5-7Howard's poor judgment has gotten him in trouble before, but refusing to accompany his older brother home has meant sleeping with mules for warmth all winter and fighting dogs for scraps of food. The promised position as a kitchen boy at an inn in Birchport, NY, has been snatched by a rival, and Howard's usual...
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Little Shark is born one day in the dark deepness of the sea. Soon his mother and forty-nine brothers and sisters swim away, and he is all alone.The sea is a dangerous place. There are bigger sharks that can eat him and fishermen's nets than can trap him. Little Shark must find food and stay safe so that he can grow in...
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ANNE ROCKWELL says, "I love the bright, cheerful colors of enormous work vehicles and wanted to do a picture book that captured both their strength and gaiety." She has written many books for Walker & Company including Little Shark and Becoming Butterflies.; Title: Big Wheels
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Once upon a time there was ... a princess who loved all her beautiful ponies, a cool muscle dude who rode an awesome motorcycle. But a giant came and started stealing them! The dude came to fight the ugly, smelly giant with his mighty sword. She turned gold into thread while she cried for Buttercup, her favorite pony. ...
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PreSchool-Grade 3-Ever since his first adventure in I.Q. Goes to School (Walker, 2002), the little mouse has had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. He loves learning new things with the students in the elementary school classroom that is his home. In his latest outing, he joins the class as they visit their library ...
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Grade 4-7Hubert is an unappreciated 15-year-old inventor in ancient Sumeria. His dad orders him to stop creating things after the boy's well-intentioned efforts end disastrously. When Hubert finally invents the wheel and proves its value by winning a race, things change fast. But this success leads to new complications...
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Grade 4-6–Profiles of successful entrepreneurs, educators, artists, athletes, and musicians, all of whom reached their success in spite of–or, as they sometimes claim, because of–ADD. The entries are sandwiched between advice from Edward Hallowell, a physician with ADD who has experience treating chil...
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Kindergarten-Grade 3This fictional account follows the days before and after the storm through the eyes of a girl and her family. The story is told in free verse and the rhymes are either odd ("Howling winds rattled the windows/like careless thieves,/and the eaves wheezed") or much too flowery for picture-book readers ...
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PreSchool-Grade 1-A girl describes the seasons on her family's farm in the northeastern United States: weather; development of vegetables, flowers, trees; birds' activities; chores; and her favorite pursuits. Beginning in the spring, she plants a sunflower seed and follows the plant's growth throughout the year. The cl...
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PreSchool-Grade 2As her father, a Navy man, prepares to go to sea, a young girl describes her feelings about his departure. She doesn't want to say good-bye, and he comforts her by pointing out certain imagesthe red flag on their mailbox, white clouds in the sky, and blue waterthat will help her remember him. Ultimatel...
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Whoosh! We take off, our sled nearly flying off the ground. Skookum and Hawk and Bamboo strain and huff, and we're running, racing over the soft white snow.My sled dogs have been waiting for this day since they were puppies, and I have, too. Only the shusshh of the runners and the jingling of the collars and snaps dist...
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When Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery set out in the spring of 1804, they had chosen to go on an unprecedented, extremely dangerous journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime.Unlike others in the group, two key members did not choose to join the hazardous expedition: York, Clark's slave, and Sacajawea, consid...
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PreSchool-KThe classroom pet featured in I.Q. Goes to School (2002) and I.Q. Goes to the Library (2003, both Walker) is now helping Mrs. Furber's students prepare for Parents' Night. With a digital clock prominently displayed on each page, the endearing mouse takes readers along on an hour-by-hour journey as the childr...
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"Joshua is vividly depicted through his first-person narrations and amusing interior monologues, and the conflicts he deals with are effectively realized. In all it's an entertaining boy-and-dog adventure set against a not-often-depicted era of political strife that's notably similar to the present." Kirkus Reviews"Me ...
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Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 3A boy and his faithful dog are forced to play outside by a mother who doesn't understand that using a video game is playing. Once there, the unhappy youngster finds two of his friends who are in the same situation. A game of trying to catch the last leaf on a tree, the lucky leaf, en...
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Grade 1-3Who is Earth Mother? There is no definition or description but she appears to be a form of Mother Nature, blessing and talking to all of the animals on Earth (including Man), tending the plants, bringing the snow and ice to northern climes, and touching the cycle of life. Depicted as a young African-American w...
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An elementary school soccer team, the players' overbearing parents and one terrific teacher star in You're a Good Sport, Miss Malarkey by Judy Finchler, illus. by Kevin O'Malley, the fourth installment in the series. When the adults' antics get out of hand, Miss Malarkey enforces new rules (for grown-ups). Copyright 20...
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PreSchool-KWhen night falls, parents ease their children's worries as the youngsters prepare for bed. From the strong polar bear to the tiny snail, the animal mothers and fathers are universal in their affection. The story's lulling pace enhances the quiet bedtime read-aloud. A mother rabbit assures her bunny, "If thun...
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The daughter-mother collaborators behind Sisters in Strength: American Women Who Made a Difference offer a clear portrait of South African leader Nelson Mandela. McDonough provides a straightforward chronology of her subject's life, noting influential individuals and events. At the age of 16, for example, Mandela parti...
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Kindergarten-Grade 4–A small–but naughty–devil lives in the Fells's house. When the family finally gets fed up with his infuriating antics, they call on Ms. Phisto, who specializes in minor-demon removal and light housekeeping. Dressed in a prim skirt and jacket that perfectly match her green wings, h...
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