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"A magical combination of great train sounds and stellar art." - Elizabeth Birds, A Fuse #8 Production/School Library Journal Blog"There's more than just "choo-choo" along this track" - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review"Energetic" - School Library Journal"Each of Light's trains has a distinct personality, and locomotive l...
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David Borgenicht is a writer, editor, publisher, and co-author of all the books in the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series. He lives in Philadelphia.Robin Epstein is the co-author of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School. She lives in New York City.; Title: The Worst-Case Scenario Survival H...
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K-Gr 2This winning picture book takes on a subject that one wouldn't think, at first glance, would be of interest to modern-day audiencesa look at the life of an 18th-century publisher and shopkeeper. But said publisher is none other than John Newbery, who embraced the teachings of John Locke and is credited with intro...
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Starred Review. Tullet's brilliant creation proves that books need not lose out to electronic wizardry; his colorful dots perform every bit as engagingly as any on the screen of an iPad. "Ready?" the voiceover-style narration asks on the first page; it shows a yellow dot on a plain white background. "Press here and tur...
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Caterpillar is respected worldwide as the top producer of construction and mining equipment and machines.; Title: My Big Book of Trucks and Diggers
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Hena Khan's first picture book, Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story, was a 2009 Booklist "Top 10 Religion Book for Youth." She lives in Rockville, Maryland, with her husband and sons.Mehrdokht Amini has illustrated 11 books for children. She grew up in Iran and now lives in Surrey, England.; Title: Golden Domes a...
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Gr. 3^-6. The gardening of the title refers to windowsill or kitchen gardens. Kite approaches the topic from a variety of angles, with snippets of history, crafts projects, and science experiments in her roundup. She includes projects that yield quick results as well as those that require time, and the projects with pi...
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Paul Frank's collection of uniquely designed clothing, accessories, and home furnishings features many popular characters, including Julius.; Title: Only in Dreams (Julius!)
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish; Title: The Fascinating World of Snakes
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All of the Eric Carle stationery features 8 cards and 8 envelopes and Eric Carle's delighful artwork of animals: Eric Carle Birthday Thank-Yous Eric Carle Birthday Invites Eric Carle Baby Shower Invites Eric Carle Baby Shower Thank-Yous Eric Carle Birth Announcements (Boy) (comes with 32 photo corner stickers) Eric Car...
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Text: English, Spanish (translation); Title: Prehistory to Egypt (Journey Through History) (English and Spanish Edition)
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish; Title: The Fascinating World of Frogs and Toads
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Text: English, Spanish (translation); Title: The Greek and Roman Eras (Journey Through History) (English and Spanish Edition)
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PreS - K A book about vision that will not awaken young minds to the wonders of seeing. The illustrations show frightened looking children staring in different directions. It appears that they are unable to focus their eyes on the object mentioned in the text. The illustrations are accompanied by dull, repetitious sent...
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Text: English, Spanish (translation); Title: Smell (Five Senses Series)
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Text: English, Spanish (translation); Title: Touch (Five Senses Series)
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Text: English, Spanish (translation); Title: Modern Times: Journey Through History (English and Spanish Edition)
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Text: English, Spanish (translation); Title: Taste (Five Senses Series)
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish; Title: The Fascinating World of Bees
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Text: English, Spanish (translation); Title: Hearing (Five Senses Series)
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Text: English Introduction: Hebrew; Title: Once upon a Potty: Hers
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Text: English, Dutch (translation); Title: Games With Vera (Vera De Muis) (English and Dutch Edition)
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PreSchool-Grade 2 A primary introduction to several body systems, including skin and muscles, respiration, bones and teeth, digestion, and circulation. The information given about each system is brief, and most technical terms have been simplified. Smallman makes good use of analogies to explain several body functions ...
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Gr. 4-8. Books of African folk tales abound, but Greaves takes the unusual approach of combining folk tales with factual information about various animal species. Most of the stories deal with the ways that animals have acquired a distinguishing characteristic, and Greaves arranges his material to spotlight one animal,...
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian; Title: Aesop's Fables
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Text: English, French; Title: I'm Too Big / Je Suis Trop Gros (I Can Read French)
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PreS. McGrath, of Sesame Street fame, offers a different sort of toilet-training book. Unlike other stories that follow an individual through the process, or factual books written for parents to discuss toilet teaching, Uh Oh! shows approximately 20 children, each accompanied by a sentence describing a potty experience...
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Text: English, French; Title: Happy Birthday! : Bon Anniversaire (I Can Read French)
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Text: English, Spanish; Title: Buenas noches a todos / Goodnight Everyone
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish; Title: The Fascinating World of Ants
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Text: English (translation) Original Language: Spanish; Title: The Fascinating World Of...Bears
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Text: Spanish, English; Title: Libro de sinónimos y antónimos para niños
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The best of Munsch's many storybooks. -- Leanne Dohy "Calgary Herald" (09/25/2003)The one book that has the most meaning to me. -- David Maloof "Boston Globe" (09/15/2002)No one can read this without the tears falling. -- Sharon Owen "Madera Tribune" (05/08/2003)#5 on Instructor's "Teachers Pick the Top 50 Kids Books E...
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Jan Wahl is the author of more than one hundred books for children. He lives in Toledo, Ohio.; Title: The Furious Flycycle
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Grade 4 Up-- A basic introduction to stargazing in the northern hemisphere. After a brief but unusually clear description of what's out there, Pearce presents four seasonal views of the night sky in white on blue backgrounds. Eight visible constellations are pictured and the orgin of the name of each is briefly describ...
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Collections for Young Scholars: Book 2 (Collections for Young Scholars , Vol 1, No 2); Title: Collections for Young Scholars: Book 2 (Collections for Young Scholars , Vol 1, No 2)
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With a foreword by Jane Yolen, Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West, ed. by Marianne Carus, illus. by Nilesh Mistry, brings together 15 serpent stories set in, among other places, England's Nottingham Forest, the waters surrounding Korea and a seaside village in Japan. Contributors include Patricia MacLachla...
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Great condition. A bargain. All pages legible!; Title: Collections for Young Scholars (Collections for Young Scholars , Vol 2, No 2)
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Grade 4-6-The most famous image of Nefertiti is a carved bust attributed to the sculptor Tutmose. This is the story of the artist as a child, son of Harkhuf the animal dealer. Tutmose and his brother, Ibrim, who is blind, go to live with the pharaoh Akhenaten, and Harkhuf receives honors such as being made a "Man of Go...
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Grade 4-7In this inventive novel that mixes fantasy, humor, horror, and mystery, Emma, a 12-year-old orphan, runs away from her foster father, Darien Drinkwater, when he suddenly becomes hostile following the death of her foster mother. At a local mall, she meets Feather, the Muse of Plants. When he returns home to Kok...
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Grade 10 Up-Running away from her latest foster home, 17-year-old Del begins her new life trapped in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway, gathering the experiences that will fuel her successful later life as Elena Franco, playwright and performance artist. When a serious accident turns the Santa Monica freeway into a virt...
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Grade 3-6Imaginative fifth-grader Eric is running through a slushy Michigan park, trying to escape aliens. He rejoins the real world when he meets brainy Jon, his best friend. When they spot the for sale signs for Lenox Field, Eric decides that he must save the park and decides that the best way to do so is to get his ...
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Grade 4-8The creators of Dare to Be Scared (Cricket, 2003) once again combine their talents to present deliciously frightening tales. As in the first book, San Souci uses elements of urban legend and folklore to weave powerful and suspenseful yet age-appropriate stories that youngsters will revisit, finding new meaning...
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Gr 3-5-Veronique Vo, nine, yearns for her familiar country home in Normandy after she moves with her family and nanny/housemaid to Paris. Anxiety about starting a new school, making friends, and navigating a strange city is exacerbated when her mother rashly fires Francine and Vero is left in the care of her 12-year-ol...
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Grade 3-6--In his introduction, Brewer explains the value of laughter, points out that wordplay helps to "fire up the brain," and informs readers that telling jokes will allow them to practice their verbal abilities. He also includes some great tips on how to remember, deliver, and create your own quips. This section i...
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Grade 6 Up-This is an engaging account of the years the Bohemian composer spent in the U.S. during the early 1890s, teaching at the National Conservatory of Music in New York City and composing his New World symphony and shorter works. The development of Dvork's controversial views-that a truly distinct American music ...
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Grade 6 Up-A harmonious blend of travelogue, sketchbook, and poetic reflections, this offering will be enjoyed for its content and its teaching potential. In 1988, Grimes traveled to China with a theater group and recorded her impressions of the country. Tethered by her African-American roots, she paints her personal v...
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Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize, ed. by Patrice Vecchione, offers up more than 50 poems for kids to commit to memory, from Gwendolyn Brooks's opening call to action, "Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward" to e.e. cummings's alliterative "maggie and milly and molly and may" to Langston Hughes and Shak...
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Grade 3-5–In this clever tale, Mr. and Mrs. Hilbert are the proprietors of the Hotel Infinity, an establishment for Numbers of all sizes. The odds and evens live happily together, playing games like addition and subtraction until Zero comes to call. Mr. H refuses to admit him on the grounds that, Zero is not a Nu...
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Set in contemporary Israel, this thought-provoking first novel defines the problems a Jewish girl encounters when she befriends an Arab schoolmate. Although she has been raised to view Arabs as the enemy, 13-year-old Karen is drawn to her track teammate Yasmine, who shares her love of running. Both dream of winning an ...
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Grade 69San Souci serves up 13 more spooky tales, and Ouimet's macabre black-and-white illustrations are a perfect complement to each one. The selections are short enough for read-alouds or for independent readers to complete in one sitting. As in the previous two books, San Souci uses themes from folktales and urban l...
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Grade 2-5-This is a warm and fast-paced story about a boy who overcomes his problems. Hamish used to love books–until he realized he couldn't read. His idea of reading is to stand in front of an open volume, make up a story, and tell it with lots of expression. Everyone thinks his tales are wonderful, and teacher...
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Grade 1-4In a fictional ancient Chinese empire, a cat named Dream-of-Jade befriends the lonely and badly advised Celestial Emperor. First she saves his life by noticing that the neglected ceiling above his throne is about to collapse, and then she teaches him the invigorating effect of a bit of physical labor. Next she...
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Kids thrive on mental stimulation--but it has to be fun. This book truly does the job. The big volume is well sized for children to handle, printed large for easy reading, and is loaded with picture puzzles, word play, logic and math teasers, general games, and trivia. Games Magazine's famous sense of humor will make y...
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Written by members of the Teen Book Project and inspired by the classic Our Bodies, Ourselves, this third edition of a book first published in 1981 provides information about health and sexuality for teenagers. Presented here is the latest information on the physical and emotional aspects of puberty, sexuality, healthc...
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he success of his highly praised volume of poetry, Always a Reckoning, former president Jimmy Carter now pens his first children's book, illustrated by his daughter Amy. Young Jeremy, who cannot walk, is abandoned at the seashore one day when the others flee at the sight of a terrifying sea monster. With no choice but ...
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encounters the king and pawn endgame, the most common finish to a chess match. In <i>The Chess Kid's Book of the King and Pawn Endgame</i>, MacEnulty shows advanced beginner and intermediate players the most important positions and combinations of this tricky ending, including the ideas of key squares and o...
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In chess, tactics are the tricks and techniques players use to get a quick advantage over their opponents. David MacEnulty, a coach in New York City's award-winning Chess-in-the-Schools program, teaches students how to develop a tactical mindset. In The Chess Kid's Book of Tactics, he instructs 6-10-year-old players in...
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Learn What it Takes to Win a Chess TournamentRobert M. Snyder is one of America's top chess trainers for young players and the coach of many first-place tournament players. In Winning Chess Tournaments for Juniors, he reveals the secrets of his students' success. In addition to providing preparatory advice and tactical...
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In Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors, game master Robert M. Snyder takes games played by the world?s best players?including Bobby Fischer, Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky?and creates lessons designed for rapid game improvement. Targeted at 8-13-year-olds, this book explains the ideas behind every move in a format that...
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The latest in the McKay Chess Library for KidsCheckmate is the ultimate goal of chess. In The Chess Kids Book of Checkmate, chess teacher David MacEnulty teaches the rules of checkmate to players between the ages of 6 and 10. The big idea in The Chess Kids Book of Checkmate is that many checkmates fall into well-known ...
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A frank and candid resource for adolescents.People Fondas warmth and love for the teen community is evident.Publishers Weekly Clear, practical, and riveting, Being a Teen cuts away at myth, enhances teens self-esteem, and arms them with a trove of useful information. Beautifully organized . . . Any parent, teacher, coa...
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"A marvelous account of Floridas Indians for young readers." -- Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural HistoryKelley Weitzel is senior preserve naturalist at the Pelotes Island Nature Preserve. Her previous book The Timucua Indians A Native American Detective Story (UPF, 2000) received the Florida Historical Soc...
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"This book is a delight from beginning to end. I believe I love it as much as my two daughters do, and they adore it. A is for Appalachia! is entertaining, informative, and a perfect read. I can't recommend it enough."Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, and Something's Rising: A...
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"Linda Hager Pack has produced a book that is as enjoyable as it is important. Appalachian Toys and Games from A to Z keeps these beloved mountain pastimes alive for future generations to enjoy and celebrate."Jason Howard, author of A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music""Appalachian Toys and Games fro...
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K-Gr 3Norris, a native of eastern Kentucky, has gathered a collection of traditional Appalachian nursery rhymes heard in school yards and frequently altered by children as they played. His introduction relates little about the origins of "Mommy" Goose, but the photographs of folk artist Adkins's hand-carved and hand-pa...
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This is a story of the Lenape Indians - hunters, fishers, artisans-who lived in the hills and barrens, rivers and forests of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.; Title: The Indians of New Jersey: Dickon Among the Lenapes
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A delightful story that illustrates the mail delivery system for Great Lakes freighters.In the port city of Manistee on the coast of Lake Michigan lives a girl named Mary. Mary's father is a sailor who works on a lake freighter called the Big Laker. The Big Laker delivers iron, stone, and coal to the many cities along ...
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A lively and engaging story that is steeped in history but cleverly weaves in universal elements of family, father-son relationships, boyhood friendships, and life's challenges. --Juanita Moore, president and CEO of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in DetroitA look at issues of race in Depressio...
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For young readers, the powerful story of an African American girl's train journey south from Detroit in 1937.In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy Ford takes care of her three younger sisters and helps her mother put up fresh fruits and vegetables in the family's summer kitchen, adjacent to the wood yard tha...
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An exciting trip below the surface of Michigan's rocks and fossils.Most people recognize Michigan by its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula and the Great Lakes embracing the state. Underneath the earths surface, however, is equally distinctive evidence of an exciting history. Michigan rests on sedimentary rocks that reach d...
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This series of board books offers parents and religious educators a colorful, warm, and uncomplicated way to respond to or to awaken young children's interest in God. Children learn about The Presence of God, The Word of God, The Love of God, and Faith in God, through simple verses that speak to their experience, and a...
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"Skillfully crafted to capture the imagination of children..."Grouped around the theme of dreams and visions, God Speaks to Us in Dreams and Visions reveals for children ages 5-10 how God speaks to us through our world, through our history and our literature, and through other people, in our own hearts and lives, in ou...
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No words, no language about God can ever fully reflect the divine mystery. The "loving Father" image with which most children are familiar tells them much about our God, but it cannot say it all. Heart Talks with Mother God is an extraordinary book for parents, teachers, and caregivers who want to help young children e...
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"This is an outstanding contribution for assisting children in encountering the Catholic Bible." "Children will love both the stories and the pictures. This edited version should well prepare them for a later appreciation of the full biblical text."Text: English (translation) Original Language: Catalan; Title: The Bibl...
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The book is a real treasure for Spanish speaking families or individuals learning to pray in English or for English speaking families or individuals learning to pray in Spanish. People engaged in Hispanic ministry will find this useful for people at all age levels.Stefanie Weisgram, OSB, Review Editor, Sisters TodayWha...
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Food is essential for human life; God Speaks to Us in Feeding Stories, a collection of biblical tales related to the themes of feeding and meals, shows children that food, a powerful biblical metaphor for the Eucharist, is also vital for spiritual life. God's Word nourishes us, fortifies our lives, and speaks to us in ...
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This one-volume edition of our popular "board" book series by the same name offers parents and religious educators a colorful, warm, and uncomplicated way to respond to or to awaken young children's interest in God. Children learn about the presence of God, the Word of God, the love of God, and faith in God through sim...
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Warmly illustrated by Katalin Szegedi, The Weight of a Mass is an original cultural folk tale based on a true story . . . its luminous artwork and fairy-tale ending win the children’s imagination.Faith & FamilyLilting storytelling style. Charming.School Library JournalWholly beautiful.Kirkus ReviewsCouched in the...
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A lavishly illustrated story about inspiration, courage, and the wonder of seeing architectural beauty gradually take shape." --Midwest Book ReviewAmbrose the mouse longs to follow in the tradition of his mouse family and help to build the cathedral. However, his mouse cousins tease him because he has been too bus...
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The captivating and brilliantly colored star in The Christmas Star will hold your toddler’s interest at home or church. The board book tells the Christmas story in a delightful new way, with beautiful images that will captivate the imagination of your children while also teaching a message about giving.Faith & Fa...
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Great copy; Title: To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
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-This compendium is a veritable treasure trove of information, divided into 19 chapters that cover such topics as "Diet and Health," "Religion," "The Cities," "Science and Technology," "Crime and Violence," and "Popular Life and Recreation." There are general details of Colonial life as well as obscure and difficult-to...
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Densely packed with more than 400 tables, 100 black-and-white illustrations and maps, and much basic printed text, this book covers the American revolutionary period in 19 topical chapters. Most topics-geography, demographics, the economy, health, education, religion, science, the arts, popular culture, crime-receive a...
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In a period when publishers are rushing histories of the 20th century into print, what a pleasure it is to encounter two titles on the 19th century. Though the two books differ greatly in concept and neither is complete in coverage, they help fill a surprising void in general histories of the previous century. Editors ...
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Gr. 7-10. Here's an example of what happens when solid, well-written information is poorly formatted. The Decades of American History series treats each 10-year period thoroughly. This volume begins with a look back at the Roaring Twenties, then goes on to discuss such topics as the stock market crash; the presidencies...
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Dr. Elaine Graham-Kennedy is a Christian geologist who believes in the biblical account of Creation. She has spent her life studying issues of science and faith and has 14 years of field experience in Grand Canyon studying boulder beds and in Patagonia, Argentina where she studied dinosaur "nests." Dr. Kennedy complete...
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Southwestern Union and editor of the Record. With degrees in theology and education, and as the author of the popular Detective Zack books, Great Stories for Kids, What We Believe for Kids, Messiah, and Conversations With Jesus, Jerry is uniquely qualified to translate the concepts found in the classic book Steps to Ch...
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This is the story of two courageous boys and of how they saved their village by undertaking a westward trek to the home of the Rain and Snow spirits to plead for water. Ortiz's graceful words accompany stunning full color illustrations by Micheal Lacapa to form an breathtaking story suitable for all ages.; Title: The G...
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Grade 2-6-Butler offers lots of information about Minnesota in an alphabetical arrangement from "Agriculture" to "Zoo." Each letter provides an opportunity to cover another aspect of the state. The author incorporates a fair amount of history and a smattering of geography and ecology among her host of topics. The text ...
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Gr 2-3Couching the adaptations of plants, insects, and animals that live in the Big Bog in Minnesota as secrets of survival, this oversize picture book becomes a real page-turner. Readers learn that lady's slippers get the nutrients they need from fungi, and that frogs sleep through the winter without freezing because ...
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PreS-Gr 1Turn the pages to play a counting game and find the flora and fauna in the Minnesota environs, namely, the lakes, bluffs woods, prairies, marshes, and bogs. The first one in this North Star state is easy to play, because it begins with one moose browsing "by a cobble beach." By the 10th spread, though nine pra...
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"A truly significant effort—every tribe should support this kind of writing about their history and traditions." —Vine Deloria, JrEdward Benton-Banai is a Wisconsin Ojibway of the Fish Clan and a spiritual teacher of the Lac Court Orielles Band of the Ojibway Tribe. One of the original founders of...
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Gr 14This exploration and imaginative re-creation of the prairie habitat that once covered almost 40 percent of the United States is much more than a mere gardening book. Double-page woodblocks on stark white backgrounds depict the habitat replaced by wheat farms and cattle ranches. The delicate colors belie the streng...
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PreS-Gr 2-Before most people rise and shine on a Minnesotan North Woods island, nature is busy preparing the view. Casanova and Wroblewski deliver a book that proves as much. Readers meet moose, herons, black bears, and other regional natives, and are introduced to living things like yarrow, goldenrod, and lichen. The ...
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Known for their vibrant and imaginative interpretations of Scandinavian folklore, Greek and Norse mythology, and American history, the books of Ingri and Edgar Parin dAulaire have entertained readers for more than seventy-five years.; Title: Leif the Lucky
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 "This tiny tome would make a wonderful gift for a Minnesota baby or a parent-to-be. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s soon a staple in our kiddos’ home libraries." —Mpls-St. Paul MagazineHumorist and journalist Abe Sauer is the author of How to Be: North Dakota. He lives in Minneso...
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Gr 13Dedicated to "those who take care of our green places," this true account of how native Iowan Michael Osterholm "found" and restored a lost creek teaches children about ecosystems, problem-solving, and determination. When a neighbor told Osterholm that he once caught a brook trout in Osterholm's newly acquired cor...
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Gr 9 UpOwen Jensen, 19, longs to break away from his family's creamery business and start his own auto dealership in 1920s rural Ranier, MN. After his father unexpectedly dies, Owen, as the eldest of six brothers, gets dragged further into the responsibilities of the creamery and yearns for a life that would have inclu...
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Lise Lunge-Larsen is the author of seven books for children, including Race of the Birkebeiners. ; Title: The Troll With No Heart in His Body and Other Tales of Trolls from Norway
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