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Avi |
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Crispin: At the Edge of the World |
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Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his
guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England,
where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after
befriending a disfigured girl. |
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Brown, Susan Taylor |
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Hugging the Rock |
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Through a series of poems, Rachel expresses her feelings about her
parents' divorce, living without her mother, and her changing
attitude towards her father. |
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Campoy, F. Isabel & Ada, Alma Flor |
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Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection |
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Presents the authors' retellings of twelve traditional tales
accompanied by information on origins and different versions. |
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Coombs, Kate |
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Runaway Princess, The |
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Fifteen-year-old Princess Meg uses magic and her wits to rescue a
baby dragon and escape the unwanted attentions of princes hoping to
gain her hand in marriage through a contest arranged by her father,
the king. |
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Curlee, Lynn |
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Skyscraper |
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Examines the history of the design of tall buildings. |
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Davies, Nicola |
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Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth |
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Describes the special adaptations of animals that live in harsh
environments such as polar regions, deserts, and deep oceans. |
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De Mari, Silvana |
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Last Dragon, The |
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Struggling to survive in a post apocalyptic world after his village
is destroyed, Yorsh, the earth's last elf, must embark on a perilous
quest to decipher a powerful prophecy and find the last dragon. |
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Demi |
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Su Dongpo: Chinese Genius |
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A biography of Su Dongpo, Chinese poet, civil engineer, and
statesman, whose appreciation for nature and justice were evident in
his works and led him to experience both triumph and adversity in
11th century China. |
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Ellabbad, Mohieddin |
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Illustrator's Notebook, The |
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The exploration of different ways of seeing things through
illustration enables learning how Arabic writing is an integral part
of the image in the Arabic pictorial tradition. |
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Ellis, Sarah |
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Odd Man Out |
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Kip goes to British Columbia to visit his grandmother and five girl
cousins. While there he finds an unexpected treasure--an old black
binder that once belonged to his dead father. |
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Fleischman, Sid |
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Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini |
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Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments
in show business, the story of magician Harry Houdini comes to life
through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats. |
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Fradin, Judith Bloom & Dennis Brindell Fradin |
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5,000 Miles to Freedom: Ellen and William Craft's Flight from
Slavery |
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Ellen and William Craft were two of the few slaves to ever escape
from the Deep South. Their first escape took them to Philadelphia,
then on to Boston pursued by slave hunters, and finally 5000 miles
across the ocean to England. |
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Freedman, Russell |
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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus
Boycott, the end of segregation on buses. |
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Freedman, Russell |
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Adventures of Marco Polo |
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Freedman takes readers along on Polo's journey in a book that is as
beautiful as many of the sights the explorer observed. |
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Grimes, Nikki |
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Road to Paris, The |
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Inconsolable at being separated from her older brother,
eight-year-old Paris is apprehensive about her new foster family but
just as she learns to trust them, she faces a life-changing
decision. |
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Henderson, Kathy |
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Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War |
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An ancient Sumerian tale about the youngest and weakest of eight
brothers who, caught up in an ill-advised war, uses his wits and
courage and eventually becomes king. |
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Hollyer, Belinda (editor) |
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She's All That! Poems about Girls |
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A collection of eighty poems written for a young female audience
covers coming-of-age issues such as friendship, family, love, and
school by such writers as Maya Angelou, Roald Dahl, Gertrude Stein,
Carl Sandburg, and Ogden Nash. |
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Holm, Jennifer L. |
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Penny From Heaven |
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As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new
insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret
about her father's death. |
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Kurlansky, Mark |
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Story of Salt, The |
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The story of the only rock we eat, including its origin, the other
discoveries made because of it, and tales of salt and the people who
have been involved with it through the ages. |
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Larson, Kirby |
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Hattie Big Sky |
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After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana,
sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to
make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems
related to the war being fought in Europe. |
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Lord, Cynthia |
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Rules |
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Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old
Catherine longs for a normal existence buther world is further
complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic. |
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Lowry, Lois |
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Gossamer |
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While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream-giver tries to save
an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and
the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds. |
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Lupica, Mike |
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Heat |
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Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services
after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival
coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to
offer them proof. |
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Marrin, Albert |
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Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People |
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Weaving science, history, culture, and folklore to take a look at
rats and their relationship with humans. |
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McClafferty, Carla Killoough |
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Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium |
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Meet Manya Sklodowska, better known today as Marie Curie, the
co-discoverer of radium, and who became the first woman awarded the
Nobel prize for her work on the discovery. Learn what life was like
for Marie, and the effect her discovery had on the world. |
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McKissack, Patricia C. |
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Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksers, Tricksters, and Other Wily
Characters |
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A collection of tales, told to the author by her grandparents,
combines humor, legend, and horror and is based on
early-20th-century African-American oral history. |
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Montgomery, Sy |
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Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of
New Guinea ( Scientists in the Field Series) |
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Follow a group of explorers and scientists as they travel to Papua
New Guinea to find a type of kangaroo that lives in trees. |
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Mourlevat, Jean-Claude |
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Pull of the Ocean, The |
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Loosely based on Charles Perrault's "Tom Thumb," seven brothers in
modern-day France flee their poor parents' farm, led by the youngest
who, although mute and unusually small, is exceptionally wise. |
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Myers, Walter Dean |
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Jazz |
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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music. |
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Oberman, Sheldon (retel) |
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Solomon and the Ant and Other Jewish Folktales |
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A chronologically arranged collection of more than forty Jewish
folktales with commentary, including "The Seven Questions of
Alexander the Great," "A Special Way of Thinking," and "Which One
Was Blind?" |
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Paterson, Katherine |
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Bread and Roses, Too |
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Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try
to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill
workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. |
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Patron, Susan |
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Higher Power of Lucky |
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to
France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to
run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will
bring stability to her life. |
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Paulsen, Gary |
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Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the true and Fictional Account of the
Most Valiant Marshal in the West |
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An account of the life of Bass Reeves. |
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Pearsall, Shelley |
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All of the Above |
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Five urban middle school students, their teacher, and other
community members relate how a school project to build the world's
largest tetrahedron affects the lives of everyone involved. |
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Raczka, Bob |
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Here's Looking at Me: How Artists See Themselves |
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Fourteen famous artists' self-portraits illustrating their different
styles and views of themselves. |
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Rampersad, Arnold & David Roessel (eds.) |
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Langston Hughes |
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A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies
some of his better known poems for children. |
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Roberts, Ken |
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Thumb on a Diamond |
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Leon, aka "Thumb", and his best friend Susan decide to form a
baseball team so that they and their friends can get out of their
small village and see the city of Vancouver when they win the
regional championship. |
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Rubin, Susan Goldman & Ela Weissberger |
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Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin |
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Discover the North Pole and the arctic ice that covers the ocean
water there. Learn about historical expeditions, and the recent one
the author joined and where these chapters were written. |
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Salisbury, Graham |
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House of the Red Fish |
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Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of
Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling
anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to
salvage his father's sunken fishing boat. |
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Schlitz, Laura Amy |
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Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama |
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At the Barbary Asylum for Female Orphans, eleven-year-old Maud is
adopted by three spinster sisters moonlighting as mediums who take
her home and reveal to her the role she will play in their seances. |
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Sidman, Joyce |
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Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow |
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A picture-book collection of verse that celebrates an ecosystem with
a combination of poetry riddles and science wisdom. |
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Siegel, Siena Cherson |
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To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel |
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In graphic format, the author shares her story of how, after being
diagnosed with flat feet, she decided to take ballet classes at the
age of six and was accepted to the School of American Ballet when
she was eleven. |
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Singh, Vandana |
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Younguncle Comes to Town |
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In a small town in northern India, three siblings await their
father's youngest brother, Younguncle, who is said to be somewhat
eccentric. |
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Thimmesh, Catherine |
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Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon |
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Culled from direct quotes from the people behind the scenes, NASA
transcripts, national archives and NASA photos, the whole story of
Apollo 11 and the first moon landing emerges. |
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Tingle, Tim |
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Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom |
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In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a
plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his
family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom. |
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Walker, Paul Robert |
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Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers, and Scouts Tell Their
Stories |
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Chronicles the events of the battle at Little Bighorn River in 1876
from first-hand accounts of the Native Americans, soldiers, and
scouts who witnessed it; along with a description of the
archaeological evidence collected on the site. |
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Weatherford, Carole Boston |
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom |
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Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God
guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the
brutal practice of forced servitude. |
