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Armstrong, Jennifer |
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Once Upon a Banana |
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Everyday signs serve as captions for this pictorial tale of what
happens after a man tosses a banana peel into the garbage can and
misses. |
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Bardoe, Cheryl |
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Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas |
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The story of genetics pioneer Gregor Mendel and his experiements
with peas. |
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Bateman, Teresa |
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Keeper of Soles |
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A shoemaker repeatedly outwits a black-robed figure who knocks on
the shoemaker's door and demands his soul. It looks like curtains
for the cobbler until he notices that Death is barefoot. |
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Chaconas, Dori |
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Cork & Fuzz: Short and Tall |
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The friendship between Cork, a muskrat, and Fuzz, a possum, is in
trouble when Cork decides that since he is older, he has to be
taller than Fuzz. |
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DeFelice, Cynthia |
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One Potato, Two Potato |
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A very poor, humble couple live so simple a life they share
everything, until the husband discovers a pot with magical powers
buried under the very last potato in the garden. |
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Diakite, Penda |
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I Lost My Tooth in Africa |
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While visiting her father's family in Mali, a young girl loses a
tooth, places it under a calabash, and receives a hen and a rooster
from the African Tooth Fairy. |
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DiCamillo, Kate |
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Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride |
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Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite
pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger
shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel. |
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Goodman, Susan E. |
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All in Just One Cookie |
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A surprizingly long list of ingredients go into making a chocolate
chip cookie. |
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Gravett, Emily |
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Wolves |
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When a young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves, he
learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know. This
delightful picture book is best shared with children who can
appreciate the sly humor. |
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Grey, Mini |
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Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon |
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Having run away together, the Dish and the Spoon from the nursery
rhyme "The Cat and the Fiddle" become vaudeville stars before
turning to a life of crime. The age-old lesson that crime doesn't
pay and the poignant beauty of true love enduring the test of time
are playfully and delicately portrayed |
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Harris, Robie H. |
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It's NOT the Stork! A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies,
Families, and Friends |
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From the expert team behind IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL and IT'S SO
AMAZING! comes a book for younger children about their bodies - a
resource that parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers,
and clergy can use with ease and confidence. |
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Hatkoff, Isabella, Craig Hatkoff, & Paula Kahumbu |
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Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship |
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Details through text and photographs the special bond shared by
Owen, an orphaned hippo, and Mzee, a 130-year-old giant tortoise. |
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Henkes, Kevin |
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Lilly's Big Day |
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When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the
mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding. |
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Hopkinson, Deborah |
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Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building |
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In 1931, a boy and his father watch as the world's tallest building,
the Empire State Building, is constructed, step-by-step, near their
Manhattan home. |
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Howe, James |
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Houndsley and Catina |
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Houndsley and Catina run into trouble when they decide to prove that
they are the best at cooking and writing, respectively. |
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Jenkins, Emily |
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Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a
Toughy Little Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic |
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Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen
to be toys. |
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Kvasnosky, Laura McGee |
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Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways |
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In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a
time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice. |
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LaRochelle, David |
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End, The |
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When a princess makes some lemonade, she starts a chain of events
involving a fire-breathing dragon, one hundred rabbits, a hungry
giant, and a handsome knight. |
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Look, Lenore |
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Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything |
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After Ruby Lu's deaf cousin, Flying Duck, and her parents come from
China to live with her, Ruby finds life challenging as she adjusts
to her new family and tries to mend her rocky relationship with her
friend Emma. |
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MacDonald, Margaret Read |
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Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! A Palestinian Folktale |
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A childless woman's prayers are answered by the arrival of a talking
pot, but the new mother knows that Little Pot must learn right from
wrong just like any child. |
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MacLachlan, Patricia & Emily Charest MacLachlan |
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Once I Ate a Pie |
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Thirteen dogs tell their stories in simple poems. |
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Markle, Sandra |
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Little Lost Bat |
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Chronicles the early life of an orphaned Mexican free-tailed bat,
from its birth to its adoption by a new mother. |
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McClintock, Barbara |
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Adèle & Simon |
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When Adele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses
one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's
shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and
more. |
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McLimans, David |
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Gone Wild |
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Presents the alphabet in capital letters designed to look like
endangered animals, and lists facts on each species, covering their
habitats, geographic ranges, threats to survival, and statuses. |
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Melling, David |
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Scallywags, The |
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The Scallywags, a family of lazy, shiftless, mischief-making wolves,
annoy all the other animals to the point where they quit getting
invited to eat, play, or join in other activities. |
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Montes, Marisa |
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Los Gatos Black on Halloween |
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Easy to read, rhyming text about Halloween night incorporates
Spanish words, from las brujas riding their broomsticks to los
monstruos whose monstrous ball is interrupted by a true horror. |
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Newman, Jeff |
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Hippo! No, Rhino! |
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When a careless worker places the wrong sign near a rhinoceros's
cage, zoo visitors continually mistake the frustrated rhino for a
hippopotamus, until a young boy comes along who can help. |
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Pennypacker, Sara |
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Clementine |
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While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her
neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique
hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish
pigeons from the front of their apartment building. |
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Schubert, Leda |
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Ballet of the Elephants |
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In this true story, find out how fifty elephants came to dance with
fifty ballerinas in a show created by the world-famous
choreographer, George Ballanchine. |
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Shannon, David |
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Good Boy, Fergus! |
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Except for his bath, Fergus experiences the perfect doggy day, from
chasing cats and motorcycles to being scratched on his favorite
tickle spot. |
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Watt, Mélanie |
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Scaredy Squirrel |
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Meet Scaredy Squirrel, a squirrel who never leaves his nut tree
because he's afraid of the unknown "out there." But then, something
unexpected happens that may just change his outlook. |
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Wheeler, Lisa |
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Mammoths on the Move |
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Follow woolly mammoths on their treacherous trek south for the
winter-- through fierce storms, across raging rivers, and past
deadly predators. |
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Wiesner, David |
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Flotsam |
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A colorful picture book that features a young, science-minded boy
who goes to the beach to collect and examine anything floating that
has been washed ashore and discovers an underwater camera that
contains a collection of unusual pictures. |
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Winter, Jeanette |
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Mama: A True Story, in Which a Baby Hippo Loses His Mama during a
Tsunami, but Finds a New Home and a New Mama |
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Set during the devastating tsunami of 2004, Mama is the touching
true story of a baby hippo that was separated from his mother when
the wave hit. Suggested read with an adult. |
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Winter, Jonah |
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Dizzy |
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Presents a biography of jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie that focuses on
his childhood, his journey to stardom, and his creation of "bebop." |
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arlene.mcdace@pinecrest.edu |
2007 Pine Crest Preparatory School, Inc. |
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