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Barton, Chris |
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Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe
Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors* |
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Provides for young readers an illustrated history on Bob
and Joe Switzer's life and discovery of florescent
colors. |
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Baskin, Nora Raleigh |
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Anything But Typical* |
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Jason, a twelve-year-old autistic boy who wants to
become a writer, relates what his life is like as he
tries to make sense of his world. |
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Bishop, Nic |
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Nic Bishop Butterflies and Moths* |
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Simple, engaging text presents both basic information
and fun, quirky facts about the insects' appearance,
habits, and life cycle. |
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Bogacki, Tomek |
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Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak |
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In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz
Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish
children in Warsaw, Poland. |
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Bond, Rebecca |
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In the Belly of an Ox: The Unexpected Photographic
Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton |
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Richard and Cherry reasoned they might hide from birds
in the belly of an ox. Concealed in the hollow animal,
the brothers were able to photograph birds in their
natural habitats. Their results were published in 1895,
marking a new era in natural history. |
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Bredsdorff, Bodil |
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Eidi: The Children of Crow Cove* |
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Eidi leaves her mother and stepfather in Crow Cove to
live in a nearby village, where she meets the much
younger Tink and rescues him from the abusive man he has
been living with. |
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Davies, Nicola |
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Just the Right Size: Why Big Animals Are Big and Little
Animals Are Little |
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This book uses cartoon-style art and geometry to explain
the relationship between an animal's size and its
abilities. |
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DeFelice, Cynthia |
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Signal |
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After moving with his emotionally distant father to the
Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old
Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl
who may be a space alien |
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DiCamillo, Kate |
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Magician's Elephant* |
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When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene
encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day
and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead,
is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of
adventures. |
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Eliot, T.S. |
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
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An engaging collection of humorous poems many of which
were in the musical Cats. |
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Guiberson, Brenda Z. |
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Life in the Boreal Forest* |
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The boreal forest is buried in ice and snow during
winter. But in summer lakes teem with fish, and bogs
swarm with insects. Follow a snowshoe hare, beavers, a
lynx, and other animals as they survive a year in this
endangered landscape. |
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Hendrix, John |
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John Brown: His Fight For Freedom* |
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In the late 1850s, at a time when many men and women
spoke out against slavery, few had the same impact as
John Brown, the infamous white abolitionist who backed
his beliefs with unstoppable action |
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Hughes, Langston (illustrated by E. B. Lewis) |
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Negro Speaks of Rivers, The |
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Watercolor illustrations accompany the author's poem
about the strength and courage of African American
people throughout history. |
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Jonell, Lynne |
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Secret of Zoom* |
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Ten-year-old Christina lives a sheltered life until she
discovers a secret tunnel, an evil plot to enslave
orphans, and a mysterious source of energy known as
zoom. |
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Krull, Kathleen |
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Albert Einstein |
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This biography profiles the life and times of
German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose
contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize. |
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Krull, Kathleen |
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Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth* |
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This picture-book biography explains how Farnsworth held
on to his dream to develop television and the scientific
concepts behind it. |
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Lazaro, Georgina |
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Federico Garcia Lorca* |
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Poetic text recounts the childhood of the noted Spanish
poet, including his love for the nature and folklore of
his native Andalusia, his introduction to music and
literature at home, and his health problems. |
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Lin, Grace |
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon* |
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Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a
magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly
on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of
bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to
Jade River. |
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Marcus, Leonard S. (ed.) |
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Funny Business: Conversations With Writers of Comedy* |
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The thirteen interviews that compose this collection are
full of insights from the authors of humorous books for
young readers, including Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary,
Christopher Paul Curtis, and others. |
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Marrin, Albert |
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Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl* |
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In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept through the
Great Plains. Created by drought and reckless farming,
these lethal storms were part of an environmental,
economic, and human catastrophe that changed the course
of American history. |
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Montgomery, Sy |
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Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among
Snow Lepoards in Mongolia* |
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A pale, spotted, almost cloud-like coat makes the snow
leopard uncannily invisible in its rocky mountain
habitat. A team of scientists travel to Mongolia's
Altai Mountains to gather data about snow leopard
populations in an attempt to save the species. |
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Nelson, Marilyn |
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Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest
All-Girl Swing Band in the World* |
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A collection of poems and paintings paying tribute to
the 1940's all-female jazz band, the International
Sweethearts of Rhythm. |
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O'Connor, Barbara |
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Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis* |
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The highlight of Popeye's summer is learning vocabulary
words with his grandmother until a motor home gets stuck
nearby and Elvis, who lives inside, joins Popeye in
finding the source of strange boats floating down the
creek. |
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Peck, Richard |
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Season of Gifts* |
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Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old
Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to
a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life
neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel. |
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Phelan, Matt |
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Storm in the Barn* |
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In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark
faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies,
his father's failed expectations, a little sister with
an eye for trouble, and the effect of the Dust Bowl. |
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Philbrick, Rodman |
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Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg |
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Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has
extraordinary adventures after running away from his
evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into
service in the Civil War. |
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Roberts, Ken |
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Thumb and the Bad Guys |
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In the isolated Canadian fishing village where best
friends Thumb and Susan live, mystery abounds. How did
an eighteenth-century cannonball wash ashore? Why, when
the village's lone "bad guy" sneaks off into the woods
at night, do eerie screaming noises follow? |
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Sidman, Joyce |
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Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors |
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Poems and factual information about some of the
creatures that live on Planet Earth |
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Singer, Marilyn |
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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse |
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A collection of short poems which, when reversed,
provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters
they feature. |
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Siy, Alexandra |
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Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet |
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Follow the course of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers
Mission. Learn how scientists determined that there was
once water on Mars and how they resolved problems with
the rovers in order to prolong the mission. |
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Talbott, Hudson |
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River of Dreams: The Story of the Hudson River |
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A heavily illustrated introduction to the Hudson River's
strategic, economic, and cultural significance |
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Thimmesh, Catherine |
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Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came
From* |
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This story of scientific sleuthing invites readers to
wonder what our ancestors were like and recounts the
discovery of the remains of Lucy, the world's most
famous hominid. |
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Thor, Annika |
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Faraway Island* |
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In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their
parents to join them in fleeing the Nazis in Austria,
but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly,
twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the
world, with a foster mother. |
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Tracy, Kristen |
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Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus…* |
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Ten-year-old Camille McPhee relates the ups and downs of
her fourth-grade year at her Idaho elementary school as
she tries to adjust to the absence of her best friend,
maintain control of her low-blood sugar, cope with the
conflict between her parents, and understand the
importance of honesty. |
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Turner, Pamela |
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Frog Scientist* |
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Tyrone Hayes works to discover the effects pesticides
have on frogs. |
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Weitzman, David |
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Pharaoh's Boat* |
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Provides an illustrated account of the construction of
Egyptian pharaoh Cheops' funeral boat, and discusses its
discovery centuries later during an archaeological dig. |
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Wing, Natasha |
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An Eye For Color: The Story of Joseph Albers* |
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The painter Joseph Albers saw art in simple things. Late
in his career, he began painting squares of solid,
unmixed color, one within another. |
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Wood, A.J. & Clint Twist |
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Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure |
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Chronicles the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage to
South America and the Galapogos Islands aboard the HMS
Beagle. |
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Woodson, Jacqueline |
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Peace, Locomotion |
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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a
different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known
as "Locomotion," keeps a record while they are apart
including his foster brother who returns home after
losing a leg in the Iraq War. |
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Yee, Lisa |
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Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally) |
When Bobby inadvertently gets into a fight with his best
friend Holly, their disagreement develops into a boys
versus girls war involving their whole fourth-grade
class.
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