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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 43
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Concrete Poems

Summary: This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways. Concrete poetry is a perennially popular poetic form because they are fun to look at. But by using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write!
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 37
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Cars, Transportation

Summary: This Collection presents thirteen poems about wacky, imaginative cars, including the "Sloppy-Floppy-Nonstop-Jalopy," the "Bathtub Limousine," and the "High Heel Car."
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RL: Preschool-K
Pages: 38
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Children's Daily Experiences

Summary: These poems follow young children throughout their day, celebrating all of the seemingly small, but potentially special, moments they experience. There are poems about hugging a dog and climbing a tree, getting dressed and playing tag.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Found Poems

Summary: This book presents poems by thirty contemporary poets that were created from words found in school notes, advertisements, street signs, Twitter feeds, and other unlikely sources.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 48
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Nature

Summary: This is a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson, who used words to paint vivid pictures of the world around her.
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RL: Kindergarten - Grade 2
Pages: 68
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Animals, Nature

Summary:An illustrated collection of poems about all sorts of subjects, including animals and nature "Wishes," "Ducks," "When I Need a Real Baby," and "Growing."
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Folklore, Poetry
Topics: Native American Legends

Summary: This book adapts twelve tales from various North American Indian cultures into poems. They describe how Sky Bear, the Big Dipper, sees the earth from the sky.
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RL: Grades 2-6
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Language - Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking

Summary: Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins shares poems celebrating words in speech, reading, language, and drama and how they influence our lives. It includes works by Emily Dickinson, Eve Merriam, and Nikki Grimes.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 30
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Saying Thank You

Summary: Poems about being thankful. In sixteen poems that range in form from a haiku to a rebus to a riddle, Nikki Grimes reminds us how wonderful it is to feel thankful, and how powerful a simple "thank you" can be.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry, Informational
Topics: Boats and Watercraft

Summary: Poems describe a variety of watercraft, from birch bark canoes to cruise ships, and reveal their impact on the world.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 87
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry, Humor
Topics: Silly Poems

Summary: A collection of silly poems on a variety of subjects, from mashed potatoes on the ceiling to skunks in love.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 47
Format: [Chapter Book?], Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: School, Childhood

Summary: These poems celebrate the everyday experiences of children during the school year. The simplicity of each poem and Georgia Heard's introduction will inspire young poets to write their own.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 32
Format: [chapter Book?], Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Baseball, Sports

Summary: This is a celebration of baseball in poetry and the poetry in baseball. Poet and baseball fan Marjorie Maddox pays tribute to the details that make the national pastime an enduring and engaging sport for players and fans alike.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 44
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Dogs

Summary: A collection of dog poems, illustrated with beaded art.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Concrete Poems, Outdoor Activities

Summary: Twenty-two "concrete" poems in motion! The words leave their sensible rows, like kids at recess. Use your eyes to play catch or tag or soccer. These concrete poems are told in the voices of children.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Shapes in Nature

Summary: These poems reveal patterns in nature, like polygons, spirals, and circles. The branches of a tree are echoed in jags of lightning, in the veins of a leaf, and the veins of your body.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Reading and Books

Summary: Presents a series of poems which pay tribute to the limitless worlds available through books, as characters plead for sequels, strut fancy jackets, and have a raucous party in the aisles after a bookstore closes for the night.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry (Haiku)
Topics: Nature

Summary: The haiku in this collection capture the many wonders and beauty of nature, from a sunny morning to a rainy night's gallery of diamonds on a windowpane.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 39
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry (Story)
Topics: Superheroes

Summary: From Blunder Woman and Muffy the Vampire Sprayer to Stuporman and The Bulk, meet the members of the Superheroes Employment Agency--lovable misfits with oddball powers who make up for their lack of fame with an eagerness to please and a can-do attitude.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 86
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Poetry (Novel in Verse), Realistic Fiction
Topics: Writing Poetry, Animal Love

Summary: A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. Winner of Bookseller's Choice Award (2002).
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 31
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: The Sky

Summary: This collection of poems celebrates the beauty and wonder of the sun, moon, and stars.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 79
Format: Picture Book, Poetry Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Apologizing, Tricksters

Summary: Inspired by William Carlos William's famous poem, "This Is Just to Say," a collection of ironic apology poems imagines how tricksters really feel about the mischief they make.
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RL: Grades 1-3, 4-6
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book, Poetry Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Pay Homage to Poets

Summary: Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, the authors present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors' hearts sing and their minds wonder. Readers are invited to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 48
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Poetry, Biography
Topics: Migrant Workers, Cesar Chavez
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: This book includes lyrical prose and poems about the life of Cesar Chavez. This biography illuminates the events that made up the great labor leader's life and the ideals and inspiration that are his legacy.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: 28
Format: Poetry Collection
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Short Poems for Kids

Summary: This collection is packed with kid-friendly poems, all eight lines or less, that are short enough to be carried in one's pocket Featured authors include Patricia Hubbell, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Alan Benjamin, Jorge Torres, and Ogden Nash.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Pop-up)
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Animal Sizes, Size Perception
Summary: Big Frog really wants to fit in. But how? After much frustration, and with her friends' help, she finds out how.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Pop-up)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Fire Trucks

Summary: Slide down a pole, get behind the wheel of a fire engine, pump up the hoses, rescue a kitten from a burning building -- all in this perfect pop-up adventure.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages:
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Die-Cuts)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Getting Dressed, Clothing

Summary: Celebrate the daily routine of getting dressed in a book that features gatefolds which foreshadow the items of clothing to be seen and provide surprise reveals on each spread. Fold-out pages and die-cut magnetic closure.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (3D)
Genre: Folklore (Fairy Tale)
Topics: Snow White

Summary: This book retells the story of Snow White in six dioramas with accompanying text that create a three-dimensional fairy tale theater. It tells the story of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages:
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Pop-up)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Bedtime

Summary: A child reports that no one, from the bears under the stairs to a bug on the rug, wants to go to bed.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 12
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Pop-up & Movable)
Genre: Fiction, Supernatural
Topics: Haunted Houses

Summary: Readers tour a spooky, old house. It features pop-up scenes with lift-flaps and pull-tabs.
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RL: K - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Fantasy (Animal Story)
Topics: Cats and Mice, Adventure

Summary: A cat and mouse story. When Bo and Billy need to leave their cozy mouse home and search the big old house for food and supplies, Bo fearlessly explores every nook and cranny while Billy tries to warn him about the cat he sees.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages:
Format: Board Book, Interactive (Die-Cuts)
Genre: Arts and Visual
Topics: Visual Perception, Colors

Summary: Turn the spinning kaleidoscope lens and watch each magical page transform before your eyes! Award-winning artist Salina Yoon invites readers on an unforgettable poetic journey filled with colorful surprises.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Topics: Traditional Native American customs

Summary: Yellow Leaf is a Sioux Indian girl who was born in 1864. This is the story of her childhood and how she was raised on the Great Plains, near the Black Hills of Dakota. Read about the customs of the Sioux, how children were named, how boys learned to hunt, and how girls learned to cook and sew. Large color illustrations have flaps for young readers to lift and see Sioux customs and daily life.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Mystery)
Topics: Problem Solving with Clues, Detectives

Summary: Following the five easy steps of How to be a Famous Detective, and some rather unusual clues in envelopes addressed to him, Watson Mouse is determines to solve the mystery of the disappearance of all the cheese in town. Envelopes attached to pages throughout contain clues, detective badge, and birthday card.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Word Puzzles

Summary: Four stories are told simultaneously, with each double-page spread divided into quadrants. The stories do not necessarily take place at the same moment in time, but are they really one story?
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 55
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Folktales, Mystery, Multicultural
Topics: Mystery Endings, Solving Problems

Summary: Folktales with a mystery or problem that the reader needs to solve before the resolution is presented.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 179
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Reader), Interactive
Genre: Fiction, Humor
Topics: Problem Solving

Summary: The reader helps solve the Pepin family's unusual problems, which include having a cow who creates lemonade rather than milk and having to cope with a competitive neighbor.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: unpaged
Format: Comic Book (Middle Readers), Interactive
Genre: Science Fiction
Topic: Mystery, Adventure

Summary: A simple choice is all it takes to get started with Meanwhile. Jimmy, whose every move is under your control, finds himself in a mad scientist's lab, where he's given a choice between three amazing objects: a mind-reading device, a time-travel machine, or the Killitron 3000. Down each of these paths there are puzzles, mysterious clues, and shocking revelations. It's up to the reader to lead Jimmy to success or disaster.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 64
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Reader)
Genre: [Plot-Your-Own], Fantasy
Topics:

Summary: Meet the people and Pokémon of bustling Nacrene City in this interactive reader that lets you choose which path the story takes.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 2
Pages: 30
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Animal Story, Folktale
Topics: African Folktale

Summary: A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit ... and now the whole jungle is in an uproar because the sun won't rise. The animals discuss the situation and decide to punish the mosquito. Even today, whenever we hear a mosquito buzz, we smack it hard! Caldecott Medal Winner (1976)
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fable, Animal Story
Topics: Friendship, Cooperation

Summary: This is an illustrated adaptation of the Aesop's fable about an unlikely pair of friends. A ferocious lion spares a cowering mouse, who later mouse later comes to his rescue. Winner of the Caldecott Medal (2010).
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 63
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Folktales, Animal Stories
Topics: Native American values

Summary: A collection of traditional Iroquois tales in which animals learn about the importance of caring and responsibility and the dangers of selfishness and pride.
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RL: Preschool-Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale, Animal Story
Topics:

Summary: This book retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same pigfalls. All three pigs set out to seek their fortune, but two of them come to a sorry end.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale,
Topics: Japanese culture, cats

Summary: An adaptation of a Japanese folktale in which a feudal lord seeks a samurai cat to rid his castle of a savage rat, but soon discovers that violence is not always the best way to accomplish things.
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RL: Grades K-2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale, Animal Story
Topics: China, Birds

Summary: To test the compassion of the people in the city, the lord of the cranes leaves his home high in the mountains and travels there disguised as a beggar, but only one man, the innkeeper, passes the test.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale, Animal Story
Topics: West African Culture, Spiders

Summary: Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.
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RL: Preschool-K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topic: Running, Cheetahs, Confidence
Summary: An overly confident cheetah challenges a pack of clever kittens to a race.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Friendship, Hide and Seek

Summary: When Mudgy Moose suggests playing hide-and-seek, his friend Millie Mouse finds a hiding place so good that Mudgy trudges all through Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, looking for her and wondering why people keep giggling at him.
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Pages:
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Pandas, Sleep

Summary: The first one to awake, Milton the Panda tries hard to wake all the other animals but to no avail.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 305
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: ?

Summary: Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass wall. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home - and his own art - through new eyes.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 31
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Wolves

Summary: After making several unsuccessful attempts to mimic the sounds of other animals, Little Wolf goes to his grandfather and learns how to howl.
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RL: Preschool-K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Kangaroos

Summary: A baby kangaroo takes his first tentative hops outside of his mama's pouch, meeting other creatures and growing bolder with each outing.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 276
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Adventure, Animal Story
Topics: Homesickness, Friendship

Summary: After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back. Meanwhile Pax, steadfastly waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 165
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Animals
Topics: Horses, War, Survival

Summary: Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master. Originally published in Great Britain in 1982 by Egmont.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: Unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fable, Animal Story
Topics: City and Country Life

Summary: A variation on the Aesop fable with embellishments that add a new flavor.When a town mouse and a country mouse exchange visits, they find that they prefer very different ways of life.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Format: Chapter Book (Primary)
Genre: Fable, Animal Story
Topics: Friendship

Summary: Continuing Aesop's fable, Fox and Crow tussle over pieces of cheese, but Mama, one of the three bears, outwits them both.
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RL: K-Grade 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topic: Seasons (Fall), Outdoors

Summary: Squirrel is too busy getting ready for winter to nibble a pumpkin with Mouse, run in the field with Dog, or otherwise play with any of the other animals.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 39
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Folktale, Animal Story
Topics: Hawaiian Culture, Belonging

Summary: This retells the Hawaiian story of Nanaue, born of human mother and shark father, who struggles to find his place in a village of humans.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Animal Stories
Summary: Frederick -- Fish is fish -- Alexander and the wind-up mouse -- Swimmy. Four titles previously published independently, three of which were Caldecott honor books. One sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) of word-for-word stories in back cover pocket.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 87
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Ducks, Friendship, Individuality

Summary: Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can't overlook his odd habits. It's a good thing Chad has a normal friend like Theodora to set a good example for him. But who exactly is the odd duck here? Theodora may not like the answer.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Desert Animals, Bullying

Summary: Four young coyotes harrass the animals in a desert canyon until they run into a rattlesnake. Playing off the Western setting, the author launches a discussion about bullies.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages:
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Folklore, Fables
Topics: Quirky Animals, Stories with Morals

Summary: This is a collection of six original fables with morals both silly and serious. The read-aloud text with alliteration and wordplay is coupled with quirky illustrations of creatures in absurd predicaments.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Rhyming
Topics: Owls, Nighttime Creatures

Summary: Cumulative rhythmic story of a hungry owl watching for his dinner. In this story, an owl listens for little creatures scurrying far below.The illustrations and text take readers on a suspenseful journey through night and nature.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 40
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Friendship, Courage

Summary: Miss Annie, a young kitten, joins a group of cats in her neighborhood and, through their rivalry with other groups, learns about loyalty, courage, and the dangers of the world she is so eager to explore.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Animal Story, Fable
Topic: Wolves

Summary: A crafty old wolf finds a peaceful way to satisfy his hunger in this alternate version of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," told from the wolf's point of view and set in Asia.
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RL: Grades K-2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale, Animal Story
Topics: Bullying, Goats

Summary: Billy goat brothers Gruff, Ruff, and Tuff are bullies who rule their meadow, but when they cross Little Ogre's bridge and are mean to the baby animals on the other side, they are in for a surprise.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folklore, Animal Story, Fable
Topics: Native American Story, Sharing

Summary: When Beaver challenges Turtle to a swimming race for ownership of the pond, Turtle outsmarts Beaver, and Beaver learns to share.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folklore, Animal Story, Folktale
Topics: Native American Legend, Animal Origin Story

Summary: When Bear and Brown Squirrel have a disagreement about whether Bear can stop the sun from rising, Brown Squirrel ends up with claw marks on his back and becomes Chipmunk, the striped one.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages:
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Folktales, Fables (Adapted)
Topics: Aesop's Fables - Moral or Message

Summary: Eight of Aesop's fables are retold with a difference. Clever, imaginative reworkings of these timeless tales bring ancient Greece and the character of Aesop, the freed slave turned master storyteller, vividly to life. Aesop himself introduces each story with the real-life events that inspired his tale.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale
Topics: Native Americans, Pacific Northwest

Summary: Raven, the Native American trickster, feels sorry for those who must live in darkness, and he decides to help. He flies over mountains, valleys, and lakes and discovers that light is being kept hidden inside the house of the Sky Chief. Using his cleverness, Raven finds a way to bring light to the world.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale
Topics: Wolves, Orchestral work

Summary: It is the orchestral fairy tale of the boy who, ignoring his grandfather's warning, proceeds to capture a wolf with the help of his friend the bird.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Poetry Collection
Genre: Informational, Bilingual
Topics: Nature, Water, Locations
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: The movement and moods of water on Earth are expressed poetic forms. Fourteen different water landscapes and cultural areas around the world are described.
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Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fictional Biography
Topics: Immigration, Family, Journey
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: A young boy and his father take a daring journey from Mexico to Texas to find a new life. They need courage to safely cross the border ' la frontera' and to make a home for themselves in a new land. Based on the real experiences of the author, Alfredo Alva.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Informational (Alphabet), Fantasy
Topics: Birthdays, Tricksters,
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: As Señor Calavera prepares for Grandma Beetle's birthday he finds an alphabetical assortment of unusual presents, but with the help of Zelmiro the Ghost, he finds the best gift of all. Pura Belpré Illustrator and Author Awards (2009).
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Grades K-3
Pages: 448
Format: Curricular Resource, Bilingual
Genre: Educational
Topics: Songs, Rhymes, Traditional Tales
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: This is a collection of over 450 rhymes, songs, stories, and fingerplays. It has activities that help build vocabulary and explore the sounds of language for beginning readers. It is a springboard for teaching a second language and for working in a bilingual classroom.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 146
Format: Poetry Collection (Middle Readers), Bilingual
Genre: Poetry, Folktale
Topics: Latin American Cultures, Diversity
Languages: Spanish, English

This bilingual anthology, carefully designed for middle readers, is a mosaic of voices demonstrating the energy, creativity, and diversity of the fastest-growing minority group in America. It includes folk tales, stories, and poems in English and Spanish, and brief autobiographical essays writers representing all shades of Latinos, such as Chicanos in the Southwest, Puerto Ricans in New York, and Cubans in Florida.
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RL: Grades K-2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Folktale
Topics: Cookies
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: A Mexican piggy cookie escapes from the bakery before it can be eaten and eludes an ever-growing line of people pursuing it. Includes recipe for piggy cookies.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Informational
Topics: Chinese calligraphy
Languages: Mandarin Chinese, English
Summary: This book teaches Chinese by showing a picture of an object, the ancient Chinese character, the modern calligraphy, the word in English, and the pronunciation of the Chinese word.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Adventure
Topics: Cree Indian Culture, Brothers
Languages: Cree, English

Summary: Joe and Cody are young Cree brothers who follow the caribou all year long. Joe plays the accordion (kitoochigan) and Cody dances to entice the wandering caribou. But when thousands of caribou heed their call, the boys become part of a magical adventure.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Informational
Topics: Water Cycle
Languages: Spanish, Nahuat (Aztec), English

Summary: It describes--in English, Spanish, and Nahuat--the life cycle of water from the perspective of one drop.
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RL: Grades K-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Folktale
Topics: Mexican Culture, Environment
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: This is a Mexican folktale about creation. The animals gather around a newly arrived "creature" - a human child- and decide that it is a joke of Mother Nature. They work together to save this first human child from extinction.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Historical Fiction
Topics: Japanese Internment
Languages: Japanese, English

Summary: Mari and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Centre during World War II, Mari gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 2
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Community Service, Gardening
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: After learning that a hungry classmate is taking tomatoes from their garden, Lupe and her mother invite their neighbors to help in what becomes a community garden and gathering place. It includes recipes.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages:
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers), Bilingual
Genre: Historical Fiction, Ghost Story
Topics: Haunted Houses, Mexican Americans
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: In the 1950s, fourteen-year-old Elena Padilla and her father move into a haunted house in Duston, Arizona, where only Elena can see and help the ghost of the young girl who died there.
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RL: Grades K-2
Pages:
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Chinese Characters, Seasons (Spring)
Languages: Mandarin Chinese, English

Summary: On the first day of spring, a mother and her son go to the park where they draw Chinese characters that represent words relating to the season.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Board Book, Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Laughing, Navajo Culture
Languages: Navajo, English

Summary: Various members of a family try to make the baby laugh, but only one succeeds. Who will make Baby laugh? Will it be father, older sister, grandma, or someone else in the family?
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (upside-down), Bilingual
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Family, Parents

Summary: In two bilingual stories printed back to back, children reflect on how much they resemble their parents.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: Russian Culture
Languages: Russian, English

Summary: A young boy describes his typical day in Russia, going to a music school and seeing many famous sights.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 31
Format: Chapter Book (Primary), Bilingual
Genre: Fantasy
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: When Paul and Anna come to visit their father in the woods, Anna is scared that there are ghosts, and when she finds a strange whistle with special powers, she thinks it was left by a ghost. Includes a quiz.
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RL: Grades K-2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: Dancing, Children's Day (Mexico)
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: Lupita is excited about dancing La Raspa, a Mexican folk dance, with her first-grade class at a celebration of Children's Day, El Día de los Niños, but just before the performance her partner, Ernesto, sprains his ankle.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 61
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers), Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: Junie López tells, in English and Spanish, of the long friendship between his Mexican American grandfather, Grandpa Lolo, and Manuelito Yazzie, a Navajo, that began with the sale of a horse. Includes glossary.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 96
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers), Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Mystery
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: When the prettiest girl in fifth-grade asks sleuth Mickey Rangel to prove her innocent of stealing a valuable pen, he ignores his instincts and takes the case, aided by a note from an unknown "angel." Spanish and English versions bound together.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Butterflies
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: While she and her classmates wait for the caterpillars they are raising to be transformed into Monarch butterflies, Julianita's grandfather tells her about the annual migration of these butterflies to his hometown in Mexico.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 207
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers), Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Sports
Topics: Wrestling, Heroes
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: Eleven-year-old Maximilian, a big fan of the form of wrestling known as lucha libre, begins to suspect that he has a close connection with his favorite luchador, El Angel de La Guardia, the Guardian Angel.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages:
Format: Reference Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Educational
Topics: Grammar, Writing Styles

Summary: For beginners to advanced students, this warm and witty guide to writing includes a writing style chapter and a guide to writing everything from school papers to letters to e-mails.
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RL: K - Grade 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational (Grammar)
Topics: Punctuation Marks

Summary: See how the punctuation marks you use (and where you put them) can completely change the meaning of what you write.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 176
Format: Comic Book
Genre: Informational (Grammar), Superhero
Topics: Grammar Elements, Superheroes

Summary: Personifies all the major elements of grammar with superhero or supervillain identities, explaining the "powers" of each part of speech while revealing important rules using colorful, memory-bolstering characterizations and comic book-style illustrations.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational (Grammar), Poetry (Rhyming)
Topics: Punctuation

Summary: Simple rhymes are used to explain rules of punctuation, like "Parentheses' two hands are gentle, enclosing words that aren't essential."
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 52
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational (Grammar), Fiction
Topics: Punctuation

Summary: A punctuation mark feels bad that he does not fit in with the others until a friend reveals the possibilities that exist when differences are accepted.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational (Spelling), Fantasy
Topics: Words with Silent Letters

Summary: When Mr. Wright's students express a dislike for silent letters, the offended letters decide to teach them a lesson by going on strike.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Spelling Bees

Summary: Participating in her class spelling bee, Phoebe uses her wonderful imagination to remember tough word spellings.
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RL: Grades K - 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Spelling, Spelling Bee

Summary: George the bear helps his best friend Abigail, a young chicken, practice for the city spelling bee, then cheers her up when she makes a mistake.
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RL: Grades K-1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Spelling
Topics: Spelling Words with E
Summary: The letter E has fallen and injured herself-- which letters will replace her and how will words be spelled without her? It's a real E-mergency!
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RL: Grades K - 1
Pages: 31
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Spelling
Topics: Spelling, Magic

Summary: Using her magical spoon to make new words by changing letters around, Anna embarks on a series of adventures with a lost little boy.
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Grades: K-6
Pages: 80
Format: Curricular Resource
Genre: Educational
Topics: Spelling, Vocabulary

Mastering spelling words is fun, interesting, and meaningful when teachers use these great activities, including games, hands-on activities like Spelling Posters, Graffiti Board Spelling, and Thesaurus Charts; plus ready-to-use reproducible pages.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational (Alphabet)
Topics: Spelling Humor, Pronunciation

Summary: This whimsical, funky book from Raj Haldar (aka rapper Lushlife) turns the traditional idea of an alphabet book on its head, poking fun at the most mischievous words in the English language and demonstrating how to pronounce them.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Informational (Spelling)
Topics: Homonyms

Summary: It presents pairs of words that sound the same but are spelled differently, such as "sale, sail" and "hair, hare." Every page hides a similar sounding word behind a flap that readers can lift up for a surprise.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Spelling, Fantasy
Topics: Homonyms

Summary: Confused by the different meanings of words that sound alike, a little girl imagines such unusual sights as "a king who rained" and "the foot prince in the snow."
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Topics: Capital Letters
Summary: The capital letters in Mr. Wright's classroom require immediate medical attention! They are suffering from severe neglect. Mr. Wright's students have completely forgotten about them--and about Teacher Appreciation Day. Luckily an EMS team is on the way for this grammar emergency in the latest addtition to Robin Pulver and Lynn Rowe Reed's langauge arts library.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Informational (Vocabulary)
Topics: Antonyms/Opposites

Summary: Readers can see a word and its meaning expressed through a picture, then lift the flap to see the opposite word and its meaning.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Informational (Vocabulary)
Topics: Opposites

Summary: Lift the flaps, pull the tabs, and turn the wheels to see all sorts of things transform into their complete opposites!
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Vocabulary
Topics: Opposites, Verbs for Daily Activities

Summary: Children explore opposites in all shapes and forms as they follow a brother and sister up the ladder, down the stairs, under the table, over the chairs.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages:
Format: Board Book
Genre: Fiction, Vocabulary
Topics: Adjectives, Opposites

Summary: Some things are quiet. Some things are loud. But everything is fun!
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming), Vocabulary
Topics: Synonyms

Summary: Clever rhymes and comical illustrations combine to explain the concept of synonyms. The latest addition to the best-selling Words Are Categorical? series, this fun-filled guide uses playful puns and humorous illustrations to creatively clarify the concept of synonyms. Key synonyms appear in color for easy identification to show, not tell, readers what synonyms are all about.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 320
Format: Reference Book (Dictionary)
Genre: Informational (Vocabulary)
Topics: Word Facts, Definitions, Synonyms, Antonyms

Summary: An illustrated dictionary, including plurals, parts of speech, and definitions, plus a thesaurus of synonyms and antonyms.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational (Vocabulary)
Topics: Verbs

Summary: Action verbs arranged alphabetically are introduced by handsome collages.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational (Vocabulary)
Topics: Gardening, Prepositions

Summary: A garden produces a variety of edible plants, such as corn that grows up, onions that grow down, and tomato vines that twine all around.
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RL: K - Grade 2
Pages:
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Vocabulary
Topics: Suffixes and Prefixes

Summary: When Mr. Wright makes his students study word endings on the last day of school, even the suffixes rebel.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Poetry (Lyrical Text), Vocabulary
Topics: Characteristics of Words

Summary: Lyrical text explores what words are and how they are used, highlighting such characteristics as that some words are spoken softly, some are shouted, some sound like their meaning, and some evoke certain feelings.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 30
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Vocabulary
Topics: Comparison Words

Summary: A pint-size superhero and a villain do battle through an amusement park in this alphabetical exploration of comparatives and superlatives.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming Story)
Topic: Opposites

Summary: You can see dots everywhere! Some are loud, and some are quiet. Some are happy, and some are sad. Some dots even taste yummy, while others taste bad. Pairs of circular shapes convey opposite relationships in the arc of a day.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Informational
Topics: Opposites, Gardens

Summary: Youngsters are invited to enter a beautiful garden and find opposites. Delightful images teach kids basic opposite concepts and about the charms and wonders of the outdoors. The book features a gatefold displaying the whole garden.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Describing Words

Summary: Kenya has a hard time choosing her favorite describing word, but finally picks a word that encompasses all her favorite things.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Topics: Journey/Quest, Courage, Friendship

Summary: A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. (2014 Caldecott Honor Book)
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: ?

Summary: Illustrations depict the enormous and complicated contraption that Mama Pig uses to get her little piglets clean on bath day.

Books by the Same Author: Oops [EZ Geisert Arthur Oops]
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Consequences

Summary: It depicts how a little spilled milk led to the destruction of the pig family's house.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 28
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational
Topics/Themes: Protection of the environment, pollution

Summary: This book uses photos to show the impact of human activity on the environment. It focuses on different habitats and how those habitats are damaged by pollution.
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RL: Preschool-K
Pages:
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Childhood Discovery

Description: A boy explores the world beneath the bubbles in his bathtub and finds surprises.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Board Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Transportation, Vehicles

Summary: It follows the journey of a truck from loading to unloading.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Seasons (Fall), Nature, Imagination

Summary: The illustrations depict fall scenes in the park - furry animals, wind jumping in a big pile of leaves. But the leaves are a giant leaf creature, visible only to children. The city is pressing in on the beautiful park -- what does the future hold?
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 33
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy (Animal Story)
Topics: Friendship

Summary: A mouse searches everywhere for a friend in this story.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Topics: Slavery, Underground Railroad

Summary: A young farm girl in the American South finds a runaway slave hiding behind the corn crib in the barn and decides to help him. It is a story about the Underground Railroad.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Visual Perception

Summary: The first book in a series. It presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus.

Books by the Same Author: REM--rapid eye movement [EZ Banyai Istvan REM], Re-Zoom [EZ Banyai Istvan Re-zoom], The Other Side [EZ Banyai Istvan Other]
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Toys, Dreaming

Summary: The toys surrounding a boy who has fallen asleep while playing in his room reappear as fantastical images as he dreams.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational, Fiction
Topics: Visual Perception

Summary: It presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a boat which becomes the image on a magazine, which is held in a hand, which belongs to a boy.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: ?
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational, Fiction
Topics: ?

Summary: The illustrations show a series of familiar scenes through many twists in point of view, such as a boy looking down out of a jet's window and another boy on the ground looking up at the same jet.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Nature, Ecology, Growing Up

Summary: Collage illustrations were created from photos by David Cummings. It shows the events and changes in a young boy's life and in his environment, from babyhood to grownup, through scenes observed from the window of his room.

Books by the Same Author: Mirror [EZ Baker Jeannie], Home [EZ Baker Jeannie Home]
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Cultural Diversity, Geography

Summary: Side-by-side stories are told through collage illustrations. In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. The Australian story is read from left to right, while the Moroccan story is told from right to left.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Cities, Neighborhoods, Belonging

Summary: It shows the changes in a city neighborhood from before a girl is born until she is an adult. A drab city street becomes a living, thriving neighborhood -- a place to call home. Collages are used to tell the story.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 64
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational (History)
Topics: Holidays, Christmas, Early 1900s

Summary: Illustrations without text depict the celebration of Christmas in an English country home at the turn of the century.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 56
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Camping

Summary: A summer camping expedition turns into a series of unexpected adventures for young Paddy.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 56
Format: Picture Book (Wordless), Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Adventure, Animal Story
Topics: Picnic, Journey

Summary: Two kittens and their mother meet with scary and unexpected adventures on a summer's day.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 64
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Topics: Toys, Journey

Summary: A koala bear, a doll, and a mouse encounter adventure and danger when they climb into a picture on the wall in the nursery.
friends, young and old.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 60
Format: Picture Book (Wordless), Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Toys, Birthdays

Summary: A gentleman rescues Shrewbettina from a purse snatcher. He goes on to help her plan and give a grand birthday party.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book (Wordless), Interactive (Movable)
Genre: Historical Fiction, Animal Story
Topics: School, Seashore, Courage

Summary: Nancy makes up for her naughtiness in school with a courageous act during a field trip to the seashore.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 60
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Adventure, Animal Story
Topics: Journey

Summary: After escaping his organ-grinder master, Jacko, a monkey, embarks on a perilous journey on a sailing ship. Every other page half size.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 72
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Informational (History)
Topics: Early 1900s England, Village Life

Summary: Illustrations without text depict everyday life in an English village during the Edwardian era.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Board Book (Wordless), Interactive (Die-Cut)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Nature

Summary: In this story without words, a boy and his dog play inside and outside of their home.
Images from the following pages appear through die-cut holes. For example, a plant outside becomes a plant in a vase.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 49
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Historical Fiction (Time Travel)
Topics: Time Travel, American History

Summary: Panoramas illustrate a traveler approaching the "New World" from the west in the present day. He journeys the eastward across the continent back through time and leaves the east coast as Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria, appears on the horizon. Translated from Japanese.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 27
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Optical Illusions

Summary: Optical illusions form structures in which little men go up stairs to get to a lower place, hang pictures on the ceiling, and walk on walls.
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RL: Preschool-K
Pages: 44
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Shopping, Flea Markets

Summary: Illustrations depict objects in a flea market and people buying the objects. It is translated from Japanese.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 47
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Geography, Culture, Travel

Summary: Illustrations depict the author's journey through northern Europe and his observations of the land, the people, and their lifestyles.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 48
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Strawberries

Summary: An old woman is pursued by a strange man who loves strawberries.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 28
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Animal Story, Adventure
Topics: Journey, Country Life

Summary: A mouse trapped inside the pages of a book chews his way out and escapes to the countryside on a paper airplane.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Wind, Weather

Summary: A little mouse who is trapped in a book discovers the wind.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless), Comic Book
Genre: Adventure, Realistic Fiction (Humor)
Topics: Consequences

Summary: This book contains 12 humorous stories about a boy who looks for adventure, but all he seems to find are misadventures.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Seasons (Winter), Dreams

Summary: The pictures have the hazy softness of air in snow. A little boy goes outside on a wintery day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night. The boy invites him home and they go on a flight high above the countryside.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless), Comic Book
Genre: Animal Story, Fantasy
Topics: Friendship

Summary: Polo the dog meets a rabbit named Lily and the two become friends. A flying cloud carrying a sleeping rabbit gets stuck in the branches of Polo's tree-home bringing an unexpected visit from a feisty, practical-joke-loving new friend.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 75
Format: Picture Book (Wordless), Comic Book
Genre: Animal Story, Fantasy, Adventure
Topics: Journey

Summary: Polo the dog sets out from his home and enjoys many adventures, including sailing his boat on top of a whale, roasting hot dogs over a volcano, and taking a ride in a spaceship built from a mushroom.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Music, Nature, Animals

Summary: While walking through the woods on his way to his tuba lesson, a boy becomes sidetracked by all the animals that want to hear him play.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Adventure
Topics: Journey, Pets and Animals, Friendship

Summary: A wordless journey with a girl, her dog, and a lost bird.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 50
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Shapeshifting, Monkeys

Summary: The wordless adventure of two children whose misdeeds are punished when they're transformed into monkeys. In the tradition of kamishibai, or Japanese paper theater.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book (Wordless)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Ocean

Summary: When a young boy discovers a camera on the beach and develops the film, he finds with his microscope many layers of pictures within the photographs. Art techniques used: Vibrant yet detailed watercolor images with a cinematic style.
Winner of the Caldecott Medal (2007).
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 144
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Fantasy, Folktale
Topics: American West, Rapunzel

Summary: In this Old West retelling of the classic fairy tale, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso and to take on outlaws--including Gothel, the woman she calls her mother. Rapunzel climbs over the wall and finds out the truth. Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: unpaged
Format: Comic Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Playing Games

Summary: Yotsuba loves playing games and she is good at it. Daddy's opinion is that Yotsuba makes the rules as they play along, but she thinks that he is a sore loser. But maybe Yotsuba will let him win once in a while.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 147
Format: Comic Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Adventure

Summary: In the first volume of this series, Goku discovers that his Saiyan enemy Raditz is really his brother. When Goku tries to rescue his son, Gohan, from Raditz, the adventure turns fatal.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 85
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Mathematics

Summary: Worried that he will not pass his math quiz on Monday, Frankie cannot find any time to study over the weekend. Comic strip illustrations are interspersed throughout the text.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Animal Story
Topis: Dogs, Family

Summary: When a new girlfriend comes between Emma the dog and her owner George, Emma e-mails "Ask Queenie," an advice column for dogs having problems with difficult humans. Drawn in comic-book style, this story is just right for children who are adjusting to a new member of the family, and will strike a chord with dog lovers of all stripes.
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RL: Grades 1 - 3
Pages: 47
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: School Field Trip, Subways

Summary: After getting separated from his teacher, his classmates, and his trip partner during an outing to the Empire State Building, Pablo, the new kid in school, learns to navigate the New York City subway system as well as his own feelings towards making new friends and living in a big city.
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RL: ?
Pages: unpaged
Format: Graphic Novel, Bilingual
Genre: Folklore
Topics: Korean Folklore, Brothers & Sisters
Languages: Korean, English

Summary: Searching for their missing grandmother, two Korean children follow tracks into a fantastic world filled with beings from folklore who speak in Korean. Includes translations and information about the folkloric characters. In English, with some Korean.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Fantasy, Humor
Topics: Bears

Summary: Benjamin Bear does everything in his own funny way, whether it's drying dishes on a rabbit's back or sharing his sweater without taking it off. In this series of gags starring a very loopy bear, Philippe Coudray creates a zany world that makes kids think and solve puzzles, drawing all readers into the game.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: unpaged
Format: Comic Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Wizard Of Oz

Summary: This is an adaptation of the Wizard of Oz by Marvel. Dorothy travels to the land of Ev where she faces the wicked Nome KIng. Luckily, she gets help from the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, as well as the new Queen of Oz, Ozma.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages:
Format: Comic Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Adventure
Topics: Twins, Orphans, Circus

Summary: As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her twin brother -- or the mysterious man who snatched him away when they were just children.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages:
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Manners, Dining

Summary: Maya's unique table manners turn the palace upside down when she accepts an invitation to dine with the queen.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: unpaged
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Historical Fiction (Classic), Adventure
Topics: Journey

Summary: By witnessing a murder, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn find themselves in a series of adventures that lead them to some frightening situations. Similar titles in this series support Common Core State Standards including discussion and writing prompts, an expanded introduction, and bolded glossary words .
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Grades: 2-6
Pages:
Format: Curricular Resource
Genre: Educational
Topics: Teaching Reading with Graphic Novels

Summary:
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 35
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: Seasons (Winter), Brothers & Sisters, Inuit Culture

Summary: Putuguq and Kublu are a sister and brother who cannot get along. They love to pull pranks and one-up each other every chance they get! When one of Putuguq's pranks does not go as planned, the feuding siblings find themselves on the land with their grandfather, learning a bit about Inuit history, between throwing snowballs, that is.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 183
Format: Comic Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: West African Children, Mischief

Summary: This is a collection of stories about Akissi, a young West African girl who is always getting into trouble. Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are trying to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan and she's nothing but a pest to her older brother Fofana... But Akissi is a true adventurer, full of silliness and mischief and nothing will scare her for long! Translated from French.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 54
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Science Fiction, Humor (Parody)
Topics: Survival, Game Shows

Summary: The hit science fiction novel series gets the Papercutz Slices parody treatment, right before the release of the big-budget film adaptation! All three books from "The Hunger Games" trilogy get sliced up by parody team Rick Parker and Stefan Petrucha, who refuse to pull any punches in this comedic romp.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Comic Book, Manga
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Forest Creatures

Summary: Clover the Bunny and her fluffy friends are always getting into mischief in mysterious Mikazuki Forest! Clover uncovers the secret of a haunted spring, meets a big bad fox, fights mean humans who want to cut down all the trees in her forest home--and gets lost in the dark! In keeping with the original Japanese format, this book reads right-to-left, and back-to-front. Translated from the Japanese.
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RL: Juvenile [Grades 4-6?]
Pages: 96
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Immigration, Refugees, War in Syria

Summary: A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 56
Format: Comic Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Topics: Planets and Star Systems

Summary: An adaptation of the Little Prince with new adventures. The Little Prince has had a peaceful life on Asteroid B612 with his friends Rose and Fox, dreaming under the starry sky. But now star systems are vanishing one by one. An old enemy, the Snake, is bent on destroying the universe ... and it will take all of the Little Prince's imagination and Fox's determination to stand against the Snake and his shadowy monster servants.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 32
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Mystery

Summary: This story is adapted from the original chapter book series for middle readers. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden are brothers and sisters - and they're orphans. The only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe. They decide to make it their home.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 161
Format: Graphic Novel
Genre: Fantasy, Multicultural
Topics: Indian Americans, Travel

Summary: Indian-American teen, Priyanka attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl. When she wraps herself in it, she is transported to a place more vivid and colorful than any guidebook or Bollywood film.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 31
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Rainy Days, Weekends

Summary: Matilda promises her little sister Clemmie an amazing weekend spent playing outside. But the weather's rainy and Clemmie can't bring her new balloon along. Matilda teaches Clemmie all the delights of a wet Saturday.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages:
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Friendship, Marine Animals

Summary: Happy-go-lucky Narwhal and no-nonsense Jelly find their inner superheroes in three new under-the-sea adventures. In the first story, Narwhal reveals his superhero alter-ego and enlists Jelly to help him figure out what his superpower is. Next, Narwhal uses his superpower to help a friend find his way back home. In the third story, Jelly is feeling blue and Narwhal comes to the rescue.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 182
Format: Comic Book (Middle Reader)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Topics: Space Journey, Friendship, Rescue

Summary: When young Zita discovers a device that opens a portal to another place, and her best friend is abducted, she is compelled to set out on a strange journey from star to star in order to get back home.
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RL: Kindergarten - Grade 1
Pages: 29
Format: Chapter Book (Primary)
Genre: Fiction, Animal Story
Topics: Friendship, Play

Summary: Biscuit tries to coax a little puppy to come out and play. Biscuit and the Little Pup, a My First I Can Read book, is carefully crafted using basic language, word repetition, sight words, and sweet illustrations.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Learning to Read

Summary: A little boy named Sam discovers the many unexpected ways in which a love of reading can come in handy, and sometimes even save the day. The story is told in rhyme.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Animal Story
Topics: Learning to Read

Summary: Henry the mouse likes everything about first grade except reading, but with some extra help at school and home, he is delightfully surprised.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming)
Topics: Reading

Summary: The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading.
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RL: Grades K - 1
Pages:
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Learning to Read

Summary: When Henrietta becomes the first chicken in her coop to learn how to read, she uses her skills to save her aunties from becoming chicken soup.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Chapter Book (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Reading

Summary: When the children's librarian gives Lucy a book that helps her quiet her noisy brothers, Lucy learns the power of a story. Includes activities and tips for helping a child become a better reader.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fantasy, Poetry (Rhyming Story)
Topics: Zoo Animals, Reading, Book Mobiles

Summary: A librarian named Molly McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
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Grades K - 6
Pages: 278
Format: Curricular Resource, Collection
Genre: Educational
Topics: Reading and Literature

Summary: Books Day by Day offers one or more date-related prompts per day. There's something for every age, grade, reading level, and interest ... be it fairy tales, silly poems, historical novels, juvenile detective yarns, wildlife stories, or the last written words of a hopelessly stranded Antarctic explorer. On every page, Ohanian provides little-known, often fascinating tidbits about authors and artists.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Bedtime Reading

Summary: Lola reads story books to her new baby brother Leo, and even though Mommy and Daddy are busy, they still have time to read to Lola at bedtime.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 211
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Reluctant Readers, Summer Reading

Summary: Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: Learning to Read

Summary: Despite the doubts of some classmates and her native-born Japanese mother's inability to read English, Yoko finds the key to reading and catches up with the other students in putting new leaves on the classroom's book tree.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Reading, ADHD

Summary: In a compelling and beautifully illustrated story, the bestselling author of "Old Turtle" tells of the teacher who had led him to love reading, in spite of his ADHD.
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RL: K - Grade 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Books with Words

Summary: Duck finds a book and is surprised to discover that there are books with words and no pictures--and that even without pictures a book can interest and excite you.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 276
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Reading, Dyslexia, Self-Esteem

Summary: Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Animal Story
Topics: Learning to Read

Summary: A little yellow bird teaches Rocket the dog how to read by first introducing him to the "wondrous, mighty, gorgeous alphabet."
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RL: Grade 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Reading Out Loud, Courage

Summary: First-grader Jessica, a big worrier, is especially afraid that she will make a mistake when she is reading in front of her class and parents on Reading Theater Day, but after lots of practice reading to her dog Wiggles, she performs perfectly.
Accompanying material: compact disc.
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Grades: Grades 2-6
Pages: 145
Format: Curricular Resource, Short Story Collection
Genre: Various
Topics: Reading Out Loud

Summary: Need a one-stop resource for jump-starting sleepy library visitors?This is a collection of humorous, dramatic, science fiction, and historical stories and presents ten-minute read-aloud selections. Includes plot summaries, grade-level, age-level, and indices by subject, author, and title.
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RL: 4-6
Pages: 126
Format: Graphic Novel, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
Topics: Mysterious Boxes

Summary: An anthology of short graphic works by artists, such as Kazu Kibuishi, Dave Roman, and Raina Telgemeier. they are all on the theme of a mysterious box and the marvels, or mayhem, inside.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 105
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: Holidays, Latin American Culture

Summary: A collection of stories within the story of a family celebration where the guests relate their memories of growing up in various Latin American countries. Also contains recipes. It includes seven heartwarming and humorous stories, highlighting holidays from all over Latin America.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 2
Pages: 308
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Topics: Variety

Summary: A collection of picture book stories by such authors as Ludwig Bemelmans, Ezra Jack Keats, and Maurice Sendak.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 158
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: ?

Summary: A collection of four fantasy tales in which a boy joins a strange navy in pursuit of video pirates, a neglected princess seeks adventure, an orphaned inventor seeks the perfect parents, and a genius girl faces a sea serpent.
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NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL MAY 2019
RL: ? [Grades 3-5?]
Pages: 128
Format: Comic Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Neighborhoods, Chinese Culture

Summary: Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, ChinaYu'er and her grandpa live in a small neighborhood in Beijing--and it's full of big personalities. There's a story around every corner, and each day has a hint of magic. A Batchelder Honor Book (2019)
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 31
Format: Graphic Novel, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Adventures of an Ordinary Object

Summary: Four separate stories tell, in words and cartoons, the surprising history and activities of the ordinary backpack.You don't think much about your backpack. It's just kind of dirty and crammed with stuff. But wait - did you know the backpack has a history? That it could be a superhero's secret weapon? Or an exploding science experiment? Or even a living creature of immense proportions?
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 108
Format: Graphic Novel, Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Topics: China (1970s), Sisters

Summary: Two girls, Da Qin and Xiao Qin, live in the city of Wuhan in China in the 1970s. For decades, China's government kept the country separated from the rest of the world. When their country's leader, Chairman Mao, dies, new opportunities emerge. Da Qin and Xiao Qin learn that their childhood will be much different than the one their parents experienced. Eight short stories, based on the author's life, give readers a unique look at what it was like to grow up in China during this important time in history.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages:
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers), Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Childhood, Family
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: A collection of stories related to friends, parents, teachers, and extended families that make the ordinary problems of childhood seem extraordinary.
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RL: Grades 2-6
Pages: 160
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Animal Stores, Folklore

Summary: True stories and fiction about animals plus folklore.
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RL: Grades 5-8
Pages:
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Biography

Summary: Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.
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RL: Grades 3-6
Pages: 128
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Folklore, Legends
Topics: Native American Traditions

Summary: A collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various Indian nations, including the Wampanoag, Cherokee, Osage, Lakota, and Tlingit.
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RL: Grades 7-9
Pages: 187
Format: Short Story Collection (Young Adult)
Genre: Biography
Topics: Growing up, Childhood

Summary: Ten award-winning authors, including Paul Fleischman, Jane Yolen, Karen Hesse, and Joseph Bruchac, tell stories of pivotal moments in their childhoods.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 64
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Animals
Topics: School, Cooperation, Taking Turns

Summary: A collection of six stories featuring the teachers and students of Hilltop School as they learn about taking turns, working together, and never giving up.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Stories
Topics: Friendship

Summary: Five stories about a playful, sometimes bossy, little girl and her dependable bear friend.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 165
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Adventure
Topics: Shipwrecks, Survival

Summary: Six stories about shipwrecked people struggling to survive in difficult circumstances.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Stories
Topics: Friendship

Summary: Four separate stories celebrate the many-legged friendship between Squid and Octopus as they disagree over how to stay warm, encourage each other, and fret over the contents of a fortune cookie.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 181
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Folktales, Multicultural

Summary: A collection of well-known tales, retold from a Hispanic American perspective.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 104
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Stories
Topics: Barnyard Animals, Life Lessons

Summary: From the time he is hatched, Little Rooster learns lessons of life from his father and the other barnyard birds at Grandpa Goose's funeral, Crow's wedding, and a Christmas celebration.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: 368
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fantasy, Poetry (Rhyming Stories)

Summary: A compilation of more than a dozen previously published Dr. Seuss books, plus essays by nine authors and other book lovers, including Audrey Geisel, widow of Dr. Seuss.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 47
Format: Short Story Collection (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Animal Stories
Topics: Dogs, Heroes

Summary: A series of stories about eight dogs in a dog competition. A panel of three judges has to decide which dog out of the eight finalists deserves to win the title of My Hero.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 148
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: Jamaican Culture, Growing Up

Summary: A collection of nine short stories about life in contemporary Jamaica, on such subjects as a young boy's desire to buy shoes for the cricket team and a girl's adventures on a coconut plantation.
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RL: Grades 3-6
Pages: 146
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fantasy
Topics: Dragons

Summary: A global collection of stories about all kinds of dragons, by such authors as Jane Yolen, Patricia MacLachlan, Eric A. Kimmel, Vida Chu, and E. Nesbit.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming Stories)
Topics: Reading Out Loud

Summary: Each short, rhymed story invites two readers to read their own parts, and then read the passage in the central column together.
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Grades: 3-8
Pages: 180
Format: Curricular Resource, Collection
Genre: Drama (Plays), Folktales
Topic:

Summary: A collection of reader's theater scripts for young readers, adapted by award-winning children's author Aaron Shepard from his own folktale retellings. A wide variety of countries and cultures is represented, including Native America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia, and China. The scripts may be freely copied, shared, and performed for educational, noncommercial purposes.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 94
Format: Curricular Resource, Collection
Genre: Plays, Folktales, Legends
Topic: Traditional Native American Stories

Summary: It uses drama to tell seven different stories from Native American traditions including the Abenaki, Ojibway, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Snohomish, Tlingit, and Zuni.
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Grades K - 3 (Vol. 1), Grades 4-6 (Vol. 2)
Format: Collection, Curricular Resource
Genre: Drama (Plays), Folktales, Multicultural
Topics: Global Folktales

Summary: Ten plays based on multicultural folktales from such countries as Ghana, China, and Italy.This is a two-volume set.
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Grades: 4-6
Pages: 89
Format: Adapted from Novel, Curricular Resource
Genre: Fantasy, Drama (Play)
Topic: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Summary: Roald Dahl's hugely popular book has been adapted into a play for children. With useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, these plays can be produced with a minimum amount of resources and experience.
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Grades 3-8
Pages: 251
Format: Collection, Curricular Resource
Genre: Drama (Reader's Theater), Educational
Topics: Inspirational People

Summary: This book presents 25 readers theatre scripts based on the lives of current and historical people who have lived inspirational lives.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 192
Format: Adaptation, Short Story Collection
Genre: Drama, Historical Fiction
Topics: Shakespeare

Summary: A collection stories that retell ten familiar Shakespeare plays. Each story is illustrated by a well-known artist or artists.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 139
Format: Play Collection, Bilingual
Genre: Drama (Plays), Multicultural
Topics: Hispanic Culture

Summary: Plays by distinguished authors Oscar Hijuelos, Gary Soto, Federico Garcma Lorca, Pura Belpri, Elena Castedo, Alfonsina Storni, and Denise Ruizare featured in this impressive collection. The plays appear in both English and Spanish, and can be used by those who are learning either language.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Folktale
Topics:
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: In this New Mexican folktale, a rich man tries to prove his wealth to his poor neighbors by using a new spoon for every bite. In the process, he's served a pretty dish of come-uppance.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 160
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Fairy Tales (Adapted)
Topics: Wacky Characters

Summary: Familiar fairy tales are wacked over - Rapper Rapunzel, a mouthy teen banished to her room by fed-up parents; the Big Bad Wolf, now wanted for identity theft; advice columnist Fairy Godmother; and assorted witches, fairies, gnomes, It includes exposés, crafts, cartoons, recipes, riddles, writing projects, and brainteasers.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (Adapted), Fantasy
Topics: Cinderalla

Summary: A lonely elephant mistreated by her warthog cousins charms Prince Trunky with the help of a furry godmouse.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Fairy Tale (Adapted)
Topics: Little Red Riding Hood

Summary: A rhyming twist on the classic fairy tale in which a little girl saves her grandmother from a wolf. Includes glossary of Spanish words.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Fairy Tale (Adapted)
Topics: Cinderella

Summary: After the death of her mother and father, Adelita is badly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters until she finds her own true love at a grand fiesta. It Incorporates simple Spanish words.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale (Adapted)
Topics: Traditional Persian Story

Summary: In this version of the blind men and the elephant, based on a poem by Rūmī, Persian villagers try to figure out what strange animal in a dark barn has arrived from India.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale
Topics: Musicians

Summary: While on their way to Bremen, four aging animals who are no longer of any use to their masters find a new home after outwitting a gang of robbers.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 264
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Fairy Tale (Adapted), Fantasy
Topics: Luck and Curses, Magic

Summary: This is a funny fractured fairy tale adapted from Rumpelstiltskin. In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old Rump is the butt of everyone's joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. Rump discovers he has a gift for spinning straw into gold. His best friend, Red Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous, and she's right. With each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a curse.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tales (adapted)
Topics: Alaska, The Three Pigs

Summary: In this retelling, the three pig brothers go to Alaska to build themselves new homes--with familiar results.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (adapted), Multicultural
Topics: West African Culture, Beauty and the Beast

In this retelling of Beauty and the Beast, the illustrator Pat Cummings creates an enchanted fairy-tale world flavored by the art, architecture, and culture of West Africa, while writer H. Chuku Lee stays true to the story of this beloved classic. Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.
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RL: Grades K -2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (adapted)
Topic: Dinosaurs

Summary: This is a new take on the fairy-tale classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It tells the story of three dinosaurs, including a visitor from Norway, who insist that they have not tidied up their home and prepared yummy pudding in order to trap a tasty little girl.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale (adapted)
Topics: Slavic traditions

Summary: A retelling of the Slavic folktale in which the Month Brothers' magic helps Little Sister fulfill seemingly impossible tasks which prove the undoing of her greedy stepmother and stepsister.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (adapted)
Topics: Little Red Riding Hood, Tricksters

Summary: A Chinese adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. Three sisters are staying home alone. They are threatened by a hungry wolf disguised as their grandmother. Caldecott Medal Winner (1990)
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale
Topics: Frogs, Enchantment

Summary: When Jane sets off for the bakery to buy a muffin one morning, in her pocket she finds an enchanted frog wearing her dime for a hat.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 122
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Fairy Tales
Topics: Tales from India, Enchantment

Summary: This is a collection of 19 fairy tales from the India. There are animal fables and tales of wonder tales with strange enchantments of the Arabian Nights. Wily peasants, scheming rajahs, and saintly brahmans mingle in stories full of spice and wit.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale (adapted)
Topics: The Gingerbread Man

Summary: In this Southwestern version of the Gingerbread Man, a tortilla runs away from the woman who is about to cook him. Tia Lupe and Tio Jose make the best tortillas, so light they might jump right off the griddle. One day, a tortilla does just that.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (adapted)
Topics: Teasing, Eyes

Summary: A retelling of a classic Grimm's fairy tale about a little girl who has two eyes and is horribly teased by her sisters who have one and three eyes respectively.
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RL: Grades 1 - 3
Pages: 121
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tales
Topics: Varied

Summary: A fresh look at eight classic stories, told with bold language and vibrant pictures.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 31
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (adapted), Multicultural
Topics: Cinderella, Chinese Culture

Summary: This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the earliest European version.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 64
Format: Comic Book (Primary)
Genre: Fairy Tales (adapted), Humor
Topics: Varied

Summary: These fairy tales adapted into comics range from old favorites to new discoveries, from the profound to the silly. The picture stories unlock the enchanted door into the pleasures of books and reading.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale (Adapted)
Topics: Sharing

Summary: This retelling of a Chinese folktale pays tribute to the author's Irish heritage, and to the joys of an old marriage, new friendships, and the impulse to share. 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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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale (Adapted)
Topics: Honesty

Summary: In this twist on The Boy Who Cried Wolf, a boy's excuses turn out to have an unexpected element of truth.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 314
Format: Short Story Collection (Middle Readers)
Gene: Fairy Tales (Adapted)
Topics: Varied

Summary: Frog joins cousins Jack and Jill in leaving their own stories to seek a magic mirror, encountering such creatures as giants, mermaids, and goblins along the way. Based in part on fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen.
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RL: Grades 3-6
Pages: 126
Format: Picture Book, Short Story Collection
Genre: Folktales, Multicultural
Topics: Global Fairy Tales

Summary: This book presents an international collection of tales, including "The Lemon Princess," "Seven Clever Brothers," and "Baba Yaga Bony-legs."
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Folktale (adapted), Multicultural
Topic: Chinese History

Summary: A folktale based on a poem from the Sung Dynasty in which a young girl disguises herself as a man and leads the army of China to victory over the enemy.
Includes the Chinese text of Mu-lan shih.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 31
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Riddles
Topics: Mexican Languages

Summary: Riddles from Mexico with illustrations depicting the answers. Each riddle is presented in five languages, including languages of the indigenous communities in South Central Mexico.
Riddles in Castellano (Spanish), Oapan, Tlaxcala, English, and Català (Catalan), with notes in Spanish.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Humor
Topics: School

Summary: An illustrated collection of silly school-themed riddles for kids.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Poetry Collection
Genre: Poetry Collection, Riddles
Topics: Native American Riddles

Summary: A collection of brief poems, most only a single line, adapted from the riddles of various Native American tribes. The illustrations reveal the answers to the riddles.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming)
Topics: Picture Riddles, Puzzles

Summary: Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in photographs.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Riddles, Humor
Topics: Frogs

Summary: A collection of riddles and jokes about frogs. Example: What do little frogs like to eat on a hot summer day? Hopsicles!
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 24
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Poetry, Riddles
Topics: Books

Summary: Thirteen witty and wacky poems pose riddles that challenge readers to "Name That Book." With a glass slipper here and a spiderweb there, Lynn Munsinger's adorable illustrations lead young readers to the solutions.
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RL: Grades K -2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Collection
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming), Riddles
Topics: Animals

Summary: Each riddle in this hilarious picture book begins with a question and an illustration full of hints. Turn the page to find the answer. Colorful illustrations add to the humor and playful, rhyming answers help budding readers develop an awareness of word patterns which is necessary for early reading.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 45
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming), Riddles
Topics: Nursery Rhymes

Summary: This book gives a selection of well-known nursery rhymes, including Humpty Dumpty and Jack and Jill. For each one there is a clever, rhyming riddle containing clues for the reader guess the rhyme on the next page.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 128
Format: Chapter Book (Primary)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Words and Writing

Summary: An inspirational short novel for young readers about writing. A visiting author teaches five friends about the power of words and writing.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Educational
Topics: Writing Letters

Summary: All about letter writing, and the joy of receiving them. It discusses the different kinds of letters, the parts of a letter, and who can be a potential correspondent, and provides examples.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Fiction, Informational
Topics: Writing in Chinese

Summary: A little boy and his mother go to the beach. There she teaches him how to make Chinese words by drawing pictures in the sand. Young readers can learn ten Chinese characters in this wonderfully innovative picture book.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Creative Writing, Storytelling

Summary: When a contest at the local library offers a prize for the best story, a girl tries to write one using her family's suggestions, but her story does not seem right until she listens to her heart.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 94
Format: [Picture Book/chapter/??]
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Fables, Writing Stories

Summary: Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Topics: Pens, Stubbornness

Summary: Uncle Flood is very pleased with his new pen until he tries to write with it and finds that it writes only what it wants to for him, and the series of people who try it after him, until finally his nephew Horace tries something new.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages:
Format: Reference Book (Primary Readers)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Children's Writing

Summary: You have to write! It's a class assignment. But you have nothing to write about. This book encourages young writers to tell their own stories and become better writers.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Song Lyrics Collection
Genre: Informational
Topics: Writing Songs

Summary: An illustrated collection of songs co-written with children with detailed instructions about the creative process of songwriting.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Informational
Topics: Writing Opinion Essays

Summary: Katie's school assignment is to write an "opinion piece", but she needs some guidance on just what that is, and what is should not be. It includes sidebars with instructions on writing opinion papers.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 131
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Writing Letters, Community Activism

Summary: Edwina follows in the footsteps of her namesake great-aunt when she begins to write letters to the mayor about community problems and poses as Edwina the elder.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages:
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (adapted), Fantasy
Topics: Writing with Pencils

Summary: This is an adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood for writers. Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything. But first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Poetry Collection (Middle Readers)
Genre: Poetry, Informational
Topics: Writing Poems, Creativity

Summary: In this collection, the author shows how to write a poem about almost anything: a baby sister, a Venus's-flytrap, a failing grandmother, a squished squirrel, romantic disasters, grammar homework, and more. These poems take us inside the creative process and encourages readers to write some poems of their own.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Historical Fiction
Topics: Inspiration for Writing, Writing Your First Poem

Summary: Louisa May Alcott is friends with her Concord neighbor Henry David Thoreau. He carries a flute in his pocket and a pencil behind his ear, and he takes the children of the town on nature excursions. Writing is difficult for Louisa, so she admires the way Mr. Thoreau can jot down a few lines in his notebook when a thought occurs. Through their friendship, will Mr. Thoreau be able to help Louisa find her own inspiration?
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 108
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Topics: Writing Mentors

Summary: In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
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RL: Grades 1-3/4-6
Pages: 189
Format: Reference Book
Genre: Educational
Topics: Sports Writing

Summary: This book allows students to participate in sports-based readers theatre and writing activities. It Presents ten original readers theater scripts about sports for children in school.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 152
Format: Curricular Resource, Reference
Genre: Educational
Topics: Writing Tips

Summary: Presents a humorous and informative guide to writing that combines helpful style rules with story ideas and writing prompts as well as advice on how to write a story that is both engaging and correct.
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RL: Grades 2-5
Pages: 148
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Reader)
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Humor
Topics: Favorite Sports

Summary: Amelia Bedelia loves all kinds of sports. She has fun, but she is not the fastest or strongest or quickest at anything. When Amelia's class at school studies the sports of ancient Greece, she goes on a mission to find a favorite sport!
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Board book (Photographic), Interactive
Genre: Informational
Topics: Karate Movements

Summary: Readers learn karate basics in this interactive, photographic storybook. It takes readers through their very first karate class! Fold-out pages show kids what movements to practice.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Collection (Poetry)
Genre: Poetry
Topics: Sports Movements, Emotions
Summary: This book has rhymes about running, jumping, throwing, and other sports activities. The rhymes capture a range of emotions, from winning to losing to the sheer joy of participating, that children experience as they discover the games of their choice.
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Grades: Preschool
Pages: 104
Format: Curricular Resource
Genre: Educational
Topics: Movement Education, Preschool Recreation

Summary: This book shows educators how to incorporate movement into a toddler's environment, and is gives outlines for teachers and child care providers. The curriculum matches important concepts for this age and the applies of movement theory in the learning process. It includes over 23 songs and group movement activities.
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Grades: Preschool - Grade 3
Pages: 224
Format: Curricular Resource
Genre: Educational
Topics: Movement education, Recreation

Summary: This book contains over 200 movement-inspiring activities for children ages 4 to 8. Explore 38 popular classroom themes such as holidays, nature, animals, nutrition, and more. This book offers simple, practical, and fun movement activities and ideas.
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Grades: Preschool - Grade 6
Pages: 226
Format: Curricular Resource
Genre: Educational
Topics: Literature and Movement activities

Summary: This resource guide connects story programs with movement through story-based activities. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book (Photographic)
Genre: Informational
Topics: Children's Movements

This lively book shows kids in motion--jumping and dancing, and cartwheeling and bouncing through their days. The photo essay that shows the amazing ways a child's body can move and invites young ones to discover fresh ways to dance and twirl through the world.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Board Book
Genre: Informational
Topics: Hand Movements, Non-Violence

This teaches young children that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions. It includes tips for parents and caregivers.
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RL: Preschool
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational, Poetry
Topics: Baby Movements, Human Body

Summary: Through poems and rhymes filled with sound words, readers learn what amazing things babies and their bodies can do.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Interactive
Genre: Informational
Topics: Animal Movements, Imitation

Summary: This is an interactive book that gets readers to copy animal movements through simple instructions. Children are invited to bend their necks like giraffes, wave their hands like monkeys, kick their legs like donkeys and do other silly movements just like animals.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational, Fiction
Topics: Sports and Exercise, Health

Summary: This book encourage readers,of all shapes and sizes, young and old, to get up and exercise! It explains many reasons to exercise, from making new friends to going new places, or just because it's good for your body.
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RL: Preschool
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Poetry (Rhyming Story)
Topics: Aerobics, Toddler Movements

Summary: A group of toddlers imitates animals - a penguin, a crab, a duck, an elephant - while they exercise. Reades can join in "toddlerobics" and discover all of the ways their bodies can move.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Board Book
Genre: Fiction, Informational
Topics: Exercise, Shapes

Summary: Skippyjon the cat does an exercise routine featuring items of various shapes. he shapes up by running in a circle, tap-dancing on a square, and orbiting an oval.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational, Fiction
Topics: Yoga moves, Stretching

Summary: The interactive and rhyming text presents many ways to stretch illustrated by a dog.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: 30
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Poetry (Rhyming Story), Fiction
Topics: Animal and Children's Movements

Summary: Readers join a menagerie of zany animals and children as they stomp, wiggle, roar, and spin their way through the day. The the rhyming text reinforces important concepts about movement.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational, Poetry (Rhyming Story)
Topics: Beach Activities

Summary: The beach offers many activities for those who spend a day playing on its warm sands and in the water. Preschoolers can sing along with the rhythmic text and explore all the things they can do by the sea.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Informational
Topics: Movements of Wild Animals

Summary: A little boy tries to imitate the actions of a troupe of wild animals, like when a frog jumps, a lion roars, a monkey swings, and snake slithers. Readers can follow along with these actions as they repeat the words in the text.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Playground Activities, Animal Imitations

Summary: Children play on the playground, imitating animals from bunnies and squirrels to elephants and penguins. Each page offers clues to a friendly preschool guessing game and captures the pleasures of a day spent at the playground.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Toddler Movements and Antics

Summary: Everything a young child does, he does noisily. Early every morning, the Wizzy Foot rises and goes walking. Floors shake, buildings quake. Soon, like it or not, the whole family is awake!
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Topics: Imaginary Play, Sidekicks

Summary: As imaginary superhero Bumblebee Boy, Sam rejects his pesky little brother's help in defeating pirates, dragons, and saber-toothed lions, but when Sam comes up against some scary aliens, he discovers the advantage of having a sidekick.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy
Topics: Outdoor Play, Imaginary Superhero Adventures

Summary: After her brother tells her she is too little to play with him, Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, makes her own fun. As the superhero, Ladybug Girl, she uses her imagination to have adventures right in her own backyard.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Biography
Topics: Daydreaming, Exercise and Fitness
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: Young Oscar De La Hoya learns that one cannot daydream all the time when he is supposed to plan a neighborhood picnic. This humorous story grew out of Oscar De La Hoya's recollection of the neighborhood picnics that were an important part of his own childhood. Super Oscar also features exercise tips and fitness advice.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages:
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational, Poetry
Topics: Dance Positions and concepts

Summary: This introduces basic concepts of dance through poetic text and photographs.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages:
Format: Board Book
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Learning How to Dance

Summary: A rhyming text about learning to dance is illustrated with Boynton's familiar pig characters.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages:
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Tap-Dancing

Summary: From sunrise to sunset, Annabelle can't keep her feet from moving. She will not stop tap-dancing no matter what the frustrated citizens of Fiddlers Creek do to make her quit.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Informational, Poetry (Rhyming Story)
Topics: Dancing like Nature

Summary: Rhyming text explores the many ways one can dance, like the leader of a marching band, like a crab on a sunny day, like a tree as it waves in the breeze.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages:
Format: Picture Book (Photographic)
Genre: Informational, Multicultural
Topics: Brazilian Martial Arts

Summary: A photo-essay about the history and practice of Capoeira, a centuries-old Brazilian martial art which incorporates traditional movements and rhythmic music. Readers are introduced to the sport by children at a school in California, and discover the history of capoeira in Brazil. Contains a glossary of Portuguese words used in Capoeira.
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RL: Preschool - Grade 1
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction
Topics: Dancing

Summary: Illustrations and simple, rhyming text encourage the reader to wiggle, shake, and twirl to the beat.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Multicultural
Topics: Salsa Dancing, Mexican Music
Language: Spanish, English

Summary: A young girl and her mother put on their red dresses and dance their way through the barrio, collecting friends and neighbors along the way as they go to the park to hear her father's salsa band play.
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RL: Grade 1-3
Pages:
Format: Chapter Book
Genre: Fantasy, Animal Story
Topics: Elephants, Olympic Sports

Summary: Elephants compete in a variety of sports, such as diving, triathlon, hammer throw, and figure skating.
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RL: 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fiction, Animal Story
Topics: Frogs, Soccer, Making Mistakes

Summary: Although Froggy is very excited when his Dream Team plays for the city soccer championship, he makes a mistake on the field that almost costs the team the game.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Fairy Tale (Adapted)
Topics: Martial Arts & Ninjas

Summary: In this twist on "The Three Little Pigs," Pig One and Two neglect their ninja school martial arts training and are no match for the wolf, but Pig Three's practice and dedication saves the day.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Sports), Muliticultural
Topics: Baseball - Japan & U.S.

Summary: A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 276
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Historical Fiction (Sports), Multicultural
Topics: Baseball, Girls in Sports

Summary: Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Sports), Multicultural
Topics: Soccer, Refugees, Bullying

Summary: This is the story of a boy named Deo who lives in a refugee camp in Tanzania. He was separated from his family when they fled violence, Now in the camp a coach invites the children to play soccer. Deo loves soccer and makes his own ball out of banana leaves. Playing the game brings the children together and provides them with a sense of belonging.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Ballet, Dance Competitions

Summary: Belinda competes with a very ambitious new dancer for the title role in the ballet "Cinderella." The third book in this series will interest dancers of all shoe sizes with its humor.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 46
Format: Chapter Book (Illustrated)
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Sports), Multicultural
Topics: Native American Culture, Lacrosse

Summary: Eleven-year-old Travis Skinaway learns about his American Indian culture and history as he practices the Creator's game, lacrosse.
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RL: Preschool - K
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Bike Riding

Summary: A father teaches his daughter all about bicycle riding, from selecting the right bike to trying again after a fall.
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RL: Grades K - 2
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Sports)
Topics: Basketball, Girls in Sports

Summary: After the boys won't let her join in their basketball game, Lulu decides to host a Basket Ball, where girls from all over come to participate and, with Lulu as captain, end up forming a special team.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 239
Format: Graphic Novel (Middle Readers)
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Sports)
Topics: Roller Derby, Girls in Sports

Summary: A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart. Newbery Honor Winner (2016).
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Multicultural
Genre: Biography
Topics: Track, African Americans in Sports

Summary: A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 29
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Historical Fiction
Topics: Baseball, Japanese Americans, World War II

Summary: A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Multicultural
Genre: Historical Fiction (Sports)
Topics: Boxing, African Americans in Sports

Summary: After listening to the radio broadcast of the heavyweight championship boxing fight of his hero, Joe Louis, a young African American boy realizes that he can emulate the boxer's persistence and strive to become whatever he wants to be.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 114
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers), Interactive (Choose the Ending)
Genre: Realistic Fiction (Sports)
Topics: Baseball

Summary: The reader is selected as the player-manager of the baseball team after the coach collapses just before the finals in the national tournament. By choosing specific pages, the reader determines the outcome of the plot.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Baseball, African Americans in Sports

Summary: A biography highlighting a pivotal event in the childhood of African American baseball player Marcenia "Toni Stone" Lyle Alberga, the woman who broke baseball's gender barrier by becoming the first female roster member of a professional Negro League team.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Olympic Running, African Americans Olympians

Summary: A biography of Wilma Rudolph, an African-American who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track during a single Olympics.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 31
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography, Multicultural
Topics: Baseball, Native Americans

Summary: A biography of Penobscot Indian Louis Sockalexis, who pursued his childhood love of baseball and eventually joined the Major Leagues, where he faced racism and discrimination with humility and courage as the first Native American to play professional baseball.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography, Multicultural
Topics: Surfing
Summary: The true story of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic swimming champion, and legendary surfer who popularized surfing around the world.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Topics: Soccer, Haitian Earthquake

Summary: A young boy finds hope when he is given an old soccer ball to play with in the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 120
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Informational, Biographies
Topics: Women, Writing

Summary: The acclaimed Women's Hall of Fame series continues with profiles of ten women wordsmiths who made history in their own uniquely creative ways. From LM Montgomery and George Eliot to Margaret Atwood and JK Rowling, Ball covers a wide range of time periods and styles.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 112
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Harlem, Writing Poetry, African American Experience

Summary: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 180
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topic: African American Writer

Summary: Zora Neale Hurston was confident, charismatic, and determined to be extraordinary. As a young woman, Hurston lived and wrote alongside such prominent authors as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Poets

Summary: When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 81
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: African American Writers

Summary: This book uses first-hand sources, including interviews, to tell the story of the artist/author best known for The Snowy Day.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 181
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Biography
Topics: Childhood Memories, Women Authors

Summary: It uses family photographs and quotes from her books, to give glimpses into the author's life. Children as well as adults often ask Lois Lowry where the ideas for her stories came from. In this autobiography, the Newbery Medalist answers this and many other questions.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 40
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: English Dictionary

Summary: This book is an exploration of the life and work of Noah Webster, who wrote a dictionary of American English in 1828. It discusses his promotion of a living American language and universal education for all, career as a newspaper publisher, and creation of America's first insurance company.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Childhood Homes, Writing Process, Women Writers

Summary: The story takes readers to the author's home in Ohio, then travels back to her childhood in West Virginia. The author describes her life and writing process and how they are interwoven.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: unpaged
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Biography
Topics: Women Writers

Summary: When Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868 it was an instant success. Louisa drew on her experiences in writing the novel, but there's a lot more to her rags-to-riches story. This biography highlights her passion for writing and her impact on literature.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Childhood Adventures, 19th Cent. Writers

Summary: The popular image of Mark Twain is of a gray-haired eccentric, the outspoken author of novels, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But long before, Mark Twain was a boy named Samuel Clemens. He spent his childhood in Missouri along the banks of the Mississippi River. Don Brown reveals Twain's boyhood and what inspired his fictional stories.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography (Memoir)
Topics: Writing Tips

Summary: This is the story of Helen Lester, author of Tacky the Penguin and many popular children's books for children. She shares her struggles as a child and a writer, to show that hurdles are part of the process. She gives writing tips and advice for young writers.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 106
Format: [Grphic Novel?]]]
Genre: Biography, Humor
Topics: Childhood, Humorous Stories

Summary: How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the result is Knucklehead. Part memoir, part scrapbook, This memoir gives a glimpse into the formation of a creative mind and a free spirit.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 43
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Childhood of Dr. Seuss

Summary: The author Kathleen focus on Ted Geisel's first 22 years of his life. This is the first biography of Dr. Seuss, written for his young fans who want to know what made him tick. He was a square peg in a round hole until he found that he could make a living doing exactly what he pleased - doodling and writing funny things about the world.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Native American Writers

Summary: The author tells how he learned about his own Native American background, how he became a writer, and how he spends his days.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 72
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography, Multicultural
Topics: World War II, Refugees, Curious George

Summary: The story tells how Margret and H.A. Rey escaped from Nazi-occupied France in 1940, carrying in their bicycle baskets the manuscripts that would become their beloved picture books about Curious George, the little monkey.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 202
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Children's Book Writers, Berenstain Bears

Summary: Stan and Jan Berenstain were the creators of the Berenstain Bears. This tells about the childhoods, courtship, and married life. meeting with A meeting with Theodor Seuss Geisel -- editor of Beginner Books led to the publication of their first book, The Big Honey Hunt. Readers were introduced to America's first family of bears: the Berenstain Bears.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 162
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Charlotte's Web, Children's Book Writer

Summary: In this book, Melissa Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family heirlooms with her own artwork to tell his story, from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1985.
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RL: Grades 4-6
Pages: 54
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography, Multicultural
Topics: Guatemala Culture

Summary: Menchu tells stories her grandparents and parents, like her grandfather sweeping her grandmother off her feet, picking blackberries and secretly eating them with chunks of brown sugar, playing with her siblings in the river and her mother's knowledge of the healing powers of the forest plants. Translated from Spanish.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Airplanes & Flying

Summary: This is a biography of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince. Antoine dreamed of flying and grew up to be a pilot--and that was when his adventures began.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography, Multicultural
Topics: Latin American Writers

Summary: This is the biography of a very talented writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from his childhood in Colombia to his life today. This is an inspiring story for children about his life, full of imagination and beauty.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: 39
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Dragons, Childhood, Fantasy Writers

Summary: This biography introduces the creator of Middle Earth and author of The Hobbit to a new generation of children who see magic in the world around them. John Ronald loved dragons as a child so much he searched for them. But he never found any, until he was a grown man and he decided to create one of his own through his books.
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RL: Grades 1-3
Pages: unpaged
Format: Picture Book, Bilingual
Genre: Biography, Multicultural
Topics: Latin American Childhood & Writers
Languages: Spanish, English

Summary: A simple description of the childhood and youth of the Chilean author Isabel Allende.
Text in English and Spanish.
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RL: Grades 3-5
Pages: 32
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography, Multicultural
Topics: Native American Musician/Writer

Summary: Zitkala-Ša was a singer and musician, but also by wrote stories and gave speeches as an activist for Native American rights. She was born in 1876 on a reservation in South Dakota and went to a boarding school in Indiana at the age of 8. At school she missed her family and traditional life, but she found joy in music classes. After graduation, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. Zitkala-Sa found she could also "sing" to help her people by writing stories and giving speeches. As an adult, she worked as an activist for Native American rights, seeking to build a bridge between cultures.
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RL:Grades 4-6
Pages: 192
Format: Chapter Book (Middle Readers)
Genre: Biography, Poetry (Story in Verse), Multicultural
Topics: Cuban Americans, the Cold War

Summary: This poetic memoir tells about the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, She grew up in two cultures - she lived in Los Angeles, but dreamed visits to her mother's home in Cuba. When conflict between Cuba and the U.S. erupted at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, her two worlds collided. Would she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?
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Grades: 1-6
Pages:
Format: Curricular Resource
Genre: Educational
Topics: Latin American Children's Books

Summary: This discusses the biennial award that honors Latino writers and illustrators, annotates the award-winning books, provides biographical information about the authors and illustrators, and suggests booktalks and activities.
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RL: Grades 2-4
Pages: 56
Format: Picture Book
Genre: Biography
Topics: Children's Book Writers/Illustrators
Summary: Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
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