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Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
The Island of The Blue Dolphins is a classic children's novel about adventures of a young woman belonging to the Nicoleno tribe who survived alone for eighteen years on the island of San Nicolas. It is...
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A Book For Escargot by Dashka Slater
Dashka Slater's delightfully sweet picture book, A Book For Escargot readers are treated to the second story about Escargot, that dashing, suave French snail. C'est un regale that breaks the cuteness...
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War Stories by Gordon Korman
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone is on a weekend access visit with his father Daniel and his great-grandfather Jacob Firestone in Marlborough, Connecticut. He lives with his mother, stepfather and twin...
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DVD: A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life is a biopic about Austrian conscientious objector and Catholic saint, Franz Jagerstatter. Written and directed by Terrence Malick, A Hidden Life is a jewel that simply must be seen by...
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Unbound by Anne E. Burg
When nine-year-old Grace learns she is being sent to work in Master Allen's "Big House", she is unhappy. It will mean leaving behind Mama, her two younger brothers Thomas and Willy, Aunt Sarah and...
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Stolen Words by Melanie Florence.
Stolen Words tells the story of a Cree grandfather whose culture and language was stolen from him as a result of his attending a residential school.A young girl comes home from school, happy, carrying...
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DVD: Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones is a deeply flawed film that attempts to portray the efforts of a Welsh journalist to uncover the truth about events occurring in the Soviet Union in the early 1930's. At this time much of...
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Song For A Whale by Lynne Kelly
Twelve-year-old Iris Bailey lives in Houston with her older brother Tristan and her parents. Iris lived by the ocean until after second grade when her family moved to Houston for her father's job. That...
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On The Horizon by Lois Lowry
 In her newest book, On The Horizon, Lois Lowry, award winning author of Number The Stars and The Giver, has penned a collection of poems about lives lost or forever changed in the bombing of the USS...
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Winged Wonders: Solving The Monarch Migration Mystery by Meeg Pincus
Winged Wonders is the story of how the mystery of monarch butterfly migration was solved through grassroots cooperation in North America. For centuries, people all through North America from southern...
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Bringing Back the Wolves by Jude Isabella
Bringing Back The Wolves recounts the very successful re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. For the previous seventy years, wolves were absent from a large area of the...
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The Bug Girl by Sophia Spencer with Margaret McNamara
The Bug Girl tells about Sophia Spencer, a young girl from Sarnia, Ontario Canada who sought out support online after she was bullied because of her love of bugs.Sophia first became interested in bugs...
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Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard Of by...
Emmy Noether is a little known mathematician "who solved the mystery of why some laws of physics, such as the law of gravity, never change."Â Emmy was born in Erlangen, Germany in 1882. In the late...
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The Boy At The Back Of The Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
"I don't think any of us had ever heard a story like it before. And as sad and as scary as it was, it was even sadder and scarier because it wasn't just a made up story from one of our reading books....
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A Bowl Full of Peace by Caren Stelson
"Itadakhimasu. (EE-TAH-DAH-KEE-MAHS) traditionally spoken before eating a meal, this Japanese word means "we humbly receive this food."A Bowl Full of Peace is based on the true story of Sachiko Yasui,...
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Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
Teenager Anaya Riggs is allergic to everything and she has acne. She is allergic to smoke, dust, tree and grass pollen, gluten, eggs and milk to name just a few. She carries EpiPens everywhere with...
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If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden by Kay Weisman
This exquisitely illustrated picture book explains a sea garden. Do you know what a sea garden is?To visit a sear garden you need to get up early. They can only be seen when the tide is at its lowest...
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The Tree Lady by H. Josephine Hopkins
The Tree Lady is a colourful picture book that tells the story of Katherine Olivia Sessions who grew up in the woods of Northern California. In the 1860's girls were not expected to be interested in...
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Hiawatha and the Peacemaker by Robbie Robertson
Canadian musician Robbie Robertson tells the story of Hiawatha in this gorgeously illustrated picture book for children.The story begins with Hiawatha losing his wife and three beautiful daughters when...
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Open Fire by Amber Lough
Seventeen-year-old Ekaterina Viktorovna (Katya) Pavlova lives in Petrograd, Russia where she works in a factory making the M1914 stick grenade, filling each one with 320 grams of TNT. Katya's father,...
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