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The Boreal Forest: A Year In The World's Largest Land Biome by Lindsey E....
The Boreal Forest is a colourful picture book that takes readers through a year in the boreal forest in several countries.Ā It begins the journey by setting the stage, explaining how the boreal forest...
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Punching The Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Seventeen-year-old Amal Shahid sits in the courtroom waiting to hear the jury's verdict after only a few hours ofĀ deliberation.Amal is accused of beating up Jeremy Mathis, a white boy, "so bad the he...
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DVD: Mulan
Mulan, is a young girl living with her parents and younger sister Xiu in her village in China. Chasing a rogue chicken through the common space, when it flies onto the roof, Mulan thinks nothing of...
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Finish The Fight by Veronica Chambers and NY Times Staff
Finish The Fight tells the stories of the many women suffragettes who fought to secure for American women the right to vote. It would take almost a century to accomplish this for all women of all races...
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Illegal by Francisco X. Stork
Illegal resumes the story of Sara and Emiliano Zapata where Disappeared left off. Sara is living at the Fort Stockton Detention Center. A mere three weeks ago she was a reporter in Ciudad Juarez,...
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A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi
Eleven-year-old Maryam (Mimi) Scotts has just arrived in Karachi, Pakistan for her summer holidays. (Her mother had lost her teaching job at the Houston Art Institute last year.) Mimi's father left...
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The First Dinosaur by Ian Lendler
The First Dinosaur tells the remarkable story of how scholars and scientists came to unravel the mystery of ancient life on Earth and to discover the dinosaur. The First Dinosaur traces the journey,...
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The Library Bus by Bahram Rahman
Pari will be accompanying her mama as she drives the library bus. This bus is filled with shelves of books and today is Pari's first time helping. They leave Kabul before sunrise, arriving at a small...
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Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician and...
Red Bird is a unique picture book about the life of Zitkala-Sa, a member of the Yankton Sioux nation. Zitkala-Sa was also known as Gertrude Simmons. Red Bird picks up her story in 1883 with Zitkala-Sa...
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The Engima Game by Elizabeth Wein
The Enigma Game is another wonderful story by young adult author Elizabeth Wein whose superb writing captures life in northern Scotland during World War II.The story's narrative weaves between the...
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Where Are You, Agnes? by Tessa McWatt
Ā Agnes and her elderly grandfather see a rainbow one day. When her grandfather asks her what her what she thinks, she tells him the rainbow is beautiful. He then covers her eyes and asks her, if it is...
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Hatch by Kenneth Oppel
Hatch, the second novel in Kenneth Oppel's Overthrow trilogy, picks up exactly where the first book, Bloom left off. The spraying of Stanley Park with an experimental herbicide appears to be working....
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Yara's Spring by Jamal Saeed and Sharon McKay
Yara's Spring is a heart-breaking fictional story of a young girls life in Syria during the Syria War and her journey to freedom.Yara's story begins on March 11, 2011. Ten-year-old Yara lives in Bustan...
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Stay Curious! A Brief History of Stephen Hawking by Kathleen Krull and Paul...
Stay Curious offers young readers an introduction to the life and accomplishments of famous cosmologist, Stephen Hawking.Hawking grew up in England, in a family who loved to read, even through dinner....
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Bobby Orr And The Hand-Me-Down Skates by Bobby Orr and Kara Kootstra
In this delightful picture book, hockey legend Bobby Orr tells the story of the time he wished for a brand new pair of skates but ended up with his brother's hand-me-downs.Bobby who lived "in a small...
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Music For Tigers by Michelle Kadarusman
Louisa will be spending the next six weeks at her mom's family's bush camp located in a remote Tasmanian rain forest. She has left behind her parentsĀ who are spending their summer in the wetlands of...
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Traitor. A novel by Amanda McCrina
Traitor is a historical fiction novel set during World War II that explores the little known events during the war in Poland and the Ukraine. It is told through two narratives, that of Tolya and...
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Which Way Is Home by Maria Kiely
It is summer vacation, 1948 and life for eleven-year-old Anna is tainted by worries about life in her beloved Czechoslovakia. Her family including aunts, uncles and cousins have gathered at her...
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Harvey Comes Home by Colleen Nelson
Harvey is an energetic West Highland terrier who belongs to Maggie. He's a West Highland Terrier, "...a ratter with a white coat, extra shiny and clean..."It's early November and Harvey is out for a...
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Dog Driven by Terry Lynn Johnson
Fourteen-year-old McKenna Barney is losing her vision. Her younger sister, eight-year-old Emma, is almost totally blind. Emma has Stargardt disease, a degenerative condition that affects the retina....
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