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A baby for Max
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Kathryn Lasky |
Text and photographs record a five-year-old as he awaits the birth of the family's new baby and enjoys her afterward. |
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Before I was your mother
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Kathryn Lasky |
A mother tells her own daughter what she was like and what she used to do when she was a little girl. |
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The bone wars
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Kathryn Lasky |
In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosau… |
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Chasing Orion
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Kathryn Lasky |
In 1952, when Georgie is eleven years old, her family moves to a new Indiana neighborhood where her teenaged neighbor has polio and is in an iron lung. |
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Dreams In The Golden Country
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Kathryn Lasky |
New dreams and old traditions flourish and clash when a Jewish girl and her family emigrate from Russia to America. |
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Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor
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Kathryn Lasky,Josephine Bailey |
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agoniz… |
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Hope In My Heart
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Kathryn Lasky |
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions.… |
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The last girls of Pompeii
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Kathryn Lasky |
In Pompeii, in the summer of A.D. 79, Julia and Sura appear to lead opposite lives. Julia is the daughter of a wealthy ship-builder; Sura is an orphan. Julia bears the Curse of Venus—a withered arm; … |
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Lucille Camps In (Lucille the Pig)
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Kathryn Lasky |
When Lucille is upset that she can not go camping with her father and older siblings, she and her mother decide to go camping inside the house. |
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Marie Antoinette, princess of Versailles
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Kathryn Lasky |
A book about Queen Marie Antoinette's youth written in diary format. Makes you feel very close to little Antonia as she has doubts, and excitement, too about her upcoming marrige and journey to Franc… |
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The Most Beautiful Roof in the World
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Kathryn Lasky,Christopher G. Knight |
Describes the work of Meg Lowman in the rainforest canopy, an area unexplored until the last ten years and home to previously unknown species of plants and animals. |
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My island grandma
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Kathryn Lasky |
A little girl describes all the things she does with her grandmother during the summers they spend on an island. |
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Pirate Bob
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Clark, David,Kathryn Lasky |
Describes the life of a pirate, named simply Bob, whose job is to cut the steering cables and cripple the ships he and his shipmates will loot. |
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Prank
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Kathryn Lasky |
A teenage girl strives to escape from her dead-end existence in a tough neighborhood of East Boston and from her violent, quarrelsome family. |
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Puppeteer
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Kathryn Lasky |
Text and photographs follow Paul Vincent Davis, a professional hand puppeteer, as he mounts a production of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp. |
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Think like an eagle
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Kathryn Lasky |
Follows photographer Jack Swedberg through a cycle of seasons as he tracks wildlife in three very different regions of the United States. |
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The Capture (Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book 1)
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Kathryn Lasky,Pamela Garelick |
one of the best books i've read. |
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The Emperor's Old Clothes
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Kathryn Lasky |
A continuation of "The Emperor's New Clothes" in which a simple farmer finds the emperor's old clothes on his way home from the market and decides to put them on. |
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book Four
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Kathryn Lasky,Pamela Garelick |
"Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by and all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there mus… |
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Hercules
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Kathryn Lasky |
Recounts the story of the mythological hero, Hercules, child of Zeus and a mortal woman, including his twelve labors and ending with his ascension to Mount Olympus as a god. |
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