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Tar Beach
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Faith Ringgold |
Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartmen… |
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Not so different
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Shane Burcaw |
A picture book answering the questions young children ask Shane Burcaw about his wheelchair and life with Spinal Muscular Atrophy with equal parts optimism, humor, and empathy. |
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Poet
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Don Tate |
In the nineteenth century, North Carolina slave George Moses Horton taught himself to read and earned money to purchase his time, although not his freedom. Horton became the first African American to… |
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Little Bear's Visit
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Maurice Sendak,Else Holmelund Minarik |
(Age 4-8) (Preschool to Gr 3) **Little Bear enjoys his visits with his Grandmother and Grandfather Bear. He likes Grandfather’s hat and Grandmother’s cooking. But most of all, he loves to listen to t… |
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The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
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Mordicai Gerstein |
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers. |
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The matchlock gun
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Walter D. Edmonds,Paul Lantz |
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father h… |
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
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Richard Atwater |
Funny, |
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Smoky Night
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Eve Bunting |
When the Los Angeles riots break out in the streets of their neighborhood, a young boy and his mother learn the values of getting along with others no matter what their background or nationality. |
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