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Odd jobs: The Wackiest Jobs You've Never Heard Of
By Ellen Weiss, Elenor Fremont, Damon Ross By. 2000
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Humourous fiction, Alphabet, number and picture books, General fictionCareers and job hunting
Human-narrated audio
Highlights twelve unusual occupations and the training needed to achieve them. Includes an alligator wrestler, armpit sniffer, storm chaser, building…
blaster, sound effects engineer, and a roller coaster designer. For grades 4-7. 2000Writing magic: creating stories that fly
By Gail Carson Levine. 2006
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Alphabet, number and picture booksGeneral non-fiction, Writing, Careers and job hunting
Human-transcribed braille
Newbery Honor author of fiction provides advice, tips, and exercises to encourage aspiring writers. Covers story writing--from coming up with…
an idea and developing characters and plot to finding a publisher. Recommends practicing a lot and saving everything you write. For grades 5-8. 2006My hands sing the blues: Romare Bearden's childhood journey
By Jeanne Walker Harvey. 2011
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Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Alphabet, number and picture booksSocial issues, Music, Arts and entertainment, United States travel and geography, Music biography, United States history
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As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother's Cherokee stories and heard the…
whistle of the train that took his people to the North people who wanted to be free. When Romare and his family, faced with Jim Crow laws, boarded that same train, he watched out the window as the world whizzed by. Later he captured those scenes in a famous painting, Watching the Good Trains Go By. Using that painting as inspiration and creating a text influenced by the blues and jazz that Bearden loved, Jeanne Walker Harvey tells the story of Bearden's children by describing the patchwork of daily southern life that Romare saw out the train's window and the story of his arrival in shimmering New York City. Artists and critics today praise Bearden's collages for their visual metaphors honoring his past, African American culture, and the human experience. 2011. For grades K-3