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By Rebecca Green, Elizabeth Suneby. 2018
When his mother is forced to cook indoors due to the monsoon season in Bangladesh, young Iqbal decides the school…
district's science fair is the perfect time to create a stove that doesn't produce smoke and harmful fumes. For grades 2-4. 2018By Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Liu Zhenyun. 2015
Liu Yuejin, a worksite cook and a thief, has his pack with money stolen. While searching for it, he discovers…
another bag which contains a USB card detailing corruption of high officials and putting him in danger. Translated from the original 2007 Chinese edition. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015By Dave Reidy. 2015
Seven year old Simon Davies gets teased for stuttering, so he stops speaking. As an adult, he masters techniques to…
control his voice and pursues his dream of becoming a voice over artist. Meanwhile, his more confident brother, Connor tries to break into television, after years of silence, Simon tries to reconcile with his brother. UnratedBy Staton Rabin, Bagram Ibatoulline. 2008
By Mike Graf, Marjorie Leggitt. 2012
In the seventh book in the Adventure with the Parkers series, the family heads to Colorado to visit the high…
peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park. When the snow clears, the park's many famous sights are on display: Trail Ridge Road, spectacular wildflowers, elk, waterfalls, and unique alpine tundra. The family's big adventure is a hike up Longs Peak, a Colorado "fourteener." But afternoon storms begin to pelt the family during their training hikes, and they begin to question the wisdom of a nighttime summit ascent. Award winner. For grades 5-8By Rick Walton, Wes Hargis, Franz Kraus. 2012
Instructs the reader in how to form one's own country when the time comes, from finding a location, a name,…
and a flag, to handling the inevitable civil unrest and invasions. For preschool-grade 2By Jane Langton. 2001
Young Edward Hall receives from his uncle Prince Krishna a set of five stereoscope cards labeled Temples of the World.…
When Eddy grabs the tasseled rope in the picture, he finds himself inside the stereoscope world, and his sister Eleanor follows quickly after him. For grades 4-7. 1971By Rachel Cohn. 2004
Yearning to escape the small town where her family retreated after the death of her sister Lucky, fifteen-year-old outcast Wonder…
Blake gets a record contract from her sister's former manager. But Wonder soon realizes the life of a star is anything but glamorous. Strong language. For senior high readers. 2004By Sonia Levitin. 2000
In this fictionalized account of real-life events, an American fifth-grade class learns about twentieth-century Sudanese slavery. Led by their teacher,…
they raise money to help with liberation efforts. Alternate chapters tell the stories of the slaves, their owners, and their families. For grades 5-8. 2000By Gary Paulsen, Ruth Wright Paulsen. 1992
This story is told by an old man sitting on the back of his dead horse in the woods of…
Minnesota. He talks of the progression of life on his farm in the years before mechanization. Spring with its new births and plantings, summer plowing and canning, fall harvesting and hunting, and finally winter with its wood gathering and logging. And the chores--always the chores. Some violence and some strong languageBy James Stevenson. 1992
The author, a ten-year-old boy in 1942 when the United States entered World War II, reminisces on just what it…
was like to be a "kid." With his brother and father away fighting, he tried to do his part to win the war by collecting tinfoil, saving tin cans, buying war stamps, planting a "victory garden," and keeping an eye on a neighbor who he suspected was a spy. For grades 2-4 to share with older readersBy Ralph Beer. 2000
After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered…
his best magazine essays into one collection called "In These Hills". In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and an attempt "to fathom the place where we live... to decipher who we are."By Parker Curry, Jessica Curry, Brittany Jackson. 2019
While visiting a museum with her family and friends, young Parker becomes mesmerized by the portrait of First Lady Michelle…
Obama, who she believes is a queen. For preschool-grade 2. 2019By John Parra. 2022
"Today Juanito is accompanying his father who is in the landscaping business, and he takes his sketchbook along to draw…
anything that catches his eye, and gets to help his father plan an entire garden--and then help plant it. Includes an autobiographical note." -- Provided by publisherBy Elaine Marie Alphin. 2003
Best friends Ian and Teddy meet regularly in an abandoned motel in the redwood forest, California, to take photographs. One…
day Teddy doesn't show up and Ian suspects his oppressive father has something to do with his friend's mysterious disappearance. Ian is questioned by the sheriff but he can't remember everything that happened that day. For grades 6-9By Alexander Key. 2009
"Two children with supernatural powers come to earth from another world and find themselves on the run from men who…
want to use their special powers for evil purposes." -- Provided by NLSBy Ronald Kidd. 2009
Best friends Paul, Oz, Arnie, and Crank enjoy horror movies but when a couple of movie extras, Laura and Darryl,…
working on the Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1955 try to involve them in a Communist conspiracy in real life, things get too dangerous and they decide to curtail the friendship. For grades 6-9By Arthur Geisert. 2003
During a visit to the art museum, a little piglet and her grandfather investigate the disappearance of several paintings. Clues…
in the illustrations give readers a chance to solve the mystery along with the heroineBy David Shannon, Melinda Long. 2003
By Sophie Blackall. 2018
Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and…
the tenure of its final keeper. PRINT/BRAILLE. For grades K-3. 2018