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Two eyes, a nose, and a mouth
By Roberta Grobel Intrater. 1995
Iqbal and his ingenious idea: how a science project helps one family and the planet (CitizenKid)
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. 2018The great Alaska adventure!: Junior Explorer Series Book 2
By Jeff Corwin. 2010
Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Lucy join their parents on a weeklong research trip to Alaska. Benjamin observes the…
effects of climate change on glaciers and animals in a report for his school in Florida. For grades 2-4. 2010Two little trains
By Margaret Wise Brown, Leo and Diane Dillon. 2003
Two trains are heading west. One is streamlined, the other small and old. On their parallel journeys, the trains encounter…
rivers, hills, snow, and dust storms, but neither is thwarted. But look closer and see that these two trains, though similar in many ways, have a surprising difference: one is the real thing, traversing the countryside, and the other is a toy, making its way across rug fringe "tracks," along the edge of a bathtub, through a tunnel made from a book, and past a broom and dust pan. For grades pres-school to kindergarten. For preschool-grade 2. 1977Voiceover artist
By 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. UnratedLots of spots
By Lois Ehlert. 2010
Odd socks
By Michelle Robinson, Rebecca Ashdown. 2016
Happy in our skin
By Fran Manushkin, Lauren Tobia. 2015
Dinosaurs in your backyard: The Coolest, Scariest Creatures Ever Found in the USA!
By Alan Barnard, Hugh Brewster. 2009
Presents facts learned from fossilized evidence of dinosaur species that roamed the North American continent millions of years ago, like…
the Stegosaurus of Colorado. Discusses size, eating habits, head crests, skull shapes, tail clubs, raptor claws, and dinosaur descendants. For grades 3-6. 2009The astonishing stereoscope: the Hall Family chronicles (Hall Family Chronicles)
By 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. 1971Sea glass: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1970 (Golden Mountain Chronicles)
By Laurence Yep. 2002
California, 1970. After leaving San Francisco for a small town, Craig, a Chinese American eighth-grader, finds it hard to fit…
in. He also has difficulty pleasing his father, who wants him to excel in sports. For grades 6-9. 1979Pop princess
By 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. 2004It's spring! (Celebrate the Seasons)
By Linda Glaser, Susan Swan. 2002
It's fall! (Celebrate the Seasons! Ser.)
By Linda Glaser, Susan Swan. 2001
It's winter! (Celebrate the Seasons! Ser.Celebrate the Seasons)
By Linda Glaser, Susan Swan. 2002
Clabbered dirt, sweet grass
By 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 languageThis earth of mankind
By Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Max Lane. 1991
In 1898, Java is a race- and caste-dominated Netherlands Indies society. Minke, a Javanese student at a Dutch high school,…
falls in love with mixed-blood Annelies. He is enthralled with her family's story: her belligerent father; her concubine mother, who runs the family business; and her resentful brother and step-brother. Eventually the unrest in both the land and the family wreak havoc on Minke's own life. Some descriptions of sexIn these hills
By 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."Une visite guidée du système solaire
By Pierre Chastenay. 2021
Une visite guidée du système solaire comme si vous y étiez ! Dans ce documentaire aussi amusant qu’instructif, les enfants…
sont invités à suivre Stella, la guide terrienne, et ses touristes extraterrestres dans une visite guidée du système solaire. Cette visite leur permettra de découvrir non seulement le Soleil et ses huit planètes, mais aussi des lunes, des planètes naines, des astéroïdes et des comètes. Un survol complet des connaissances actuelles en astronomie, livrées par un grand vulgarisateur, soutenues par des photos spectaculaires et des illustrations rigolotes.Parker looks up: an extraordinary moment (Parker Curry #01)
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. 2019