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New Materials: Juvenile Collection :: November 22nd, 2009
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An illustrated version of a poem about birch trees and the pleasures of climbing them
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Learn about Afghanistan as you count in English and Pushto
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Budgie grows flowers and Boo grows vegetables, and they are the best of friends
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A prisoner in a Nazi labor camp, Herman soon loses the will to go on. Then a young girl appears on the other side of the barbed-wire fence--an angel bearing food and hope
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Explores Roy Lichtenstein's work, life, and his groundbreaking influence on the art world. In Roy's long career as a teacher, artist, and innovator, he changed the way that people thought about art and how artists thought about their subjects
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Relates the misadventures of Marigold, who does not agree with anyone, as she shops with her mother for a coat, becomes interested in a new hobby, finds a way to "bug" her best friend Maxine, and imaginatively copes with finding the right outfit for the first day of school
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A visual tour through twelve "terrible" experiences of childhood, including bedtime monsters and a bad haircut
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Hector, a retired wizard, lives happily and quietly with his cat, Poison, in a dilapidated house at the edge of the forest, until a noisy new neighbor moves into the abandoned house across the road, and things are never the same again
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Desperate to provide enough food for himself and his daughter, a poor man sets himself up as Doctor All-Knowing and is soon called upon by a rich man to find a thief
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Introduces Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, and describes how it is celebrated in different areas of the world, including Israel, Istanbul, Italy, Poland, and New York City. Includes glossary and recipes
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If you think today's insects are creepy, wait till you see what wriggled and slithered through the world hundreds of millions of years ago! Learn how insects survived catastrophic events that completely wiped out other creatures. See whic of their strange adaptations can still be found in insects today. Grab your flyswatter and get ready for Paleo bugs!
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Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate police officers and what they do
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A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them. Includes a detailed glossary titled, An ocean journal
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When David asks his mother about the man on television, she tells him the story of Barack Obama, discussing his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, his parents' divorce, and his desire to help others
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"This picture book biography, written with great love and insight by his oldest daughter, writer Meghan McCain, shows us the public John McCain and the personal John McCain in a way we've never seen before--making this American hero come to life before young eyes."
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"Discover the world of Cleopatra through the diary of her handmaid Nefret"--Cover
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When the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, finds her world-as-she-knows-it turned upside down, as she is taken into hiding to protect her from the new law nicknamed T4
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When her mother disappears during a business trip, seventeen-year-old Anne discovers that her family harbors many dark secrets
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Helped to escape from her evil guardians and a life of drudgery by a dodo and a rat, ten-year-old Morag joins her new companions on a dangerous and difficult mission involving a stone dragon, the stolen Eye of Lornish that guards the magical land of Marnoch Mor, and her own unfulfilled destiny and mysterious past
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Sixteen-year-old math prodigy Jerrica discovers she has the ability to predict outcomes in blackjack and roulette, and joins forces with Sanjay and Kat to develop her theories while helping them get the money they desperately need
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When his mother becomes the doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, twelve-year-old Tor learns of a curse placed on the town's doctors many years before by an eccentric Ute woman, but suspects that a modern-day villain is hiding behind that curse
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Adaption for young readers of Gore's documentary on global warming
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When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich, friendless nerd Ambrose, forced to be home-schooled by his overprotective mother, coerces his neighbor Cosmo into taking him to the West Side Scrabble Club, where people accept him for who he is
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When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders
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Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear from their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries
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When a roamer trades them an ancient book with only a few pages remaining, Lina and Doon return to Ember to seek the machine the book seems to describe in hopes that it will get their new community, Sparks, through the winter
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Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her
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Pressured by his agressively competitive father to play soccer, teenaged Pip McLeod secretly pursues a sport that he truly enjoys--indoor rock climbing
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Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean
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On an island in whose strict society only useful objects are named and the unnamed are ignored or forbidden, thirteen-year-old Medford encounters an unusual and powerful creature, half-man, half-goat, and together they attempt to bring some changes to the community
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The destinies of two Scottish families, one of shopkeepers and one of wealth and power, become entwined through their involvement in World War I, social causes, and love
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Ash and her friends live in a future where they are the only human teenagers left, but when Ash is kidnapped and becomes a pawn in a power struggle among the formidable Raptors who captured her, she begins to r to reconsider her own humanity
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In 1968, with the Vietnam War raging, thirteen-year-old Lyza inherits a project from her deceased grandfather, who had been using his knowledge of maps and the geography of Lyza's New Jersey hometown to locate the lost treasure of Captain Kidd
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Accompanied by his sardonic buffalope Max, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Darke meets a spoiled princess and a diminutive soldier who aid in his quest to become court jester to the evil King Septimus
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In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey and her friends confront some of life's questions during their summer vacation in the late 1960s
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This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s
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"...takes its readers on a trip through the alphabet and around the globe. Find out what children do with their families in Mexico, how they dress for festivals in Japan, and what they ride to school in India. Learn how children say hello in many different countries."--Jacket
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When it begins to rain and storm on the day of her big parade, Jazmin stomps, shouts, and does all she can think of to drive the rain away
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Despite a cruel stepmother's schemes, Jouanah, a young Hmong girl, finds true love and happiness with the aid of her dead mother's spirit and a pair of special sandals
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Using animal and insect characteristics, eighteen poems describe children's behavior and interactions at school
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Ema's father used to pick her up when she is tired to walk or put her on his shoulder when she sleeps on the big chair. But when Ema's father is too tired and sleeps on the chair, Ema asks: who is going to pick him up?
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The residents of a small town band together to defeat the Worst Woman in the World
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A little girl's search for a present for her mother and the wise rabbit who comes to her rescue
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An old woman's sleep is interrupted by a small mouse
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A series of stories featuring Huckle, Lowly, Pig Will, Pig Won't, and other characters who demonstrate the good will generated by nice manners
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The white rabbit who lives next door to Nina Bonita wants to have a daughter as black and pretty as Nina, so he asks her what makes her skin so dark and pretty
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A mother and father mouse search for the perfect husband for their beautiful daughter
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A collection of poems with a planetary theme
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Readers who play baseball will recognize a kindred spirit in the young narrator, whose voice is heard in this collection of exuberant poetry
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Iris catches the stomach "bug" while at school and worries she may not get better in time to go with her brother to visit her grandmother during the weekend
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A child in an interracial family wonders what his yet-to-be-born sibling will look like
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"...picture book of dog poetry is the perfect marriage of joyful verse and stunningly funny photography"--Jacket
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When Tommaso discovers that a line is missing from his favorite drawing, he goes looking for it all around town and notices many lines he never saw before
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Bouncy rhymes and witty illustrations remind the reader not to talk to strangers
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Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted
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After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop
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When sixteen-year-old Parker Stanhope takes kissing lessons from the freshman across the street as part of her plan to get on the varsity soccer team, a relationship blossoms that threatens her popularity at school and must be kept secret from their feuding fathers
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A collection of short stories that explore the lives of teenagers affected directly or indirectly by drugs
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Rick Hanski, a young soldier in Vietnam, bonds with Cracker, his bomb-sniffing dog
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Se trata del lpez perro, pez gato, pez conejo, pez caballo, y otros peces graciosos. [Depicts a dogfish, a catfish, rabbitfish, horsefish, and other funny fish.]
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Grandfather Juan, Grandmother Guille, and their grandson Chato make pottery and share stories. They recount Chato's favorite story: how Juan revived the ceramic art of his area in Mexico, created a better life for his village, and was made famous by his pottery. Includes a lesson plan in Spanish and English for grades K-6
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When his face is changed into that of a snake after he visits a forbidden cave, a young boy wears a mask for twenty years, before being taken into the sky
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A retelling of a Zulu myth about the joining of heaven and earth when Mbaba Mwana Waresa, the rain goddess, chooses a mortal for her husband
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At a medieval monastery, orphaned Simon, who is apprenticing in illumination, dreams of the day he can create his own pictures, but finds he must first complete a strange and unusual assignment that Father Anselm has given him
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Presents farm activities, month by month, in England during the Middle Ages
