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Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse: Starring Harry
My Readers

Square Fish
Harry Cat loves the theater. One night he jumps in and lands a part in a big Broadway play. But now Tucker Mouse is home alone and misses him terribly. How...
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This Gorgeous Game

Square Fish
Who do you turn to when the person you’re supposed to trust turns out to be the most dangerous person you’ve ever met?...
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Nellie
A Cat on Her Own

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nellie, a cat marionette who loves to dance, finds adventure and freedom on a moonlit hilltop. "Babbitt's illustrations are as carefully wrought and as...
  
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The Secret Cave
Discovering Lascaux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Jacques, Jojo, Simon, and Marcel were looking for buried treasure when they explored a cave in the south of France in 1940. But the treasure inside was not...
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Once Upon a Baby Brother

Melanie Kroupa Books
Lizzie loves to make up stories and tell them to anyone and everyone, even though now that her annoying baby brother, Marvin, has joined the family, no one has...
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The Weaver

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
As the sun rises, the weaver begins her work, spinning thread, dying it, and then weaving it into a cloth along with the signs of love and friendship she sees...
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Feeding the Sheep

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
From watching Mom shepherd, shear, spin, and knit, a little girl finds out just how her sweater is made.
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Mr. and Mrs. Portly and Their Little Dog, Snack

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
When Mrs. Amanda Portly looks into Snack’s hopeful brown eyes, she just can’t resist bringing him home. For the next week the two are inseparable, and Snack...
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Georgia Rises
A Day in the Life of Georgia O'Keeffe

Melanie Kroupa Books
Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s own descriptive letters, awardwinning author Kathryn Lasky imagines a day in the life of this legendary artist at her Abiquiu,...
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Bettina Valentino and the Picasso Club

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fifth-grader Bettina Valentino couldn’t be a bigger fan of the funky new art teacher at Bayside Prep, who walks around barefoot to soak up the energy of the...

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I, Juan de Pareja

Square Fish
The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.
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Max's Words

Frances Foster Books
Max’s brothers have grand collections that everyone makes a big fuss over. Benjamin collects stamps and Karl collects coins, and neither one will share with...
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The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Amanda MacLeish might be the only student in Mr. Abrams’s fifth-grade class who doesn’t mind doing her homework. Now that her father has left home and moved...
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La Isla de Abel

Square Fish
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and...
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Tasting the Sky
A Palestinian Childhood

Melanie Kroupa Books
Winner, Arab American National Museum Book Award for Children's/YA Literature, among other awards and honors. “When a war ends it does not go away,” my...
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Moses Goes to a Concert
Moses Goes to

Sunburst Paperbacks
Moses and his school friends are deaf, but like most children, they have a lot to say. They communicate in American Sigh Language, using visual signs and...
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The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau

Square Fish
An unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation when his paintings imitate life too well by quacking, crawling, and erupting all over Paris. The...
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Once Upon an Ordinary School Day

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A celebration of extraordinary teachers! The boy's breakfast is ordinary, his walk to school is ordinary, even his thoughts are ordinary. But when he goes...
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Circle Unbroken

Square Fish
In teaching her granddaughter the craft of sewing baskets, a grandmother tells the story of their ancestors and passes along memories of struggle and freedom. ...
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Night Boat to Freedom

Square Fish
This compelling story, powerfully and poignantly illustrated, is a memorable celebration of courage, hope, and unselfish love.
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Jazzy Miz Mozetta

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"Okay, young cats, let the beat hit your feet." One fine evening, Miz Mozetta puts on her firecracker-red dress and heads outside to enjoy the moonlight....
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Silent Lotus

Sunburst Paperbacks
Although unable to speak or hear, lovely Lotus learns to perform the intricate story dances of the Cambodian court ballet.
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The Apple Doll

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Lizzy loves the big apple tree in her yard more than anything. So when the first day of school comes, she picks a beautiful apple, turns it into a makeshift...
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Beethoven in Paradise

Sunburst Paperbacks
Set in a trailer park called Paradise "You're just wasting your God-given talents if you don't get yourself something besides a little ole harmonica to...