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Parents' Choice Award Winner

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The Hindenburg

Patrick O'Brien Henry Holt and Co.

A dramatic, vividly illustrated look at the tragic ship whose fiery crash ended the age of the dirigible. Like a fabulous silvery fish, floating quietly in...

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Measuring Penny

Loreen Leedy Square Fish

Lisa has an important homework assignment--to measure something in several different ways. She has to use standard units like inches and nonstandard units like...

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We Were There, Too!

Young People in U.S. History

Phillip Hoose Melanie Kroupa Books

*"A treasure chest of history come to life, this is an inspired collection. Readers could easily get lost in it by simply dipping into one compelling story...

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American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
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Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
Parents' Choice Award Winner
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I Want to be a Cowgirl

Jeanne Willis; Illustrated by Tony Ross Henry Holt and Co.

Meet a city girl with a big Wild West dream. "I don't want to be a good girl- Good girls have no fun. I can't play quiet games indoors, I love the rain...

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Mr. Gumpy's Outing

John Burningham; Illustrated by the Author Henry Holt and Co.

It's a pleasant day, so Mr. Gumpy decides to go for a boat ride. Each barnyard animal begs to join him, and Mr. Gumpy agrees-as long as each behaves! Two...

American Library Association Notable Children's Books
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Araboolies of Liberty Street

Sam Swope; Illustrations by Barry Root Square Fish

The kids of Liberty Street join forces to help the Araboolies when mean General Pinch orders them to move because they look different.

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Buttons

Brock Cole; Illustrated by the author Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Brock Cole's first picture book in nearly ten years Once there was an old man who ate so much his britches burst and his buttons popped one, two, three,...

Boston Globe – Horn Book Award, Honor Books
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Cactus Hotel

Brenda Z. Guiberson; Illustrated by Megan Lloyd Henry Holt and Co.

It is another hot day in the desert. Birds and other animals scurry about looking for food. When they get tired, they stop to rest at a giant cactus. It is...

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Old Black Fly

Jim Aylesworth; Illustrated by Stephen Gammell Henry Holt and Co.

Nothing drives a family crazy faster than an old black fly on a hot summer day, especially when the family's a little crazy already. And this fly is as bad as...

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The Sun Is So Quiet

Nikki Giovanni; Illustrated by Ashley Bryan Henry Holt and Co.

"Quiet . . . like a quilt on a feather bed . . . and frost on the window . . . we write our names knowing . . . the sun will melt them off But the sun...

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Hot Fudge Hero

Pat Brisson; Illustrated by Diana Cain Bluthenthal Redfeather Book from Henry Holt

Bertie learns through trial and error that making friends, playing the saxophone, and getting a strike at the bowling alley take hard work, patience, and time. ...

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Lassie Come-Home

Rosemary Wells and Susan Jeffers Square Fish

Eric Knight’s heartfelt tale of the noble collie Lassie, first published in 1938, receives a worthy new incarnation as a picture book in this splendid...

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Larky Mavis

Brock Cole; Illustrated by the author Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Another orginal picture-book fairy tale Larky Mavis, an eccentric soul, finds three peanuts in the middle of the road. The first tastes like liver and...

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This Train

Paul Collicutt; Illustrated by the author Sunburst Paperbacks

A concept book for the youngest of train lovers All aboard! This is one train book you don't want to miss. Using a refreshingly simple approach, Paul...

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The Tree of Life

Charles Darwin

Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books

In this brilliant presentation of a revolutionary thinker's life, the picture book becomes an art form As far as I can judge, I am not apt to follow blindly...

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Myrtle

Tracey Campbell Pearson Farrar, Straus and Giroux

How to foil a bully's tactics Myrtle is happy. Her mom loves her. Her dad loves her. Her baby brother loves her. She has a good life -- until Frances moves...

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When Catherine the Great and I Were Eight!

Cari Best; Pictures by Giselle Potter Melanie Kroupa Books

Readers are in for another rousing good time with Sara and Catherine the Great The unsinkable heroine of Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! is back!...

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The Dirty Cowboy

Amy Timberlake; Pictures by Adam Rex Farrar, Straus and Giroux

This ol’ boy needs a bath! After he finds a tumbleweed in his chaps and the numerous bugs buzzing around him affect his hearing, the cowboy decides...

Marion Vannett Ridgway Award
Parents' Choice Award Winner
Western Writers of America Spur Award
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Award
Georgia Children’s Book Award Master List (University of GA)

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Colibri

Ann Cameron Frances Foster Books

A young Mayan girl’s quest for the family she was stolen from She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibrí, Spanish...

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Mary Smith

Andrea U'Ren; Illustrated by the author Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Time to get up! Did you ever wonder how people woke up in time for school or work in the days before alarm clocks? In the early twentieth century,...

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The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

Phillip Hoose Melanie Kroupa Books

The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint...

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National Science Teacher's Association-CBC, Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
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Great Lakes Book Award - Winner
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New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award
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No Laughing, No Smiling, No Giggling

James Stevenson Frances Foster Books

A hilarious encore to Don't Make Me Laugh No laughing or smiling or giggling -- Mr. Frimdimpny doesn't like it. He's the crocodile in charge of this book,...

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Taking Care of Moses

Barbara O'Connor Frances Foster Books

Who left the baby at the Rock of Ages Baptist Church? Randall Mackey has a secret. He knows who left the baby on the steps of the Rock of Ages Baptist...

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Time's Memory

Julius Lester Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Amma is the creator god, the master of life and death, and he is worried. His people have always known how to take care of the spirits of the dead – the nyama...

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Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
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