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Hardcover : $18.00 Buy	Nobody Particular One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays Molly Bang and Diane Wilson Henry Holt and Co. From a renowned author/illustrator; a bold, daring, non-fiction picture book that tells the true story of one woman's fight to protect her...

Mass Market Paperbound : $8.99 Buy	Explorers Who Got Lost Diane Sansevere-Dreher Tor Books During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries just about every explorer who sailed beyond the horizon to find new land thought he knew where he was going. But...

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The Longitude Prize

Joan Dash; Illustrated by Dusan Petricic Frances Foster Books

A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book By the start of the eighteenth century, many thousands of sailors had perished at sea because their captains had no way of...

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Boy

Tales of Childhood

Roald Dahl; Illustrations by Quentin Blake Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"'I am only eight years old,' I told myself. 'No little boy of eight has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.'" So thought Roald Dahl in 1924 when his...

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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors Tom Tucker; Drawings by Richard Loehle Sunburst Paperbacks Here are some of the incredible kid inventions you can read about in Brainstorm! Earmuffs (1873) Colored car wax (1991) Electronic television (1927) The...

Trade Paperback : $8.99 Buy	Salty Dog Gloria Rand; Illustrated by Ted Rand Henry Holt and Co. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.

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Arctic Memories

Normee Ekoomiak; Illustrated by the author Henry Holt and Co.

Text in both Inuktitut and English describes a now vanished way of life for the Inuit.

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Video, VHS Format : $29.95 Buy	A Visit with Bill Martin Jr Bill Martin, Jr. Henry Holt and Co. "The production values are solid, the interview intelligent, and the accompanying discussion guide contains practical and creative teaching ideas, as well as a...

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The Dalai Lama

with a Foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Demi; Illustrated by the author Henry Holt and Co.

Included is a foreword written by The Dalai Lama. When the thirteenth Dalai Lama died in 1933, the highest holy men in Tibet searched throughout the land...

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Some from the Moon, Some from the Sun

Poems and Songs for Everyone

Margot Zemach; Illustrated by the author Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A charming book of children's rhymes by the Caldecott Medalist. I'm the king of the castle, Get down, you dirty rascal! There she goes, There she...

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What Charlie Heard

Mordicai Gerstein; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books

"Gerstein creates a rousing visual cacophony that echos Ives's compositions in this inspired picture-book biography." --Starred, Publishers Weekly

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Blockhead

The Life of Fibonacci

Joseph D'Agnese; illustrations by John O'Brien Henry Holt and Co.

As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead. When...

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Hardcover : $15.00 Buy	Beatrix Jeanette Winter; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books Captures the artist's life and work Beatrix Potter's childhood was characterized by a distinctly Victorian mixture of privilege and neglect. Her parents...

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The Man Who Made Time Travel

Kathryn Lasky; Pictures by Kevin Hawkes Melanie Kroupa Books

Who would solve one of the most perplexing scientific problems of all time? This dramatic picture-book biography brings to life – with illustrations...

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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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The Green Dog

A Mostly True Story

Suzanne Fisher Staples Frances Foster Books

By the author of Shabanu, a Newbery Honor Book The summer after fourth grade, a lonely girl wants just one thing: a dog. It's all she can think of. She...

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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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My Father's Summers

A Daughter's Memoir

Kathi Appelt Henry Holt and Co.

We saved things for him. My sister Patti saved whatever she could hold in her palm-rocks, pennies, bottle caps. With the pennies she planned to save enough to...

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The Flower Hunter

William Bartram, America's First Naturalist

Deborah Kogan Ray; Pictures by the author Frances Foster Books

Little botanist / first naturalist Of John Bartram's nine children, it is William who best loves nature and wants to follow in his father's footsteps....

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Hardcover : $16.50 Buy	Twice As Nice What It's Like To Be a Twin Nicole Rubel Farrar, Straus and Giroux Double the fun Fraternal twins Bonnie and Ronnie take readers on a whirlwind tour of twinship, interspersing informative segments on everything from "Where...

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Sholom's Treasure

How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer

Erica Silverman; Pictures by Mordicai Gerstein Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The boy whose stories became Fiddler on the Roof Sholom Aleichem's favorite childhood memory may have been listening as his father read stories aloud on...

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Something Out of Nothing

Marie Curie and Radium

Carla Killough McClafferty Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Marie Curie’s story has fascinated and inspired young readers decades. The poor Polish girl who worked eight years to be able to afford to attend the...

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A Dangerous Engine

Benjamin Franklin, from Scientist to Diplomat

Joan Dash; Pictures by Dusan Petricic Frances Foster Books

At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe,...

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The Champion of Children

The Story of Janusz Korczak

Tomek Bogacki Frances Foster Books

In 1912, a well-known doctor and writer named Janusz Korczak designed an extraordinary orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw, Poland. Believing that children...

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