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Hardcover : $17.00 Buy	Four Corners of the Sky Creation Stories and Cosmologies from Around the World by Steve Zeitlin, Illustrated by Chris Raschka Henry Holt and Co. What is the universe? How did it get that way? Here are thought-provoking answers from throughout history and around the world. "In the beginning, God...

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	A Group of One Rachna Gilmore Henry Holt and Co. A girl of mixed heritage discovers that both cultures are important parts of who she is. Mr. Toller grins. "I guess we plain old regular Canadians need to...

Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	Over the Moon An Adoption Tale Karen Katz; illustrations by Karen Katz Henry Holt and Co. An affirming story about international adoption, based on the author's own experience with her daughter. A magical, reassuring story of one adoptive...

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Tibet Through the Red Box

Through The Red Box

Peter Sís; Illustrated by the author Frances Foster Books

A father's diary, an artist's memoir. By the author of the best-selling Three Golden Keys. While my father was in China and Tibet, he kept a diary, which...

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Tristan and Iseult

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Tristan defeats Ireland's greatest warrior and gains the friendship of his uncle, the King of Cornwall, who entrusts him with a very special mission: to sail...

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The Cow of No Color

Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the World

Nina Jaffe and Steve Zeitlin; Illustrated by Whitney Sherman Henry Holt and Co.

In this outstanding multicultural collection from the authors of the prizewinning While Standing on One Foot, readers must try to outsmart evil kings, answer...

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I Got a Family

Melrose Cooper; Illustrated by Dale Gottlieb Henry Holt and Co.

"An upbeat celebration of life.... Adults will have fun reading this to children, singly and in groups, and listeners will want to respond with stories about...

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What Are You?

Voices of Mixed-Race Young People

Pearl Fuyo Gaskins Henry Holt and Co.

In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and...

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The Colors of Us

Karen Katz; illustrations by Karen Katz Owlet Paperbacks

A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist’s perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to...

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Coyote School News

Joan Sandin Henry Holt and Co.

A blending of rich Mexican and American cultural traditions "My name is Ramón Ernesto Ramírez, but everybody calls me Monchi. I live on a...

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Let's Eat

What Children Eat Around the World

Beatrice Hollyer Henry Holt and Co.

"I don't know about you, but I've always been really curious about what other people eat. Being nosy is how I've got some of my best ideas as a chef-and...

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The Friends

Kazumi Yumoto Sunburst Paperbacks

In this award-winning book from Japan, three young boys curious about death learn--and teach--some valuable lessons about life and friendship. The Friends...

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To Go Singing Through the World

The Childhood of Pablo Neruda

Deborah Kogan Ray Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pablo Neruda grew up in the rough and wild frontier town of Temuco, Chile. His father was a railroad man and not inclined to draw out the introspective boy....

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The Braid

Helen Frost Frances Foster Books

Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister – Jeannie, who leaves Scotland...

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Under the Persimmon Tree

Suzanne Fisher Staples Square Fish

Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Hardcover : $25.00 Buy	People Around the World Antony Mason Kingfisher Take a trip around the globe and meet the people and lifestyles that make up our world in this richly illustrated reference. Organized into eight...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Mythology of the World Neil Philip Kingfisher From the ancient Greeks to the Aztecs, people across the world have created a rich tapestry of stories, characters, and beliefs to explain the mysteries of...

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Standing Against the Wind

Traci L. Jones Square Fish

Patrice dreams of a first-class education, but right now she’s just got to survive the walk to school. Standing Against the Wind is the 2007 winner of the...

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Hurricane Dancers

The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

Margarita Engle Henry Holt and Co.

Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half...

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Puss in Boots

Charles Perrault; Illustrated by Fred Marcellino; Translated by Malcolm Arthur Square Fish

The adventures of that rascal, Puss, and his master, the miller’s son are portrayed in a lavish series of illustrations that range from sumptuous grandeur to...

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Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Pieces of Christmas Teri Sloat Henry Holt and Co. Christmas poems bearing wishes for peace throughout the world "When Santa returns from making his rounds, The letters he’s answered lie drifted in...

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The Clay Marble

Minfong Ho Sunburst Paperbacks

Fleeing war-torn Cambodia in 1980, Dara, her mother, and her older brother find sanctuary in a refugee settlement on the Thailand border, but when fighting...

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Warrior Scarlet

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In Bronze Age Britain, young Drem must overcome his disability-a withered arm-if he is to prove his manhood and become a warrior.

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Upon the Head of the Goat

A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944

Aranka Siegal Sunburst Paperbacks

Upon the Head of the Goat is the winner of the 1982 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a 1982 Newbery Honor Book.

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