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The Gardener

Sarah Stewart; Illustrated by David Small Square Fish

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The Library Lydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to...

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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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Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch

Mona Kerby; Pictures by Lynne Barasch Frances Foster Books

One rainy night in 1888, a stray dog wandered into the U.S. Post Office in Albany, New York. Workers found him the next morning asleep on a pile of mail...

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The Wall

Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter Sis Frances Foster Books

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated...

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Boxes for Katje

Candace Fleming; Pictures by Stacey Dressen-McQueen Melanie Kroupa Books

Simple seeds of friendship grow into something extraordinary After World War II there is little left in Katje's town of Olst in Holland. Her family, like...

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How I Learned Geography

Uri Shulevitz Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father...

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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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Soar, Elinor!

Tami Lewis Brown; Illustrated by François Roca Melanie Kroupa Books

Elinor Smith was six when she first went for a ride in a rickety “flying machine,” and she was just sixteen when she earned her aviation license in 1928. But...

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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	A Big Cheese for the White House The True Tale of a Tremendous Cheddar Candace Fleming; Pictures by S. D. Schindler Square Fish Based on a true moment in American history, this funny picture book celebrates the ingenuity and community spirit of one small New England town as it attempts...

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George Washington's Teeth

Deborah Chandra, Madeleine Comora; Illus. by Brock Cole Square Fish

A tongue-in-cheek dental history of our first president.

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Night Boat to Freedom

Margot Theis Raven; Illustrated by E.B. Lewis Square Fish

This compelling story, powerfully and poignantly illustrated, is a memorable celebration of courage, hope, and unselfish love.

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Hardcover : $17.99 Buy	Paiute Princess The Story of Sarah Winnemucca Deborah Kogan Ray Frances Foster Books Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cultures: the traditional life of her people, and the modern ways of her...

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I Could Do That!

Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote

Linda Arms White; Pictures by Nancy Carpenter Melanie Kroupa Books

Full of humor and spunk – just like Esther! “I could do that,” says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea. Start her own business at the...

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The Secret Cave

Discovering Lascaux

Emily Arnold McCully 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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The Escape of Oney Judge

Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom

Emily Arnold McCully Farrar, Straus and Giroux

When General George Washington is elected the first President of the United States, his wife chooses young Oney Judge, a house slave who works as a seamstress...

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Dinosaur Mountain

Digging into the Jurassic Age

Deborah Kogan Ray Frances Foster Books

Earl Douglass was a teenager when he first heard about the Bone Wars—the frenzied race between paleontologists to unearth and classify dinosaur fossils—and he...

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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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Adèle & Simon in America

Barbara McClintock Frances Foster Books

Adèle and her younger brother, Simon, have just arrived in New York City to visit their Aunt Cécile and prepare for a grand train trip around America. “Please...

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Trade Paperback : $8.99 Buy	George Washington's Cows David Small; Illustrated by the author Sunburst Paperbacks "George Washington's cows were kept upstairs, And given their own special room. They never were seen by light of day. No matter for what or by...

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Nim and the War Effort

Milly Lee; Pictures by Yangsook Choi Sunburst Paperbacks

"Details place the affecting story in a real, not idealized, America." --Kirkus Reviews "It’s the last day of the newspaper drive and Nim, a...

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Stormy's Hat

Just Right for a Railroad Man

Eric A. Kimmel; Pictures by Andrea U'Ren Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Stormy Kromer is an engineer who loves driving trains. But he has one problem: he can’t find the right hat for a railroad man. He tries a derby, a cowboy hat,...

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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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Ste-e-e-e-eamboat a-Comin'!

Jill Esbaum; Pictures by Adam Rex Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Go back in time to a sleepy Mississippi River town The townfolk of a small village on the banks of the upper Mississippi come vividly alive at the sound of...

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The Elephant Quilt

Stitch by Stitch to California!

Susan Lowell; Pictures by Stacey Dressen-McQueen Melanie Kroupa Books

“We’re going to see the Elephant!” That’s what people say when they head West on a journey promising to be “something powerful strange. Like a real live...

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