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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...

American Library Association Notable Children's Books
Caldecott Honor Book - Picture Book
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Claudette Colvin

Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose Square Fish

Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Now available in paperback: her National Book Award–wining story, told by the incomparable Phillip...

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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist
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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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Being Teddy Roosevelt

Claudia Mills; Pictures by R. W. Alley Square Fish

Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to...

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I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Square Fish

The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.

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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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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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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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Caldecott Honor Book
An Indie Next Kids' List Great Read
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NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
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Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
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Trade Paperback : $7.99 Buy	The Flimflam Man Darleen Bailey Beard; Pictures by Eileen Christelow Farrar, Straus and Giroux On a scorching July day in 1950, a fabulous fat man drives into Wetumka, Oklahoma. F. Bam Morrison is selling tickets to Bohn's United Circus Shows, and the...

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A Day of Pleasure

Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw

Isaac Bashevis Singer; Photographs by Roman Vishniac Sunburst Paperbacks

An ALA Notable Book. A Day of Pleasure is the winner of the 1970 National Book Award for Children's Books.

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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...

American Library Association Notable Children's Books
Caldecott Honor Book - Picture Book
IRA Teachers' Choices
New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Books of the Year
Christopher Awards - Winner
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Award
Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year

Booklist
Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Elementary School Library Collection
Horn Book
Kirkus Reviews
New York Times
Publishers Weekly
San Francisco Chronicle
School Library Journal
Washington Post Book World

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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...

American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
American Library Association Notable Children's Books
New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Books of the Year
New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Books of the Year
Amazon.com Top 10 Editors’ Picks: Children
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Parents' Choice Award Winner
John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young
National Science Teacher's Association-CBC, Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List
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Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year

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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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Claudette Colvin

Twice Toward Justice

Phillip Hoose Square Fish

Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Now available in paperback: her National Book Award–wining story, told by the incomparable Phillip...

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YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist
National Book Awards - Winner
Newbery Honor Book
Amazon.com Top 10 Editor’s Picks: Teens
NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book
Booklist Top 10 Biographies for Youth
Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
Robert F. Sibert Award - Honor
CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award Master List
TN YA Volunteer State Book Award ML
Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List

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Bulletin-Center for Children's Books
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Horn Book
Kirkus Reviews
Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal
USA Today
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The Eagle

The Roman Britain Trilogy #1

Rosemary Sutcliff Square Fish

The bestselling classic is now a Major Motion Picture from Focus Features

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American Library Association Notable Children's Books

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Being Teddy Roosevelt

Claudia Mills; Pictures by R. W. Alley Square Fish

Riley O’Rourke is writing his report on President Teddy Roosevelt in preparation for the fourth-grade biography tea, but he has a far more important goal: to...

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Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Illinois Bluestem Book Award ML
Iowa Children's Choice Award Master List
New Mexico Land of Enchantment Master List
Oklahoma Sequoyah Young Adult Book Award Master List
Oregon Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award Master List
Rhode Island Children's Book Award Master List

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Publishers Weekly
School Library Journal

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I, Juan de Pareja

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Square Fish

The story of a great painter and the slave he helped to become an artist.

American Library Association Notable Children's Books
Newbery Medal Book
Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List

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In Defiance of Hitler

The Secret Mission of Varian Fry

Carla Killough McClafferty Farrar, Straus and Giroux

On August 4, 1940, an unassuming American journalist named Varian Fry made his way to Marseilles, France, carrying in his pockets the names of approximately...

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Society of School Librarians International Book Award Honor Book
Orbis Pictus Recommended Title
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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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Tasting the Sky

A Palestinian Childhood

Ibtisam Barakat 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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American Library Association Notable Children's Books
IRA Children's Book Award
IRA Notable Books for a Global Society
IRA Teachers' Choices
Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI)
Arab American National Museum Book Award - Winner
Middle East Book Award - Winner
NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
USBBY-CBC Outstanding International Book
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Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice
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Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List
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The Lantern Bearers

The Roman Britain Trilogy #3

Rosemary Sutcliff Square Fish

The barbarians are coming! The Lantern Bearers is the 1959 winner of the Carnegie Medal in Literature.

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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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Is It Night or Day?

Fern Schumer Chapman Melanie Kroupa Books

It’s 1938, and twelve-year-old Edith is about to move from the tiny German village she’s lived in all her life to a place that seems as foreign as the moon:...

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American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
Maine Student Book Award Master List
TN YA Volunteer State Book Award ML

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