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21481) Moving words about a flower
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English
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Follows the fortunes of a single dandelion, springing up in a crack of the sidewalk but living to spread its seeds to fertile ground. Includes information on the life cycle of a dandelion.
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Could anyone somersault across the San Andreas fault? Why was Hawaii named for a sandwich? Children can travel the globe (and some of the sky) discovering the answers to these and other questions about the amazing, fantastic world of geography.
21484) Your mama
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English
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text twist classic "your mama" jokes into a celebration of the beauty, power, and love of motherhood.
21485) Hop up! wriggle over!
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English
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Illustrations and simple, onomatopoeic text capture a busy day in the life of a large and diverse family of Australian animals.
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Well-trained Mind Press
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Poems can sweep us away to fantasy lands or long-ago times, or show us everyday people and creatures in a whole new light. In this new recording, master storyteller Jim Weiss introduces children to the magic of poetry, performing 40 classic poems, and providing brief introductions to the poets, including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, and many more.
21487) The metamorphosis
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English
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For use in schools and libraries only. Writings by and about Kafka and textual notes accompany this translation of his early 20th-century work.
21489) Inside Out and Back Again
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award!
Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of
...21490) The ghosts of Rose Hill
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English
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"Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez--a biracial Jewish girl--finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a century ago. As Ilana restores Benjamin's grave, he...
21491) Tiny
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English
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Tiny is a poetic retelling of Sophocles' Antigone. Instead of having two brothers who kill each other in a civil war, Tiny has one who kills himself after coming home from a far-away war. Our heroine mourns her brother, forever, but-with best friend Izzy, boyfriend Hank, and a collective dance night held in an old artificial limb store-she escapes freezing herself in grief, too.
21493) I talk like a river
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English
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When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.
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English
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In this rigorously researched and thoughtful study, a leading Jesus Seminar scholar reveals the dramatic story behind the modern discovery of the earliest gospels, accounts that do not portray Jesus exclusively as a martyr but recover a lost ancient Christian tradition centered on Jesus as a teacher of wisdom.
The church has long advocated the Pauline view of Jesus as deity and martyr, emphasizing his death and resurrection. But another tradition...
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English
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This book is a steppingstone on a journey across tempestuous seas of mind and ego in this tumultuous time in the 21st century.
I will introduce you to the Grandmothers and Grandfathers who have guided and cajoled me each step along the way, from childhood to old age. I suspect they might have once been children in Siberia, perhaps among the inhabitants of the Altai Mountains. They learned and intuited their ways from their elders who had discovered...
21496) Land of the cranes
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English
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture poems...
21497) The Night Before Christmas
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The Night Before Christmas is an enchanting Christmas story that has brought Santa Claus to life for generations. Celebrate the holiday season with this classic edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic poem.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
Carry on a family tradition or start one of your own with this new version of the classic Christmas book for children and...
21498) Isabel in bloom
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Making friends in a new city, and new country, is hard for twelve-year-old Filipina-American Isabel, but joining the gardening and cooking club at school helps her find her way.
21499) The Hunting of the Snark
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English
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The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll - "The Hunting of the Snark" (An Agony in 8 Fits) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1874, when he was 42 years old. It describes "with infinite humour the impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature".
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English
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In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics-in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence, particularly in developments in positive conceptions of Blackness, in the valorization of Black language practices and its subsequent effects on educational policy, in establishing a legacy of populist...
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