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1) Guts
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...
Author
Language
English
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Black History Month 2023
Top YA Books of All Time (Time Magazine List)
Women's History Month 2023-Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
4) Vote!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.
5) Horses!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : col. illustrations, 1 color map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents information on horses, including their physical characteristics, behavior, and how to ride a horse.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the harsh realities of life in the Middle Ages, describing knights as local tough guys with shifting loyalties, investigating the truth of the legend of King Arthur, and discussing feudalism, so-called fair ladies, dragons, castles, weapons and armor, and the Crusades.
7) Robert Frost
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A collection of poems about the four seasons by one of best-known American poets. "In an attractive large-size volume...25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's handsome watercolor illustrations capture the feel of the New England landscape without in any way trying to provide literal images for the poetry. There's an excellent biographical essay, and at the bottom of each page,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the B-17 bomber carrying America's greatest war hero across the Pacific Ocean gets lost, there is no other option but an emergency landing, that leaves the crew stranded without food or water.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Read This Comic and Start Drawing Today! Nominated for a 2017 Eisner Award
For the first time ever, drawing instructor and graphic novelist Mark Crilley brings his easy-to-follow artistic instruction to aspiring artists in the form of a comic book, providing you with a one-of-a-kind how-to experience. In The Drawing Lesson, you’ll meet David—a young boy who wants nothing more than to learn how to draw. Luckily for...
For the first time ever, drawing instructor and graphic novelist Mark Crilley brings his easy-to-follow artistic instruction to aspiring artists in the form of a comic book, providing you with a one-of-a-kind how-to experience. In The Drawing Lesson, you’ll meet David—a young boy who wants nothing more than to learn how to draw. Luckily for...
10) Our solar system
Author
Series
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Updated ed., Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
62 p. col. ill. 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on an interplanetary tour from the sun to the ever-mysterious Mars, and then, thanks to the Voyager missions, to the planets beyond.
13) Smile
Author
Series
Smile volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
213 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A hammer-shaped head? Multicolored tentacles? A spiral tail? Ocean animals have some spectacularly strange parts! Guess which ocean dweller each colorful close-up belongs to, then turn the page for the answer and some fascinating facts about that animal.
15) Sisters
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all. Raina...
16) Hidden child
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
73 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author details his difficult experiences as a young Jewish child living in Nazi-occupied France during the 1940s.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the basics of physics to big questions about the nature of space and time, celebrated astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the mysteries of the cosmos into bite-sized pieces. Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry describes the fundamental rules and unknowns of our universe clearly--and with Tyson's characteristic wit, there's a lot of fun thrown in, too.This adaptation by Gregory Mone includes full-color...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Ivan, known as the Shopping Mall Gorilla, who lived alone in a small cage for almost 30 years before being relocated to the gorilla habitat at ZooAtlanta."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
6 Starred Reviews! New York Times Bestseller! A People Magazine Best Children's Book! A Washington Post Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Honor recipient
Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by...
Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
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Description
Celebrates the forms of life that live above and under a pond, including turtles, red-winged blackbirds, blue herons, minnows, frogs, and catfish.
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