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Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by
Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback
- Jan. 29, 2010) |
 Busing
Brewster - Hardcover (May 11, 2010) by
Richard Michelson and
R.G. Roth ~ Other Formats:
Library Binding ~ Grade 1–5— Grade 1–5—One fall, two African-American
brothers learn that they will be bused to a predominantly white school. While
Bryan complains ("Ain't no Negroes at Central"), Mama reassures first-grader
Brewster that they will benefit from the new school's fine facilities, such
as a well-stocked library. Mama says that with such advantages, Brewster might
even be president someday. |
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Bark, George (Ages 2 and older) by
Jules Feiffer |
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Beetle Boy (Ages 6 and older) by
Lawrence David, illustrated by
Delphine Durand |
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Come On, Rain! (Ages 5 and older) by
Karen Hesse, illustrated by Jon J. Muth |
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Happy to Be Nappy (Ages 3 and older) by
bell hooks, illustrated by
Chris Raschka |
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I Spy in the Jungle by
Damon Burnard,
Julia Cairns (Illustrator) (Hardcover - September 2001)
Reading level: Baby-Preschool |
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I Spy in the Ocean by
Damon Burnard,
Julia Cairns (Illustrator) (Hardcover - September 2001)
Reading level: Baby-Preschool |
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Books by Jerdine Nolen Harold, Including: Big Jabe, Raising Dragons,
and In My Momma's Kitchen |
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Books by Walter Dean Myers, Including the award winning Monster
and Slam! |
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Cheetah Girls by Deborah Gregory |
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Coretta Scott King Award |
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Doctor is in: |
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The Cat in the Hat (Beg 1)
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Fox in Socks |
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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
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Green Eggs and Ham |
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Dr. Seuss |
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Nest for Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration, and the Meaning of Home
by
Henry Cole (Author, Illustrator) (Hardcover
- Feb 23, 2010) Others:
Kindle Edition,
Library Binding |
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Ice Cream Larry (Ages 4 to 8) by
Daniel Pinkwater, illustrated by
Jill Pinkwater |
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Night/Day: A Book of Eye-Catching Opposites by
Herve Tullet |
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Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa and Other Talking Drum Rhymes
by
Uzoamaka Chinyelu Unobagha,
Julia Cairns (Illustrator),
Uzo Unobagha (Hardcover - August 2000) Ages 2-4. "Round
and round the mango tree, / Who did run but little me / With ten bananas
in my pail / And ten red monkeys at my tail!" Inspired by Mother Goose and
Unobagha's own Nigerian heritage, the playful verses in folk rhyme style
are about children racing on zebras, talking to giraffes, caring for cattle
and goats, and having fun from the muddy banks of the Limpopo and the plains
of the savannah to the Sahara's desert sands. |
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 Have
You Heard of Purple Pastures by
Raymon Reed and
Esther Arce Reed ~ Illustrated by
Chad Thompson (Author) (Paperback
- Jan 13, 2010) Reading level: Ages 9-12. |
 Children
Make Terrible Pets by
Peter Brown (Hardcover - Sep
7, 2010) ~ PreS-Gr 1–Lucy, a young brown bear in a pink skirt and hair bow,
meets the most adorable little boy in the forest one day. She takes him home,
excitedly shows him to her mother, and begs, "Can I keep him, PLEASE?" Though
her mother warns her that "children make terrible pets," Lucy is bound and determined
to prove her wrong. |
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Swine Lake
(Ages 4 and older) by
James Marshall, illustrated by
Maurice Sendak |
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The Father Who Had 10 Children
(Ages 2 to 5) by
Benedicte Guettier. First published in Belgium in 1997 as
Le Papa Qui Avait 10 Enfants, this wonderfully satisfying bedtime
story would find a warm welcome on any shore. |
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The Gargoyle on the Roof
(Ages 6 to 10) by
Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Peter Sís |
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The
Spider Weaver : A Legend of Kente Cloth by
Margaret Musgrove,
Julia Cairns (Illustrator) (School & Library Binding -
February 2001) Reading level: Ages 4-8 ~ Weavers in Ghana all know
the story of the remarkable spider that showed two enterprising weavers
a brand new way to weave beautiful patterns into their cloth. |
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Weslandia
(Ages 8 to 11, or younger if read aloud) by
Paul Fleischman, illustrated by
Kevin Hawkes |
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