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1381) Spread your wings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A small cockatoo and large cockatoo celebrate their unconditional love for each other in this sweet story full of gentle rhymes"--
1383) The motherless oven
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In Scarper Lee's world, parents don't make children--children make parents. Scarper's father is his pride and joy, a wind-powered brass construction with a billowing sail. His mother is a Bakelite hairdryer. In this world, it rains knives and household appliances have souls. There are no birthdays--only deathdays. Scarper knows he has just three weeks to live. As his deathday approaches, he is forced from his routine and strikes out into the unknown--where...
1384) The talk
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
1385) Little sisters
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
An only child daydreams about having one, and then many, little sisters, and all the fun they could have together. Told with humor and heart, this sweet picture book tells the story of a little girl who dreams of having one little sister, or more, and all the wonderful things they could do together.
1386) Buzzer beater
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Keith Evans is a talented player on Peabody's basketball team. His father was a great player too. When Keith stops applying himself on the court, his father scolds him. Is Mr. Evans pushing Keith to achieve just to relive his glory days? Or is it something else?"--
1388) A Home for Leo
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Leo grew up in the sea. He has a family of sea lions he loves. He's happy, but he has always known he was different. Then Leo's suddenly reunited with his human parents, and he finds he loves them too. But he still feels like a fish out of water. Being from two worlds and having two families isn't so easy. Leo has a lot to figure out ... Splashed with humor and grounded in heart, this brightly illustrated story explores ideas of family, home, and...
1389) Dream big
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"This new picture book from best-selling creator Emma Dodd has a heartwarming and uplifting message about embracing your hopes and dreams to reach your full potential. The story features a lion cub who learns to consider the future with positivity and not to be afraid to think big! ...this heartwarming foiled picture book is about allowing yourself to have big dreams." --
"Let's snuggle up and think about how great your life can be. We'll dream big...
1390) La leccion de August
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Su cara lo hace distinto y el solo quiere ser uno mas. Camina siempre mirando al suelo, la cabeza gacha y el flequillo tratando en vano de esconder su rostro, pero, aun asi, es objeto de miradas furtivas, susurros ahogados y codazos de asombro. August sale poco, su vida transcurre entre las acogedoras paredes de su casa, entre la compania de su familia, su perra Daisy y las increibles historias de "La guerra de las Galaxias."Este ano todo va a cambiar,...
1391) You're my little baby
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"With flaps, mirrors, and soft touch-and-feels, this charming book from Eric Carle celebrates baby love!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Where do mermaids, dwarves, and centaurs live, and what do they do each day? Discover the mythological creatures of the Woodland realm in this adventure based on the classic children's rhyme 'Over in the Meadow.' Journey through a magical day while counting from one phoenix to ten griffins and searching for the baby griffin hidden on each page."--inside jacket.
1393) Doris' dear delinquents
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Doris the gharial crocodile has her motherly hands full with twenty-six misbehaved hatchlings. Follow along on a journey through the alphabet as she tries to bring peace back into her home." -- Back cover.
1395) Bad friends
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power...
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