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Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay
Susan Hood - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author Susan Hood and illustrator Sally Wern Comport comes the extraordinary true tale of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash.Ada Ros grew up in Cateura, a small town in Paraguay built on a landfill.... |
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Adrift at sea : a Vietnamese boy's story of survival
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch - Pajama Press
Format: Print book
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It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is leaking; the drinking water is nearly gone. This is the dramatic true story recounted by Tuan Ho, who was six years old when he, his mother, and two sisters... |
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The Bad Guys
Aaron Blabey - Scholastic Press
Format: Paperback
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They sound like bad guys, they look like bad guys . . . and they even smell like bad guys. But Mr. Wolf, Mr. Piranha, Mr. Snake, and Mr. Shark are about to change all of that...Mr. Wolf has a daring plan for the Bad Guys' first good mission. They are going to break two hundred dogs out of the Maximum... |
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Framed!
James Ponti - Aladdin
Format: Print book
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Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial and several international criminals' most wanted lists all because of his Theory of All Small Things in this hilarious start to a brand-new middle grade mystery series.So you're only halfway through your homework and the Director... |
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My Life in Pictures
Deborah Zemke - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Fans of Amelia's Notebook and Judy Moody will love this friendship story bursting with doodles and pictures Bea Garcia is an artist. She draws anywhere and everywhere - but mostly in her own notebook. When Bea's first and only best friend Yvonne moves to Australia, not even drawing... |
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Seven and a Half Tons of Steel
Janet Nolan - Peachtree Publishers
Format: Print book
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There is a ship, a navy ship. It is called the USS New York. It is big like other navy ships, and it sails like other navy ships, but there is something special about the USS New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once... |
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Soar
Joan Bauer - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery Honor-winner Joan Bauer's newest protagonist always sees the positive side of any situation - and readers will cheer him on!Jeremiah is the world's biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport.... |
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Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
Donna Janell Bowman - Lee & Low Books
Format: Hardcover
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William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc was sent to plantations around the state to care for sick and wounded animals. When the Civil War ended and Doc was freed, he began to dream of breeding a winning racehorse. But those... |
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Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas
Gwendolyn Hooks - Lee & Low Books Inc.
Format: Print book
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Vivien Thomas's greatest dream was to attend college to study medicine. But after the stock market crashed in 1929, Vivien lost all his savings. Then he heard about a job opening at the Vanderbilt University medical school under the supervision of Dr. Alfred Blalock. Vivien knew that... |
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Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks. When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once visible outside their classroom window,... |
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The Voyage to Magical North
Claire Fayers - Henry Holt & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past--if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she's spent the past years keeping house for an irritable magician and his obnoxious apprentice,... |
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The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
Nancy Churnin - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Winner - 2017 Storytelling World Resource Award Honor BookFinalist - 2017 North Texas Book Festival Best Children's Books All William Ellsworth Hoy wanted to do was play baseball. After losing out on a spot on the local deaf team, William practiced even harder - eventually earning a position... |
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Wish
Barbara O'Connor - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A touching story about a girl and her dog, perfect for young animal loversEleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing... |
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Word of Mouse
James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book
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James Patterson's newest illustrated middle grade story follows the illuminating journey of a very special mouse, and the unexpected friendships that he makes along the way. What makes Isaiah so unique? First, his fur is as blue as the sky--which until recently was something he'd never... |
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