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Michael Rosen's Sad Book
Michael Rosen - Candlewick
Format: Print book
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With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all.Sometimes I'm sad and I don't know why.It's just a cloud that comes along and covers me up.Sad things... |
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FIREBOAT: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
Maira Kalman - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A portion of the proceeds from Fireboat The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey will be donated to the Twin Towers Orphan Fund. For more information or to make a donation, please visit httpwww.ttof.org.This is the inspiring true story of the John J. Harveya retired New York City fireboat... |
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Valentina and Monster
Ángeles Ruiz - Reycraft Books
Format: Hardcover
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One morning, Valentina spots something strange: a monster selling cotton candy on her street. But Valentina isnt scared. This monster is friendly and has pink, fluffy furperfect for hugs. Valentina and Monster quickly become friends, but tragedy soon arrives. This story of loss and grief... |
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Willa and the Whale
Chad Morris - Shadow Mountain
Format: Hardcover
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When her marine biologist mother dies, thirteen-year-old Willa turns to an unlikely source of comfort - a humpback whale who communicates with her. |
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Music Is a Rainbow
Bryan Collier - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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The music turned into color and light and filled the room.A young boy remembers quietly watching his father read the paper and sip a cup of coffee. He remembers his sweet momma, who lovingly pressed away the wrinkles on his clothes. Then one day, his father is gone and his momma falls ill.... |
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Place Hand Here
Katie Yamasaki - Norton Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A magnificent story of community, family, and love from internationally renowned muralist and picture book creator Katie Yamasaki.A young boy passes a painting of a hand on a wall in his neighborhood and watches others placing their own hands against it. The act means something different... |
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The Tunnel
Sarah Howden - Owlkids
Format: Hardcover
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A spare, powerful story about taking space to process difficult feelings After something bad happens, a boy feels sad and gray. Mom and Aunt Cheryl try to talk about it, but he feels like running away. So he picks up a shovel and starts digging a tunnel from his room, deep down and into... |
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The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden
Heather Smith - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, begins a mysterious project - building a phone booth in his garden. At first... |
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The Journey
Francesca Sanna - Flying Eye Books
Format: Print book
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With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.From... |
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The Invisible String
Patrice Karst - DeVorss Publications
Format: Hardcover
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For Adults too!A steady best-seller and The Invisible String is reaching all over the World! With over 1 MILLION copies sold, this accessible, bestselling picture book phenomenon about the unbreakable connections between loved ones has healed a generation of readers--children and adults... |
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We Are Lions!
Jens Mattsson - Groundwood Books
Format: Hardcover
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I am a lion, and my big brother is one, too ... until one day, he gets sick.The narrator and his big brother have the best game in the world together. They are dangerous lions on the savannah! One day, big brother doesn't want to run around anymore. His stomach hurts. He has to see the doctor... |
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Today Is Different
Doua Moua
Format: Hardcover
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Standing together makes all of us stronger.Mai, a young Hmong girl, and Kiara, a young Black girl, are best friends. They do everything together -- riding the bus, eating lunch, playing at recess. But one day Kiara misses school and Mai goes looking for answers. When she learns that her best... |
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Branches of Hope: The 9/11 Survivor Tree
Ann Magee - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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The branches of the 9/11 Survivor Tree poked through the rubble at Ground Zero. They were glimpses of hope in the weeks after September 11, 2001. Remember and honor the events of 9/11 and celebrate how hope appears in the midst of hardship. The Survivor Tree found at Ground Zero was rescued,... |
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When the Wind Came
Jan Andrews - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover
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A spare and beautiful story of resilience.It's a normal day, at first, for a girl on her family farm. But then the wind starts. It blows harder and harder and harder. Her mother grabs her baby brother. Her father opens the root cellar door. They pile in and sit in darkness. But when... |
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Spectacularly Beautiful: A Refugee's Story
Lisa Lucas - POW!
Format: Hardcover
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A young refugee living in America learns to see herself as beautiful, in spite of physical and emotional scars from her troubled homeland, thanks to a gifted teacher.Spectacularly Beautiful tells the story of Shahad, a refugee who has moved to a new country and started at a new school with... |
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The Breaking News
SARAH LYNNE REUL - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her normally attentive parents and neighbors are suddenly exhausted and distracted. At school, her teacher tells the class to look for the helpers -- the good people working to make things better in big and small ways. She wants... |
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