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Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians

Aliki. · Harper & Row
Pages: 33
Format: Paperback

Popcorn, corn on the cob, cornbread, tacos, tamales, and tortillas - all of these and many other good things come from one amazing plant. With simple prose and beautiful illustrations, award-winning author-illustrator Aliki tells the story of how Native American farmers thousands of years...
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The Eagle of Rome: A Lottie Lipton Adventure

Dan Metcalf · Darby Creek Publishing
Pages: 80
Format: Library Binding

Welcome to the British Museum, home to Lottie Lipton: nine-year-old investigator extraordinaire! Lady Viola Kirton, the famous treasure hunter, is on the trail of a legendary Roman eagle. But she wants to sell it, and Lottie Lipton knows it belongs in a museum. Can Lottie win the race to find...
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Look!: Make Observations and Ask Questions

Emma Carlson Berne · Powerkids Pr
Format: Book

Presents information about how scientists use the scientific method to do experiments, explaining how to make observations, choose a topic to investigate, take notes, ask questions, sort evidence, and organize data.
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A Minty Mess

Helen Perelman · Aladdin Books
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Dash the Mint Fairy wishes the soggy weather would stop raining on her parade in this sweet-tacular Candy Fairies adventure.It's raining cats and dogs in Sugar Valley! The grounds are a minty mess and all the Candy Fairies are worried about their crops getting soaked and keeping their...
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The Terror of the Bigfoot Beast

Laurie S Sutton · Stone Arch Books
Format: Print book

On a camping trip, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang encounter Bigfoot! Will the gang pack up or stay to investigate? Should they follow Bigfoot's trail or wait for help? Does Scooby get to chow down or go hungry? In this interactive story, YOU CHOOSE the path the gang should take....
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The Park

Megan Cuthbert · Av2 by Weigl
Format: Book

Young readers will learn about the people and places that make up a community in the all-new My Neighborhood series. Each book features easy-to-red text based on sight words, paired with vivid photos to stimulate and engage even the most reluctant readers. My Neighborhood is a series of AV2 media...
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My Mom and Dad

Claudia Harrington · Magic Wagon,
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

"Lenny follows Kan for a school project and learns what it's like to have a multicultural family"--
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How Many Ways Can You Cut a Pie?: A Book About Math

Jane Belk Moncure · Child's World
Format: Print book

Squirrel promises to divide her pie into sections for her animal friends if she wins the pie contest. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Bradford Street Buddies: Block Party Surprise

Jerdine Nolen · Harcourt Brace and Company
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback

Welcome to the neighborhood! Join twins Jada and Jamal, and their best friends, Carlita and Josh, for Bradford Street's fall block party. Beginning and newly independent readers are in for a surprise of prehistoric proportions as they explore this fun-filled multicultural neighborhood...
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The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon

Jonny Duddle · Candlewick Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Ahoy, me hearties! Matilda and the Pirates Next Door return in a series of illustrated stories for young readers.Every full moon, a mysterious ship is seen off the coast of Dull-on-Sea. Then, the next day, gold and jewelry are missing from homes, shops, and museums all over town. Matilda...
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How Many Hugs?

Heather Swain · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

All the ways that animals and multi-legged insects give hugs, How Many Hugs? is perfect as a counting picture book and for reading aloud at bedtime!Centipedes, those crawliest bugshave 300 legs for giving out hugs.That's 150 on one side to graspand 150 on the other to clasp.Hugs abound...
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Spider Sandwiches

Claire Freedman · Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First American Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Come and eat with Max,he has a MONSTER appetite.He eats such yucky, mucky food,his mealtimes are a fright.From fish-eye cheese and bug burgers to snail trail sauce and cockroach curry, Max will feast on anything crawly, creepy, hairy and sticky. But his favorite snack has to be Spider Sandwiches!...
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The Tiger Who Would Be King

James Thurber · Enchanted Lion Books
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Gorgeously illustrated and including two gatefolds that give us a panoramic jungle at war, The Tiger Who Would Be King is as entertaining as it is wise, as wry as it is passionate. Yoon's humorous images support this beautifully written text with wit and insight. Her final portrait...
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Stephen Curry

Laura K Murray · Creative Education
Format: Print book

"An elementary introduction to the life, work, and popularity of Stephen Curry, a professional basketball point guard who helped the Golden State Warriors win the 2015 NBA championship"--
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I See Plants

Tim Mayerling · Jump!, Inc.
Pages: 16
Format: Library Binding

I See Plants introduces emergent readers to a variety of plant characteristics while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers,...
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