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My Mixed Emotions: Help Your Kids Handle Their Feelings

DK. · DK Children
Pages: 80
Format: Hardcover

This super-useful book is packed with helpful hints, tips, and techniques showing children how to recognize and express their emotions.Feelings can be tricky, so My Mixed Emotions is here to coach children through a variety of situations including dealing with bullying, grief, and how to cope...
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What Is Poetry?: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems

Michael Rosen · Candlewick
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Celebrated poet and critic Michael Rosen takes readers on a whirlwind tour exploring what poems are, what they can do, and the joys of reading and writing them.For thousands of years, people have been writing poetry. But what is poetry? Award-winning wordsmith Michael Rosen has spent decades...
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A Smart Girl's Guide: Drama, Rumors & Secrets: Staying True to Yourself in Changing Times

Nancy Holyoke · American Girl
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Watch out for the drama trap! This book offers expert insight into drama, from jealousy to gossip to cyberbullying, and how to deal with it. You'll learn why drama exists, how it starts, what keeps it going, and how to cool it down. You'll find quotes and advice from real girls like you,...
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Leading the Pack: Dogsled Racing

Jeff C. Young
Format: Hardcover

Picture yourself rafting down rapids, clinging to a cliff, or hanging from a parachute. Sound scary? Or are you looking for an Adrenaline Adventure? In this series, you can check out places to watch these spectacular sports, and find out how you can get started. Discover each sport's unique...
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Squares, Rectangles, and Other Quadrilaterals

David A Adler · Holiday House
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Geometry is demystified in a new addition to a popular and amusing series of math picture books from a trusted team. Comical cats and dogs guide kids through the essential characteristics of squares, rectangles, parallelograms, rhomboids, and other quadrilaterals. Angles and degrees are explained...
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Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker

Mara Rockliff · Chronicle Books
Pages: 60
Format: Hardcover

Meet Alice Guy-Blaché. She made movies - some of the very first movies, and some of the most exciting! Blow up a pirate ship? Why not? Crawl into a tiger's cage? Of course! Leap off a bridge onto a real speeding train? It will be easy! Driven by her passion for storytelling, Alice saw a potential...
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How We Got To Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson · Viking Books for Young Readers
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not--but you should, and New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series...
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Grizzly Bears

Sheila Griffin Llanas · Checkerboard Books
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Examines the appearance, diet, habitat, and life cycle of grizzly bears and discusses their cultural importance.
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

Vashti Harrison · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES INSTANT BESTSELLER!A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!This beautifully illustrated New York Times bestseller introduces readers of all ages to 40 women who changed the world. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;...
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The world Jesus knew : a curious kid's guide to life in the first century

Marc Olson · Sparkhouse Family
Pages: 57

Jesus often told stories using everyday objects to help his listeners understand life with God. But for most of us, the deep imagery and meaning behind those objects has been lost to history. This book helps kids discover the world Jesus lived in through maps, charts, graphs, and other...
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The Moon's Time to Shine

STORYBOTS. · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! The inquisitive robots from the award-winning StoryBots apps, videos, and Emmy Award-winning Netflix show star in a Step 1 reader that is over the moon!Children will recognize the signature catchy rhymes and colorful art from the StoryBots'...
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Biddy Mason Speaks Up

Arisa White · Heyday
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Building on the brilliance of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the newest installment in the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to another real-life champion for civil rights: Bridget "Biddy" Mason, an African American philanthropist, healer, and midwife who was born...
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The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book: Learn to Code and Create Your Own Cool Games!

Jason Rukman · Everything
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Teach kids the concepts of coding in easy-to-understand language and help them develop games of their own with The Everything Kids' Scratch Coding Book!Understanding computer science is becoming a necessity in the modern age. As our world shifts towards becoming increasingly more technical...
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Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys

Cara Familian Natterson · American Girl
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

From the author of the bestselling Care & Keeping of You series! This book will provide you with the answers that will help you take care of yourself better, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to shaving, acne to voice changes, and everything in between. With tips, how-tos,...
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Bold and Blessed: How to Stay True to Yourself and Stand Out from the Crowd

Trinitee Stokes · Zondervan
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Trinitee Stokes - best known as Judy Cooper from Disney Channel's K.C. Undercover - is an actress, singer, inspirational speaker, and fashion designer who knows how hard it can be to be yourself while following your dreams. Since she began entertaining at the age of 3, Trinitee has faced...
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Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Defeated the Army

Art Coulson · Capstone Editions
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants...
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Robotpedia

Insight Editions · Insight Editions
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Take an in-depth look at the history and cultural impact of robots through the years in this educational and interactive guide!Robots are everywhere - building cars, driving cars, performing surgery, helping soldiers and fire fighters, even vacuuming! From high up in space to the bottom...
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Carousels

GRACE HANSEN · Abdo Kids Jumbo
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

This title discusses the carousel's amazing history that began with a game played hundreds of years ago by Arab horsemen. The Italian crusaders who witnessed the game called it carosello, or "little battle." Fast forward many years to the bright, loud, and colorful carousels we have...
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No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas

Tonya Bolden · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

Discover the incredible true story of how one of history's most successful potato farmers began life as a slave and worked until he was named the "Potato King of the World"!Junius G. Groves came from humble beginnings in the Bluegrass State. Born in Kentucky into slavery, freedom...
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A Smart Girl's Guide: Digital World: How to Connect, Share, Play, and Keep Yourself Safe

Carrie Anton · American Girl
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback

Digital devices put a whole world at your fingertips. Play a game, listen to music, do research for school, read a story, or make a video -- anywhere, anytime. Connect with friends and family in fast and easy ways. Post photos and share ideas and inspiration. And that's only a small part...
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Celebrate Your Body

Sonya Renee Taylor · Rockridge Press
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback

Puberty comes with a lot of changes. Celebrate Your Body (And It's Changes, Too!) will help girls understand (and love) their bodies now and as they continue to grow.For many girls, puberty can be an uncertain time. Celebrate Your Body (And Its Changes, Too!) includes everything...
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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition

Erica Armstrong Dunbar · Aladdin
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction, Never Caught is the eye-opening narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington's runaway slave, who risked everything for a better life - now available as a young reader's edition!In this incredible narrative, Erica Armstrong Dunbar reveals...
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D-Day: The World War II Invasion that Changed History

Deborah Hopkinson · Scholastic Nonfiction
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The WWII invasion known as D-Day was the largest military endeavor in history. By June 6, 1944, Hitler and his allies had a strong grip on the European continent, where Nazi Germany was engaged in the mass extermination of the Jewish people. The goal of D-Day was the total defeat of Hitler's...
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Bethany Hamilton

Jenni L. Walsh · Scholastic Nonfiction
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Growing up in Hawaii, Bethany Hamilton loved to surf. But one day, she was in her favorite place, out on the waves, when a tiger shark suddenly attacked. Thirteen-year-old Bethany lost her left arm.As she fought to recover, Bethany wondered: Would she ever surf again?Follow Bethany as she got back...
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Fly With Me: A Celebration of Birds through Pictures, Poems, and Stories

JANE YOLEN · National Geographic Children's Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Enchanting stories, lyrical poems, stunning photography, and fascinating science fill the pages of this treasury celebrating the amazing world of birds.This thoughtful and beautifully curated collection of our flying, feathery friends highlights the role birds play in human life from centuries...
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