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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

Carole Boston Weatherford · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford's innovative history in verse celebrates the story of the Tuskegee Airmen: pioneering African-American pilots who triumphed in the skies and past the color barrier.I WANT YOU! says the poster of Uncle Sam. But if you're a young black...
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Frankie's Magic Soccer Ball #3: Frankie vs. the Cowboy's Crew

Frank Lampard · Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Book

Frankie and his soccer team travel to fantastic lands to play some of the wildest soccer matches ever! Frankie and his team love playing soccer. Theres always time for a game. And now that they have their magical soccer ball theyre playing against teams they never imagined! When theyre...
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Cool Mexican Cooking: Fun and Tasty Recipes for Kids

Lisa Wagner · Checkerboard Library
Format: Book

Introduces cooking terms, techniques, and utensils and provides easy-to-follow recipes for six traditional Mexican dishes.Title: Cool Mexican CookingAuthor: Wagner, LisaPublisher: Abdo GroupPublication Date: 2011/01/01Number of Pages: 32Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 2010022194
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Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure

Ann M Martin · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 241
Format: Print book

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has gone away unexpectedly and left her niece, Missy Piggle-Wiggle, in charge of the Upside-Down House and the beloved animals who live there: Lester the pig, Wag the dog, and Penelope the parrot, among others. Families in town soon realize that like her great-aunt, Missy...
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Explorer: The Lost Islands

Kazu Kibuishi · Harry N. Abrams; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

  The highly anticipated second volume to the critically acclaimed Explorer series, The Lost Islands is a collection of seven all-new stories written and illustrated by an award-winning roster of comics artists, with each story centered around the theme of hidden places. Edited by the New York...
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When Dinos Dawned, Mammals Got Munched, and Pterosaurs Took Flight: A Cartoon PreHistory of Life in the Triassic

Hannah Bonner · National Geographic Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

In the style of WHEN BUGS WERE BIG and WHEN FISH GOT FEET this book discusses all the exciting developments of the Triassic Age, from the recovery of the planet from the most deadly mass extinction ever, to the first appearance of the dinosaurs. We also get to meet the first mammals, the first...
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Motorcycles

Allan Morey · Jump!
Format: Hardcover

In Motorcycles, early readers will learn about the different kinds of motorcycles people ride and what those bikes are used for. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they discover the unique features of these machines.,
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What Is Energy?

Paula Johanson · Rosen Education Service

In this text, readers are introduced to basic concepts of energy and where it exists all around them, right down to matter and the atom.
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Rain Reign

Ann M Martin · Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 226
Format: Book

A New York Times Bestseller!Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein) , which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's...
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