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Rain Forest Food Chains

Angela Royston · Heinemann
Format: Book

This book explores the rich food chains and webs that exist in a rain forest habitat. It equips readers with crucial vocabulary, using examples from that habitat to explain the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers, and illustrates how living things depend upon each other. Readers...
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Andrew and the Birthday Surprise: The Boy Who Cried Wolf Remixed

Connie Colwell Miller · Amicus Illustrated
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

"In this modern-day re-telling of Aesop's fable 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' Andrew ruins a surprise his sisters are making for his mom when he gets bored and cries 'wolf' too many times"
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Under the Sabbath Lamp

Michael Herman · Kar-Ben Publishing
Pages: 32

When Izzy and Olivia Bloom invite their neighbors over for Shabbat dinner, everyone is shocked to find out that the Blooms don't have Shabbat candles. Instead, they have something much more unusual: an antique Sabbath lamp that's been passed down from generation to generation. How did the Sabbath...
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Spies in the CIA

Laura K Murray · Creative Education
Pages: 24
Format: Print book

"An early reader's guide to CIA spies, introducing American espionage history, famous agents such as Aldrich Ames, technology such as spy satellites, and the dangers all spies face"--
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Hedgehogs Are Not Hogs!

Lincoln James · Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Print book

Explains how hedgehogs got their name even thought they are not hogs, and describes their closest relatives, where they live, their anatomy, including their remarkable quills, their enemies, their diet, their young, and hedgehogs as pets.
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Gus's Garage

Leo Timmers · Gecko Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

Gus's workshop is chock-full of odds and ends. When his friend Rico comes over with a problemhis scooter seat is way too small for a rhinoGus finds just the thing to fix it.
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Measuring Volume

Beth Bence Reinke · Cherry Lake Publishing
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

"Real-world examples and engaging activities guide readers in learning about measuring volume."--
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Dancing Through Fields of Color: The Story of Helen Frankenthaler

Elizabeth Brown · Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

They said only men could paint powerful pictures, but Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) splashed her way through the modern art world. Channeling deep emotion, Helen poured paint onto her canvas and danced with the colors to make art unlike anything anyone had ever seen. She used unique...
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Hot!: Heat Energy

Emma Carlson Berne · Powerkids Pr
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Heat energy is found everywhere, including the Sun?s rays and the Earth?s heat under the ground. This volume defines heat and thermal energy, explains the states of matter, explores measuring heat, and outlines other basic concepts of heat energy. Sidebars profile ways that heat is measured...
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Tyrannosaurus Rex

A. L. Wegwerth · Capstone
Pages: 32
Format: Library Binding

Crash! The huge, fast, and hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex thundered through the hot and wet forests of the Cretaceous period, always searching for its next meal. Discover the fascinating story of this giant dinosaur and its journey through time.
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Sam, the Most Scaredy-cat Kid in the Whole World: A Leonardo, the Terrible Monster Companion

MO WILLEMS · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

A TERRIFICALLY TERRIFYING TALE!Sam is afraid of anything and everything-except for his friend Leonardo, the terrible monster.Kerry is afraid of everything and anything-except for her friend Frankenthaler, the other monster.One day, the two scaredy-cat kids make a particularly scary discovery:...
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Love: from Sesame Street

Sesame Workshop · Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Love is infinite. Love is giggles. Love is cookies. Explore all the definitions of love with your friends from Sesame Street! In this illustrated picture book, children will delight in seeing their favorite characters share what love means to them. This warm and uplifting story will show...
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Dinosaur Shapes

David West · Crabtree Publishing Company
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

"When kids and dinosaurs play together, they come across a lot of different shapes. Can you spot all the shapes?" -- Cover verso.
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