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Construction Workers

Cari Meister · Jump!

In Construction Workers, early readers will learn how construction workers tear down old buildings and build new ones. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they discover what a construction workers job is like.,
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Never Girls #7: A Pinch of Magic

Kiki Thorpe · Random House Disney
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Big baking plans turn into tiny little cupcakes when Mia gets a fairy's help for her neighborhood bake sale. Tinker Bell and the Disney Fairies star in a magical early chapter book series for readers ages 6 to 9 - The Never Girls!
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Brush of the Gods

Lenore Look · Schwartz & Wade
Format: Hardcover

This gorgeous picture book biography, according to Kirkus Reviews in a starred review, is a cheerful introduction not only to Wu Daozi, but to the power of inspiration. Who wants to learn calligraphy when your brush is meant for so much more? Wu Daozi 689-758, known as Chinas greatest painter...
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Super Trucks

Clive Gifford · DK CHILDREN
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed celebration of the world of trucks, this guide presents the fastest, loudest, most powerful, most expensive, and most outrageous trucks ever to hit the road. In addition to featuring pick-up trucks, military trucks, tankers, desert racers, monster trucks, and more, Super...
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The Lion and the Bird

Marianne Dubuc · Enchanted Lion Books
Format: Hardcover

Note The blank pages are not a defect but part of the storytelling. The snow increases until all the animals can see is white. One autumn day, a lion finds a wounded bird in his garden. With the departure of the birds flock, the lion decides that its up to him to care for the bird. He does...
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My Teacher Is a Monster!

Peter Brown · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on weekends to play. Until one day... he finds his teacher there!...
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Chickens Don't Fly: and other fun facts

Laura Lyn DiSiena · Little Simon
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback

Did you know that chickens don't fly? This hilarious book is full of fun facts about all sorts of animals, from barnyard birds to deep-sea sharks!Did you know that a dwarf lanternshark is only 8 inches long?How about that some salamanders breathe through their skin?Or that elephants...
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Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the Invention of the Modern Zoo

Cassandre Maxwell · Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2015.
Pages: 34
Format: Print book

Abraham Dee Bartlett knew from a young age that he wanted to spend his life working with animals. But in Victorian London, there weren't many jobs that provided an opportunity to do that. Still, Abraham spent years gaining knowledge and pursuing his dream until he eventually became...
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Mummy Cat

Marcus Ewert · Clarion Books
Pages: 48
Format: Print book

Deep within this maze of stone, a creature wakes up, all alone . . . Mummy Cat prowls his pyramid home, longing for his beloved owner. As he roams the tomb, lavish murals above his head display scenes of the cat with his young Egyptian queen, creating a story-within-a-story about the events...
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Traveling Butterflies

Susumu Shingu · Owlkids
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Monarch butterfly migration is one of nature's great mysteries. How do monarchs manage to fly some 2,500 miles from Canada and the northern United States south to Mexico? How do they trace a route they've never flown and reach the same destination their ancestors once found?Traveling...
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