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Charlie and the New Baby

Ree Drummond · Harper
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Charlie the Ranch Dog, and her lovable hound are back in Charlie and the New Baby. With expressive illustrations by Diane deGroat, a new delicious recipe from Ree Drummond, and the hilarious antics of Charlie, this...
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Write to Me: Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind

Cynthia Grady · Charlesbridge
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

A touching story about Japanese American children who corresponded with their beloved librarian while they were imprisoned in World War II internment camps.When Executive Order 9066 is enacted after the attack at Pearl Harbor, children's librarian Clara Breed's young Japanese American patrons...
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The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems

Paul B. Janeczko · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Toast a marshmallow, be a tree in winter, read braille - Paul B. Janeczko and Richard Jones invite you to enjoy an assortment of poems that inform and inspire.Today I walked outside and spied a hedgehog on the hill. When she and I met eye to eye, she raised up straight and still. Be they...
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Neon Leon

Jane Clarke · Nosy Crow
Pages: 24
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knows that chameleons are the best at fitting in. But Leon is an exception. Leon is neon! In fact, he's so bright that he keeps all the other chameleons awake at night. Poor Leon is lonely, so he goes off in search of somewhere he won't be a nuisance. In this delightful interactive...
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If I Ran the Zoo

Seuss, Dr. · Random House
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover

Animals abound in Dr. Seuss's Caldecott Honor-winning picture book If I Ran the Zoo. Gerald McGrew imagines the myriad of animals he'd have in his very own zoo, and the adventures he'll have to go on in order to gather them all. Featuring everything from a lion with ten feet...
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The Library

Aaron Carr · Weigl Publishers
Format: Print 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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Robert Fulton

Katie Marsico · Cherry Lake Pub
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

Robert Fulton in The My Itty-Bitty Bio series is a biography for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Robert Fulton in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from...
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I Don't Like Koala

Sean Ferrell · Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

What's not to love about a cute, cuddly...creepy toy koala? This is the story of a boy and the stuffed animal he just can't seem to shake.Adam does not like Koala. Koala is a little creepy. Adam tries explaining this to his parents. He tries putting Koala away - far away. He tries...
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Circle

Mac Barnett · Candlewick
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen deliver the final wry and resonant tale about Triangle, Square, and Circle.This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle's friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes,...
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Carmela Full of Wishes

Matt de la Pen?a · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover

In their first collaboration since the Newbery Medal- and Caldecott Honor-winning Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson deliver a poignant and timely new picture book that's sure to be an instant classic.When Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already...
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It Starts With a Seed

LAURA KNOWLES · words & pictures
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Take a journey through the seasons and years as we follow the seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page.As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures - squirrels...
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Miss Bindergarten and the Best Friends

Joseph Slate · Penguin Young Readers Group
Pages: 32
Format: Hardcover

Emily and Vicky are best friends. They both wear yellow boots. They both like red hats. They play all the same games. Are they twins?
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Mr. Happy and Miss Grimm

Antonie Schneider · Holiday House; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover

Mr. Happy has just moved in next door, and Miss Grimm is not pleased. Mr. Happy greets the sun each day, works tirelessly in his spectacular garden, and even whistles to the birds. So much for peace and quiet!From her gloomy and barren side of the fence, Miss Grimm knows one thing for certain:...
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Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

Katherine Roy · Roaring Brook
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them--just thirty miles from the Golden Gate Bridge!
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The Moon

Grace Hansen · Abdo Kids Jumbo
Pages: 24
Format: Library Binding

This title will cover how scientists think our moon came to be, what it looks like, its size, its orbit and phases, and how it interacts with Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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