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A Fair Deal: Shopping for Social Justice

Kari Jones - Orca Book Publishers
Format: Hardcover

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Plants!

Nick Forshaw - What on Earth Books
Format: Hardcover

Stop and smell the roses with Agent Osprey as she works to uncover the beautiful world of plants! Plants! includes a six-foot-long timeline, featuring over 100 plants from their first known forms through to their living descendants, and looks into how they have survived and thrived. Join...
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Hatchet

Gary Paulsen - Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

ALONEThirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present - and the dreadful...
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Baseball

Andrew Luke - Mason Crest
Format: Print book

Baseball is known as Americas national pastime, but its popularity did not happen overnight. The modern game evolved in the late 1800s in the Midwest, and by the turn of the century, Americans were telling stories about heroic exploits on the baseball diamond. Players from Ty Cobb and Babe...
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Sweeping Up the Heart

Kevin Henkes - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

From two-time Newbery Honor and New York Times-bestselling author Kevin Henkes, this timeless novel about loss, loneliness, and friendship tells the story of the spring break that changes seventh-grader Amelia Albright's life forever.Amelia Albright dreams about going to Florida for spring...
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Destination: Space

Dave Williams
Format: Paperback

Will humans ever be able to live on other planets? Former NASA astronaut Dr. Dave Williams is the person to ask. It turns out that Earth is a pretty good place to live. Finding other habitable environments in space is no easy task: temperatures on Mercury are ten times hotter than on Earth;...
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Unsinkable: From Russian Orphan to Paralympic Swimming World Champion

Jessica Tatiana Long - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The top Paralympic swimmer in the world, Jessica Long delivers an inspirational photographic memoir. Born in Siberia with fibular hemimelia, Jessica Long was adopted from a Russian orphanage at thirteen months old and has since become the second most decorated U.S. Paralympic athlete of all time....
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Black Brother, Black Brother

Jewell Parker Rhodes - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition. p.p1...
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The Adventures of Hershel of Ostropol

Eric A. Kimmel - Holiday House
Format: Paperback

Quick-witted, clever, and funny, the legendary Hershel of Ostropol is one of folk-lore's great tricksters.This funny collection of stories follows the celebrated Jewish folk hero as he outwits everone: stingy innkeepers, fierce bandits, even his own father. The author, Eric Kimmel,...
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Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Joanna Brundle - Kidhaven
Format: Library Binding

Readers are introduced to the world of volcanoes and earthquakes in this explosive text, which supports current science curriculum topics. Exciting main text explains why the earth shifts beneath our feet and how this has contributed to altering Earths geography. Detailed fact boxes, simple...
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