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Cindy Baldwin - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

An unexpected animal companion helps a girl with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story in this captivating novel in verse by award-winning author and disabled activist Cindy Baldwin. Penny Rooney has cystic fibrosis, which means she has to do breathing treatments to help her lungs...
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Froggy Is the Best

Jonathan London - Penguin Young Readers
Format: Print book

Froggy hops into the Penguin Young Readers program!Froggy isn't the best at everything (like soccer or swimming) , but he knows he has to be the best at something. Kids will love learning to read with one of their favorite characters, Froggy!
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Tzimmes for Tzipporah

Megan Hoyt - Apples & Honey Press
Format: Hardcover

This count down to the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah explores life and celebration on a family farm through the eyes of a young girl allowed to help with preparations for the first time.It's just three days until the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. A young girl and her family...
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The Pout-Pout Fish Cleans Up the Ocean

Deborah Diesen - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Mr. Fish and his friends have noticed something strange in their ocean -- a big, big MESS! How did it get there? What can they do about it? The closer they look, the more they see where the mess came from . . . and they'll have to work together to get rid of it. This newest jacketed...
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On the Fourth of July: A Sparkly Picture Book About Independence Day

Maggie C. Rudd - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Happy birthday, America! This picture book celebrates patriotism, community, and summertime from the dynamic duo that brought you I'll Hold Your Hand.. We lift our flags high above us in pride, waving stars and stripes with red, white, and blue. It's America's birthday, and that...
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Love

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

From Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Pea and bestselling illustrator Loren Long comes a story about the strongest bond there is and the diverse and powerful ways it connects us all."In the beginning there is light and two wide-eyed figures standing near the foot of your bed and the sound...
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Construction Sites

Felicity Brooks - Usborne Books; Ltf Brdbk edition
Format: Board book

What are the builders doing today? What's happening at the building site? Find out by lifting all the flaps in this delightful board book.
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Lost. Found.

Marsha Diane Arnold - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book

On a wintry day, a bear loses his soft red scarf. The wind carries it *whoosh* to a pair of raccoons who use it to play tug-o-war. When they run off, a beaver dons the scarf as the perfect winter hat...until it gets tangled on a tree branch. The scarf is lost and found by a series of animals,...
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The 39-Story Treehouse

Andy Griffiths - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover

Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding) . And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows...
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The Illustrated Robert Frost (The Illustrated Poets Collection, 2)

Ryan G. Van Cleave - Bushel & Peck Books
Format: Hardcover

For "Birches" to "The Road Not Taken," perhaps no poet has won such a place in the hearts of readers as Robert Frost. In this gorgeously illustrated collection of poems, readers are introduced to twenty-five of Frost's most beloved works, each illustrated with stunning,...
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