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Rocking the Tide

Jane Yolen - Simon Spotlight
Format: Hardcover

From acclaimed, prolific author Jane Yolen comes a colorful Level 1 Ready-to-Read story all about a school music concert!The fish are performing a music concert at school. But then they start to worry: "What if a current grabs my strings? What if our soloist never sings?" School...
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Little Lucy Goes to School

Ilene Cooper - Random House Books for Young Readers

With over 1.6 million Lucy books sold, this beguiling beagle has captured the hearts of both beginning readers and early chapter book fans! Learn to read with Ilene Cooper's adorable beagle puppy, Lucy! What does Bobby do all day at school? Lucy wants to know! So when Bobby's...
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AntiRacist Baby

Ibram X. Kendi - Kokila
Format: Board book

From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new board book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves.Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or rather, follow Antiracist...
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The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, ADHD, Addictions, PTSD, Psychosis, Personality Disorders, and More

Dr. Daniel G. Amen - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover

New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more.Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely...
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Sam, Bangs & Moonshine

Evaline Ness - Square Fish
Format: Audiobook

Samantha (known as Sam) is a fisherman’s daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams--moonshine, her father says. But when her tall stories bring disaster to her friend Thomas and her cat Bangs, Sam learns to distinguish between moonshine and reality. Sam, Bangs & Moonshine...
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Blue on Blue

Dianne White - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

Discover the joys of a wild rainstorm in this poetic picture book, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist.Join a farming family as they experience the full range of a thrilling seaside thunderstorm - from the wild wind and the very first drops; to the pouring, pouring rain; to the wonderful...
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Perfectly Norman

Tom Percival - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Meet Norman. Norman is normal--perfectly normal.That's until he grows a pair of wings!Norman loves his new wings, but he's worried about everyone will think. After all, they're definitely NOT normal. Norman decides to cover them with a big coat, but hiding such a big part of his life...
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The Irish Cinderlad

Shirley Climo - HarperCollins Publishers

A hero's feats?Ever since he was a baby, Becan's only worry has been his big feet--until his widowed father remarries. His new stepmothr and her three daughters feed him crusts of bread and banish him to work in the fields. So Becan runs away. With the help of his only friend,...
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Frances Dean Who Loved to Dance and Dance

Birgitta Sif - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Oliver comes a book that glows from the inside out, a book that will move you to be yourself - and get dancing.Frances Dean loves to dance. She feels the wind and she dances. She hears singing birds and she dances. In her every waking moment, she is inspired...
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The Best Seat in First Grade

Katharine Kenah - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

On the first day of first grade, Sam has news to share with the class - over the summer, his elephant had a baby! Really! From the team who wrote and illustrated the I Can Read favorite The Best Seat in Second Grade, this prequel is a heartfelt story that's just right for all children...
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Big Dog Decisions

Michele Jakubowski - Picture Window Books
Format: Hardcover

Everyone loves dogs, right? That seems to be the one thing that Sidney, Sydney, Gomez, and Harley can agree on. What they can't agree on is how to run their new dog walking business. From who makes the posters to who picks up the poop, the foursome is off to a slow start. Big dog decisions...
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The Story of AND: The Little Word That Changed the World

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso - Flyaway Books
Format: Hardcover

Poor and: the word everyone takes for granted. So tiny, so common, so easily overlooked. Yet if it weren't for and, so much would fall apart! Who knew such a little word could make such a big difference? When an array of opinionated shapes just can't find common ground, AND comes...
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What Is NASA?

Sarah Fabiny - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race against the Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny...
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Calling All Piglets! (My Friends Tigger and Pooh)

Dalmatian Press

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Pete the Cat: Construction Destruction

James Dean - HarperFestival
Format: Paperback

Pete the cat gets construction workers and equipment to build the coolest playground ever.
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What Is the Story of Hello Kitty?

Kirsten Anderson - Penguin Workshop
Format: Library Binding

Your favorite characters are now part of the Who HQ library! Say hello to the premier title in the What Is the Story Of? series. Hello Kitty!This cute cartoon character who's shaped like a bobtail cat and wears a bow in her hair has become an icon of our times. Hello Kitty, as she is known,...
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Time to Play

Ellen Lawrence - Ruby Tuesday Books
Format: Hardcover

In Time to Play, readers will meet children from around the world and find out what games they like to play. From board games to sports, some games are played in only one culture, while others, such as soccer, are loved in countries and cultures worldwide. Many families cannot afford to buy toys,...
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Ranger Rick: I Wish I Was a Sea Turtle

Jennifer Bové - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

What if you wished you were a sea turtle and then you became one? Could you eat like a sea turtle? Sleep like a sea turtle? Spend most of your life underwater? And would you want to? Find out! Ranger Rick explorers can learn all about sea turtles in this reader full of fascinating facts,...
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What Was Pompeii?

Jim OConnor - ‎Penguin Workshop; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback

The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than...
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What Was Stonewall?

Nico Medina - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback

How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movement across America? Find out about the history of LGBTQ rights in this Who HQ title.In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, police arrived at the Stonewall Inn's doors and yelled, "Police!...
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Time for School

Ellen Lawrence - Ruby Tuesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Introduces schools across the globe and what students do there, including a tiny school in Scotland, Japanese children in an earthquake drill, and a tent school for Syrian refugees, and discusses children who cannot go to school.
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Bear and Fred: A World War II Story

Iris Argaman - Amazon Crossing Kids
Format: Hardcover

I felt Fred's small hand grab me.He patted me and whispered,"Bear, I won't leave you here all by yourself.You are my best friend."Based on true events and beautifully illustrated, this is the story of a friendship that will last forever - told by Fred's best friend,...
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What Was the Alamo?

Meg Belviso - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback

"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation...
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The Food We Eat

Ellen Lawrence - Ruby Tuesday Books
Format: Hardcover

In The Food We Eat, readers will meet children from around the world and find out what foods they eat, where the foods come from, and how they are prepared. The difficulties many people face in obtaining enough food are also sensitively explored. From gathering fruit in the Amazon rain...
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DK Readers L2: Battle at the Castle

Rupert Matthews - DK CHILDREN
Format: Paperback

Through the letters of a squire of the knight Sir Edmund Perry, readers are immersed in the life at Oxney Castle in Medieval England. In Battle at the Castle children just beginning to learn to read will experience the excitement of a tournament, the preparations for an attack, and the action...
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The Land of Lines

Victor Hussenot - Chronicle Books; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

In the land of lines, anything is possible the connection between a boy and a girl from different worlds, the potential for self-discovery, and the vanquishing of a monster. While exploring mysterious terrain, the characters cascade down geometric cliffs and mountains, navigating the unknown...
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Grover's Eight Nights of Light

Jodie Shepherd - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

It's Hanukkah on Sesame Street, and Grover invites his friends to a Hanukkah party at his house. Girls and boys ages 2 to 5 will learn the why and how of celebrating Hanukkah along with Elmo, Telly, Abby Cadabby, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert, Ernie, Zoe, and Murray....
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The Five of Us

Quentin Blake - Tate Publishing(UK)
Format: Hardcover

Angie, Ollie, Simona, Mario, and Eric are five fantastic friends, each of whom has an unusual ability. Disaster strikes on a day in the countryside, but by working together and combining their individual powers, the Fantastic Five save the day. Teeming with Quentin Blake's characteristic...
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