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Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"To some, he was "Professor Nuts Peterson," but to the world he was Roger Tory Peterson. For the birds: the life of Roger Tory Peterson tracks this American artist, activist, and passionate bird lover from his days as a child, to art student, to creator of the Peterson Field Guides, to global environmentalist. Peterson's guides were revolutionary--simply written and drawn for everyone to enjoy the birds, animals, and plants of the outdoors. Millions...
17523) The keeper of the mist
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"When Keri is unexpectedly named the next ruler of Nimmera, she must guide the small, magical land through a perilous time"--
17524) The Book of Wonders
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a tale loosely based on the Arabian nights, thirteen-year-old Zardi and her best friend, Ridhan, join forces with Captain Sinbad to defeat an evil sultan and restore magic to the world of Arribitha.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing, with new and previously unpublished material, including:...
17526) The power
Author
Series
Magnificent 12 volume 4
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy and a team of other twelve-year-olds travel the globe to find the rest of the Manigica team so they can defeat the Pale Queen and save the world from destruction"--
17527) 100 animals on parade!
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A counting book with hundreds of animals not only to count, but to find in the pages. There's a snail, a ladybug and an ant in every scene. There are other things and creatures as well to look for in the festival scenes. Find them all!
Author
Series
Kanchil volume 3
Publisher
Tara Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Indonesian folktale featuring the popular trickster Kanchil, who boasts that he is the fastest animal in the forest.
17529) The Far West
Author
Series
Frontier magic volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When the unlucky magical twin Eff joins an expedition to map the Far West, she endures a long prairie winter and encounters with previously unknown creatures before realizing the importance of ending a magical flood.
17531) The Magykal papers
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Purports to be a compilation of pamphlets, journals, restaurant reviews, maps, historical information, and other never-before-published papers from the world of the apprentice alchemist, Septimus Heap.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the enormous whale shark to the legendary great white to the enigmatic goblin shark to the small cookie-cutter shark, Slickety Quick is a delightful frenzy of shark mayhem. Mysterious species such as the camouflaged wobbegong and the elusive frilled shark share the waters with better-known blue and nurse sharks, each commemorated in a poem by Skila Brown and illustrated by Bob Kolar. Sneaky shark facts ripple through each spread to further inform...
17533) Unhinged
Author
Series
Splintered series volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now all she has to...
17535) Hardworking puppies
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
One by one, ten energetic puppies find important jobs as dogs who help people in different ways, including by pulling sleds and saving swimmers.
17537) Thomas's ABC book
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An alphabet book featuring Thomas the tank engine and his friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Essays, profiles, and interviews about issues in social and political action, including climate change, immigration, gender and sexual orientation, racism, women's rights, religious freedom, and intersectionality. Also includes practical information about tools for effecting change.
Styron's stirring call for resistance and citizen activism will be clearly heard by young people who want to make sure everybody gets an equal piece of the American pie,...
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Language
English
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
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