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When a line bends... a shape begins
A line is thin. A line is narrow—curved like a worm, straight as an arrow. Squares, circles, triangles, and many more shapes abound in this lively book. With jaunty, rhyming text, young readers are invited to find different shapes on each busy, vibrant page. Once you start looking, you won’t be able to stop! The perfect book for little ones beginning to distinguish shapes.
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- 0590642057
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- 32 pages : illustration : 22 cm
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- 516 GRE
I wish I were a butterfly
The littlest cricket of Swampswallow Pond is convinced only by the Wise Old One that being special has nothing to do with physical metamorphosis, flashy colors, or shimmering wings. “The cricket is every child who stopped the music because someone criticized casually, thoughtlessly. It takes a wise friend to bring the music back.”--School Library Journal
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- 9780152380137
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- 32 pages : illustration : 27 cm
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- H
Barack Obama : out of many, one
A Step 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader about our forty-fourth president, Barack Obama—revised to include an account of his reelection and new photographs! With clear and accessible language, independent readers can learn how the lessons and love from Obama’s mother and grandparents shaped him; how the places he lived influenced him; and how he turned his childhood feeling of being an o…
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- 9780375863394
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- 47 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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- Step into reading step 3 : A biography Reader
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- 923 COR
Pyramid
Illus. with full-color photos. Unlock the secrets to the mysterious monuments of the ancient world--from Egyptian pyramids, built before the invention of the wheel, to amazing Aztec and Maya edifices.
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- 9780329553098
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- 72 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books
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- 909 PUT
The amazing life of Benjamin Franklin
Now available in paperback for the first time, James Cross Giblin and Michael Dooling tell the story of the man known as the "wisest American." Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children, and the youngest of 10 sons. To help out with the family, he was put to work when he was 10 years old in his father's candle and soap-making shop. Ben hated making soap and candles. Since he was smart an…
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- 9780439810654
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- 48 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- 925 FRA
Secrets of the Sphinx
James Cross Giblin, this year's winner of the Sibert Medal, has written a stunning exploration of one of history's most mysterious structures. The Great Sphinx is one of the largest sculptures in the world. Six stories high and a city block wide, it has stood guard over the pyramids of Egypt's Giza Plateau for 4,500 years. Who built the Sphinx and why? And how did primitive sculptors manage …
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- 0439738849
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- 47 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- 932 GIB
How would you survive as an ancient Roman?
Describes Roman daily life, families, food, clothing, health, education, work, entertainment, government, trade, customs, and beliefs
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- 053114349X
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- 48 pages : illustration ; 28 cm
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- 937 GAN
If you were a pioneer on the prairie
The newest title from this wonderful historical series, "If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie" gives a child a look at what his or her life would have been like during this time period. This new addition to the popular question-and-answer history series invites readers to step back in time and see what it was like to grow up on the Great Plains more than 100 years ago. What kind of house wo…
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- 9780439414289
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- 64 pages : illustration ; 18 cm
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- 978 KAM
Fields of fury : the American Civil War
Pulitzer Prize award-winning historian James M. McPherson has written for young readers a stirring account of the greatest conflict to happen on our nation's soil, the Civil War, bringing to life the tragic struggle that divided not only a nation, but also friends and family. From the initial Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, to the devastating loss of life at Shiloh as Ulysses S. Grant led th…
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- 9780545036740
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- 96 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- 973.7 MCP
Dear Greenpeace
Please read what I have written about the whale in my pond love Emily Dear Emily, Here are some details about whales. I don't think you'll find it was a whale you saw, because whales don't live in ponds, but in salt water. Yours sincerely, Greenpeace
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- 9781406308488
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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