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2019., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While her father is at war, five-year-old Rosalie is a captain on her own secret mission. She wears the disguise of a little girl and tracks her progress in a secret notebook. Some evenings, Rosalie's mother reads aloud Father's letters from the front lines, so that Rosalie knows he is thinking of her and looking forward to the end of the war and to finally coming home. But one day a letter comes that her mother doesn't read to her, and Rosalie knows her mission must soon come to an end.
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2016., Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Just as spiders spin their webs, Louise Bourgeois's mother was a weaver of tapestries. Before Louise became a world-renowned contemporary artist, she was an apprentice in her family's tapestry shop. Weaving fabric with her nurturing mother taught Louise about form and color, and procided the inspiration for her later, most famous works as a sculptor.
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2019., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: Easy BARNETT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
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2019., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: [E] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
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2011., Groundwood Books/House os Anansi Press Call No: E TRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows a young girl and her family as they travel north from Mexico to Canada to work on farms harvesting fruits and vegetables.
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c2011., Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Anna is the child of Mennonites from Mexico, who have come north to harvest fruit and vegetables. Sometimes she feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall, sometimes like a jackrabbit in an abandoned burrow, since her family occupies an empty farmhouse near the fields. But above all Anna wonders what it would be like to be a tree rooted deeply in the earth, watching the seasons come and go, instead of being like a "feather in the wind.".
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[2008], Pre-adolescent, KCP Poetry Call No: 811 .4 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Visions in poetrySummary Note: A collection of poems by nineteenth-century American poet, Emily Dickinson, including "Judge Tenderly of Me" and "A Certain Slant of Light."
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2013., Primary, House of Anansi Press Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a child sleeps on a winters night the outside world changes with the falling of fresh snow, nighttime creatures and the northern lights.
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c2012., Juvenile, Kids Can Press Call No: E MAC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Virginia wakes up depressed and feeling "wolfish," her sister cheers her up by painting an imaginary place with wonderful sights.