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c2011, Primary, Charlesbridge Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Colorful illustrations and simple text show how the food chain functions on the African plains, showing what happens after a lion targets and hunts down a zebra.
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c2011, Primary, Holiday House Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Punxsutawney Phyllis forecasts a blizzard on April Fools' Day--the same day as the Spring Treasure Hunt--the other groundhogs are convinced that Phyllis is pulling a prank. Includes information of the origins of April Fools' Day and how it is celebrated around the world.
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2011, Primary, Little, Brown Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Arthur starts talking about his school project involving a Big Green Machine, D.W. imagines a scary contraption that will turn everyone green.
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c2010, Primary, Philomel Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From the back of the bus, an African American child watches the arrest of Rosa Parks.
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2010, Pre-adolescent, Flash Point Call No: 780 .92 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story behind the creation of "Appalachian Spring," describing Aaron Copland's composition and Martha Graham's intense choreography.
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c2011, Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg, the man who first invented the helium balloons that have become the trademark of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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c2010, Primary, Heinemann Library Call No: 323.6 5 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: CitizenshipSummary Note: Illustrations and text teach children the rights and responsibilities associated with being a good citizen.
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2011, Primary, Roaring Brook Press Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sam, very sad after his dog Ella dies, is persuaded to go out trick-or-treating and is surprised and delighted when Ella--his very own bone dog--comes to save him from a group of rowdy skeletons.
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-- Boy named Franklin D. Rooseveltc2011, Primary, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, discussing his childhood in one of the wealthiest families in the United States, his battle with polio, and his achievements as president.
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c2011, Primary, Tricycle Press Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the true story of Ida Lewis, explaining how she learned to tend a lighthouse from her father, discussing her responsibilities as the lighthouse keeper, and describing her heroic rescues.
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-- Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our National Parksc2012, Primary, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.
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c2010, Pre-adolescent, Tricycle Press Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the life and work of nineteenth-century French physicist Léon Foucault, who invented a pendulum that provided proof that the Earth rotated on its axis.
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c2009, Primary, Amistad/Katherine Tegen Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated biography of Coretta Scott King, describing her childhood in the segregated South, her marriage to Martin Luther King, Jr., and her civil rights work.
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2009, Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
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c2010, Primary, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1932, James Banning, along with his co-pilot Thomas Allen, make history by becoming the first African Americans to fly across the United States, relying on the generosity of people they meet in the towns along the way who help keep their "flying jalopy" going.
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c2010, Primary, Philomel Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After safeguarding her heart in a bottle hung around her neck, a girl finds the bottle growing heavier and her interest in things around her becoming smaller.
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c2011, Primary, Sylan Dell Pub Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Colorful illustrations and rhyming text describe the food chain of a pond, introducing different animals in the food web and the parts they play within the ecosystem, and including comprehension questions and related activities.
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c2011, Primary, Schwartz & Wade Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fred, a beekeeper, keeps his hives on the roof of his apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
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2011, Primary, Harcourt Children's Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.
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c2010, Primary, Upstart Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The Gingerbread Man escapes from his proper place on the library shelves and tries to outrun the librarian, a word wizard, a robot, a giraffe, and a host of other characters as he races through the library.