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The Puzzle of the Platypus

And Other Explorations of Science in Action

by Myers, Jack Elliott & Rice, John A.

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Before John Was a Jazz Giant

A Song of John Coltrane

by Weatherford, Carole Boston

This lyrical picture-book biography of John Coltrane focuses on his childhood and how he interpreted sounds before he made his music.

Silent Music

A Story of Baghdad

by Rumford, James

WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sould of war with a pen. Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of a...

She Touched the World

Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer

by Alexander, Sally J. & Alexander, Robert Jackson

When she was just two years old, Laura Bridgman lost her sight, her hearing, and most of her senses of smell and taste. But then a progressive doctor, who had ...

Swindle

by Korman, Gordon

After a mean collector named Swindle cons him out of his most valuable baseball card, Griffin Bing must put together a band of misfits to break into Swindle's ...

Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials

by III, Sneed B. Collard

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The House of a Million Pets

by Hodgman, Ann

Ann Hodgman’s basement is home to three guinea pigs, a cage full of birds, a big gray rabbit, a prairie dog, a bulbul (look it up), two little rabbits, a ham...

Nightmare Academy

by Lorey, Dean & Dorman, Brandon

Rescued from a very sheltered life, thirteen-year-old Charlie learns that the monsters of his nightmares are real when he becomes a student at Nightmare Academ...

Little Eagle

by Hong, Chen Jiang

Little Eagle tells the story of a young boy who is orphaned and taken in by a kind old man. The story centers on the boy's discovery of his guardian's gift as ...

Tap Dancing on the Roof

Sijo (Poems)

by Park, Linda Sue

Sijo is a traditional Korean form of poetry. Sijo is syllabic, like Japanese haiku, with three lines of 14 to 16 syllables each: the first two introduce the to...