Tag Archives: Multicultural

Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times Audiobook CD: From the Earliest Nomads to the Late Roman Empire, Revised Edition (7 CDs)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher: Peace Hill Press

Product Description
The Story of the World CD audiobook is a collaboration between Jim Weiss, whose voice is “liquid gold” (CNN TV), and Susan Wise Bauer, whose writing has been described as “timeless and intelligent” (Publishers Weekly). These spirited readings of the first volume [...]

A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer’s notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. [...]

Algebra 2

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Ron Larson, Laurie Boswell, Lee Stiff, Timothy D. Kanold
Publisher: McDougal Littell

The Story of Little Black Sambo

Rating: (50 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperCollins

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The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his purple shoes but who was saved from the tigers to eat 169 pancakes for his supper, has been universally loved by generations of children. First written [...]

Night in the Country

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Publisher: Aladdin

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There is no night so dark, so black as night in the country. And while the people dream of daytime things, the nighttime world awakens. Owls swoop, a rabbit patters, and in the yard an apple falls — pump! — from the tree.Listen. Go to [...]

The Neverending Story

Rating: (256 reviews)
Author: Michael Ende
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2)

Rating: (64 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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In the Spiderwick Chronicles’ second book, things get even more exciting–and kind of scary–for the Grace kids, as the strange faerie world hinted at in The Field Guide blooms to full life around them.
After making tentative peace with Thimbletack (a [...]

Words Are Not for Hurting

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Verdick
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Book Description
The older children get, the more words they know and can use-including hurtful words. This book teaches children to think before they speak, then choose what to say and how to say it. They learn that there is a connection between hurtful words [...]

Swimmy (Knopf Children’s Paperbacks)

Rating: (23 reviews)
Author: Leo Lionni
Publisher: Dragonfly Books

Book Description
Illus. in color. “An exquisite picture book. A little fish, the lone survivor of a school of fish swallowed by a tuna, devises a plan to camouflage himself and his new companions.”–(starred) School Library Journal.  

Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You: Movie Tie-in Edition (The Spiderwick Chronicles)

Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

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Spiderwick fans will adore this gorgeous guidebook to the fantastical creatures featured in Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi’s spectacular series. The superdeluxe, lavishly illustrated “field guide” features 142 information-packed pages, 41 full-color plates, 6 spectacular gatefolds, 6 watercolor landscapes, scores of [...]

How to Prepare for the SAT: 2007-2008 (Barron’s How to Prepare for the Sat I (Book Only))

Rating: (69 reviews)
Author: Sharon Weiner Green, Ph.D., Ira K. Wolf
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Book Description
The 2007 edition of Barron’s SAT test preparation manual presents one diagnostic test and six full-length practice SATs, all of which reflect the new SAT in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. This manual offers an overview [...]

Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby)

Rating: (66 reviews)
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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The engaging tale of young Ramona Quimby’s first days in kindergarten, Ramona the Pest takes a pint-sized perspective on the trials and delights of beginning school. Ramona can’t wait to learn all the important things. But she’s disappointed when her teacher can’t fill in missing parts [...]

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Betty G. Birney
Publisher: Aladdin

Book Description
Life in Sassafras Springs has always been predictable, boring even, but one afternoon that changes when Eben McAllister’s pa challenges him to find Seven Wonders in Sassafras that rival the real Seven Wonders of the World. The reward? An adventure that Eben’s been craving [...]

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Rating: (92 reviews)
Author: Arlene Mosel
Publisher: Square Fish
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If you haven’t already read Tikki Tikki Tembo, you’ve probably heard at least someone recite the deliriously long name of its protagonist: Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo, by now a famous refrain in most nursery schools. In this beautiful edition–complete with [...]

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Rating: (144 reviews)
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Judith Viorst. Poor Alexander! He woke up with gum in his hair; his mom forgot to put dessert in his lunch bag; there were lima beans for dinner, and kissing on TV even the cat refuses to sleep in his bed. Some days are just [...]

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Avon Camelot Books)

Rating: (45 reviews)
Author: Beverly Cleary
Publisher: HarperTrophy
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From the first day of third grade, when Ramona Qu